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by ascotan 10y ago
>most people don't see POSIX threads are an inherently broken abstraction. o.O > A thread? Cooperative code sharing data. But how do you cooperate? You send signals. O.o > Threads (and implicitly signals) on the other hand are
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by ascotan 10y ago
now count back from 10 slowly.
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by ascotan 10y ago
>>I would be curious to know how other folks hide/protect Python code? With lawyers. Most of the commercial products that are written in python come in with a EULA that says "don't touch".
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by ascotan 10y ago
>Parallelism is very bad on CPython and PyPy; GIL was added because the early python libraries were not written to be threadsafe. This was a terrible oversight and frankly should have been corrected at some point. The underlying implemen
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by ascotan 10y ago
I guess you could write CUDA code to do this on a GPU, but then the question becomes why? :/
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by ascotan 10y ago
>why do mice have more bases than us, We don't fully know. However part of the answer may be eukaryotic transposons (TE) (and retrotransposons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element https:/&
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by ascotan 10y ago
Genome size and number of repeat in the DNA. Basically the entire genomic is fragmented and then reassembled like a big puzzle. It works like this: genome => |1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqqrstuvwxyz| set A => |123| |456| |ab| |90| |l|
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by ascotan 10y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. Every year there's a study that contradicts the last one. Coffee is bad for you, wait coffee is good for you. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/coffee-health-benef..
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by ascotan 10y ago
Unless it's a private highway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highways_in_the_United... However, I'm not a big fan of toll roads myself.
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by ascotan 10y ago
>>>I would without a doubt to say the US is in its downfall as it didn't pick the priorities to fix the root of the problem. The US is in a downward spiral because we didn't build a government funded $2 trillion bullet tr
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by ascotan 10y ago
Because we don't need one? When did a bullet train become a priority for anyone? Seriously I have to fly 2000 miles soon and I can buy a plane ticket for $200 and be there in 4 hours. Have you checked the cost of a train ticket lately?
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by ascotan 10y ago
Yea I read that too. It might have been wrong. It appears (from this author) that eth was the 'hard TH' (say: that) and thorn was the 'soft TH' (say: with)
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by ascotan 10y ago
I've been fascinated by this for years and years. I've known about thorn, but I didn't know about eth and how thorn and eth are pronounced differently. FTFY :) "English hæs alƿays been a living languæge, changing and evo
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by ascotan 10y ago
A couple of rambling thoughts on how we get here: 1. Lack of experience. Most web devs that's I've met have never even heard of using expiring session tokens in a cookie. (imho) It's been my experience that most javascript g
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by ascotan 10y ago
So someone wrote an angular app that stores your password in a cookie in your own browser that is encrypted client-side using cryptojs... Hmm. Seems on par with the security of pretty much every angularjs site i've seen. Moving on.
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by ascotan 10y ago
Go is omakase. "But there's a fine line between a friendly suggestion and a belligerent diner. That line is usually exposed when the suggestion is declined: "I'm sorry, but hotdogs don't really fit our sushi menu, a
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by ascotan 10y ago
buffalo from Buffalo using buffalo who are buffaloed by buffalo from Buffalo, buffalo other buffalo using buffalo from Buffalo
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by ascotan 10y ago
True they are genetically different but that's not the definition of a 'species'. There is a level of politics in biology over what constitutes a species and what does not. Technically a 'species' is something that
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by ascotan 10y ago
So according to google a 747 can through 36,000 gallons of fuel in a 10 hour trip. Being conservative and you only need half as much for 2 engines at full throttle, that means that you would need ~40K gallons of fuel a day? Google tells me
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by ascotan 10y ago
tl;dr Angular versioning gets even more screwed up. It's ok though because it's javascript.
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by ascotan 10y ago
This article is FUD. Employer contracts are concerned that you are attempting to take company proprietary information and repackage it on your own time for sale. This sort of behavior clearly falls into 'inventions'. However, most
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by ascotan 10y ago
Interesting. Here my 2 cents. Most software that i've worked on is terrible. It's terrible because software engineers by nature are 'technology muddlers'. They know how to program but have little insight into the world a
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by ascotan 10y ago
True. It could have been 0 robots and 500K jobs. Therefore +1 robot != +n jobs.
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by ascotan 10y ago
I'm sorry what were the inventions that the Brits gave the US that won the war? I think I might have missed something in my history class.
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by ascotan 10y ago
Most US companies have security breaches all the time. However, unless a social security number, health information or credit card is accessed there are no real reporting rules. Most companies do not disclose attempted/successful cyber
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by ascotan 10y ago
God, country and family. Maybe also for computers :9
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by ascotan 10y ago
Trump hasn't even taken office yet so no blame can really be tied to him just yet. He's said quite a few silly things so far, but hasn't yet done any real damage. Most of the hysteria is being generated by the 24 cable news c
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by ascotan 10y ago
This happened during the Reagan administration. The money doesn't disappear, it just moves elsewhere.
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by ascotan 10y ago
Another example of Godwin's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by ascotan 10y ago
Did the man have a wolf a, a sheep and a cabbage?

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