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ropans808··on So Google's Gemini Doesn't Like Python Programming and Sanskrit?
Seems like it - you can definitely cache python function results with decorators:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.l...

ropans808··on Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public
Is OWS a cult now? Or socially dangerous? Or relevant?
ropans808··on Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
That's kind of what identity theft is, and it is distressingly possible.
ropans808··on My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition
That's my general solution as well, but when pip fails at dependency resolution tools like poetry become really nice.
ropans808··on When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves
It is definitely related to sleep. Cannabis disrupts NREM sleep, where memories are ushered from short term memory into your hippocampus. Matthew Walker's excellent book "Why We Sleep" goes into this in some detail, highly recommended.

Edit: I should add, many substances disrupt NREM sleep in addition to cannabis, such as alcohol, caffeine, and sleep aids.

ropans808··on What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?
This is already discussed quite a bit in the article:

"Babbage also wrote more than twenty programs that he never published.19 So it’s not quite accurate to say that Lovelace wrote or published the first program, though there’s always room to quibble about what exactly constitutes a “program.” Even so, Lovelace’s program was miles ahead of anything else that had been published before. The longest program that Menabrea presented was 11 operations long and contained no loops or branches; Lovelace’s program contains 25 operations and a nested loop (and thus branching)..."

ropans808··on New York Could Become First Major U.S. City to Cap Uber and Similar Vehicles
Yes weekend service has gotten to the point of being unusable, with repair work (both routine, and fixing up tunnels flooded by Sandy) limited to off-peak and weekend hours. Unfortunately we aren't really addressing this in any sane way. Replacing mass transit with vehicles for hire is just making surface congestion awful, when options like expanding and enforcing bus-only lanes, bike lanes and more bike-share are not getting the attention they deserve. There are more solutions than just Uber and Lyft.

Watching communities vote down protected bike lines because they lose 1-2 parking spaces per block (I'm looking at you, Sunnyside) or fight increased bus service (the village..) is very frustrating.

ropans808··on Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
That's how I am reading it. And if their aim is to drum up foot traffic on streets to stimulate local business, I don't think that violates the spirit of the legislation.
ropans808··on Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
Yeah, the proposed legislation mentioned in the article in San Francisco just banning the construction of onsite cafeterias seems to recognize this at least.
ropans808··on Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
This is very interesting, I had never considered the impact free food at a large office has on its surroundings. The legislation certainly sounds backwards, but to me the situation is reminiscent of a company using profits from one sector to subsidize another, in order to drown out competitors in that space. I don't think Facebook is actually trying to kill off restaurants, but this is definitely how you would do it in an anti-competitive way.
ropans808··on Why the Intellectual Dark Web Exists
I listen to discussions on the "Intellectual Dark Web" regularly and am generally a big fan of the free flow of ideas - but this view of identity politics, as much as I try, I cannot get my head around.

It seems primarily to be a chicken and egg problem: The IDW insists that identity politics requires people to identify themselves as a group rather than free-thinking individuals. I think the point this misses is that these groups did not start by self-identifying as groups, they were identified as these groups. The black community, LGBTQ, women, religious minorities - they were first treated as a single group of lock-step individuals by those looking to oppress them. Is it crazy that to respond, they respond as a group?

This idea that they are beating down the discussion by applying ideals to an entire group of disparate individuals I really think is backwards. It is a response to being grouped by outside forces in the first place, where these groups do have a single shared problem now - that they are not viewed as individuals and treated as a single bloc.

ropans808··on Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
I think there are quite a bit more consumers than is obvious at first glance. I am currently surrounded by a hundred or so non-technical people typing away at their work computers. Not sure if those will be replaced by touch interfaces anytime soon.
ropans808··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Do you know if the data engineer position is an engineering position or more based on ETL tools/packages? The job posting doesn't mention anything about languages or skills required.
ropans808··on Ride-hailing’s NYC dominance, and the impact of DeleteUber
I believe Lyft only operates in the US.
ropans808··on Developer Survey Results
What are people finding so dreadful about Redshift?
ropans808··on Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city
Please tell me where anyone is paying 1k-1.5k for an apartment in NYC. I am paying 2700/mo for 650 sqft, 45 minute commute from midtown, and I haven't seen anything better without a longer commute. Studios in my neighborhood are 1.6k+, and I am not in a happenin' place.
ropans808··on Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
They can make the phone thinner, but they are only doing that by putting more hardware (a DAC) into the headphone. It's massively duplicating one component for such a negligible advantage.
ropans808··on Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
What I really don't get is why we want to move the DAC into the headphone. It just makes sense to have a single DAC in the phone, that anything can plug into. Now every set of headphones needs its own DAC to convert that digital bluetooth/USB signal into something you can actually hear.
ropans808··on What.CD is shutting down
Don't forget about the musicians' pay!