cat199

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by cat199 7y ago
> NVIXM wasn't as salacious of an organization as it has been portrayed in the media. It was a self-help organization. The leader was a loon, a non-monogamist, and built himself up as a pseudo-spiritual leader/guru. Not that it
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by cat199 7y ago
> but that probably depends on cultural background yes, pretty sure this breaks down by culture/geography
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by cat199 7y ago
> Due to an overabundant supply of investors with a high demand to seek profitable low or no risk investment opportunities to park their wealth for growth via interest, and a much lower supply of profitable low or no risk investment oppo
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by cat199 7y ago
> and now they're able to help. what was the nail-down / how are they able to help now?
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by cat199 7y ago
> I've been a MS SysAdmin for 15 years, moving into nix devops (the new way of sysadminning) isn't easy. nix devops is productizing/consumerizing the old way of nix sysadmining (at least for shops that did things the right
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by cat199 7y ago
this is why just about everyone suggests an appropriately diversified portfolio - stocks, bonds, cash, natural resources, hard assets, etc.
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by cat199 7y ago
Seems like this: You can of course branch on the array element types and maybe even paper over the whole mess with sufficient macrology (which is what LLA ended up doing), but this approach is not very extensible, as ev
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by cat199 7y ago
> car loans Might have gotten results for 'auto title loans' mixed in? I could see this for those, but even then it would be a stretch - the cost of the repo and redelivery upon eventual payment for most of the cases would quic
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by cat199 7y ago
> (ok, maybe scare some people) This is probably why. The signal/noise ratio of people freaking out about 'their account being hacked' or 'bank xyzs terrible security because so many people hack my account every week&
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by cat199 7y ago
.. not to mention that most mass shooters don't have children and end up shot during the situation..
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by cat199 7y ago
nice :) any plans to add networking? (or did I miss this)
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by cat199 7y ago
> And let's not forget that there are non-standard "syslog" implementations that were being used for decades before RFC3164 happened. totally agree these exist and may vary wildly - many of these are often proprietary fork
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by cat199 7y ago
> So instead of f(x), I have to accept the visual noise and extra characters of (f x)? (f x) and f(x) have the exact same number of characters; one mans'visual noise' is another's 'visual clarity'
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by cat199 7y ago
totally agree with this. I can see even in larger python codebases some places where e.g. support for some s-exp minilanguage could be useful and implemented rather trivially via Hy, or also to embed some processing kernel which is well sui
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by cat199 7y ago
perhaps, but if so, they win more when they sue you and you lose...
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by cat199 7y ago
Walmart already has something like this in the form of direct-deposit prepaid checking cards with baked-in walmart discounts: https://www.walmartmoneycard.com/about-our-products this is taking it one step further, and it se
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by cat199 7y ago
> The advertising companies know how to detect that stuff quickly and ban the abusers. this assumes it is in their best interest to do so.. An 'acceptable level' of ad fraud could conceivably require a bigger spend on the part
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by cat199 7y ago
So, as someone who has experimented with several scheme interpreters / dialects / etc, I'm seeing how this is another scheme, and generally it looks quite interesting in that regard, but I'm not seeing how it is a '
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by cat199 7y ago
> The original pattern extends up to at least 36 bits (which makes the PDP-10 refugees happy). Naah.. there's UTF-9 and UTF-18 for that.. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4042
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by cat199 7y ago
why should an e-commerce focused site do anything at all to avoid the term 'advert' in the first place? anyone there is ostensibly interested in commerce/advertising.. list maintainers should be responsible regression test th
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by cat199 7y ago
+1 dc - left about 10 years ago, but definately jawn was used heavily. not a phillly jawn. also, 1/3 of the way in and hasn't been mentioned, this was mostly african american thing from my observations. but, anyway.
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by cat199 7y ago
> web, systems automation, data processing, science and a few more. doesn't this apply to python, although now there are additional competitors? > reinvented itself as a web language (Mojolicious, Plack). highly opinionated and p
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by cat199 7y ago
... gotta love it when the 'hackers' are disagreeing with the general sentiment that modifying things without vendor approval can be safe
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by cat199 7y ago
or, depending on interpretation, it wouldn't.
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by cat199 7y ago
also the author of brl-cad, fwiw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD here, by a PDP/11 (not sure which person he is): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD#/media/File:Pdp11,70_6.
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by cat199 7y ago
nope, but derived. this is pretty close: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.3BSD/usr/src/et...
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by cat199 7y ago
if it works for large scale and profitable webhosting companies, it should work for youtube. granted, this is not exactly apples/apples, but it's not far off
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by cat199 7y ago
> FoIA honest question: Does this exist in EU or UK?
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by cat199 7y ago
so, you are saying: "clearly, those that disagree with me are misinformed and of lesser intellect" ? isn't that itself intellectual capitulation?
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by cat199 7y ago
> UK has been actively acting on USA's interests for decades can't one say this isn't the other way around? bretton woods was basically a joint us+uk project, most macroeconomic policy & related geopolitics in the west

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