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What a bunch of BS. The price of a commodore 64 from 1980's is over $4K in todays dollars. $4K buys a pretty decent workstation these days.

for spark

Wagtail CMS, built on top of django. https://wagtail.org/

yet another model using the stanford alpaca dataset, what a waste of time.

if you want to subject yourself to a possible round worm parasite infection, sure, go ahead. Me,I’d rather not.

You can pick up a Lenovo P1 Gen 2 with decent specs for about 1000 to 1500 on ebay. Max ram is 64MB and usually comes with an i7. The battery life isnt great if it has a built in N…

I did the opposite, collected a bunch of salaries for my experience level on levels.fyi, showed them to my boss, and asked for a raise. Got a 50K bump without having to do much. I'…

fiscal policy changed forever in 1971 when nixon took us off the gold standard

idk, for me dask was more of a pain to set up than a single node spark cluster, and now that databricks has added a fully compatible pandas api to pyspark, there is even less reaso…

next up, a highly opinionated language called "Karen"!

this!

short interest is typically only disseminated by the exchanges once a month

only if you are installing the packages simultaneously. it still does the wrong thing if it conflicts with a package already installed

and yet the code is still in pypi for any developer to use...

i'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on my Thinkpad P2 Gen 2 laptop, using the Budgie Desktop. I'd guess my entire workflow is 95% the same coming from my MBP.

not hacking. having access to an audio feed over a video feed that requires buffering is hardly news. kudos to whoever realized that you could get the information faster over audio…

with online computing where is the line drawn for employee vs employer equipment? lets say i have a personal aws account and i ssh into an ec2 instance, but use my employers laptop…

I really would like to see something like Bloomberg's OpenFIGI take the place of cusips, but its not nearly as widely used. https://www.openfigi.com/ The api does allow you to conv…

In my neighborhood, 80% of the lawns are maintained by landscapers, we need battery powered lawn tools to be commercially viable in order to put a dent in the use of gas tools. I h…

I tried Evernote, One note and simple note, then settled on zim http://zim-wiki.org/ It even works on OSX but i had to build it via brew

https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste... https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Elixir-1-3-Functional-Con... https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Python-Techn…

Am I the only one to think some people just have waaay to much time on their hands? I enjoy my life, I'd rather experience it for all its pros and cons than never to experience it …

Am I the only one? or do some people just have way to much time on their hands for thinking shit like this up. I'd rather live my life than not exist.