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by adwf 10y ago
I've used Postgres out to the terabyte+ range with no probs, so it all works fine. Of course, whenever you approach huge data sizes like this, it tends to change how you access the data a little. eg. Do more threads equal more user c
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by adwf 10y ago
Yes, I didn't mean to imply that you needed to explicitly eval with macros. Rather that the nature of macros themselves is saying, eval this bit at compile time and that bit at run time. You are implicitly and safely doing what most
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by adwf 10y ago
That would be true if we were talking about normal languages eval'ing strings. Lisp on the other hand treats the code as data and has the full compiler available at runtime. It can check types at both runtime and compile time, and it
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by adwf 10y ago
Haha, yes. The number of times I've looked at javascript with something like this: }) }) }); ...trailing almost every function definition is equally absurd. At least with Lisp I only have to deal with one delimiter
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah, but they arose as the web was starting in the 90s. Whereas Lisp had been around since the 50's. The standardisation effort wasn't the development of an exciting new language, just the finalisation of an old one.
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by adwf 10y ago
I often think it's because Common Lisp was one of the last pre-web languages to be designed (or standardised anyway). Newer languages like Java/Javascript/Clojure/etc. had the advantage of being able to build a strong co
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by adwf 10y ago
Eval? The entire point of Lisp macros is toying around with evalulation in a safe fashion. It's other languages that do it so dangerously that gives eval a bad name. Lisp is the shining example of how to do it right.
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by adwf 10y ago
Yep, a lot of people are confusing the impossible of eg. "We can never go to the moon", which was actually just an exaggerated infeasible - it was possible, but only at great expense - with the literally physically impossible. The
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by adwf 10y ago
I almost drowned once in a public swimming pool. I was kicked in the diaphragm by an inconsiderate swimmer while turning and lost my breath, started the typical drowning response. The worst part about it was that I was only a meter or two
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by adwf 10y ago
If the meeting isn't relevant to you, why do you even go to it? Just decline the invitation with your reason.
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah I had similar thoughts when they announced the Nvidia 1000 line the other day. The 970 GTX, whilst great for gaming, was a huge disappointment for CUDA programming (dodgy memory issues). Whereas it seems they've really stepped u
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by adwf 10y ago
Arch still occasionally has some packages installed to /opt. Annoying as hell, but they expect to be there for some reason. Android-studio was the latest unexpected surprise for me.
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by adwf 10y ago
Probably because there are enough people who would still claim that he's not Satoshi. They'd just say he stole the signing key or something. There are already some saying that it was a colleague who he's taking the credit f
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah, and the world would be better off without that, but it's incredibly hard to detect. My point however, is that it is already factored into the price. When a TV station says this show has 10 million viewers, the advertisers unders
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by adwf 10y ago
Perhaps, although an alternative analogy for ineligible would be to compare an advertiser going after an adult market by airing the ad at 9 PM, but finding out there were still some kids watching at that time. It's all wasted views as
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by adwf 10y ago
I've always been a bit baffled by why it's called ad-fraud online, but nowhere else. You don't call it fraud if your TV ad is aired and I miss it because I'm making a cup of tea. No matter how many viewers you were told
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by adwf 10y ago
Putting aside the absurd comparison of living costs in a 3rd world country vs 1st world... India is filled with a ton of misery. It's the only country in the world where I saw dead people just lying in the gutter. The Mumbai slum w
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by adwf 10y ago
For the correct pay, yes. Some jobs aren't paid enough for people to do and still afford to live. Basic income actually fixes that by giving people a baseline to live off, upon which their salary can build.
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by adwf 10y ago
Well putting aside that you might be making a kind of post-hoc fallacy there with your equation; Is reducing labor supply really a bad thing? Most developed countries have unemployment permanently somewhere between 5-10% or even more durin
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by adwf 10y ago
It's the speed/lag that really annoys me nowadays. If I pan across the map or zoom in, I know I'm waiting a good 5-6 seconds before the new tiles will be loaded. And that's on desktop, not mobile. It's so irritat
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by adwf 10y ago
463 here, of which 238 are for Linux. I was actually quite happy when Linux made up half my library; it really put paid to the idea that Linux isn't for gaming. If a publisher doesn't release multi-platform, I just don't buy
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by adwf 10y ago
If anyone is interested in a modern successor to Syndicate, there's a game called Satellite Reign: http://satellitereign.com/the-game/ Which is a quite decent updated version of the concept. Has one or more of th
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by adwf 10y ago
No it's the consumers being taxed on road vehicles every year. The lower tax makes them quite attractive in comparison to other manufacturers.
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by adwf 10y ago
It will still pass, they were just pushing the emissions tests lower so that the car could fit in a lower tax bracket. I don't know about every country, but in the UK you get taxed on how polluting your car is. I believe that various
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by adwf 11y ago
And how would the government pay for things? Clearly even with 200mn people, each paying $2000 in tax, you'd only have $400bn in tax revenue. The current total US tax revenue is $6.8tn (federal + state + other). If you upped the tax t
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by adwf 11y ago
Disposable income would be a better metric in this case. They may earn only 24% of the income, but how much of that is excess? ie. beyond providing their needs. For the other 76%, all of that income may be spent on just food/rent&#x2
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by adwf 11y ago
It's because planning regulations are such a pain in the arse. When they get the initial planning outline for a plot of land, that is a huge multi-year hurdle they've overcome. It can cost hundreds of thousands, even millions, j
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by adwf 11y ago
There are no cold, hard facts, no-one has ever left the EU before. We literally have no way of knowing what will happen if we leave. The only hard fact we have is that we know what we've got now and how it works.
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by adwf 11y ago
As a database guy this makes me feel good. From looking at a lot of these schemas, my job is not going to disappear anytime soon... Most egregious example for me is probably the prevalence of a lot of "type" tables when a simple
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by adwf 11y ago
In Europe it's the law that you need to record the billing address (for 10 years) otherwise you can't obey the VAT laws.

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