Veratyr

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by Veratyr 9y ago
He didn't say anything at all about OP's ability to read the article. "bold assertions" clearly refers to the 3 points he lists and you seem to be deliberately misreading. OP made some very bold claims about how Google w
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Unless the Python is actually interacting with that hardware you should be able to get along much better with Windows' Linux subsystem or a VM still.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
It looks like it should, there's an installer here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ But there's also a bug here: https://github.com/uploadcare/pillow-simd/issues&#x2
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by Veratyr 9y ago
That's true, are the pillow-perf benchmarks parallelised at all?
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Interesting, I wonder if it beats VIPS yet. VIPS page says they beat Pillow-SIMD 4.3.0 by a tad: https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/wiki/Speed-and-memory-use Pillow-SIMD's page says it beats VIPS: https
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by Veratyr 9y ago
It's not the least expensive. https://www.alphavantage.co/ is free.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
"International Traffic in Arms Regulations"? How is that relevant to a chat app?
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Yeah, this product makes no sense for me as a subscription. Up until the $150 mark there's nothing I see that shouldn't be doable on a standard home desktop machine in a reasonable amount of time. This would make more sense to me
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by Veratyr 9y ago
I understand what you're saying and while those things might be able to cause tension, I don't think that anything "embarrassing" could be a risk to national security.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns Well that certainly makes it sound like something important is hidden.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
That's a good start but do you have a partnership with anyone that can provide storage with free/low cost bandwidth to your service? Even Direct Connect is ridiculously expensive compared to transit.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Oh I never do forget. I currently colocate and buy transit and it's blindlingly obvious to me how much of a ripoff cloud egress is. Even their "direct connect" services cost more than my transit does.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Your pricing page notably omits transfer pricing. Do you have free bandwidth between yourself and AWS/GCP/Azure or do you peer at any major exchanges? Getting the data into and out of compute services is the most difficult part fi
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests Another way of looking at it is that it adds significant incentives for organizations to make user data more easily accessible to users.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
We really are. It seems crazy that Australian banks had contactless phone payment apps (that actually worked pretty much everywhere) before Google and Apple.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Are you Australian? I don't think you understand what happened. The change wasn't removing signing as a requirement, it was removing signing as an _option_. It hadn't been a requirement in years (decades?). When I was working
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by Veratyr 9y ago
My point is why are they subject to a corporate income tax on income earned and already taxed abroad? The US government hasn't supported that income.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Why? Why should they pay US tax on money earned abroad? They've paid tax to the local government where sales were made, why does the US get a cut too?
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by Veratyr 9y ago
I can't wait for people to stop expecting that putting #!/usr/bin/env python at the top of their scripts will lead to python2 being used.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> By definition, the dictator is given control over you. He exist as a dictator because you are not free. Now that's different say from an elected leader who year over year gets re-elected because everyone approves of what he's
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> But the loss of the individual freedom to determine the rules is also the loss of freedom for a society to determine the rules for itself. Freedom of society and freedom of the individual are two different things and a society can have
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> These are not the same sets of laws. > Those under the AI have no say in those laws or recourse to alter them. Sorry, I did miss that part. I'll revise to say "the same laws, save for the means of changing them". The
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by Veratyr 9y ago
I disagree with most of this. Democracy is merely a form of government. People can be free and not democratically governed. Yes a functional society must have laws but say you have two societies with the same set of laws, one generated by d
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Only so much depends on those binary blobs though and changes to, for example, wpa_supplicant, happen at a much higher level.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Install one of the major ROMs like AOSP or LineageOS. Relying on your vendor for software or purchasing a device that forces you to isn't the best idea these days.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
The rates I'm comparing are per 10k people, so they take this into account.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
The problem is that Sam's Club and CostCo still have alternatives, even with their membership fees. Imagine that you paid $1000 for a 1 year CostCo (iOS) membership which gives you access to CostCo but only on the condition that you li
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by Veratyr 9y ago
There are a few problems: - The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution enshrines the right to bear arms. To revoke that right would require either the states or congress to trigger a referendum _and_ the populace to vote in favor of revoking
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Take Australia as another example of a country where nobody is allowed to have guns (well they are but they need a good reason). The intentional homicide rate is 1/5th of what it is in the US. Cherry picking examples doesn't reall
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> In areas with strict gun control but limited access to firearms, mass killings still happen with other modalities. A lot of things can effectively kill a bunch of human beings assembled in a restricted area: knives, machetes, bombs, tr

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