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by csdvrx 4y ago
Yes. I love going to the mall and spending a good half day there. And I see lots of people now that the pandemic is over. This may not be representative of the introvert male FANG coder who lurks on HN - it helps I'm not that lol Also,
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> Think of all the commercial real estate sitting empty Then turn all of it into housing! If you argue it won't be suitable because of a lack of sufficient windows per room etc, I guarantee you that at a low enough price, it will fi
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> screaming into the void No, not into the void, but to people who care and find their unique content so interesting, in a sea of conformity and boring repetitions of the same ideas again and again. I have a special color for banned user
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by csdvrx 4y ago
"Is it a lucky coincidence that mathematical and physical reality can be formulated in terms of our current cognitive abilities, or is it just that, tautologically, we cannot conceive of any aspects of mathematical and physical reality
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by csdvrx 4y ago
Running a lot of javascript with npm and pupeteer just to render a small picture on a monochrome eink display seems extremely wasteful to me. You might as well have a ftp site (or equivalent) where you would just dump a YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.png (
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by csdvrx 4y ago
Eudaimonic and hedonistic happiness both seem wrong to me, as you can't desire happiness - well you can, but then you won't find it, as you can only stumble upon it. Like in Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone, when Harry is fo
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> I meet many beggars and if they tell me hey I just need it for crack, I'm like, you're Jesus's favorite every one of you, I have very little, but in relative terms compared to them I'm still in practice rich. Totall
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> It's legal to use if it doesn't transmit on someone else's licensed spectrum Great then! I only want to listen, to study the performance of the different networks when non-technical limitations are removed. > No techn
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> it still requires an initial lock to GPS before feeding them in Is there any technical reason, or is it just protectionism? (as in, no GPS lock? No lock at all, even if Galileo and Glonass are 100% fine!) > Beidou is still banned an
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> Going through Byzantine steps to disable automatic OTA updates that apply while you are sleeping seems like the exact opposite of what you’re saying The bank customer will not do this - their personal assistant will. > the updates a
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by csdvrx 4y ago
Exactly this - it's a different bank for different customers with different needs.
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by csdvrx 4y ago
The EU bank market is weird. Most comments here don't understand that for some customers, not having to upgrade the mobile OS is a feature, not a bug. You might care about safety etc. These users just don't care - it's anothe
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by csdvrx 4y ago
See the twin study, as mentioned by someone else.
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> The article itself is full of caveats and concludes that their finding is inconclusive... Just some example It's a bad example. Mutations are known to cause various health problems like cancer. It's like randomly writing to t
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> Here's your data. No. It's the source. > disclaimer: I work on this team. Good then: is your research reproducible? As in, do you have some code and data somewhere that can be used to verify your results? By that, I mean t
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> Perl receives such an unnecessary amount of hate I agree. We might deny it, because we are geeks, not fashionistas, but there's such a thing as "cool for geeks" like running Rust code on MacOS with some PostgreSQL sprink
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by csdvrx 4y ago
Would you have some interesting examples? I love Win32 because it's the closest we have to a universal GUI format for software.
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> The keystrokes have become second-nature. Try as I might, I can never get fully comfortable on a Mac OS desktop. Same, that's one of the biggest reasons - but I also agree with the rest of your list: what I like the most in Window
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> If you need 20 year old code to run on new machines, the same thing occurs - you hand it to a recent Perl 5 and it works. You're only noticing half of the picture. If you want to write code that'll still run in 20 years, do t
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> Afaik perl is a plain old interpreted language with no JIT, what makes it so fast? IDK. I didn't waste time checking why. My guess is that due to the much smaller code size, it reaches a sweetpoint where it fits nicely in the L1 o
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> What's the difference when compared with other scripting languages? Compared to every other scripted languages I've tried, it's always faster - so much that it often rivals compiled code (even with extra optimizations as
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> 1. What's your top technique for keeping it fast? Using the stock install as much as possible. Since a perl interpreter is available about everywhere, this makes the scripts cross platform very easily too. > 2. Are you hiring?
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> A few Perl one-liners and I have 2 GB processed in a couple of minutes. This matches my experience: my task is IO bound, processing tens of GB in a matter of minutes. > I'm working in Windows (employer's choice) Work prefe
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by csdvrx 4y ago
Even on modern hardware with vectorization, the speed of perl is hard to match for stream processing. I write and deploy brand new perl code in 2022 to replace some clunky python and javascript - for real! AMA!
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by csdvrx 4y ago
Actually, you're right. Bad idea. I've edited my comment and will remove this one too. Would you mind removing the part you've quoted to avoid giving people bad ideas?
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> In 2012 my PayPal account was deleted after one of my clients reverted payment after getting source material. After contacting PayPal and telling them that I would go to court with that. After just seconds, I was signed out of an accou
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by csdvrx 4y ago
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by csdvrx 4y ago
> > Some of their sunscreen has already washed off into the water. Yes and you can't change that, since there's already a ban. > > Cláudia Mieiro, a marine biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal who was not
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by csdvrx 4y ago
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by csdvrx 4y ago
In the US, ATT + VZW = generally good service everywhere If you preferent results to excuses, you get a dual sim phone and use whichever line has the most bars (I keep a Tmobile 5G access point for my computer stuff)

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