DasIch

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by DasIch 4y ago
I agree with you, the context changes nothing (and I upvoted you for this reason). However programming languages and infrastructure pieces like this are a bit special, in that optimizations here are almost never premature. * Some of the
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by DasIch 4y ago
That problem is actually solved though. There are plenty of online stores where you can create an account and buy something via invoice after it got delivered to you. This works just fine.
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by DasIch 4y ago
Blockchain has a purpose: consensus without trust. Central banks are institutions that are trusted and cooperate with trusted institutions. In general as long as you have a mechanism to establish trust-based consensus by relying on people o
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by DasIch 4y ago
I would read that as not implementing `__iadd__` https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...
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by DasIch 4y ago
Isn't that what Feather, the arrow file format, is? https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/feather.html
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by DasIch 4y ago
> This is the beginning of a multi decade conflict. Germany is currently removing the dependency on russian gas. There is a consensus on this within Germany. The discussion on this topic revolves entirely around the question of how quick
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by DasIch 4y ago
That's only a reasonable comparison to make, if there are no other options. If there are other options, which is clearly the case, you have to compare to those. A refugee crisis isn't all that bad by the way. Politically it's
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by DasIch 4y ago
Gas usage for electricity is insignificant and irrelevant for the discussion at large. What Germany is concerned about is usage of gas for heating and in industry. Turn of the gas and realistically, parts of German industry will be destroye
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by DasIch 5y ago
Gas is used primarily by heating or industrial processes that require it. It can't be meaningfully substituted with anything else in the short term. To some extent you can't even substitute with gas from other sources because of l
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by DasIch 5y ago
> At 30 bugs per kLOC[...] Where does that number come from?
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by DasIch 5y ago
You cannot depend on nuclear 24x7x365 as we’ve been able to see in France and Germany the last few years. Hot temperatures in summer cause the temperature of the rivers to increase so much that the water cannot be used for cooling and so th
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by DasIch 5y ago
They have limits on things like how many EC2 instances you can have but not on things like bandwidth. While you can raise those limits by request I'm also not sure whether you can actually reduce them again later.
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by DasIch 5y ago
The state of the art is that you click a few buttons in the UI of the cloud provider of your choice. That takes a few seconds. What you are proposing may be trivial but in comparison it might just as well be rocket science. Doing more work
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by DasIch 5y ago
The BLS has a page that shows the CPI over the last 20 years[1]. Looks perfectly fine over that timeframe. Some ups and downs as one would expect but generally on target. [1]: https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-i
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by DasIch 5y ago
Demand for housing in Europe is also huge as people move towards cities and supply hasn't caught up and struggles to catch up due to regulation and NIMBYism. This naturally leads to an increase in prices. The price changes of everyday
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by DasIch 5y ago
If Milton Friedman were right with this statement, then the increasing money supply since 2008 due to the actions of the Fed, ECB and BoE would imply that since then we've seen either a massive increase in economic output or inflation.
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by DasIch 5y ago
That's misleading as normal type annotations don't give you any performance benefit at all and you may need to do a lot more than just add type annotations. I think it's far more accurate to say that Cython is a programming l
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by DasIch 5y ago
OpenSSL is not great about compatibility. If you link to it dynamically, there is a good chance users have to recompile when it is updated which in practice means they'll need to update. This theoretical advantage of shared libraries a
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by DasIch 5y ago
The discourse around these kinds of topics comes almost entirely from feminists at least the part that is constructive. That inevitably leads to some problems being ignored as they are not so interesting to feminists. I don't think you
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by DasIch 5y ago
> Standards of manliness or masculinity vary across different cultures and historical periods. Traits traditionally viewed as masculine in Western society include strength, courage, independence, leadership, and assertiveness. https:&#x
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by DasIch 5y ago
He’s obviously wrong. Most people have various interests and obligations. The number of people who after a day of work in software engineering go on to continue to do that in their free time instead of pursuing other interests is vanishingl
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by DasIch 5y ago
The term “toxic masculinity” does not and is not intended to imply that masculinity itself is toxic.
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by DasIch 5y ago
People making non-trivial contributions to open source projects or coding in their free time are an exception. Most candidates (>99%) have no work you could actually look at.
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by DasIch 5y ago
> In the last 5 years Tim Cook has created $1900 b in shareholder value. That's just obviously not the case unless Tim is the only person working at Apple. All employees contributed that and it's perfectly reasonable to discuss
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by DasIch 5y ago
> When will we learn to stop making these silly calculations about "productivity" and understand that people are paid not by the value of their work, but by their scarcity? You do realize that it's possible to disagree wit
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by DasIch 5y ago
Rich people spend money on charities they like. They change society the way they want it to change that does not necessarily make society a better place nor is it necessarily what most people want. If he had to pay all of this on taxes, soc
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by DasIch 5y ago
Machine readable roads already exist. They are called train tracks and are already used by autonomous trains. They also allow for far more energy and space efficient transport with better throughput than cars.
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by DasIch 5y ago
In Germany the powerlines are always below ground except for high voltage. I’m pretty sure this is also the case for most of Western Europe.
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by DasIch 5y ago
Yes, I think the debt brake should be removed. Although one could also change the restrictions the debt brake so that it allows to take on debt for investments that lead to more growth. The debt brake can be "disable" though, this
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by DasIch 5y ago
In Switzerland you pay tax on the rent you could in theory receive as a landlord minus maintenance cost and mortgage payments. I suspect that this is a far bigger contributor to infinite duration mortgages than the bond market.

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