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sdmac99··on A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response [pdf]
Crying garners attention from adults in either case. Any attention could be better than no attention I suppose.
sdmac99··on Computer Programming with Nim
I really need to thoroughly read this. I have scanned sections like the one on References and Pointers and found them useful, but only scratched the surface.

Late last year I switched my work site from Go to Nim. Then this year, with the help of the community and library nimterop, I was able to wrap the duckdb C api and use it in my web app for really fast analytic queries. I really like Nim syntax and the routes in jester:

  routes:
    get "/":
      resp "Wow, nice"

The false-positive virus issue affected my workstation as well, but after consulting with our security team we were able to resolve it.

I would love Nim to have more funding and support.

I like the batteries included approach, but certainly there are some libraries that do things like json better.

sdmac99··on Facebook loses users for the first time
My experience with VR is that there is a period of acclimatization. At first it is tough to go 30min. I got up to being able to use it for an enjoyable 3 hours or at least the full duration of the battery for watching and gaming. I find when I come back from a long vacation with no screens, looking at a monitor for 7 hours is tough.
sdmac99··on Nim 1.6.2
> Also, is anyone using Nim today?

Sure. I maintain an internal performance dashboard web app that is fully Nim. Backend uses Jester and the frontend uses Karax + Vega-lite for charts.

sdmac99··on Nim 1.6
Check out this Nim talk. Addresses some of your questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VRuZo2pdA

sdmac99··on Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
As a solo dev working in the public sector I recently moved to using Nim.

Backend: Jester (Nim) Front-end: Karax (Nim) Db: sqlite/mariadb Host: digital ocean

I find that I can implement features much faster and with less code compared to my previous Go/Js stack.

sdmac99··on Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON
duckdb is another good option as well.
sdmac99··on I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
I would like it if Vaex was added to the benchmarks.