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alisiddiq··on Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
My biggest issue with Jupyter is the key bindings, I want to be able to import my Jetbrains keybindings to Jupyter notebooks but havent found a good way. The Jupyter implementation in Pycharm is just terrible so still stuck using jupyter in the browser.

Will your tool allow custom key bindings?

alisiddiq··on Astronauts stranded, multiple issues w Starliner – return flight window closing
That will just Elongate the process
alisiddiq··on Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests
Not necessarily, if the training is more efficient, you just throw more data at it for better models which was not possible before
alisiddiq··on Nancy Pelosi Made $500k from Her Nvidia Bet, Doubling Her Annual Salary
Hands down the best hedge fund manager. The next Buffett - I honestly dont know how she consistently beats the market
alisiddiq··on Shorting Tether
The way I look at it - Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when. Even the die hard crypto bros know tether is nothing but a giant ponzi scheme.
alisiddiq··on Next-generation AI models
Whereas I only agree with it 78.65%
alisiddiq··on Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
What happens if Binance goes under because of this tether crash?
alisiddiq··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
Way more than that. It will take the market with it
alisiddiq··on Sabre ends distribution agreement with Aeroflot
Not surprised, their printers catch on fire quite easily
alisiddiq··on Report on Stablecoins [pdf]
You are deluded if you think tether has 70bn liquid assets in case there is a run.

The question of a collapse is when not if.

alisiddiq··on PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49
Paypal can die already, had a terrible experience as a seller. Never using them again for either buying or selling
alisiddiq··on Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API
Working with datetimes on JS for the first time was mind boggling. Few highlights:

- Months start at 0

- Converting from string datetime to a datetime object will automatically convert the time to the local tz

alisiddiq··on Roblox raises $520M at $29.5B valuation
In a world where Tesla is worth over 700B, it makes sense
alisiddiq··on Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]
I only had experience of coding in Matlab in university, and started learning Clojure in my first job. It was very intuitive.