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by benibela 7y ago
That is how you get a shadow ban I used to have a Firefox plugin that would tweet all my bookmarks, but then Twitter hid all my tweets from the search.
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by benibela 7y ago
Tuberculosis did not go away. World wide it still kills 1.5 million people / year and 25% of the population is infected.
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by benibela 7y ago
And guestbooks for comments
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by benibela 7y ago
And Firefox the rss bookmarks
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by benibela 7y ago
Is it? “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” ― Mark Twain
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by benibela 7y ago
Social media is more important for building a brand than a blog
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by benibela 7y ago
Here is the function standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#func-format-intege... Number formatting is really complicated
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by benibela 7y ago
FreePascal is single threaded But it is also like 10 times faster than other compilers.
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by benibela 7y ago
I did not write it to be useful. I just wanted to say it can handle large integers. I am implementing the XPath standard. The standard says there need to be a function to convert integers to English, but it does not specify an upper limit o
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by benibela 7y ago
That is a frustrating aspect of open-source In the old days you would have a binary shell tool or a dll, and then you could call it from any language. It did not matter in which language the tool was written in.
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by benibela 7y ago
As an approximation, one could just say three duoquinquagintacentillinonagintacentillion
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by benibela 7y ago
I also wrote a function in Pascal to convert integers to natural language exactly. E.g. here is the output for 100000! https://gist.github.com/benibela/f0163b02562f647e4d2f
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by benibela 7y ago
With centrally planned errands one could avoid all queues Instead going to the grocery store, you report to the central planer what you need. It then creates an errand plan, when you should leave your apartment, when to arrive at the grocer
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by benibela 7y ago
Apple 2e from 1983 was the quickest, it is said: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
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by benibela 7y ago
Reminds me of a Kalman filter
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by benibela 7y ago
That is the problem with free markets In a centrally planned economy all supply chains would be stored in one large database and it would be easy to identify all essential supply chains.
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by benibela 7y ago
I am. Everyone should work from home.
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by benibela 7y ago
Well, but Maxima is open source
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by benibela 7y ago
I just benchmarked a bunch of hashmaps, and the fastest maps were using a power of 2 as size. So they could do "x = (x + 1) & (limit - 1)". No division and branch free.
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by benibela 7y ago
From my biology class in middle school. There was a flowchart, perhaps from a textbook. Then I had pictures for each case. Do not remember where I got them from
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by benibela 7y ago
I once wrote an identification app for a some trees with a decision tree. Then it would ask a handful of questions like, are the leaves jagged or round.
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by benibela 7y ago
"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers." - Henry David Thoreau
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by benibela 7y ago
In Germany, I have flour, but no yeast I made a sourdough starter. It is kind of working, but some parts are tasting odd. There was also mold buildup at the margin
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by benibela 7y ago
With web APIs there are also a lot of things that happen, even when the API is used correctly. The HTTP request can time out. The firewall of the user has blocked the request. The server might be turned of for maintenance. The server might
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by benibela 7y ago
The best thing would be to move to a country with low living costs and work remotely for a company from a high living costs country.
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by benibela 7y ago
My benchmark is one insert, multiple lookups, repeat. I have no use for deletions. Although when I want to make a general benchmark, I probably should measure it once, too
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by benibela 7y ago
But that lists like ten classes which map/hash in their name. None of them stands out, as being THE standard Pascal map to use for everything.
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by benibela 7y ago
>the unordered_map is very slow(it's a node based hash map, not suitable for the modern hardware) It is very slow? I wrote my app in FreePascal. I need a hashmap, but FreePascal has no real standard hashmap, so I have been benchmark
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by benibela 7y ago
There has been a randomized controlled trial to test if parachutes reduce injuries when jumping out of planes. However, it found that parachutes do not reduce injuries: https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
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by benibela 7y ago
I studied the standard models, they are very limited. Causes and effects as DAGs, so there cannot be any cycles or feedback loops. And some assumptions fail when there are deterministic relationships. I investigated adjustment sets and inst

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