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Still true. From her Mastodon today: > i quit my job just over 5 years ago to explain computer things ( https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/13/a-year-explaining-computer-t... ). I had no …

> Every single cafe, restaurant, supermarket, and mall has free wifi. I live in a major city in the Philippines, and free WiFi is becoming more of a rarity nowadays. Not even Starb…

Theory of Computation, Number Theory, and Probability are good starts.

> Son Masayoshi is of Korean ancestry for instance. Korea is East Asian. Southeast Asia consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore…

https://executeprogram.com has a SQL course. I’ve tried other resources but this one made it click for me after years if relying on SQLAlchemy.

The toolkit in the packages by default is old though. I was setting up JAX on a Ubuntu 20.04 WSL 2 install and it was complaining about ptxas being old and giving bad results.

Different Ben-David. You're talking about Shalev's dad Shai.

They are still publishing in other venues, like this pretty recent CVPR repo and paper. https://github.com/apple/ml-quant

I've received a lot of value from doing practice interviews on interviewing.io to improve how I perform. I also got two referrals out of the five mock interviews I did.

I’ve been using Magit inside a VSCode terminal for a couple weeks, this is a great alternative!

I’m just a Cebuano finding excuses to visit home bai :). How’s the tech scene over there?

Have contact info? Exploring opportunities in Cebu.

I wanna shout out David Garcia[1] for doing great stuff with Blender in the GIS space. This seems like a really cool project and I hope it makes that sort of work easier. [1] https…

It’s like having a “What is sorting?” article with bubblesort as the algorithm of focus. It’s easy to explain and answers the question. Yes, time complexity is fundamental to desig…

Interesting to me is that a lot of native apps have similar functionality with the Alt key to navigate menus. Certain menu options would have an underlined character and you'd hit …

Is there a setup that lets multiple people edit at the same time?

DFO is derivative free optimization. With multiple objectives you try to find different solutions given different weightings to the objectives for the Pareto front and pick one dep…

What's with the apostrophe in that New York Times headline: "When Doctor's Slam The Door"?

I think Synergy does what you needed with Teleport. I used it at work a while back when I had Apple devices and it worked great as long as I had the MacBook set up as the host.

It's not even just scrolling, a lot of my relatives who are still in the Philippines tend to comment on or interact with just about everything that pops up on their feed. I think i…

As a speaker of both Bahasa Indonesia and Mandarin, I'd say Mandarin is faster.

While I can't find any specific sources in the field of education, I was taught in engineering school that engineers reviewing the work of another engineer, unless their job specif…

It's the same one as implemented in MS Word (and PowerPoint, OneNote), this standard was written by an engineer who is on the Math in Office team and maintains a blog [1]. It's the…