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NeutralForest··on Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years
Sad but true.
NeutralForest··on Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end with first hike in 17 years
It's always on econ articles that people have to worst takes, good God.
NeutralForest··on What Every User Should Know About Mixed Precision Training in PyTorch (2022)
TF is pretty much dead. The examples often do not work, the docs are not up to date and I don't think any recent paper/projects use TF so you'll also find a better community and better resources around Pytorch.
NeutralForest··on I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut
Completely understandable and yet another example that practicality beats purity.
NeutralForest··on Akira Toriyama has died
Truly a staple of my childhood, I think many people can remember trying to do a Kamehameha or cheering for Goku during the first tournament or going crazy when Krillin died and Goku turned Super Saiyan for the first time. Good times, thanks Akira
NeutralForest··on Litestar – powerful, flexible, and highly performant Python ASGI framework
I need to think a bit more about what I want exactly. In short, I'm trying to manage auth through Keycloak but I also need a way to manage user sessions so there needs to be a way to store tokens generated by Keycloak in a DB in the backend and properly sync token invalidation/refresh with Keycloak.
NeutralForest··on Litestar – powerful, flexible, and highly performant Python ASGI framework
That's a very interesting stack, thanks for sharing!
NeutralForest··on Litestar – powerful, flexible, and highly performant Python ASGI framework
I love their docs, I sometimes read them when I'm working on other projects because the design and or suggestions are great. Afaik there's no great connectors for OIDC which is why we can't use it at $work but I'd like to try it more in depth in a personal project.
NeutralForest··on Marginalia: 3 Years
Congrats on the progress, I don't use marginalia as much as I should because I'm so used to rely on Google. It's a wonderful project though and I'll prob use it more since spammy SEO sites and AI generated answers seem to get more prevalent.
NeutralForest··on Is Emacs dying?
That's fair, I think the style is too dry sometimes but now that I've used Emacs for some time (3 years?) I just look into the pkg docs when I need something, which is rare.
NeutralForest··on Is Emacs dying?
Content discovery is somewhat hard, especially in the beginning when you don't know enough of the vocabulary and capabilities to easily find what you want. Ironically, it's at that time in your journey learning how Emacs works, that you need the discovering capabilities the most.
NeutralForest··on Is Emacs dying?
I think Emacs has excellent docs tbh, the docs page online are usually very good and within Emacs as well as in `info-mode`. What is sometimes confusing though is the large amount of jargon and details you need to know to get in a place where it works as excepted. Half because Emacs was created before modern conventions in naming stuff but also because it's a complex piece of software (or at least it has the potential for great complexity).
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams
I was mostly thinking about when rooms are too full but if the audio is recorded properly, it's still better than nothing and also I'm not sure if the sound was bad in some rooms because of the mic or because of the loud speakers; a recording might be better in the second case I suppose.
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams
Today the JS devroom if way too full and the sound in the container devroom makes it very hard to understand the speakers :/ Everyone is very nice and helpful though
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams
Thanks, having the talks accessible will be helpful as well since some of them are either too full or with terrible mics/sound.
NeutralForest··on Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
That's very true, I would never call Emacs "no nonsense" at any point haha
NeutralForest··on Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
Just use Emacs with Vim bindings (evil-mode) then ;)
NeutralForest··on A Tour of the Lisps
Lol, a bit scathing but mostly fair from my experience. I haven't used Lisps a lot but I'm a pretty big Emacs user and I've played around with the languages your mentioned and I feel somewhat the same.

I'll just add that the ideas and many libraries around Racket are super cool. There's really a bunch of documentation and tutorials for a lot of things, it's fun.

NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024
We've had a discussion about it last month but I thought this would be a nice reminder since it's next week =)
NeutralForest··on Loro's rich text CRDT
Looks dope, could be nice for collaborative writing like a multi-author blog post or for docs.
NeutralForest··on System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance
I'm interested in their laptops but I'm a bit afraid support won't be as good since I'm in Europe.
NeutralForest··on Relearning math as an adult
Cool comment, it's great seeing people being supportive of their SO =)
NeutralForest··on CSS Is Fun Again
I mean, I have some understanding of CSS but at some point the time I spend learning it is not worth it. I don't mean to have zero knowledge of it though, I can build a website with grid and flex and whatnot.
NeutralForest··on CSS Is Fun Again
I think at this point I'll just leave modernizing the CSS to experts and use frameworks like Tailwind or Tachyons or whatever. It's just not interesting to me.
NeutralForest··on Maze Generator
I discovered this book in an HN comment, it's only right I post it here as well http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Schedule
That's true
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Schedule
I understand this point from a tourist perspective but if you stay over for a longer time, you'll realize there's just that much more to do in cities like Brussels or Antwerp.
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Schedule
FOSDEM has a page with [practical info](https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/practical/accommodation/). I don't know the policy of the uni during the event but it might be useful contact the FOSDEM people and ask if it's possible to setup camp in the uni for the wk? There are a lot of empty rooms during the weekend after all and the students are on holiday at that time.
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Schedule
Ghent/Gent is also lovely and quite easily accessible!
NeutralForest··on FOSDEM 2024 Schedule
There are ATMs about a 10-15min walk from the university in the "Cimetière d'Ixelles", I'm a bit surprised about people not taking cards, maybe not VISA? It's often possible to pay with a bank app or your phone as well though.
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