lengau
@lengau@midwest.social
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 20 hours ago:
Anyone in tech who followed the rise of paypal
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 1 day ago:
He was always this bad and I’ve been warning people about him for a decade or more. That’s the point - own the fact that you were ignorant rather than pretending this was some sort of change in him.
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 1 day ago:
Honestly I view Teslas with these sorts of stickers as even worse than not having them, because Musk was always this bad.
An “I didn’t know and now I regret it” sticker would garner much more sympathy from me.
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Blown by the Wind in my Ass
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
I think a better analogy would be that you’re tuning your bike for better performance because the trade-offs of switching to a car are worse than keeping the bike.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
It’s all about trade-offs. Here are a few reasons why one might care about performance in their Python code:
- Performance is often more tied to the code than to the interpreter - an O(n³) algorithm in blazing fast C won’t necessarily perform any better than an O(nlogn) algorithm in Python.
- Just because this particular Python code isn’t particularly performance constrained doesn’t mean you’re okay with it taking twice as long.
- Rewriting a large code base can be very expensive and error-prone. Converting small, very performance-sensitive parts of the code to a compiled language while keeping the bulk of the business logic in Python is often a much better value proposition.
These are also performance benefits one can get essentially for free with linter rules.
Anecdotally: in my final year of university I took a computational physics class. Many of my classmates wrote their simulations in C or C++. I would rotate between Matlab, Octave and Python. During one of our labs where we wrote particle simulations, I wrote and ran Octave and Python simulations in the time it took my classmates to write their C/C++ versions, and the two fastest simulations in the class were my Octave and Python ones, respectively. (The professor’s own sim came in third place). The overhead my classmates had dealing with poorly optimised code that caused constant cache misses was far greater than the interpreter overhead in my code (though at the time I don’t think I could have explained why their code was so slow compared to mine).
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
Well in that case may e he can find religion? amp.cnn.com/…/south-african-insecticide-prophet
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
No that feature is only planned for TPM v3
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 3 weeks ago:
I use almost exclusively FOSS and I have monthly/annual contributions set up for various projects.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 3 weeks ago:
This takes me back to my childhood… My dad would take me to the fair and get me a deep fried router on a stick and a roll of cat5.
- Comment on Be careful what you name your kids 3 weeks ago:
I would say this is fake and low quality, but the picture does say the Daily Sun so I can only be sure that it’s low quality.
- Comment on Fascinating and efficient new lamp design 3 weeks ago:
The design is very human
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 3 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 3 weeks ago:
Looks more like a stone to me.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 1 month ago:
Not really the same thing though, since Trump’s thingy wasn’t one of the things that popularised that type of site.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 1 month ago:
It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 1 month ago:
Except that in practice you’re still adding people’s personal schedules on top of the time zones, so just accounting for their personal schedules in UTC makes things easier.
- Comment on Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform 1 month ago:
It helps significantly that the EU already has a lot of the necessary expertise at every level.
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 1 month ago:
My company is fully remote. We use the working hours that people set on their calendar, because even people in the same time zone may not have the same working hours. My working hours start 30 minutes later than someone one timezone to my west.
- Comment on Solar noon is the only real noon 1 month ago:
You and I are in full agreement.
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- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 1 month ago:
There’s no reason why some sort of augmentation system couldn’t improve the navigation situation with the big dig. Stick some low power beacons that provide GPS-like signal in the tunnel based on their predetermined location and we’ll have GPS accounting for special relativity, general relativity and continental drift.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 month ago:
Do you live in Michigan or is there somewhere else that was this idiotic too?
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 1 month ago:
Correct. But that means 512 GB is not half a tebibyte.
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 1 month ago:
512 GiB is half a tebibyte. 512 GB is just under 477 GiB.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 month ago:
Notepad has long been a testbed for new technology in Windows. This isn’t just a sign of enshittification, it’s a warning that they want to do more.
- Comment on Get ya every time 2 months ago:
Well yeah, they hadn’t managed to get past bananas in their self defense classes.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 months ago:
You sound surprised…
