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horsellama··on Ask HN: in 2025 Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
This. For me it’s almost 50% of the reasons to stay in Apple’s walled garden
horsellama··on Ask HN: Which language for Advent of Code in 2024?
Julia
horsellama··on Show HN: A simple image puzzle generator
nice app it could be fun to also animate the puzzle solution
horsellama··on Ask HN: Learning to interact correctly in online communities as a neurodivergent
I feel you. I resorted to just lurk and move on. Good luck
horsellama··on Ask HN: What is a programming language that you don't use at work but enjoy?
Julia
horsellama··on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
getting on top100 on https://code.golf/
horsellama··on Ask HN: What's a lucrative niche technical skill you can learn on your own?
kdb
horsellama··on Ask HN: What's the worst advice you've ever received?
In 2015: “don’t waste time learning CUDA”
horsellama··on When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind
Then the LLM is not useful here
horsellama··on When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind
That’s the point.

I don’t need an “AI” to help me with something widely discussed, I can simply read the docs. On the other hand I’d love a tool that opens me niche topics in a reliable way.

horsellama··on Choosing the Right AI Framework for My Project
PyTorch is the mainstream one. Lots of tutorials, docs, libraries, etc
horsellama··on Ask HN: What is the most painful developer setup guide you've experienced?
I saw it but haven’t gotten the chance yet
horsellama··on Ask HN: What is the most painful developer setup guide you've experienced?
nvidia drivers + cuda + tensorrt + deepstream + PyTorch = Madness
horsellama··on Ask HN: What keyboard and keyboard layout are you using?
Moonlander https://www.zsa.io/moonlander

With custom layout

horsellama··on Why camera calibration is so important in computer vision
Is there a good resource I can read about the last point in the article?

> We don't know where the camera will be. For example, we ask players to use the cameras of their mobile devices to explore the size and proportions of a room — to work with the augmented reality helmet. We don't know anything about the rooms, and we can't ask users to use a pattern.

Are there automatic techniques to tackle this problem?

horsellama··on Ask HN: Custom domain for personal email – yay or nay?
how does 2) work? do you have a catch-all service? say I want to give my custom address to a John I've just met, can I tell them to write to john@horsellama.xyz without actually creating that address?
horsellama··on Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
Go back to uni, get that degree in Mathematics, earn that PhD, go back to uni, get that degree in Physics, earn the PhD, die?
horsellama··on Ask HN: What's an old software that you would like to have again?
Crimson: Steam Pirates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson:_Steam_Pirates
horsellama··on Exact binary vector search for RAG in 100 lines of Julia
Nice speed up!

Have you tried to benchmark also this heap implementation?

https://juliacollections.github.io/DataStructures.jl/latest/...

horsellama··on What are the most visually appealing blogs you've seen?
https://ciechanow.ski/

https://fabiensanglard.net/

horsellama··on Proposal: Standardize TCP Port 41 for AI Services – Here's Why
42 would be easier to remember
horsellama··on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video]
What’s the best alternative distro for ML work? I mainly need the nvidia stack + PyTorch
horsellama··on Ask HN: Best Open E-Reader?
Not really what you’re looking for but close

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book

horsellama··on Ask HN: Are there any websites for SQL puzzle games?
https://code.golf/rankings/holes/all/sql/bytes
horsellama··on Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)
It’s not clear to me how such a thing can be achieved. They talk about a “memory calendar” and “tags”.

Is it like, every day, stop for a minute and “commit” a single word to that day? Then revise the previous ones hoping that they stuck in memory?

horsellama··on K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
array languages are very fascinating and I'd love spending more time learning about them

I read that they are (K in particular) used in finance...would you reckon it would be easier to find job in that field having that in the CV? I know I cannot compete on the C++/Python side but maybe as a skilled K developer I could sneak in

horsellama··on Ask HN: What did you accomplish in 2023?
Bombed the most important interview of my career.

With a lot of introspection I realized I purposely sabotaged the interview.

Took me 8 months to realize this and I’m now working to get a second chance. Looking forward to 2024

horsellama··on How to Read a Paper [pdf]
If the paper is well written, the abstract is already the summary you are after. If you are then interested in the details, gpt/AI isn't helping there.
horsellama··on Talk-Llama
can this be used to talk with local documents?

say I have a research paper in pdf, can I ask llama questions about it?

horsellama··on What are your favorite benefits you have negotiated other than salary/equity?
Extended parental leave
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