2024-04-11

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 05:31

@sleepyfox Well I’m not going to test it as if it were. One data analysis tool or technology will do just fine.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 07:51

40 blocks long, 120 blocks high, and I only died once. Now I have sheep.

(apparently an Enderman thinks you’re looking at it from a much wider field of view when you’re a ways off?)

Anyways, ready for the actual day now.

#Minecraft

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 08:33

@genehack panic! at the discourse

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 09:14

@endomain @Binder My devices have had my own sticker designs on them for a few years, so I get it. But I also have stickers from other artists and organizations, or gifts from friends, because I want to show my support for them.

Basically my stickers are less about ego or self-expression, and more about appreciation.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 09:30

Frenemyship ended with Pandas. Polars is my new data crunching frenemy.

No but for reals, the Polars API is way easier to read the next day. Pandas has the Perl problem, where you get from A to B in a fit of late night inspiration and next time you’re looking at the code it’s like “æ to þ?”

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 10:12

@UncleDuke1969 @farah

still disappointed he never got to the sequel, “Pineapples and Prejudice”

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 10:22

https://hackers.town/users/VeilidNetwork/statuses/112253613083519701

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 12:48

@saltphoenix @vees not for the first time, and probably not for the last, I’d like to point out this relevant blog post by @jmac

Fogknife The sheriff and his newspaper, his gaze turned aside (2 minute read)

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 14:18

ten duplicates, nine accounts with no contact info, two with inconsistent spacing in the names

these folks need to do better fake record keeping

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 15:02

so I got that worked out to my satisfaction but uh time constraints, total flexibility, and near un-navigable documentation for all my initial choices led me to XKCD 224

s/lisp/dataframes/gi && s/perl/sql/gi

Though I’ll be studying later.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 16:06

@Johannab there’s a lot of cool stuff, but I have not yet established to my satisfaction that the cool stuff is better than a Perl script and a SQLite file.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 16:09

@xan the “stay in your lane” folks never cease to depress.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 17:10

Any day I can bring up Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names — especially as justification for a data handling decision — is a good day.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 17:54

@Johannab I usually run with the foreign key pragma because the normalization habit will not die.

But yeah. Takes a bit to get used to SQLite’s type system being basically “pretend this string is a number” and it works — fast — for a frankly obscene quantity of data.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 19:42

Took me half an hour to write the summary, and two hours to edit it back down to a digestible size. Hope they appreciate the work.

hackers.town: 2024-04-11 Thu 19:44

@lowqualityfacts which one I wonder? Dave Grohl is too obvious. I bet it’s Taylor Hawkins.