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fastasucan··on Show HN: Paper – A Journaling CLI for Developers
If people want an open source version of this, jrnl is great.

https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl

fastasucan··on Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators
I dont get why people here are so livid that people like to have a tidy desk and/or tidy up before photographing their desk.

Many people also like to tidy up their home a bit before they receive guests or groom themselves before going out for the night. No reason to judge them.

fastasucan··on Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators
>NOT A DIG AT THESE PEOPLE

This whole comment reads as a dig against these people. They like to have it tidy/or they like to tidy up before photographing their desk.

fastasucan··on Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck
We have some viking ships that are older than the Vasa.
fastasucan··on U.S. science is in chaos
>Stuff only a few people world wide know about.

Sounds like a good thing to try to increase diversity and recruitment.

fastasucan··on DuckDB Internals Part 1
>DuckDB is amazing for any sort of fast data analysis when the data is small enough that it can fit on your laptop

It also works great for data that doesn't fit on my laptop.

fastasucan··on Midjourney Medical
This backpressure is even with cheaper devices such as x-rays etc.
fastasucan··on Midjourney Medical
Because if a "condition" doesn't impact you, will it help to be aware of it? Over treatment can be a real problem. You dont want to take medisine you dont need, or spend much time in a hospital if there is no net positive outcome.
fastasucan··on New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times
This cancer is a pain. My father was extremely lucky, and was diagnosed early. Next up was months of chemo that left him to be a shell of himself. Then he could be operated. They removed parts of his stomach, his spleen and duodenum. And his whole pancreas.

Complications after his surgery meant he had two more. He is now, three weeks after the first operation learning to walk again. It will be an additional week or two untill he can eat. (Without the complication he would have been walking and eating two weeks after the first operation). Oh and he is a diabetic now, since they removed his pancreas.

Just crossing my fingers that he will get out of the hospital without any more complications, and adapt to the new life.

fastasucan··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
Lo and behold*

Git folders doesn't go well with onedrive.

fastasucan··on Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?
That depends on your needs and goals. Super strict type checking might not be the most important feature.

Its like saying "if you want a car that is a bit sporty, wouldn't it be best to buy a Lamborghini??

fastasucan··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
No, professors mark their own exams.
fastasucan··on Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM
>The students at Scandinavian universities are selected to a degree, but represent a far broader range of the distribution and correspondingly there's a broader range of exam results.

I disagree with that, it is common knowledge that these students will get A's if they do a semester in the US.

fastasucan··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
If you are very present on slack, ofcourse you dont feel that you are interruped.
fastasucan··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
Culture is a lot more than translated language.
fastasucan··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
Other better models cant use the training data this model have...
fastasucan··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
There is a lot more to it than literal translations. Even if an american can talk Norwegian it doesn't mean that they get the cultural context right.

"Oh yeah after you drive 2 hours home from work your wife and kid will greet you with some delicious pie" doesnt work so well even if its in Norwegian.

fastasucan··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
>makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume

Oh ok then, just finnish culture for you then.

fastasucan··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
> in both major dialects

Nynorsk and bokmål is not dialects but variants of written Norwegian.

fastasucan··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
The fund is specifically mandated to not invest inside Norway to avoid making an enormous bubble and sky high inflation.
fastasucan··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
The last three years more or less none of my students have bought the textbook for the subject. That is pretty mind blowing. In turn they expect a complete textbook from my lecture notes, which isn't possible.

I get that textbooks are getting more expensive though.

fastasucan··on Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
Just find the one that is right for you.
fastasucan··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
My university also had their own system before - what was especially great with that system was that it was all open. Every course had its own webpage, where you first chose which year/semester you were interested in ans then you got all the course information for that year, all the assignments and the exam if it were from a previous year.

It made it so much easier if you wanted to know more about a course before taking it, so much easier to find extra practise materials (last years assignments and exam etc).

Now its all in Canvas and only reachable for those who are enrolled at the course.

fastasucan··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
You cant really do that in lots of cases. What grounds the grade is from is in many cases set in stone.
fastasucan··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Who is doing the work though, the student, chatgpt or claude?
fastasucan··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
Exactly. We all laughed at the cases where productivity was measured in lines of code. But now the whole world somehow optimize for it.
fastasucan··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
But it should still add the tagline when copilot has been used, without direct approval by the user?
fastasucan··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Who cares what it intends when they approve it and put into production?
fastasucan··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
>The fact that non-AI changes are attributed to Copilot is a bug.

But sneaking in the attribution to Copilot without approval was the feature?

fastasucan··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
>If what you described would make it to our PR queue, it would definitely not pass the gates

It just did though. Did you approve the PR without actually looking at the code?

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