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hodapp commented on Apache Arrow is 10 years old arrow.apache.org/blog/202... · Posted by u/tosh

0xcafefood · a month ago

Do people bash pandas? If so, it reminds me of Bjarne's quip that the two types of programming languages are the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

hodapp · a month ago

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

hodapp commented on Why LLMs still have problems with OCR runpulse.com/blog/why-llm... · Posted by u/ritvikpandey21

singularity2001 · a year ago

I still don't get the reinforcement part here. Wouldn't that be normal training against the data set? Like how would you modify the normal MNIST training to be reinforcement learning

hodapp · a year ago

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.

hodapp commented on A bestiary of exotic hadrons cerncourier.com/a-bestiar... · Posted by u/rbanffy

cmason · a year ago

Can anyone recommend a book or other resource for a lay person to understand this?

hodapp · a year ago

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.

hodapp commented on Okay, I Like WezTerm alexplescan.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/alexpls

bramhaag · 2 years ago

> e.g. IIRC his answer to "How do I set up tmux with kitty?" was something like "Don't, tmux is dumb" and closing it. Eventually I gave up.

Heh, I switched from Kitty to Wezterm due to the exact same types of comments from the maintainer. It's his project of course, and he's a great programmer, but some humility wouldn't hurt.

hodapp · 2 years ago

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

hodapp commented on Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS discuss.haiku-os.org/t/pr... · Posted by u/return_0e

haunter · 2 years ago

That made me think how many non-Unix FOSS operating systems are out there? Haiku, FreeDOS, Genode, ReactOS, Plan9, AROS, and RISC OS comes to my mind quickly.

hodapp · 2 years ago

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

hodapp commented on Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS discuss.haiku-os.org/t/pr... · Posted by u/return_0e

coolcoder613 · 2 years ago

Quite a lot of people use Haiku bare metal, and wifi support absolutely is present.

hodapp · 2 years ago

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

hodapp commented on Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS discuss.haiku-os.org/t/pr... · Posted by u/return_0e

ahoka · 2 years ago

That's just comparing CRT screens with 60Hz LCD panels. Get anything 120Hz+ and you will see that modern systems are very snappy.

hodapp · 2 years ago

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.

hodapp commented on Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet pyspread.gitlab.io/... · Posted by u/Qem

behnamoh · 2 years ago

I like Lisp but why are almost ALL Lisp-related websites so ugly? They still have the 90s look and feel.

hodapp · 2 years ago

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

hodapp commented on Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet pyspread.gitlab.io/... · Posted by u/Qem

toss1 · 2 years ago

Are you suggesting a flavor of Lisp? Because THAT could be very nice in a cell-format.

hodapp · 2 years ago

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

hodapp commented on Ask HN: Do you still miss your RIM BlackBerry? · Posted by u/jaytaylor

kenned3 · 5 years ago

Yes. The physical keyboard was so much faster and accurate vs the "on screen" version most phones have now.

The BB was also built like a tank. i once had mine fall off while i was running down 3 flights of granite stairs. It hit my leg on the way down and was kicked a good distance. After clearing the stairs, i put the battery back in and closed the door and it was good to go. Try that with a "modern" smart phone.

My personal favourite was the "blueberry" with the monochrome screen. Incredible battery life on that thing.

I think it was the BlackBerry 6200? they then made the same 'blueberry' but with a colour screen BlackBerry 7210 but it hurt the battery life.

hodapp · 5 years ago

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.