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New comment by tauroid in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

tauroid — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:49:14 +0000

Would be quite compelling if the CLI worked with nushell.

I see the (a?) backend is polars, which is good as well.

This in CLI might be the quickest / tersest way to go from "have parquet / csv / other table format" to "see graph", though a keen polars / matplotlib user would also get there pretty quick.

New comment by tauroid in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

tauroid — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:58:10 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da

New comment by tauroid in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

tauroid — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:15:52 +0000

Split keyboard. Far enough apart and you have a dedicated cat zone.

New comment by tauroid in "You Had No Taste Before AI"

tauroid — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:28:55 +0000

Saying "out of step" rather than "out of touch" seems like a bit of a Freudian slip.

New comment by tauroid in "A visual introduction to big O notation"

tauroid — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:36:03 +0000

Okay unless you're doing numerical analysis where they use it for the growth rate of the error term, which has nothing to do with cost or algorithms

New comment by tauroid in "I'm switching to Python and actually liking it"

tauroid — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:04:06 +0000

Why would I use a Pydantic model when `TypeAdapter(MyDataclass)` exists?

New comment by tauroid in "How I Program with Agents"

tauroid — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:08:38 +0000

https://kompose.io/

New comment by tauroid in "Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?"

tauroid — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:38:14 +0000

Could you avoid eval by having a CSP mode that forces reactive expressions to only allow functions users have registered with datastar in a lookup table?

New comment by tauroid in "Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?"

tauroid — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 10:22:02 +0000

Counterexample with just local signals: https://data-star.dev/guide/getting_started#data-on

New comment by tauroid in "No physics? No problem. AI weather forecasting is already making strides"

tauroid — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:46:35 +0000

You think the difficult part is merging observations with the last forecast? I guess it's a very underdetermined problem, but isn't the loss function (compare the forecast grid with later observations) the same whether you're doing grid_t0 -> grid_t1 or (observations, grid_t0) -> grid'_t0 -> grid_t1? I don't know enough about ML to know how much complexity the extra step adds, but doesn't seem like a massive difference.

New comment by tauroid in "Where are the supply chain safe programming languages?"

tauroid — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:27:20 +0000

If the FFI is also capability gated why can't the language do it?

Edit: Pony seems to rely on restricting FFI privileges at the package level https://tutorial.ponylang.io/object-capabilities/trust-bound.... Suppose it could have been function by function ("unsafe") but this sounds fine. Not sure what else I could have meant by a capability gated FFI.

New comment by tauroid in "Show HN: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL"

tauroid — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:40:28 +0000

euler angles aren't cool any more

New comment by tauroid in "Build your own Docker with Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot"

tauroid — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:59:19 +0000

I might have confused download volume with image size but the tar.gz for dockerTools.buildLayeredImage with just node and mariadb in the contents is still 220MB (just checked)

Edit: with nothing in the contents it's 144M, which is getting reasonable but still nearly 30x alpine base

New comment by tauroid in "Build your own Docker with Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot"

tauroid — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:06:23 +0000

sibling comments about Nix are not acknowledging that the base image size is around 600MB vs 5MB for alpine

New comment by tauroid in "Ask HN: What's the best book on religion?"

tauroid — Sun, 28 May 2023 15:32:35 +0000

The World's Religions by Huston Smith

New comment by tauroid in "Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)"

tauroid — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:51:48 +0000

For those looking for a more up to date alternative, with a non-hardcoded DB file path, try https://github.com/greenbender/sqlfs (not affiliated, just had a look in this area a few weeks ago)

New comment by tauroid in "Before camping got wimpy: Roughing it with the Victorians"

tauroid — Thu, 05 May 2022 09:04:18 +0000

In the UK at least (apart from Scotland), wild camping is only legal with permission from the landowner (even in national parks), so most people use campsites to avoid the possibility of being driven off by a ranger or angry farmer.

New comment by tauroid in "Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed"

tauroid — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:01:06 +0000

I made a little tool a while back for splitting up your follows by their posting frequency, but setting "nlists" to 1 should accomplish what you asked for.

You do unfortunately need a twitter developer account. Also fair warning, as far as I know I'm the only current user, but works on my machine™.

https://github.com/tauroid/twitterlanes