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olliemath

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    Comment #41894514

    Actually most of the LLMs algos are less efficient than the readable human one, even with only two nested loops. Only one of them precalculates the factors which makes the biggest …

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    Comment #40522574

    I've used pypy on large codebases for years. Generally it's fine so long as you don't need any of the packages that are thin wrappers around C/fortran. It seems a lot of maintainer…

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    Comment #40107038

    Speaking as somebody who has had to debug why servers were ignoring changes to the configs in our git repos, this is a welcome change. It's a shame there are ways to bypass it, but…

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    Comment #39027476

    zoxide is great - in fact I tend to just alias cd to zoxide in my bashrc

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    Comment #29123679

    Very nice! We spent quite some time on this and aren't even having a kid. How did you implement the tournament? It feels very long when you have many names - almost like it's doing…

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    Comment #26866406

    Pure python - under pypy - on my system faster than all of the above :D

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    Comment #25917008

    Yes. I had pretty much this conversation a while back with some non-technically minded people who had been convinced that by creating an ontology and set of "semantic business rule…

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    Comment #25603184

    We use pypy pretty extensively at our firm for analytics/olap work. We've actually tried using some of the more traditional libs (Pandas et al) with CPython, but there's always a p…