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by dintech 6y ago
How does this compare to dosbox for running games?
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by dintech 6y ago
Even without that 2x, all benchmarks are still in the same ballpark which is impressive in its own right. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
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by dintech 7y ago
It's an evolution of the same language: K3 = K (Kx) / Kona (Kevin Lawler open source), K4 = Q (in the current Kx KDB), K7 = Shakti (Arthur Whitney's most recent project),
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by dintech 7y ago
> Its a known fact that most techies suck at interpersonal skills and communicating with their own peers Drivel. We just don't need people who neither understand the technology or the business getting in the way.
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by dintech 7y ago
There are plenty of other mod designers for the original 303. I'm sure there will be a bunch of non-Devil Fish mods anyway.
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by dintech 7y ago
I wonder if more dynamic music is actually worse for developing tinnitus and so on when listening on headphones. As the perceived loudness is lower for dynamic music, people turn it up to compensate. This means that the peaks in real terms
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by dintech 7y ago
Really nice
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by dintech 7y ago
There are many kinds of lots of things. If the nuances don't interest you, that's ok. Fortunately nobody made you the authority on the subject.
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by dintech 7y ago
Deutsche employs tens of thousands of software engineers. I think it's relevant.
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by dintech 7y ago
And now I see that you've already started one! https://jalammar.github.io/gentle-visual-intro-to-data-analy...
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by dintech 7y ago
This is excellent. I'd love to see even more on Pandas.
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by dintech 7y ago
There are loads of coffee shops and cafes in the UK that don't take cash any more.
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by dintech 7y ago
It's obviously density related, even in London.
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by dintech 7y ago
I remember these guys. It was one of the best ways to order food to the office that pleased everyone. It was comparatively good food vs its competitors back in the day.
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by dintech 7y ago
This hasn’t been my experience. Any problems with an order, they refund immediately no questions asked and add an extra £5 as an apology. Over the years, this has been consistent. Uber Eats customer service is like pulling teeth. Never had
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by dintech 7y ago
tl;dr: you should know about leap seconds.
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by dintech 8y ago
> 4. If your code which you wrote few years back looks bad to you, then you are on right path. What if the recent stuff looks bad too? :)
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by dintech 8y ago
OK I'll read this, just gotta check facebook first...
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by dintech 8y ago
"The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution owned by central banks." You can make your own mind up on whether this would make them biased or not.
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by dintech 8y ago
Copyright infringement: every parent's worst nightmare.
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by dintech 9y ago
The Q Language: http://code.kx.com/q4m3/0_Overview/#00-the-evolution-of-q
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by dintech 9y ago
Because where you live with your family is a better environment for them than a industrial estate car park.
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by dintech 9y ago
I hate them all equally.
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by dintech 9y ago
As someone who lives in the UK and has spent a lot of time in Japan, I can promise you that it's way more dangerous to be a pedestrian in the UK. Pedestrian crossings mean nothing to the zooming, lycra-clad morons who think the roads a
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by dintech 9y ago
Most of thos stuff, you work out after a few months in Japan. I get the feeling there is more that the author's personal situation that he isn't saying. After 10 years, I really expect a deeper and more nuanced critique. The most
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by dintech 9y ago
What a crime. This was an always educational, usually funny blog.
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by dintech 9y ago
Definitely stick with HDF5 and Python for what you're doing. Postgress doesn't lend itself well to timeseries joins and queries in the same way that a more time series specific database like KDB+ would. The end result is most like
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by dintech 10y ago
Altabadabadoo!
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by dintech 10y ago
Government, this is VPN. VPN, meet government. You guys aren't going to get along but I thought you should know about each other.
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by dintech 10y ago
KDB+ is the number 1 time-series database, no question. Per-core, it's 10 times faster than any other time-series database. Seems like an odd omission. http://kparc.com/q4/readme.txt

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