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by exdsq 5y ago
100% My friends a pretty decent physicist at Oxford and the hardest part of his research? Makefiles.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I assume you’re looking at this through the wrong lens. As a PhD you’ve learnt something hard at a considerable depth but this isn’t what I, or most people, hope to achieve by learning maths themselves. It’s nor
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by exdsq 5y ago
It’s mostly a joke but it did result in jobs and money being dispersed among poor farmers in rural Australia with zero casualties (human) and minimal emu casualties. Plus Emus won so, for the Emus, this is perfect because it means they’ve n
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by exdsq 5y ago
The Emu War would be pretty high on that list [1]. TLDR; the Australians lost a war to Emus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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by exdsq 5y ago
Maybe this article will explain my point about errors a little, it also covers function composition, and I think is approachable. I guess the only advice I have for you (or anyone) with monads is to look at concrete examples first and not c
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by exdsq 5y ago
When you have some spare time write a function that returns a Maybe<Value, Error> and see what a pain it is to compose multiple of them. Then, try store your programs state by passing it as a function argument to every function so it
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yeah this is a react page and a readme update on top of an existing project…
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by exdsq 5y ago
You know how some functions return a value or an error? Imagine trying to compose several of those functions, passing the value into the next function or handling it’s error. That ends up with a lot of boilerplate. The first time I wrote a
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by exdsq 5y ago
Maybe, but Taiwan has a treaty with the US and other countries meaning it’d escalate out of the gate. Ukraine, sadly, had none.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Still the 6th largest economy with seats on the UN Security Council and others - it might be going the way of Switzerland (that’s the model most Brexiters I know want) but that doesn’t mean it’s fading away into obscurity on the global stag
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by exdsq 5y ago
When I was seven I went to a public school (which in the UK is sort of like a posh private school, from a US perspective). To get in, at seven, we had to take an entrance exam on maths, science, and English. So to pass this I went to a feed
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by exdsq 5y ago
Doing well in a grammar school works to an extent but still disproportionately less than say Eton. You can see this by just looking at current cabinet ministers
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In what way doesn’t it influence enough? The political system in the UK is fairly broken such that PPE at Oxford will get you a long way in your goal to being an MP, and going to a public school gets you a long way towards getting into Oxfo
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by exdsq 5y ago
And this is where those Lean Startup books come into play because some of their case studies, even if they're fluffy, show how you can prototype your product with a lot of manual intervention to onboard those 5-10 customers before buil
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by exdsq 5y ago
I had a similar moment :) If you have a good on/off-ramp it's quicker, cheaper, and just as easy for international payments that go through different banking systems. I wish all the hype around speculative trading of NFTs and &#x2
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by exdsq 5y ago
Can you use a stablecoin like USDC?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Out of interest where can I learn about MLOps specifically? I’m okay at aws and containers etc but have no idea how it looks to deploy an ML project
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by exdsq 5y ago
Took me a while to win but once I decided to stick on a strat from turn one (poison!) I won easily. from my very nooby position that seemed to be the thing for me - consistent strategy throughout the run
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by exdsq 5y ago
Hawala is literally the opposite of crypto because it’s entirely about trust and has the same issues of external pressure modern banking has to stop transactions that crypto doesn’t
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by exdsq 5y ago
Haha quite possibly that!
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by exdsq 5y ago
I was happy to see her and Babbage had a small stand at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View when I went last Sunday. It was roughly the same size as Turings. It was amusing to see far more space given to calculators by Texas Instru
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by exdsq 5y ago
Elden Ring has become my life! 25 hours in since last Thursday (which for me is a lot of time). Absolutely love it, best game I’ve played since Hades and before that probably Borderlands 2.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Edit: for context here’s a clip https://youtu.be/2luhwy3KAE0
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Ask HN: Where can I learn about AgTech?
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by exdsq 5y ago
He’s looking for remote which would help but wether that’s a smart move for a new grad is a different topic
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by exdsq 5y ago
Your email address is exactly the sort of to-the-point humor I’d expect of a 27-YOE Linux sys admin. You have a beard don’t you ;)
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by exdsq 5y ago
There’s a really good South Park episode on microtransactions and why they’re stupid. The devil explains to Stan why people get addicted and how stupid it is to be addicted to microtransactions in a game about collecting Canadough to spend
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by exdsq 5y ago
I think this is probably true of all people, no? Academically, socially, family wealth, etc... I may very well misunderstand this because I am not Indian and I appreciate it'll be more nuanced but in its most raw form is it not similar
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by exdsq 5y ago
I'm sure a startup from Mumbai will enjoy following the laws of Colorado on Hacker News...
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by exdsq 5y ago
Which is dumb. If you're hiring remotely and a small company, pay for the role not the candidates address. Want to save money? Then offer a lower salary but still get insane talent from Asia. Want to get some of the most insane candida

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