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by doc_holliday 10y ago
"inflation at current exchange rates is forecasted to go to ~3%" I don't understand how they are calculating it to only be around 3%. We are already noticing things to be running at around 10% in imports, and sometimes more a
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
"We might hit a +10% on food price (and gaz) in a near future. It might get harsh[er] for big families and low income jobs, it's fine for people with good salaries." However, those people with good salaries whilst seeing infl
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
"(~20% cut to GBPUSD, 1% inflation...)" IMO we are about to hit much more than 1% inflation with the devaluation of our currency. Think how much petrol has gone up, food is about to go up, imports are going up etc. We will have mu
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
That is all fine and well during a property bull cycle (which admittedly we've had for the last decade plus in the UK). But equally property really ties you down if you are dependent on paying a mortgage. If you live somewhere with not
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
It'd be really interesting to see the economic comparisons of both against each other. I.e the cost per kg of payload shipping from America to Europe in 17th Century vs the cost per kg of payload shipping from Mars to the Earth in 21st
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Oh, you'll meet loads of great people and it is an experience getting out of your comfort zone and leaving behind old friends in the city you grew up in. I was just meaning in regards to differing opinions to liberal metropolitanism it
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
"My business is called The Echo Chamber Club — we curate articles that counter a traditional metropolitan viewpoint and send them to our hundreds of subscribers. It makes sense that I remove myself from London to understand new points
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Lots of people need to access files on a server via Emacs or Vim. Having to deal with tabs there can be very frustrating.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
It's possible that if FPGAs continue to improve as they are and catch up with ASICs in terms of density and price then reconfigurable HW may become a possibility. At the moment, most of those task would be done on ASIC, so yes we might
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Unlikely for many years (if ever), compiling HDL down to an image to flash FPGA with takes hours. Routing wires etc is very difficult process and is very compute intensive. JIT for FPGA is quite possibly mathematically impossible.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
It's excellent to see FPGAs being increasingly utilised. As moore's law no longer holds true for CPU, there is increasing interest turning to FPGAs. You can create a truly bespoke Processor for any task. Of course this is trade of
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
It's absolutely important to your well-being and happyness to understand when something is enough and to be at ease with what you have. Hedonistic tendancies teaches you to want more and more, you never appreciate what you have because
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
I think sometimes bravado of knowledge can play into this. People as they become adults like to think they are very knowledgeable and don't want to come across as "stupid". This means most adults will never ask the simple que
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Related, I am wondering if any of you have any tips on securing financial independence / passive income that will hopefully be Tech recession proof. I.e, best way to see yourself through a Tech downturn without taking a severe hit to y
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Not sure how possible it is, but i've used Javascript from the web console to do some interaction with Facebook, perhaps they have restricted this though? But if that is allowed that could be one route, getting all the elements by Xpat
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Well because the property is extremely overpriced when you consider market rate rents the yields are extremely low. You can only charge as much rent as the market will bear, which in some ways makes rental completely different to ownership
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
The application of these light phased arrays to Holography and the making of a truly Holographic display with reasonable resolution is very exciting. This is to Holographic displays as LEDs was to standard displays.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Yes! TI Basic on my Texas Instruments graphics calculator was how I spent downtime during math class. So much so, I remember writing program for solving quadratic equations. They were supposed to clear the calculators memory during exmas, b
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
"eight-hour Scrum meeting" Why are you having an eight hour Scrum meeting? Isn't that the complete opposite of what a Scrum meeting is supposed to be? 15 minute max, standup meeting is a Scrum.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
By law they have to do no such thing. It's a a very tender point with people because people get weirdly patriotic regarding Scottish Pound Notes. But they are a sort of bizzare currency. Scottish notes are a legal currency, but not a l
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Here are some module design equivalents: http://www.ujamjar.com/hardcaml/chisel.html As far as performance of what it synthesises down to, I have no idea as I have used neither. Are you complete newbie to HDL?
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
I see that now after hitting refresh!
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Usually the case... But it is a rare day up North! Affa bonnie.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
I think some of the definitions need to be worked on... what looks like overcast weather is described as "Dreich". That's not what dreich is! Dreich would involve lots of clouds, rain, drizzle and just all round miserableness
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Do you have link to good emotion recognition if you have used one? Perhaps, could use wrapper library to combine functionality. It's a very interesting area.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Slightly related, does anyone know of any speech recognition library that also analysises the intonation / emotion in speech? For example that has the ability to recognise anger / happy / questioning to relative accuracy?
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
And to add... there is no excuse not to use spaces even if you like the tab key. Configuring your favourite text editor to interpret a tab key press as 2, 4 or whatever number of spaces for your project is trivial.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
Spaces of course. Tabs can be messy across version control and multiple users with differing OS / editor.
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
ASICs aren't necessarily faster these days. Some of that clock speed comes down to floor planning, which takes a lot of design hours, which ASIC project generally takes more design hours than FPGA anyway. I am not in HFT so maybe not t
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by doc_holliday 10y ago
I would imagine in such a case exploits would be very rare. It would need to be a very specific exploit and yes there is little scope for what can be exploited as it FPGA is designed for very specific task unlike a general purpose CPU in se

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