SimonPStevens

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by SimonPStevens 6y ago
Their main revenue is from two things. Firstly from their job boards which will be significantly reduced as few companies are hiring. Then secondly from advertising which will also be reduced during times of recession. The product you think
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Well in code we're using C#'s decimal type (128 bit. 96 bits are used for an integer and the rest used for the sign and scaling factor) [0]. It's essentially just floating point applied to a base 10 integer rather than a bina
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Super interesting product I'll definitely be taking a deeper look at this when I'm at work tomorrow. I notice all your comparisons are with floating point and integer types. I was recently looking at SIMD as a possible way to spee
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Yeah, sure. But I'm all in favour of that. I want to see systems compete on their comparative merits. That hopefully drives innovation. I just dislike the way Oculus are preferring to compete by locking up the market with exclusives. I
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
One of the links off the page talks about how it adapts based on your systems capabilities. It supports both the finger tracking controllers as well as the older trigger controllers.
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Yes. Sorry. Absolutely correct :-) For some reason I had in my head the new one was called a Vive Index, but it's not, it's a Valve Index.
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
"Play on any SteamVR system. If you have VR hardware that works with a computer, then it works with SteamVR." Bravo Valve. This is why anyone interested in this should get a Vive and stay well clear of Oculus/Facebook's
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
DJI already have a process for getting clearance to fly in restricted zones. It's called flysafe self unlock. [Edit: changed "no-fly" to restricted]
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
The software limits height by allowing 400ft of elevation above the takeoff height. So it's tricky to take off at the base of a mountain and fly up the side because you'll be restricted at 400ft from the start point, despite it ac
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Except, if other people already have the same belief, won't it will already be priced into any oil futures prices. So that only works if it's a belief you hold, but you also think that others believe the opposite.
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
I'd love to hear more about this. Did he mean that there is a solved and known way to get uniform national cell phone coverage without blackspots? If so, do you know more about what his solution was.
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Which one was that? BlackMesa (a fan remake of Half-Life 1 on a modern engine) is outstanding.
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
AMP itself is not the problem. It is actual one possible solution to the problem of heavy slow pages. The problem is that it is tied to Google. We don't need to destroy it, we need to make it into an open standard that all browsers and
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
I believe it's not as clear cut as that. I believe that in many jurisdictions there are various rules that allow trading within certain assets classes to not be treated as a taxable event for capital gains purposes unless you trade out
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
So to clarify... If you were holding bitcoin, but decided you wanted out because you think it's about to go down, you'd exchange for tether and hold that instead until you decided that bitcoin is ready to start going back up again
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Serious question. What is the reason for holding Tethers? They a supposedly pinned to the dollar, so there isn't much point in holding them hoping they will gain in value. If anything their peg is questionable so they are only likely t
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Latest tech is far less important for games these days. I have a laptop that is 4 years old currently (admittedly it was pretty top end when I brought it) and it still runs latest games perfectly fine, and I'm still not really seeing a
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
This is ridiculous for so many reasons. Comparing a minor bug with player speed calculations in an edge case scenario with the total collapse of a bridge. They are on totally different scales. One cost lives. The other is a minor inconvenie
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
I agree with you sentiment in general about not chastising people for enjoying things you don't enjoy, but in this case it's different. If you enjoy rock climbing or mountain hiking you go to one of thousands of other mountains. T
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Not the op, but for me the turboprops I've flown on [0] have a deeper, louder droning noise that really gives me a headache after a while. I think it's personal though, I've spoken about hating them with travelling companions
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
All the stories in this thread about people having to sign stuff without reading it. I guess this just makes them all unenforceable in reality if anyone actually challenged them. Perhaps this is why anything actually serious I've ever
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Depends on the drone. I have a commercial DJI drone that has sensors and a nice easy mode that will stop you crashing into stuff (at least forwards and backwards, there are no side sensors). But it also has a "sport" mode that dis
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
It's hugely dependant on the app and type of data it's processing. Our primary apps deal with trading data at 15/30 minute intervals over multiple years. It's not uncommon to have millions of rows involved in a process.
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
I say this all the time when this kind of thing comes up. Please use Firefox! Even if it's worse. Even if its slower[1]. Even if it doesn't have that one feature or bug fix that you personally consider really important. Just use F
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
> the majority of people do understand the YouTube + Google/Alphabet relationship I think this is very tech centric view. I asked my wife (tech savy enough but doesn't work in the industry) and she didn't have any idea who
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
(BTW, not me doing the downvoting) I don't think that only allowing the purchase of tether to retail really meets their original plan. The whole point was meant to be that anyone could take their coins and go to tether and get exactly
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
No, they didn't. Their original proposition was that you could buy and sell tether from them at exactly 1 USD. What happened was that website for doing that was only ever available for very short periods and instead tether was traded o
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Everyone talking about how tether should have profited from either investing the cash, or buying and selling tethers at slightly different rates is missing the point. The original value propitiation of tether was... "A one to one, 100%
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
Yeah, I am shortening the story. The interview lasted longer than that one sentance and we discussed the technology. I was aware of a lot of the principles behind it (and I had read up before the interview), I had just never used it. Like y
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by SimonPStevens 7y ago
I consider myself to be an anti-bullshitter. I once said in a job interview that I knew nothing about the technology they were hiring for, but I was pretty sure I could take a decent stab at it. I was telling the truth. I got the job.

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