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metasyn··on Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
Source? My understanding is that speeding cameras and flock cameras are different in the SF application at least.
metasyn··on Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
for anyone curious about learning, i made an online port of UXN using emscripten that allows you to code and compile and emulate in a browser:

https://metasyn.srht.site/learn-uxn/

metasyn··on Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
for anyone curious about learning, i made a tutorial and playground for orca:

https://metasyn.srht.site/learn-orca/

metasyn··on Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?
https://search.marginalia.nu/ comes to mind
metasyn··on Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Gilbert Strang is fantastic, both his videos and written material
metasyn··on Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
i've been using this for a few months now. super easy to get set up and run yourself!
metasyn··on Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers
I made an online environment for UXN programming, assembling, and emulating the CLI environment using emscripten

https://metasyn.github.io/learn-uxn/

check it out if you're learning uxn or just want to try loading a rom and seeing the source or modifying it to learn

metasyn··on Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers
glad others enjoy it! checkout https://orca.wtf as well, a similar, fun project that includes MULTIPLAYER
metasyn··on Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers
I made a livecoding site for playing around with Orca, alongside a tutorial of sorts. It's already patched to a synthesizer so it's ready to go, and has examples/tutorials you can load.

https://metasyn.github.io/learn-orca/

metasyn··on Pixie – A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim
two resources i enjoyed:

"nim in action" by dom96 https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action

nim days by xmonader https://xmonader.github.io/nimdays/

metasyn··on Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
matrix bridge and e2ee are listed in their roadmap, but there aren't a lot of details
metasyn··on Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python
nim-lang.org might interest you!
metasyn··on Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web
Feedly!
metasyn··on C/C++ vs. Rust Performance
It's optional (so you can turn it off if you'd like) https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html
metasyn··on How to become a Bayesian (2016)
scihub!
metasyn··on Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
I got interested in building one about 6 months ago after finding Devine Lu Linvega's memex: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html
metasyn··on Orca: an esolang for audio-visual live coding
I've been playing around with orca for a few months: its really exciting and fun to use.

Here are some videos of patches I think are cool:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH5GaVU0ed8&t=72s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ig84_4RF5E&t=50s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUQlmQvtjI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_flqHdfFitw

metasyn··on Applying BERT models to Search
I appreciated this blog post: http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/
metasyn··on Sunsetting Python 2
Granted I don't work at Splunk anymore, but did recently. They were definitely working hard on migrating everything to python3, and if I remember, they had a planned roll out where python2/python3 would co-exist.

However, if you've been using the python SDK for Splunk - its been supporting python3 for a few years already (https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/commit/4503db961...)

See this blog post: https://www.splunk.com/blog/2019/07/01/admins-and-developers...

And this helpful doc: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Python3Mi...

metasyn··on Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
Have you considered putting art on your machine?
metasyn··on Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little
We recently switched to using poetry over pip and virtual envs. All the additional tooling poetry provides is amazing - actual dependency resolution, script entry point, building, version bumping, publishing. The author is awesome too. Also making python3 tooling possible on python 2/3 packages. I'd highly recommend trying it out.

Pipenv on the other hand was not only slower, but _failed_ to actually resolve our dependencies correctly. Additionally, it was slower. And looking up the issues, I can echo that the development team seems a bit defensive and dismissive.

metasyn··on Valve discontinues the Steam Link
Eh, I bought one of these on sale during the last big sale and was sorely disappointed. It was barely usable despite my network streaming video fine. Your mileage may vary of course, but this review is a little, ahem, exaggerated.
metasyn··on Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
I installed it a year or so ago on an old 2014 MBP. It's battery was bulging and bending the casing so I knew it was on its way out... I used elementary os for a few months, mostly just using it for spotify, occasional programing, surfing the web.

Worked fine, and in this case, added some life to some older hardware.

metasyn··on Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript
What does pseudo-immutable mean?
metasyn··on A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2017)
Looking through the TOC - It seems like most of this was in just as a "fairly robust steady state" as it was three years ago? Was there some part of this that struck you as having solidified in the last few years?
metasyn··on What Is Ethereum?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4
metasyn··on Regex 101
I often teach people how to use regex w/in the context of my job and find this tool invaluable because it allows for PCRE in addition to the more common JS regex flavour.