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by fnord123 7y ago
Optional was added in java 8.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>The nasdaq 100 leveraged x3 on a daily basis returned like 50%+ YoY during the last decade. And from 2000 to 2010, it was down 23%. >there’s no reason why with $10B trading all asset classes one can’t return 70% YoY There are plenty
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by fnord123 7y ago
Passing callbacks is so rare that this is definitely not a reason to switch languages and stacks and tool chains.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>However, it would be better to have all this huge ecosystem written in a single performant language. It's not the language, it's the linkage model. Python glues C components together and that's why experienced professiona
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Python is fundamentally single threaded and slow Python is not fundamentally single threaded - it just has a lock that stops it from taking advantage of threads in cpu bound scenarios. Python is used in data science because of the C bin
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by fnord123 7y ago
async would also solve his problem in Python. So there's Sanic, Quart, etc.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Are we willing to reduce cultural creative output to "whoever can afford to do it unpaid" because we don't want to pay for that work? Yes. You will lose the multiillion dollar productions which many people like. But you w
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by fnord123 7y ago
Absolutely. And even ls, sed, etc are in the coreutils package. Not 'ls' package.
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by fnord123 7y ago
Non namespaced crates can be io.cargo.blah and the short name can be deprecated or even changed programatically.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Is it the artists responsibility to make art for his audience? Or is it the audience's responsibility to try and understand the artist and his motivations? I don't have a better metaphor, but the artist is a sheepdog. The audi
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by fnord123 7y ago
>'It'll be ok!' isn't a sufficient response, because look at how journalism has been gutted over the last twenty years. It's a genuinely tougher world for content creators that aren't disney... Can we separa
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by fnord123 7y ago
https://github.com/rxRust/rxRust Many Rust projects are blah-rs where the rs is dropped in the crate name. So it would be normal to be confused and think Rx == RxRust. e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang&
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by fnord123 7y ago
Doom was fine exclusively with a keyboard. It wasn't until Quake that a mouse became needed.
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by fnord123 7y ago
People use/used these systems faster than the computer could even run. The input would be buffered so all of it happens correctly but the screen would struggle to keep up.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Maybe not "new Thread() {}" but if you use ForkJoinPool, executors, etc then it should mostly all just work. Ah that's a nice way to do it. But then what happens to Channels? Are they cast aside so we go back to InputStre
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by fnord123 7y ago
Literally "when it's done". This is the answer given in talks by the developers working on it. But you have to understand that many many libraries are on Java 1.8 because that's what Android supports. Even when Loom arri
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by fnord123 7y ago
Thread based concurrency where everything is blocking inside the thread is the first class citizen. If you want to move to a non blocking world, then you will suffer. Moving between Channel and Flow sucks. No async/await keywords like
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by fnord123 7y ago
>I disagree. I will always lose to Magnus Carlsen in Chess. I will always lose to my friends in (insert any FPS game here, I'm bad at all of them). I will always lose to Mew2King in Super Smash Bros: Melee. That's one data poin
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by fnord123 7y ago
>If you bothered to follow the YouTube videos you would found the CUDA projects I mentioned. Dude, you linked to two hours worth of video. Give people a break.
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by fnord123 7y ago
There can be no discussion with GGP since he obviously didn't read the article. They think the article will claim Rust supplants Python. They think there is a performance advantage in using Julia instead of Python (but the Python code
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by fnord123 7y ago
This 100%. Paul Ross has given some good talks on this topic. One is recorded here: https://pyvideo.org/pycon-uk-2017/blame-and-the-fallacy-of-r...
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by fnord123 7y ago
FWIW, 10x growth in 30 years is 8% annually compounding.
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by fnord123 7y ago
I use DDG and rarely see pinterest or quora results.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Systemtap probes are available to eBPF instrumentation, so in that sense this does indirectly use eBPF. I know this isn't obvious, I haven't had a chance to get the docs up to my standard. Sounds like a great use case to docum
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by fnord123 7y ago
Have you got a link to the Common Lisp library that lets you annotate data structures so you can use the annotations to parse or dump data by 3rd party libraries for various formats?
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by fnord123 7y ago
It's a civil law suit against Girls Do Porn. https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-was-18-and-tricked-into-do...
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by fnord123 7y ago
Thompson Reuters, Bloomberg, FTSE, LSE, NYSE, Nasdaq, etc all sell data that is very valuable. I feel like you haven't had the opportunity to work with data that has value.
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by fnord123 7y ago
If management fees are 2/3 of the fund's income then the management is twice the performance fee. Given value of fund at start (f_0) and value of fund after a time period (f_1) then the value is: 0.02f_1 = 2( 0.2 ( f_1 - f_
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by fnord123 7y ago
>People outside the US may actually do that, because they don’t get Prime and thus they don’t get Prime Video as a free rider. Prime and Prime Video are available and bundled outside the US.
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by fnord123 7y ago
Hm. You're right. I hadn't used Rayon in so long I forgot it is indeed iterator-like combinators using an entry point called `par_iter`.

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