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by fnord123 6y ago
It's hard for established restaurants to compete on-line because they are kitted out for a dining room, paying a lease on the square meters for said dining room, and a kitchen setup to only handle a single set of menus. > Ordinarily
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by fnord123 6y ago
I think before UNIX there weren't nice APIs for different types of file access. It was more like getting a raw block device and being told "fill your boots". stream-of-bytes was the right idea then. It doesn't mean it is
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by fnord123 6y ago
> and in many ways are still lightyears beyond what we have now. I think this wildly overstates it. Much of the good innovations have been adopted in Linux. 9p exists. /proc was adopted (though that was in UNIX first). One unifying
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by fnord123 6y ago
This is exactly my sentiment. If the encryption is as potato as their UI then I simply don't buy the security claims.
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by fnord123 6y ago
https://www.amazon.com/resolution-interface-Raspberry-Pi-XYG...
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by fnord123 6y ago
Pretty sure this is not possible from a code inspection point of view through Rice's Theorem.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Signal on desktop is very slow. It's a very unpleasant experience.
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by fnord123 6y ago
You gotta read code; not just write it in your preferred version.
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by fnord123 6y ago
I would also add 'use specialised hardware (simd, gpgpu)'
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by fnord123 6y ago
> as far as I've heard from HFT people Java's relatively popular in HFT Java's popularity depends how HF in HFT is and the threshold for pain developers are willing to go through to develop Java in a way to avoid GC and re
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by fnord123 6y ago
> Getting your application aligned with the NUMA model makes way more difference in performance than anything else. Choose a better data format (binary format rather than json). Compress data. Remove repeated work (lift out of loops). Ge
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by fnord123 6y ago
> Although the US promptly ignored the parts of the treaty dealing with indigenous peoples, not that Britain really cared. And the part where the US agreed to help end slavery. And then ignored it.
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by fnord123 6y ago
The shares of the purchasing company always go down as the free cash available is being spent - or debt being taken on - on something at a premium. More explanation here: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/20
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by fnord123 6y ago
bats is used for running tests against command line interfaces of your program. This is useful for making sure weird strings and argument patterns are handled correctly.
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by fnord123 6y ago
I think it is not appropriate to compare the Holocaust with slavery and disenfranchisement of blacks in the US. The Holocaust was a event spanning under a decade that must not be forgotten. Slavery was reduced in the US but not banned so it
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by fnord123 6y ago
Unfortunately that is a misleading headline since these are not better assertions for Python tests. These appear to be an attempt to infect Python code with pointless verbosity found in AssertJ or Hamcrest for Java.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Mac installs vim and bash by default but seeing their configuration files in Finder is spooky and not normal? It's not a terribly convincing argument that there should be no context menu in the Open File dialog window for showing/
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by fnord123 6y ago
I think everyone is aware that it's a different paradigm. It was introduced in the 80s as a way to have floating windows for the application and reuse the same tool windows for e.g. Photoshop without a parent window. But now even Photo
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by fnord123 6y ago
This is true. Macos's window management is still a dumpster fire (Cmd-tab to go to the last window raises all windows in that application. And switching to the previous application across two monitors will focus on the application wind
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by fnord123 6y ago
As a user I would like to be able to attach my .vimrc, .bashrc, etc to emails to colleagues so they can see what I have in my settings.
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by fnord123 6y ago
I can see the Black Mirror episode already... "In the case of Johnson v Esposito where the defendant is claimed to have sent an email to the plaintiff wherein this created a detrimental page rank effect due to defendant's low scor
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by fnord123 6y ago
Optimizations to brew would save many many watthours. If I were to guess, it would be over a MWh per year.
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by fnord123 6y ago
> No one in their right mind thinks about people building free libraries on GitHub as nothing but positive thing. If you feel love, share love. xx
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by fnord123 6y ago
>Not some junkies slapping half-baked libs together. This is offensive. Whether the people who work hard to make and share (for free) half baked libraries are addicted to drugs is really not part of the main thrust of your argument. You
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by fnord123 6y ago
Is Gamers Nexus related to Hardware Unboxed which was briefly banned from reviewing NVidia cards for similar reasons to what's being discussed here?
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by fnord123 6y ago
Until now, none I think. The API only gave a partial view while scraping offered all tweets for a particular search term. The scraper had to be clever to juke the anti scraping systems but you would get a more complete data set than using t
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by fnord123 6y ago
> (For specific numbers and comparisons, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6656201/ ) The study was done in Singapore and Malaysia. It looks like an interesting study to do in different reg
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by fnord123 6y ago
Might be better to turn this into a cookiecutter template: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
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by fnord123 6y ago
Fundamentally the journalist has to make a call to dox or not. People who took advantage of tax havens as described in the Panama Papers - good to dox. People who obtained the Panama Papers - bad to dox. People who fund special interest gro
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by fnord123 6y ago
FoundationDB and Comdb2 also use sqlite as a storage engine. Curious that they decided to implement yet another one. https://www.foundationdb.org/ http://comdb2.org/

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