Hacker News: psychometry

New comment by psychometry in "Too big to cover alone: Newsrooms team up"

psychometry — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:15:27 +0000

It's not the authors' fault you're too fucking dumb to understand basic facts about how journalism works. Go shill some more ivermectin, you nutter.

New comment by psychometry in "Offline-First Database Comparison"

psychometry — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:58:40 +0000

Yeah although the docs claim to support things like regex-based searches, it's so horrendously slow it shouldn't even be listed as a feature.

New comment by psychometry in "Offline-First Database Comparison"

psychometry — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:11:18 +0000

SQL in the browser again: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql

New comment by psychometry in "Offline-First Database Comparison"

psychometry — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 05:33:15 +0000

No commits in 2 years. Seems Google lost interest like usual.

New comment by psychometry in "macOS Monterey"

psychometry — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 23:23:15 +0000

Wow it's almost as if multiple people comment on things here and they have different opinions!

New comment by psychometry in "macOS Monterey"

psychometry — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 19:53:17 +0000

MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc.

I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wanted but didn't yet have, nor the last time they added a feature I didn't realize I wanted because I'd never imagined it. The latter used to be what made Apple products stand out to me.

New comment by psychometry in "California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in"

psychometry — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:15:45 +0000

Hahahaha no, Alabama is not doing well...at anything.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/quality-of-...

New comment by psychometry in "California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in"

psychometry — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:25:40 +0000

Yeah let's run the country like Alabama instead. They're doing well! /s

New comment by psychometry in "Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand"

psychometry — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:25:01 +0000

Most of our screen time is spent working. 8+ hours staring at a screen is bad enough for our eyes and brains. Imagine how much worse it will be when that screen is an inch from your eyeballs. I highly doubt that VR will be replacing screens for anything but occasional recreation anytime soon.

New comment by psychometry in "Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality"

psychometry — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:18:54 +0000

No, I don't think there's an excuse for anyone writing this badly.

New comment by psychometry in "Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality"

psychometry — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:46:08 +0000

What in the...? Those are the sorts of things that make you enjoy a novel? Jesus...

New comment by psychometry in "Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality"

psychometry — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:43:54 +0000

The only character in the first book who exhibited any kind of personality was the gruff cop who swears, doesn't care if he's not allowed to smoke inside, and takes no shit from anyone. It's almost laughable how bad the author is at characterization.

New comment by psychometry in "Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro"

psychometry — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:50:34 +0000

Thus the manual review. No one's going to be going to prison over a hash collision here.

New comment by psychometry in "Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website"

psychometry — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:57:08 +0000

This is clearly not an example of a politician simply "misspeaking".

New comment by psychometry in "Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website"

psychometry — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:56:28 +0000

That's a person not an example.

New comment by psychometry in "ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

psychometry — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 23:46:49 +0000

If it's all Python, why not use Prefect?

New comment by psychometry in "Kaiser Permanente suspends 2,200 employees who didn't get Covid vaccine"

psychometry — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:43:20 +0000

Good riddance. It's telling that most of the employees losing their jobs over this across the country are almost never physicians and researchers (and only occasionally nurses). It's mostly support staff: people who often have no scientific or medical training and/or no college degree. That should tell you a lot about how justifiable their die-hard belief is.

New comment by psychometry in "ETL Pipelines with Airflow: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

psychometry — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:40:10 +0000

If your ETL code is written in Python, just use Prefect and thank me later: https://docs.prefect.io/

New comment by psychometry in "Robservable: Use of Observable notebooks (or parts of them) as htmlwidgets in R"

psychometry — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:24:30 +0000

Oh, long before that.

In addition to being a language that does almost nothing to encourage good development practices and discourage bad ones, compared to Python the R ecosystem's tooling is just so inferior in every area: IDE, unit/functional testing, ETL, deployment, dependency management, etc. etc.

New comment by psychometry in "Robservable: Use of Observable notebooks (or parts of them) as htmlwidgets in R"

psychometry — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:16:22 +0000

R, RStudio, and Shiny are great for prototyping, but you'd regret building a production data science ecosystem around them. Better to start with Python and rely on JavaScript viz tools in the end.