Matumio

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by Matumio 8y ago
> Comes from the Federal Reserve, when they decided to increase the money supply. Wait, really? I was pretty convinced that the vast majority of new money is created by private banks, when they decide to loan out money that nobody has pa
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by Matumio 8y ago
Two things about programming: 1. Nobody really knows how to do it. 2. If you have a system for doing it, you're doing the computer's job. (Sadly I cannot find the source of this quote.)
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by Matumio 8y ago
It depends. Any IP-based socket will still go through some protocol stack (routing and filtering). On the other hand, unix domain sockets are optimized for IPC and should perform well. But any socket will require a copy, and thus be slower
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by Matumio 8y ago
Same for me. In weeks 1-2 I usually know what I want to do, and instead of doing it, I pick up a bad habit. Like obsessive news-reading. In weeks 2-3 I usually give up, and suddenly the bad habit is gone and I'm productive doing some g
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by Matumio 8y ago
What helped me is to use an app as meditation timer. It can send a notification if I haven't meditated for a day. (No matter how briefly; five minutes is already so much better than nothing.) The sport is to never trigger the notificat
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by Matumio 8y ago
Evolution might just have found a way to get people to reproduce before the lack becomes a problem. Most certainly it didn't optimize for age 60 and beyond.
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by Matumio 8y ago
I'm also a big fan of emacs' dumb autocompletion, mainly dabbrev-expand. (Which hippie-expand uses.) I sometimes try other autocompletion methods, including those that use a proper cross-reference. But most of the time I just fall
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by Matumio 8y ago
Keep in mind that there could be a very good explanation for such a no-show, like death of a family member. But if the company has no second thought about wasting time of candidates then I would stop asking myself how to "get in"
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by Matumio 8y ago
No, a "moonmoon" would be the big moon into whose orbit you park the smaller moon. Reference: https://xkcd.com/2043/
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by Matumio 8y ago
I agree about the type system, but as far as async is concerned, javascript with its (now standardized) promises is miles ahead. The main advantage IMO is not to gain performance, but to allow concurrency without data races (as required by
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by Matumio 8y ago
Work output is one thing, but it cannot be the only morale of this story. Surely there is also some intrinsic value in creating a friendly workplace, independent of economical success. It's also a story about how to realize those value
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by Matumio 8y ago
Most 3D printers don't have massive printing heads. If they drive into the end-stops, the motors will likely just skip steps and be stuck. They are not designed to apply much force. I'm much more worried about the heating element.
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by Matumio 8y ago
I was looking for a table too, and found https://github.com/pnnl/cmaputil (colormaps/ directory)
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by Matumio 8y ago
Hm... the way I remember this feature (forgot where it was) is that your custom image is stored in your browser (localstorage?), not on the remote site. So when you see your image, you know it's the same origin. (E.g. not a similar URL
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by Matumio 8y ago
No, they just haven't expanded it. I also think that the finish experiment has two main problems: they only give money to the unemployed, and they are only interested in measuring whether this leads to more employment. Seems almost cyn
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by Matumio 9y ago
For machine learning there is the Arxiv Sanity Preserver, which can recommend new papers based on your library. http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/ It didn't really preserve my sanity, though. I'm reading those papers in
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by Matumio 9y ago
This is only half the story. Several business models around open source are working and proven (e.g. hardware vendors writing kernel drivers) but there is also a lot of unpaid volunteer work that everyone seems to take for granted. GIMP is
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by Matumio 9y ago
Those clocks being off is just a slight annoyance, the actual problem is the threat to grid stability.
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by Matumio 9y ago
pipenv is more like yarn (same version locking concept)
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by Matumio 9y ago
Funny thing you should say this about lobsters in particular. In Charles Stross' novel "Accelerando" simulated (uploaded) lobster brains got smart enough to reach out for help and escape their experiment. They eventually beco
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by Matumio 9y ago
I get the point you're trying to make, it's just that you have picked the perfect counter-example to make it against. Both with animal protection (no human will profit) and with Switzerland (we as citizens can force a popular vote
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by Matumio 9y ago
You observe leaves shaking when there is wind (a correlation). To test for causality you need to make an intervention. You still the leaves - the wind keeps going. You block the wind - the leaves stop shaking. There clearly is an asymmetry
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by Matumio 9y ago
The U of UBI stands for universal. If this "slave class" gets the same UBI, then they are not slaves. (At least not to the people who have no income in addition to UBI. They may be doing work for them, but they could easily stop a
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by Matumio 9y ago
They are funding it for 12 years. That's pretty close to forever. Any political system can change its policy over such a timespan. Your second point is valid: this is additional money from outside. But the word "donor" would
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by Matumio 9y ago
here you go: https://duniter.org/en/introduction/
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by Matumio 9y ago
Even random search (in the weight space) can outperform gradient-based deep reinforcement learning algorithms on some Atari games. Genetic algorithms are quite competitive. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06567v1
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by Matumio 9y ago
I think you are confusing "give everyone the same income" with "give everyone a basic income". Basic income is a floor, not a ceiling. It doesn't change much about the wealth distribution (except at the bottom).
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by Matumio 9y ago
Which shows that you have to lay bare what your values are before arguing about how to optimize them.
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by Matumio 9y ago
If you try to wrap any non-trivial type using SWIG typemaps you will quickly go insane. However to speed up an inner loop you can often get away with a few PyObject* arguments/returns. SWIG will pass those through and you can use the P
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by Matumio 9y ago
For comparison, I just implemented the same as C SWIG extension[1]. It's about 10% faster, but it's cheating by comparing bytes instead of utf-8 encoded characters. The more interesting part to me is the comparison of the amount o

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