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by 323 4y ago
Have you ever considered for a nano-second the alternative that they actually might have the reserves to back it all up?
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by 323 4y ago
I think I'm in a similar situation with you, and asyncio has been great. Not sure what libs you use, you'll probably need to switch libraries, it's not common for one lib to support both sync/async. I'm using aiohtt
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by 323 4y ago
The fact that it's not wide spread is the empirical evidence. > Clearly, there is an obstacle to the acceptance of FP. I think I know what it is. The functional paradigm is an unnatural way for human beings to think. People normall
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by 323 4y ago
The consensus at the time was that one should only use Perl/Tcl for legacy reasons. And that these languages should be replaced with Python. A few examples, there were countless articles like these: 2000 Eric Raymond (!) - Why Python?
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by 323 4y ago
> We can't know if Mathematica could have taken the place of Python if it was open sourced, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have, not with it's current lispy syntax. There is ton of empirical evidence that overt functio
516.
by 323 4y ago
> much worse language than many others that were equally available to anyone I've been there during the Python take over and world and it's not my recollection of how it went. Which are those superior languages that you are t
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by 323 4y ago
Yet in practice the stack on x64 is separate from the heap, GPU memory is general is separate from system memory, and even inside the GPU you have at least a 3 level segmented memory hierarchy.
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by 323 4y ago
In general there is no single reason for our success. Some argue sweating, others that we outsourced digestion (fire cooked food), others that we are bipedal, ... not to mention later stuff like language/intelligence.
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by 323 4y ago
People are working on propane biochemical synthesis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25181600/ I don't know about the other part (temperature/pressure).
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by 323 4y ago
The generalization of this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulatio...
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by 323 4y ago
A body can burn energy to create heat. But it can't burn energy to remove heat. That's a fundamental asymmetry. Maybe it's also the reason why body core temperature is close to environment maximum temperature - since you can&
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by 323 4y ago
Is your developer salary also adjusted based on country per capita? Or are you getting a mostly Western salary?
523.
by 323 4y ago
Can this be used for crowd audio surveillance? Lasers on light poles next to the already there high resolution cameras and you could record what everybody is speaking while walking on street.
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by 323 4y ago
> led to me storing strings in an integer column Recent SQLite versions have STRICT mode where they forbid that. https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html > or too-long data in a too-short column You can use a cons
525.
by 323 4y ago
You speak like a programmer. When people say Photoshop is better than Gimp they mean the user experience. Where Gimp is light years behind Photoshop. > Today, gimp is still very competitive with late-nineties Photoshop (even a bit ahead
526.
by 323 4y ago
This is the kind of stuff that antiviruses did for ages, from signature, code simulation to heuristics. They have a lot of expertise in this, it feels like they could branch out in finding malware in source code, instead of in binaries.
527.
by 323 4y ago
You could put the power (battery) inside the key. Like a car key fob.
528.
by 323 4y ago
In many countries (EU for example) is illegal for a seller to accept over a certain amount of cash for a purchase. The maximum allowed amount can be as low as a few thousand USD.
529.
by 323 4y ago
You misunderstood parent post. It's about Google not being sued for discrimination. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08... https://www.theguardian.com/techno
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56 billion devices are running Java(dev.java)
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by 323 4y ago
During the current situation I learned an interesting thing about nuclear power plants: if you bomb them, the amount of radioactivity that will be released into atmosphere because of waste products storage on site is vastly larger than the
532.
by 323 4y ago
The programming meme books that you must have on your shelf (reading optional) are: - The C Programming Language (original C book) - The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) - Compil
533.
by 323 4y ago
The end point of ad blocking is neural networks analyzing the final rendered image before being shown to the user. This blocking could be strict, or lax, where you block even non-intentional ad stuff like someone writing in a HN comment &qu
534.
by 323 4y ago
We also need "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" emojis. Quite big missing ones at the moment.
535.
by 323 4y ago
Don't trust Google, trust us, a 30 person company. This is exactly what a FBI/CIA/GCHQ/FSB front company would say. They love to set up fronts in good-reputation countries, like Switzerland, or Slovenia in this case.
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by 323 4y ago
Fun fact: some HFT algos utilize this fact, if they see a "round size" order (1000 shares) at a "round price" (11.25) they flag it as a "human" order.
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by 323 4y ago
A very interesting argument I've read is that the value of bitcoin is it's volatility. Meaning that you can trade billions on it's ups and downs, and make profit this way. Anything that can generate profit is valuable. Notice
538.
by 323 4y ago
Simplified, why would AAPL or GE stock drop when there is big negative crypto news? This is obviously causation.
539.
by 323 4y ago
You make a big assumption, that there must be only two kinds of cells, "simple" and "complex", like on earth. That could well be an accidental fact. Maybe on some planets we have a gradient of cell complexity. Also, we d
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by 323 4y ago
> If they find cells lacking some organelle A most famous example is red blood cells, which are emptied of most organelles to make space for hemoglobin.

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