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by beagle3 3y ago
When I was living in Israel, I was never able to find reasonably priced older 2nd hand x86s; there is no eBay culture, and somehow when companies have an upgrade cycle and retire a lot of old hardware, it is always to middle men who then as
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by beagle3 3y ago
… and yet, when an academic realized that option dating couldn’t happen by chance, it turned out many investors and CFOs were all in on the option backdating scheme, but the IRS wasn’t.
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by beagle3 3y ago
I didn’t either, but a friend did take almost a year to completely recover what was (likely) the flu. One should remember that the flu has been around forever, so the flus you are comparing to were probably the 10th exposure - recovering fr
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by beagle3 3y ago
Arthur Whitney had a whole operating system, kOS, in a few hundred lines iirc (including bare metal storage drivers, screen drivers, file system and more), with a more-than-sql database in 200 lines and an editor in a few tens. The magic —
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by beagle3 3y ago
Gibraltars population is 32K, which makes this less crazy than it sounds at first.
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by beagle3 3y ago
That was supposed to be denoising, not denouncing, DYAC. Just noticed, too late to Edit Now.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Those have been used for denouncing and super resolution for 30 years now - they are not useless. And storage is cheap, just keep them all.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Not so. Gzip’s window is very small - 32K in the original gzip iirc, which meant even identical copies of a 33KB file would bot help each other. Iirc it was Bzip2 that bumped that up to 1MB, and there are now compressors with larger windo
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by beagle3 3y ago
Few hundred tabs on oldish hardware - it took about 100ms to open or close a tab without TST, and 1-5 seconds with TST.
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by beagle3 3y ago
How many tabs do you have open at the same time? I was at a few hundreds (with an auto-unload add on as well). I often get there while doing research on a new subject - open everything relevant as a tab, and slowly go through them. (Yes, it
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by beagle3 3y ago
I switched from TST to sidebery because TST was unbearably slow (about 3 years ago). Did TST improve on this front?
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by beagle3 3y ago
It does download a fraction of a gigabyte per language pair; it does so on demand, so you only “pay” the storage for the languages you use.
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by beagle3 3y ago
There is no need to think, you can go read it. There was no indication that it was any help against severe disease, hospitalization, or death. The touted 95% was indeed against some definition of “symptomatic Covid” (a subjective one). In t
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by beagle3 3y ago
Eventually, everyone converges to babble[0], BIP-39[1], mnemonic[2], diceware, pgp-word list or equivalent. [0] https://bohwaz.net/archives/web/Bubble_Babble.html [1] https://iancoleman.io/bip39&#x
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by beagle3 3y ago
Which python debugger with these qualities? Which Javascript debugger? Which Go debugger? Seriously asking; I am well versed in everything gdb, but I often revert to logging and "import pdb; pdb.breakpoint()" when I have to debug
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by beagle3 3y ago
For many nontrivial debugging tasks. You need to record a lot of past context - e.g. you can put a breakpoint when a bad decision gets made, but the data causing this decision likely accumulated over a few tens/hundreds of previous ite
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by beagle3 3y ago
It’s not orthogonal, it’s complementary. Programming mindset is about making sure what’s in the spec works. Security mindset is about making sure that what isn’t in the spec doesn’t work.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Outlook express supported Usenet, but Outlook did not. That’s why I had to retire my company’s internal NNTP setup - because at some point, too many users were just using it through the web and email gateway that it was cumbersome and made
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by beagle3 3y ago
Yes, the downside being that if you need all the columns of one specific record (row), it will be spread over many column blocks. As a rule of the thumb, if most of your queries are aggregations over few columns of many records (OLAP), colu
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by beagle3 3y ago
If it’s a device/setup that is self contained, and not exposed to e.g. the internet, then …. It’s already 32 years LTS! Just use it. Ah, but occasionally you do need something new. Well, in most cases, the LTS support won’t help you -
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by beagle3 3y ago
No. It’s because of shifting standards. The “can’t play outside” applies just as much in places with no more cars than there were 40 years ago (or even no cars at all for most kid -> playground routes) The town I grew up in has, for 95%
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by beagle3 3y ago
The way to tell signal from noise is with enough statistics. That’s one benefit HFT has over “traditional” trading - it gives you thousands of data points per day. The other way to quickly get thousands of data points per day is to trade sl
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by beagle3 3y ago
They don’t all notice a long time pattern at exactly the same time. Alpha decays over time as more people notice and exploit it, or the market slowly changes. When alpha disappears overnight, it’s almost surely for reasons unrelated to othe
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by beagle3 3y ago
Isolation between sites is not sufficient - collaborating sites (and everyone colllaborates with e.g. Google analytics or the hundred other tracking sites) could have an ifrane that would abuse cache. You need isolation by primary site, a
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by beagle3 3y ago
Simple web browsers stopped working everywhere (android, windows) because the web moved on : root certificate lists, cipher lists, web standards. I’ve had old tablets and windows installations stop working (as well as macs and ios) for that
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by beagle3 3y ago
There’s Firefox Focus which blocks many ads (also works as a blocker for safari)
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by beagle3 3y ago
Much of it, perhaps all of it, is a result of trackers/advertisers abusing caching for tracking. We can’t have nice things.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Yes. If the string contains a #, you must append another # at the end to “escape” it.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Web2py solves the 2nd problem, by stripping everything after the last hash sign (#) if using the original string, but still using the entire string to look up translations. It’s a joy to use. Technically, it also solves the first problem -
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by beagle3 3y ago
You should really take a look at https://beyondloom.com/decker/ - It has a web implementation (so, usable everywhere including iOS), and an SDL implementation. It captures the original HyperCard spirit better than anyt

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