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by aldanor 7y ago
So as to prevent abuse from small businesses, why not request proofs that you are indeed a family, or something of the sort? (there some privacy-related edges in doing that though, and a time expense in verifying those docs...) Or, the othe
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by aldanor 7y ago
Is anyone from FastMail reading this by any chance?.. Another +1 here, currently considering FM for myself, spouse and/or kids, and while for a single person it's bearable, for 4 it becomes overly expensive so we'd have to lo
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by aldanor 7y ago
Thanks! (I definitely missed a few points due to lack of documentation) One last question I forgot to mention - is there a 'mod' function/operator? (like %, %=)?
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by aldanor 7y ago
Just tried it out, here's a little program that plots a fractal: https://bit.ly/3a5MfaV (shortened the url since it's quite long containing all the code) Few comments: - It would be nice to have a proper full refe
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by aldanor 7y ago
I bought a mac with 32gb in 2013, figuring this would be good for a long while... these days with mem usage constantly hanging around 28-30gb, I'm now choosing between 64 and 128 for the next machine (with 128+ only being available in
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by aldanor 7y ago
"Pure functions" is usually a bad idea with large numeric data structures if they are non-lazy - because you'll end up copying the data. One of the common pure alternatives is to make them lazy - i.e., all those pure methods
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by aldanor 7y ago
Counterpoint to the counterpoint: many people have to (stay away) even if they don't want to. For instance, in the audio world, the majority of audio hardware is still unsupported (e.g.: https://help.uaudio.com/hc&#x2
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by aldanor 7y ago
Well, why not indeed. Pros: - you get a good glimpse of both imperative and functional language worlds; - you get to practice using low-level data structures; - you get used to thinking about concepts like ownership (on a higher level) that
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by aldanor 7y ago
For me, Rust also fits "fun language to quickly prototype type system in", but I've been hacking in Rust since its 0.* days; if I were to try to do it in Ruby/Go which I've barely ever touched, it would sure take me
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by aldanor 7y ago
Or you could just wear cycling gloves.
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by aldanor 7y ago
So, they've reduced 1.7M lines of code to 360K. Let's pause here for a moment: - NumPy is 360K lines mostly C - Postgres is around 2.1M of C - Go 1.13 is around 1.5M of Go code - Rust 1.37 is around 1.2M of Rust code iirc - core l
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by aldanor 7y ago
or "except BaseException"
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by aldanor 7y ago
Pretty much this. Add to that pybind11's exceptional numpy compatibility (including easily mapping C types to structured numpy dtypes that can be e.g. converted to a dataframe), and there's not many choices left if you're not
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by aldanor 7y ago
While I live in Europe and I do agree, imagine how nice would it be if the entire world used the duodecimal system today for everything, i.e. 100 was preceded by BB (143). Greeks and Shumers were smart guys - 12 has 4 divisors (excluding it
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by aldanor 7y ago
Switched to Firefox only because of TST and been happy ever since.
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by aldanor 7y ago
Or even more simply, "Bashka", which means "head" in slang.
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by aldanor 7y ago
I'm only talking about intraday trading - FC wasn't caused by IPOs or dividends or other corporate actions. Whether you're taking profit or not doesn't matter - it's in the past. You lost the opportunity to close at
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by aldanor 7y ago
Exchange traded volume is still zero sum. Stock going up is driven by trades happening in the buy direction clearing the ask passive orders - someone had those limit orders there in the first place, and they're in the negative.
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by aldanor 7y ago
On the intraday scale less the transaction costs and dividend payouts. Trades are trades, if one party buys the other party sells and vice versa; there's always two sides.
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by aldanor 7y ago
I use both PyCharm and JupyterLab on daily basis, typically dealing with multi-gb datasets. If I'm writing a library or adding new features to one, or writing tests I'll use PyCharm sure thing, otherwise the notebook is a quicker
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by aldanor 7y ago
People are spoofing orders on big exchanges today, without even trying hard to cover it. If you have access to tick level market data and a bit of time you can find clear spoofing patterns fairly easily. Not on that scale, but enough to m
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by aldanor 7y ago
Market is a zero sum game (less the transaction costs), if someone lost then someone won. It's just those who lost are the ones who have big mouths, wallets and clients
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by aldanor 7y ago
'Thinking about the data' most often requires looking at the data from hundreds of different angles, quickly investigating its properties and statistics, maybe plotting or fitting a few things, checking some hypotheses etc (all of
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by aldanor 7y ago
Another useful tip which doesn't require always doing '00': when editing the library code, import things like this: import mylib; importlib.reload(mylib); from mylib import foo Then in most cases except some very ent
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by aldanor 7y ago
Aardwolf has always been more like an infinite farming noobland (where you could also spend some real cash). Although, yea, very noob-friendly. For serious pvp+rp, Carrion Fields. For non-ROM based RP MUDs, Achaea or the like (although thes
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by aldanor 7y ago
Agreed. I recall, in high school, we were writing a disassembler for a custom weird assembly language which was written by one of the school's graduates a few years prior to that... and we had to use this assembler as a language of cho
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by aldanor 7y ago
If the person who's asking the question is unable to google it himself or ask on reddit/so, what's wrong about paying other people to do it for him?
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by aldanor 7y ago
The stone age man wasn't spending half a day sitting staring at a screen either and was probably more physically active overall...
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by aldanor 7y ago
That's one of the worst brand names ever. "Free Now", seriously... Everyone I know still calls it mytaxi or hailo.
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by aldanor 7y ago
Wondering why you would use that over e.g. Notion? Looks like a mix of notion and tiddlywiki (?), but also really stripped down. Also: can you export the entire Roam notes database into text files? (i.e. do you actually own your data?)

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