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Yes, I guess its a balance - the inconvenience of sorting through odd-shaped defunct USB standards vs actually needing one of those weird cables for an ancient camera in 10 years time.

I naturally have the ~< £ from AZ mindset, but I try to challenge that by re-using avoiding waste. It doesn't always work (and there's a lot of eventual waste in those hundreds of zip-lock bags).

Hot tip - buy a box of small / medium zip lock bags and bag them all up. Duplicates in the same bag are ok (10cm / USB-C) etc.

For the last 10 years my "techno box" has been a box of bags - the cables don't get tangled and small bits (adaptors / notes) get to live with the cables. Its one of the rare few home environment hacks I actually have!

> weight update during eval: this is a form of test time training and not really cheating.

Possibly "not really cheating", but it does make benchmark comparisons unfair - especially as the other models are unlikely to have their weights updated during the eval.

`from plotnine import *`

... I love the idea of a new python plotting library, but why is this anti-pattern so common with plotting libs?

> Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies

Placing the onus firmly on US tech companies and not the well-being of children.

The tech firms (like cigarette manufacturers) have long known about the harms of social media on the young, and what steps or measures have they taken to reduce or limit damage (...crickets).

Oppose a "blunt regulatory instrument" if you like, but if you don't implement safety measures that's what you're going to get.

I'm working on something very similar, but I've found that if I'm not doing the work - I forget what has been set up and how its running a lot faster.

For example - I have ZFS running with a 5-bay HDD enclosure, and I honestly can't remember any of the rules about import-ing / export-ing to stop / start / add / remove pools etc.

I have to write many clear notes, and store them in a place where future me will find them - otherwise the system gets very flaky through my inability to remember what's active and what isn't. Running the service and having total control is fun, but it's a responsibility too

I love atuin -- the shared shell command memory function solves a problem that I had (recalling obscure CLI commands)

I'll try atuin desktop and I hope it succeeds, but I can't say that it solves any particular problem that I have and am aware of.

Apparently if a light-bulb blows at a station, two different contractors need to be called - one company has a contract for replacing consumables while another has a contract for repairing faults.

https://youtu.be/bNEEJX0VM6k?si=1hGCnYx826ffGOPj

Hijacked? no. For me this demonstrates the temporal differences between the web and the real world.

Books are solid things that will be here for a long time. Websites are transitory, ethereal and likely to change. It's clearly ok to reference a book from a website, but books that reference websites - yeuch. It reminds me of those stacks of hard-copy programming manuals targeting specific versions of a language now obsolete.

When you don't understand this you end up in this kind of situation. If you don't renew your domain, you might lose it (as the author and publisher are now finding out). I expect legal proceedings will fail miserably, and that a nice fat bung will probably solve the problem immediately.

> Doing the smallest and easiest solution to a problem as a way to get to know the full scope and then iterating after that if needs be is by far the best solution (for me).

100% -- this is YAGNI (or you-aint-gonna-need-it) and should be among the first things you think about when starting a new project.

Not patronising, this was exactly my first (and off-topic) thought as well.

We have lived in our house for +15 years and we still regularly find small fluorescent yellow ball bearings in the garden soil from the previous owners family. These things are here to stay

While we're here - I've gained a lot from "Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial" by DS Sivia and J Skilling. It's a graduate level text, and I found the chapters very concise and the subject well-laid out. It was one of those books that gave me continuous insight and fresh inspiration - even though it's more than 10 years old.

Anecdotally, "skype" was once synonymous with video calls but it's pretty much never used now.

In many non-US countries once hired there are employment rights. You cannot simply "kick them out if they dont fit ur needs". Isn't it preferable and less stressful for everyone if you can find the right person without having to hire and fire others first?

Aaron's suggestion (which seems to have been lost?)

"Click here" assumes everyone has a computer and mouse. And it's not even needed: most users of the Web understand how to follow links.

From the bottom of the page;

> contributed Sep 2001 by Aaron Swartz

Thoughts

-- this advice is 24 years old (and I think largely ignored)

-- Aaron Swartz (!)

Another ridiculous use case is paying for tickets in car parks, some require a smartphone (with no cash or alternative options).

And UK primary schools - catching up with the kids homework, messages from the teacher - requires an app and a smartphone!

It's so frustrating!

> But what are the real trade-offs of edge vs. cloud?

Maintenance - having to fix a networking issue when the kids want to watch their cartoons and you're halfway making dinner. Or when you're away for the weekend and your partner can't connect to the photo server.

When you pay for an online service you're also paying for someone to fix things for you.

There are too many glaring holes in this article for it to be taken seriously. It's simply not a complete argument if you discuss the UK's current economy and don't mention 1) Brexit 2) Green energy policies

£9.99 a month, £19.99 for one year, £49.99 for life (app store purchase prices visible once you've scanned a directory).

> Not just retired but all were destroyed

I think that's not true, there seems to be many fans of them and several on display https://www.f-14association.com/on-display/f-14-tomcats-on-d...

thanks

Yeah - I don't have an hour to listen to the podcast or read the transcript. I got an AI to summarise the article and it saved me the time, I thought someone else might appreciate the summary (and it appears they did).

Perhaps next time I'll add TL;got-an-llm-to-do-it or something

> But by 1943, the tides had turned in their favor.

> There is a clear inflection point around March 1943: From this point onward, the Allied forces sank more ships every month than they lost.

Any idea what what happened early 1943? Was there a specific event that changed the direction, or is the balance point of slow attrition?

Completely - I assumed it was an implementation of https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba

I also assumed that "a pure NumPy implementation" meant that it was built purely with numpy, which it isn't smh

Patent appeal for artificial neural network, the appellant argued that the ANN was self-trained and not directly programmed with detailed logical steps, thus, it shouldn't be considered a computer program under the exclusion.

Hmm, I read the article as explicitly calling out "clinical trials" (as referenced in the title and abstract) and it makes no reference research studies. I don't understand the distinction between "research studies" and "clinical trials", surely all research studies where an RCT is performed with real patients and real drugs is a clinical trial?

It feels as if there should be a PaaS alternative to hosting your own PyPI server (and I would gladly pay for one) but alternatives like AWS CodeArtifact require a lot of manual configuration. JFrog have the closest service that I can find, but you have to subscribe to their whole CI.

I was hoping that GitHub Packages would solve this issue (as they do for NPM, Docker etc.) but sadly this isn't going to happen.

Great article! It reminds me a lot of becoming a manager, especially this line

> Finally, it was also tiring. Imagine being reduced to giving only instructions and doing code review. Reading and understanding code is tiring!

I think the job title is misleading, from the job listing:

> We are looking for an experienced Head of Cyber Security to lead a team of two cyber analysts

> We are a team of around 40, responsible for the Treasury’s technology, security and knowledge and information management services.

So it's not _the_ Head - but _a_ head, and that 'head' has a relatively minor / junior manager role.