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by evdubs 4mo ago
Assuming your comment applies to Common Lisp as well, if Scheme (and Lisp) truly was, "hard to read, unfit for most purposes and that even proficient coders never seem to fully grasp," it wouldn't be the language that introdu
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by evdubs 4mo ago
> types don’t have their core functions associated with them concretely. They do in Racket? You look at the "List" documentation and you find all of the functions for lists. Likewise with hash tables, numbers, strings, sequence
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by evdubs 5mo ago
> Widespread supply chain attacks. This is a bad thing.
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by evdubs 5mo ago
What's the likelihood that universities eventually become open model providers?
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by evdubs 5mo ago
> would be the worst geopolitical move of the century From a political perspective, perhaps. > doing it forcefully just isn't something China would realistically do From a military perspective, taking Taiwan by force would allow
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by evdubs 5mo ago
Their valuation is crazy. Trading at $260, with no profit, their price:sales ratio was 36x (extremely high). Now, trading at $195, their price:forward earnings ratio is 130x (extremely high). Unless they crushed earnings and revenue estimat
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by evdubs 5mo ago
Indeed. COIN releases earnings on May 7 in the evening. Q4 2025 was the first quarter where they had a negative EPS in the past couple years. Most analyst estimates for Q1 2026 are trending downward. This "difficult decision" seem
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by evdubs 5mo ago
With the hope of receiving a reply with proof.... There is absolutely no way a 3 month old is potty trained. As in, the 3 month old infant can communicate and use a toilet. They likely can't even hold their head up at that age. https:
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by evdubs 5mo ago
> Lisp hackers have been effortlessly reshaping the language for decades using the powerful macro system and extending and bending the language to their will. I've written a bit of Racket code ( https://github.com/evd
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by evdubs 6mo ago
This is my experience, too, and my solution has been to run Debian.
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by evdubs 6mo ago
Doesn't snap come back on the next OS upgrade? I was using Ubuntu and installed the apt version of Firefox as the snap version would not open html files in locations like /var/tmp and would not work with USB devices. Every ti
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by evdubs 6mo ago
I, too, have used it. It works well and is especially great for data sharing.
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by evdubs 6mo ago
There must be a table with three columns and 4-6 rows.
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Tether Signs Big Four Firm to Complete First Full Audit(tether.io)
2 points by evdubs 7mo ago|0 comments
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by evdubs 7mo ago
You specify which software patents you want it to use?
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by evdubs 9mo ago
> When I read Rob's work and learn from it, and make it part of my cognitive core, nobody is particularly threatened by it. When a machine does the same it feels very threatening to many people, a kind of theft by an alien creature
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by evdubs 10mo ago
Is there no Apache Commons for Javascript? It'd be nice to have a large library from a 'trusted' group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Commons
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by evdubs 10mo ago
I am not so sure how it works, but you can define your own evaluation handler for `eval` which, I assume, can be as restrictive as you need if you're dealing with untrusted data.
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by evdubs 10mo ago
> Show me a convincing example of something that's simple/clear/elegant/superior in Lisp, and how difficult/complicated/ugly/impossible it would be to do the same thing in Java/C++/Ruby/P
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by evdubs 11mo ago
Java has the VisualVM. https://visualvm.github.io/ I would love a similar tool for Racket.
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by evdubs 11mo ago
I use it for trading options. https://github.com/evdubs/renegade-way
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by evdubs 11mo ago
Ponzi schemes collapse when the participants ask for their money back (redemptions). Tether handled $17B in redemptions in 2022 when their market cap peaked at $83B.
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by evdubs 11mo ago
The auditor BDO publishes attestations every quarter. https://tether.to/en/transparency/?tab=reports
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by evdubs 11mo ago
You don't need to trust them, just BDO who attests to Tether's holdings.
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by evdubs 11mo ago
Tether banks with Cantor Fitzgerald. Everyone trading large amounts of US Treasury bills knows who Cantor Fitzgerald is.
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by evdubs 11mo ago
You're not paying attention, or you are wilfully ignoring the evidence. Tether banks with Cantor Fitzgerald, a primary dealer with the Federal Reserve. From 2023: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/wall-st
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by evdubs 11mo ago
Attestation reports. Every quarter, BDO confirms holdings directly with Tether's banking partners. https://tether.to/en/transparency/?tab=reports
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by evdubs 11mo ago
It was known in early 2023. https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/wall-street-firm-over...
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by evdubs 1y ago
This obscures the fact that umpires are worse than 93% when the pitch is close to the boundary of being a ball or a strike (shadow zone). Obvious balls and obvious strikes are obvious, but umpire accuracy when it is close is only 81%, and t
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by evdubs 1y ago
You can see the zones that are deprecated at https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/tzdata-legacy/filelist

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