dlkmp · HackerTrans

Did you read the article? It was a real world practice, but long gone already at that time (in the mentioned parts of Europe at least).

dlkmp

昨年議論

But does provide services the entire world depends on.

dlkmp

昨年議論

Can't help but thinking how handy PowerShell is out of the box for tasks like this.

Translating the examples from the ReadMe, having read the file with:

  $medias = Get-Content .\medias.csv | ConvertFrom-Csv

Previewing the file in the terminal

  xan view medias.csv
  $medias | Format-Table

Reading a flattened representation of the first row

  xan flatten -c medias.csv
  $medias | Format-List

Searching for rows

  xan search -s outreach internationale medias.csv | xan view
  $medias | Where-Object { $_.outreach -eq "internationale" } | Format-Table

Selecting some columns

  xan select foundation_year,name medias.csv | xan view
  $medias | Select-Object -Property foundation_year, name | Format-Table

Sorting the file

  xan sort -s foundation_year medias.csv | xan view -s name,foundation_year
  $medias | Sort-Object -Property foundation_year | Select-Object -Property name, foundation_year | Format-Table

Deduplicating the file on some column

  # Some medias of our corpus have the same ids on mediacloud.org
  xan dedup -s mediacloud_ids medias.csv | xan count && xan count medias.csv
  $medias | Select-Object -ExpandProperty mediacloud_ids -Unique | Measure-Object; $medias | Measure-Object -Property mediacloud_ids

Computing frequency tables

  xan frequency -s edito medias.csv | xan view
  $medias | Group-Object -Property edito | Sort-Object -Property Count -Descending

It's probably orders of magnitude slower, and of course, plotting graphs and so on gets tricky. But for the simple type of analysis I typically do, it's fast enough, I don't need to learn an extra tool, and the auto-completion of column/property names is very convenient.

dlkmp

2 年前議論

Just as a quick usability feedback: As long as Deepl translates asynchronously as I type, while Kagi requires a full form send & page refresh, I am not inclined to switch (translation quality is also already too good for my language pairs to consider switching for minor improvements, but the usability/ speed is the real feature here).

This is coming from a user with existing Kagi Ultimate subscription, so I'm generally very open to adopt another tool if it fits my needs).

Slightly offtopic, slight related: As already mentioned the last time Kagi hit the HN front page when I saw it: the best improvement I could envision for kagi is improved search performance (page speed). I still encounter multiple second page loads far too frequently that I didn't notice with other search engines.

dlkmp

2 年前議論

I also found that very frustrating. It's probably the method required to stretch the skin over a tailor's dummy like in that one photo.

dlkmp

2 年前議論

I can't even do this at home, let alone in a semi-public place around strangers. Being blind and deaf makes me feel uneasy.

dlkmp

2 年前議論

Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.

dlkmp

3 年前議論

We cannot, okay, I see the point. Up to now, I considered the inability to express modifications on existing resources a limitation of the declarative model but I can see how adding state can help here.

With Bicep, we mostly deploy only the initial state and then we either re-deploy the whole thing or, if this isn't possible due to the interruptions this causes, add migration scripts in an imperative language (az cli/ pwsh). Which is admittedly the much less elegant approach.

dlkmp

3 年前議論

Interesting example. For context, I have only experience with Azure Bicep so "no state" is my default assumption on IAC languages.

Do you in practice really use random names? In my experience, I'd just use a loop vm01...vm10 for the names and the passwords aren't needed to identify an instance after the deployment so here randomness isn't an issue.

dlkmp

3 年前議論

That sounds almost impossible to me. I feel like half of everything I purchase which has a manual doesn't ship with a physical manual, but instead comes with a printed QR code to "get instructions". If it's a gadget that comes with an App, there will be a QR code linking to that app. I know multiple bars/ restaurants which won't send waiters to your table but expect you to scan the QR code on the table and order with your phone.

dlkmp

4 年前議論

Yes we can say "no", no matter the billions of dollars some companies may invest in their product.

I can relate to this kind of excuse in case of fat children who don't fully control their eating habits and rely on whatever food their parents make available to them. For self—sufficient adults, it's a pathetic opinion to have about your own level of control.

dlkmp

4 年前議論

When I want to quickly query a csv file (usually log files), I like to use lnav which also supports running SQL queries and supports pretty much any log file format I happened to deal with.

https://lnav.org/

dlkmp

4 年前議論

I'd argue yes. I remember times where I was puzzled that some config file had been deleted (in a commit touching lots of files) only to find out after some analysis that is was simply moved/ renamed.

dlkmp

4 年前議論

If you had to start over, would you still recommend to yourself to learn F# in 2022?

I am asking this as someone who has dabbled in functional languages (F#/ Haskell) multiple times over the years but, despite liking the elegance of functional code, never reached a level of productivity that came close to what I am used to from imperative languages. Specifically for C#, given the trend of baking more and more of the cool functional stuff into the language (e.g. [1]), I am wondering whether F# still has enough unique features to justify the effort.

[1] see e.g. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/early-peek-at-csharp-1...

dlkmp

5 年前議論

I use hetzner, their smallest VPS is around 2,xx Euro. Has been very reliable for me in the last couple of years. I'm not sure whether they support arch, though.

dlkmp

5 年前議論

Coincidentally, a couple days ago I stumbled upon Bruce Gilley's "The case for German colonialism', which, as the name suggests, draws a completelybdifferent picture. He does focus on other colonies, though.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338555799_The_Case_...

dlkmp

5 年前議論

What's your concept of time and its extension then?

dlkmp

5 年前議論

>Less children means that 100 years from now there will be less strain on the environment

Population growth is influenced by other factors than reproduction, namely immigration. I don't think it makes much sense to consider the environnmental aspect of population growth on a national level.

dlkmp

5 年前議論

Does the caching reliably work in common webservers by now? I remember having read a couple years ago that Apache would simply clear its cache if the connection to the ocsp provider breaks (or did something similar unhelpful, resulting in an error to the enduser).

dlkmp

5 年前議論

I don't get what makes it so hard to understand that avoiding content like that and keeping a positive mindset will always be the better option for your life, independent of what will actually happen.

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