I'm learning LDAP and Oauth2, at the moment.
Learning about directory services is empowering, and stuff like keycloak let you build your own single-sign-on solution with very little investment (except for willpower to learn).
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#812I am learning Elixir and Phoenix. And to be honest I am not sure I like either. The lack of decent resources (I mainly use Python and JavaScript with some C#) so I am used to reading a lot of blog posts, I don’t really like the documentation and the answers in forums are over verbose. And then there is Ecto which gives me new respect for SQLAlchemy or even solutions in C#. Debugging is a bit rubbish as well and to to…
Maybe give F# a try. It's functional, strongly typed and since you already know .NET and C# the ecosystem and tooling will be familiar to you and could lessen the learning curve.
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#813I am trying to learn more about distributed systems. Any one have a recommendation for a MOOC or a book that could help? I am specifically looking to understand frameworks such as Dask or Ray and how to build a similar system from scratch. Thanks!
Not sure if this is specific to your ask but I've been enjoying this class. It covers many fundamental concepts. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
Thanks, will look into this
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#814Earlier quoted context omitted.
Though I probably won't implement the different weighting schemes, I currently have alignment traceback and searching (allow "free shifts" for the pattern string) features.
Here's another recent SIMD aligner if you're interested: https://github.com/langmead-lab/vargas
I took a look at the code, and read the paper. It seems that they directly calculate the entire 2D DP array, but use SIMD to allow each cell to contain multiple values, one for each query string. My approach uses anti-diagonals instead, but it is fast for one vs one comparisons, instead of handling multiple query strings.
Regardless, my goal was to learn some SIMD and Rust (first time for both), so I did not read many background papers.
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#815I am trying to learn more about distributed systems. Any one have a recommendation for a MOOC or a book that could help? I am specifically looking to understand frameworks such as Dask or Ray and how to build a similar system from scratch. Thanks!
I haven't done much in Dask and never heard of Ray, so might not be applicable directly. But a general book about distributed systems that I highly recommend and one you'll see often referred to on HN is Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Seriously great book and one I often go back to for fundamentals about distributed systems.
I appreciate it, will look up that book
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#816Learning how to read a company’s balance sheet, cash flow, income to see which are at risk of going under. How the stimulus can save but weaken a company’s financial structure during these times
Any good resources for that?
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#817Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don’t mind me asking, how long do you expect it will take you to go through that text?
I'm not sure! There's a good amount of material that I've never dealt with before, so I'm sure there will be parts where I go relatively slowly. I also have a day job, so I only spend time with the book when I feel up for it. It's kind of an open-ended thing for me right now.
Entirely understand, enjoy and good luck with it!
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#818I'm writing a movie script. It's a horror movie about a guy who renovates foreclosed houses for banks. But one of the houses he goes into has a ghost in it. He has to solve the mystery of why the ghost is there before he can leave. I call it: "Repossessed" Working tagline: "This is for closure."
Glad to see you taking on a creative outlet.
Hope you are able to get it done before this is all lifted.
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#819I'm trying to learn to draw. I feel comfortable enough with my technical skills where I feel like I can pick up a new language or framework with relative ease, so I want to switch gears and improve my drawing and visual communication skills. I believe that any project can benefit from a compelling visual component. For now, I've been trying to start slow and just have fun; for example, telling myself to do three quic…
I am going to try to get better at the thing that foils me the most: faces
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#820Building a guitar! It's my first attempt at building an instrument. It's going well so far, mostly using threads from TDPRI as guidance and a body template from there as well. I opted to buy a neck from Warmoth since building a neck seemed especially intimidating and requires more special tools. Today I finished soldering the electronics, bolted the neck on, strung it up and it actually works! Now to take it apart an…
That’s awesome! I did the same a couple of years ago (took about 1 year to complete) and it’s one of the things I’m most proud of, so I hope it feels as fulfilling for you too!