erdewit

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   by erdewit 11y ago

   According to Caesar he made 430000 casualties, while historians now estimate it were about 160000. Among these were women an children. On the Roman side there were zero casualties so it was more a genocide than a battle.
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   by erdewit 11y ago

   Keep in mind that these 950 SSDs get very hot when continuously reading or writing since there is around 6W of heat dissipation on a tiny uncooled board. What happens then is that the thermal throttling will kick in and degrade the perform
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   by erdewit 11y ago

   This study relies on the NHANES data which is self-reported: Respondents have to recall what they ate. So an alternative and more likely explanation is that people are far better at deluding themselves than they used to be.
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   by erdewit 11y ago

   Why not use a bitemporal data model instead, it's cleaner and easier to reason about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_database
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   by erdewit 13y ago

   Yes. With Psyco it was possible to use the entire Python ecosystem, in my case PyQt and the science libraries. There was just something magical about Psyco, just adding two lines to your script and seeing it run 100x faster. It was really g
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   by erdewit 13y ago

   I totally long for Psyco too. PyPy turned out to be not really a replacement for it.