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by adev_ 6y ago
I'm gonna get enemies for that .... But let's face it: the Academia peer review process is pretty rotten. - Many organisations could not care less about whatever crap you publish as long as you publish. And if possible a lot. - Ma
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by adev_ 6y ago
I find the average already pretty expensive. You can find here the market price in Europe from the French dispatcher [^1] and it's around 30-40% cheaper depending of the country [^1]: https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix&
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> Modern C++ is kind of a mess with how much stuff they’ve added to the language. This is not relevant. Yeah and C++ would be a way better language to write critical system daemon in 2020 than C. Both safer and more productive while kee
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by adev_ 6y ago
"Sand rain" is a pretty usual phenomena in South Europe. With generally, 3-4 large noticeable occurrences every year in the Alps. This one was however exceptionally early in the year. As far as I remember, it is the first time I s
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> How does Traefik get its LetsEncrypt certificate from behind the firewall when LetsEncrypt can't see Traefik? DNS registration. You can get letsencrypt validation through a DNS token for validation. You can generally script that
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by adev_ 6y ago
Looks very interesting guys, thank you a lot to release that. I was working on something similar currently. Any data pipeline complex enough finish soon or later multi-lingual (Python, R, C++ + MPI) and multi-runtime (JVM, native, python) a
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by adev_ 6y ago
Nix is far more than just an app with its own directory (Which is also the flatpack & snap approach): A little not exhaustive list of features that Nix provides: - Not only an 'app installer'. It is a fully feature functional
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> Also, in these fields with HDF5, you tend to write once read often Server oriented DBMS specialized in write-once-read-many workflow do exist. However, you are right: research have completely different data consumption model than web s
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by adev_ 6y ago
You got half of your answer in your sentence. That's not only bioinformatic but the entire HPC world tends to avoid database. They usually prefer HDF5 or similar, and there is reasons to that. It is much easier to scale one million nod
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by adev_ 6y ago
> The Swiss model seems to be to think of the consequences of policies before putting them in place, the lower taxes seem to be more of a result of that. Outside of taxes, it is also a matter of political choices The Swiss took the decis
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by adev_ 6y ago
> Java's packaging system sucks as does all the similar ones like C#, C++ etc compared to JavaScript's IMO. There is one gazillion things that are much more a problem than "namespace conflicts" in packaging and packa
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by adev_ 6y ago
> But I don’t believe Apple’s business model is to spy on me. Apple business is not spying on you, but Apple business is much easier to do if they do spy on you. Meaning they do it anyway, don't worry.
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by adev_ 6y ago
>So how would you operate each of these bespoke services? One service uses TCP, one uses UDP, one uses SCTP. What happens if your buffer sizes are incorrect? Such bullshit. Since when we use UDP for a CRUD service ? Since when SCTP is ev
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by adev_ 6y ago
>A lot of software these days is run by JIT compiling VMs, anything Java, anything JavaScript, and that trend is likely to accelerate in future with new tech like Graal that can JITC even stuff like LLVM bitcode or Python. That's th
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by adev_ 6y ago
> Someone is missing the boat: custom ISA is the future. Custom ISA are 99% of the case useless marketing porn for hardware provider. The reality is that most Linux distributions in 2020 are still binary compiled with SSE41 instructions
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Of course four. My apologies, too quick to type.
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> The reason for that is that the concorde used afterburners (basically, pump fuel into the high speed exhaust for extra thrust) which are incredibly inefficient. To put things in perspective, Concorde was using two Olympus engines desig
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by adev_ 6y ago
> You don't have to, most NixOS/Guix systems use binary caches. Yes, Nix/Guix and Spack are up to my knowledge the only systems that got that right. The centralised recipe repository (and their functional nature) make scra
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by adev_ 6y ago
Yes. One of the main problem of OpenSSL is how messy is the API itself. There is a pretty good talk about it by the libreSSL guys on that [1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_dyRbE4AA
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> If there's a thing that hadoop missed out on building into itself, it was a distributed work queue with functions with slight side-effects (i.e memoization). Is that not named spark ? :)
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by adev_ 6y ago
> It's going to take a new kind of software engineer to build these fully distributed systems. What your are selling here is nothing else than a new proprietary-scheduler-runtime to run embarrassingly parallel jobs ( the easiest kin
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Denmark seems to be a particular case compared to other OECD countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe#/media/Fil...
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> Are you including social contributions of employer and employee in your 20% tax rate? Only income taxes. The employer taxes are mainly pension / health insurance.
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And to add, Randomly out of my mind : - Owning a flat and rent it to a thrid party. Many fees on it are deductible. - Investing in medium/small-sized companies. - Making property/housing more energy efficient. - Invest in accommod
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by adev_ 6y ago
> It is certainly not an overstatement. As you say, France in not an exception in its organisation, in fact its health care system is LESS state-owned than, say, the UK's. It is. Especially if you compare with the public spending&#
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> France is #1 in the EU for public spending [1]. That's a well known overstatement that comes mainly from the fact Pension system, education system AND health care system are almost entirely state-owned in France. You can find the
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> France is a tax and red tape hell. - Red tape I agree. Administrations are slow and processes cumbersome. - Taxes I do not agree, France is in the European's average.
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>That's the tragedy of the government-backed tech in France. You also have a lot of very skilled tech companies there, but they are not the ones getting government support to grow further. That's almost an universal tragedy. Th
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Pretty good summary yes. The idea itself of supporting Europeans alternative to face American and Chinese tech giants is by itself noble (and I think necessary). However, the usual way it is done is a disaster: top-bottom, funding some exis
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by adev_ 6y ago
> France, Germany etc. are charging huge payroll, income and sales taxes to fund their huge welfare states and bureaucracies, but in the process ruining their competitiveness That's a common bashing legend that France/Germany a

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