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Can you please tell us more about how you used Ray for setting up the RL infrastructure?

Almost 25 years ago before I went down the rabbit hole of backend programming - I did some windows app development. I want to get into macOS programming now (I have been using a ma…

Does this mean that all the documents (emails from tech executives) that are part of the evidence for a court case will be publicly available?

There is more to BH than how they acquire companies. They also have a track recored of out performing S&P for decades. I doubt if BH alpha is because of their streamlined acquisiti…

I am fluent in 3 languages. I grew up in India where just about everyone ends up learning at least 3 languages. A month is too short to really pick up a language. Sailing or outdoo…

Are there specific Graph databases you would recommend? I have played with Neo4j about 5 years ago. Has there been anything revolutionary in this field since then?

As the title says - I have one month where I am not employed. The new and previous jobs are well paid Bay Area tech jobs (living expenses are not going to be a concern). I am looki…

Was Cinder influenced by hhvm (Facebook's vm for php/hack)? A project that maintains a list of different JIT implementations for programming languages and compares them would be a …

Growing up in India, I had quite a few of these Soviet gems on my bookstand. The only thing I had that originated from the West were a pair of Levi jeans. I was shocked to find out…

How does seed compare to aws cdk pipelines https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/cdk-pipelines-continu... I know if I go the route of cdk pipelines I will need to implement my CI/…

I would tweak the definition of rich provided by Sivers Having more money than you spend for a year is not enough is not enough to be 'rich'. You want assets where you will always …

The cheapest Volta GPUs I have seen so far cost over 2K for 12GB. Can the GPU provided in this kit be used for training?

The biggest difference between Emacs and any other editor is that instead of thinking about Emacs as an editor you need to think of Emacs as a programable workflow enabler. Using E…

Steve Jobs made this point very well in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLvvzktuVY8

Could you please share your open source project?

DAP is already improving the debugging experience in other editors. Check out DAP-mode for Emacs https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode

The most important thing that needs to be changed about the H1B program is how the green card is linked to your particular employer. The H1B program is almost like indentured servi…

How closely coupled is treesitter to Atom? How difficult would it be to generate binding to treesitter for languages other than Javascript? I dream of a future where elisp bindings…

Here are some Rxjs examples from an older version of the library https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/tree/master/exam...

Great work! From the presentation by Benjamin Gruenbaum - `Why Async Iterators Matter` there is slide where he shows how some Rxjs code can be rewritten using async iterators. http…

I am not sure why * Unused Variables * Unused Imports are being considered traps or gotchas. They are in fact very sensible design decisions for a compiled language. Having a compi…

Yet another way to store issues in the git repo https://gitlab.com/monnier/bugit/ This one is by Stefan Monnier (former emacs lead developer)

A blanket statement like 'Medium is bad' does not have enough nuance. Medium is for profit centralized service. You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience. I…

I am surprised there has not been an antitrust case against Google and Facebook. Google is definitely abusing the monopoly position it has in search. The claim that any user can sw…