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New comment by hodapp in "Apache Arrow is 10 years old"

hodapp — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:21:00 +0000

The creator of Pandas even bashes it: https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/

New comment by hodapp in "Why LLMs still have problems with OCR"

hodapp — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:12:09 +0000

You are right; the advanced in DeepSeek-R1 used RL almost solely because of the chain-of-thought sequences they were generating and training it on.

New comment by hodapp in "A bestiary of exotic hadrons"

hodapp — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:02:33 +0000

I thought that "The Particle Zoo: The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality" by Hesketh did an excellent job of explaining without dumbing down to the point of meaninglessness.

New comment by hodapp in "Okay, I Like WezTerm"

hodapp — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:19:31 +0000

My story is about the same as yours. Kovid's arrogance pushed me away.

New comment by hodapp in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

hodapp — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 18:54:06 +0000

I don't think it is maintained anymore, but add AtheOS/Syllable to the list.

New comment by hodapp in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

hodapp — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 18:51:16 +0000

Are you one of them? I am curious what the experience is like trying to use it as anything like a daily system.

New comment by hodapp in "Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS"

hodapp — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:30:32 +0000

No, an extra ~17 msec of delay is not even close to the cause of this. The speed difference between older and newer UIs is still apparent even at 60 Hz.

New comment by hodapp in "Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet"

hodapp — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:55:34 +0000

In the case of SIAG, probably because the page saw its last update in 2000.

New comment by hodapp in "Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet"

hodapp — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:04:48 +0000

There is SIAG (Scheme in a Grid) that has been around for ages: https://siag.nu/siag/

New comment by hodapp in "Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry?"

hodapp — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:09:22 +0000

I had a Blackberry Classic. The Android support was kind of garbage - but the physical keyboard was incredibly easy to type on and the trackpad was really helpful, and yes, the thing was built like a tank. I was once out running near some train tracks, had the Blackberry in one hand (I had no pockets and was probably using it for a stopwatch or a map or something), tripped on something, hands went out in front of me... and I broke my fall by slamming the Blackberry right into the steel rail. It was fine.

New comment by hodapp in "Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access"

hodapp — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:34:49 +0000

6LoWPAN has a variant that can use Bluetooth Low Energy (rather than 802.15.4) to carry IPv6. See https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/hardware/bluetooth/bluet... for instance.