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New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: Do you practice lucid dreaming?"

francocalvo — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:58:36 +0000

This happens to me too. Sometimes I even setup many alarms every 15min or so like 40min before I want to wake up. This gets me to this state, and when I snooze the alarm I can go right back where I was

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: Learning PySpark and Related Tools"

francocalvo — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:24:43 +0000

I'm a Data Engineer which uses Spark daily. I guess the only important cert would come from Databricks, but I think it will be more worth your while to read the book mentioned here and try to do a little project ingesting/transforming data

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: Is there an equivalent of Cursor for Vim?"

francocalvo — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:51:36 +0000

Avante

https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

New comment by francocalvo in "Apache DataFusion"

francocalvo — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:11:35 +0000

I don't think SQL is going anyware. There might me abstactions that use these engines but you write SQL (a là dbt) before people get used to 10 APIs for the same.

What Spark has going for it is its ecosystem. Things like Delta and Iceberg are being written for Spark first. Look at PyIceberg for example

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?"

francocalvo — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:16:01 +0000

He's probably talking about libraries like PySpark or PyFlink which are used a lot

New comment by francocalvo in "Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces"

francocalvo — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:48:11 +0000

> To address your Proton Drive comment directly, they are a small team and they are rolling out Web, iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.

You said it was a small team for Proton Drive. I also feel they are prioritizing more products instead of investing in improving their current offering

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: What Are You Learning?"

francocalvo — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:32:20 +0000

Hey! I love Nix, and I've been using it as my daily driver for more than 1 year. There is a lot of people putting a lot of energy on documenting and explaining, but the current recommendation is _suffer_.

For Docker, you could start here in this HN thread [1], for NixOS and flakes there is a video series and git [2] I used at the begining which I liked.

I wanted something a bit more 'complete', so if you will you can read through my nix repo [3].

I have built Portry and Go applications (that I'll push to nixpkgs at some point) and GCP images for VMs, so if you need a reference for that just ask :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720007

[2] https://github.com/MatthiasBenaets/nixos-config

[3] https://github.com/francocalvo/nixos-eris

New comment by francocalvo in "Debian Git Monorepo"

francocalvo — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:45:53 +0000

Probably tons of 3D models

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: Hiring.md Repository File"

francocalvo — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:34:58 +0000

It just feels like this

https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: How Do You Budget?"

francocalvo — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:35:08 +0000

Hey! I'm also from Argentina, and what seems to work for me is to budget in dollars.

I use beancount and load the blue ARS-USD exchange rate and record all my transactions in the currency it actually happened. I am a bit flexible as to avoid lifestyle creep and ARS appreciation (like this month)

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?"

francocalvo — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:00:03 +0000

Reframing what you just said, you think people should prove they are innocent against any accusation because it would be "pretty straightforward"?

Either you like authoritarian governments or you have it in for this website (or both?)

New comment by francocalvo in "Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president"

francocalvo — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:54:40 +0000

The problem is that the current govt wasn't taking its medicine. It continued spending more, subsidizing everything and supressing the exchange rates ARS-USD.

I'm from Argentina, and I didn't want either of the final options, but I knew that choosing the continuity of the current govt would bring us closer and closer to what's happening in Venezuela

New comment by francocalvo in "Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain?"

francocalvo — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:28:25 +0000

I really loved Why We Sleep by PhD Walker. It's not specific about the brain, but it does go over how sleep improves memory and learning

New comment by francocalvo in "Switching from Chrome to Firefox"

francocalvo — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:49:13 +0000

Why do you not use containers?

New comment by francocalvo in "Another day of Nasdaq green by 2 percent and crypto about to go red"

francocalvo — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:19:31 +0000

I'm not well versed un trading, but isn't BTC up like 70% this year?

New comment by francocalvo in "What Harvard doesn't teach you"

francocalvo — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:52:14 +0000

Do you support or do you work for that company?

New comment by francocalvo in "The crypto black markets of Argentina"

francocalvo — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:35:47 +0000

As an Argentinian I might be able to answer.

Except importers, people can't buy the official dollar. Most people can't buy the 200 dollars a month that the central bank allows, with a tax of 75% over the official value. Then you have the markets dollars, the MEP and CCL, which are more expensive (~100% more than the official).

All of these types of exchange are setup to make the process painful as possible because they want to stop draining the federal reserves.

With USDT et al you can buy it much much easier, out of reach of the AFIP if done correctly, and you are safe against the high inflation (78% for 2022 so far). This crypto dollars are normally cheaper than the MEP&CCL and more expensive than the others.

I'm on my phone, sorry for the typos.