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by fnord123 7y ago
I've also worked in finance and nobody I've known reaches for C++ for performance over C - only convenience/comfort. For performance, one examines the compiled output, analyze the instructions, try to prevent pipeline stalls,
902.
by fnord123 7y ago
To say Bjorn Lomborg is a controversial character is to put it mildly. His 2001 book, the Skeptical Environmentalist was the centre of a huge controversy.
903.
by fnord123 7y ago
The streaming API sucks (even if it finds no results, it consumes GB on top of GB - and obviously doesn't find anything historical) and the REST api also sucks as it doesn't return all the results. It's gotta be scraping.
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by fnord123 7y ago
None of these, including smoking, are possible to ban due to the addictive qualities. But indeed there should be initiatives to wean people off them and reduce the damage they do.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>On a more philosophical note, are we really OK with the government reaching this far into our personal lives? It's not reaching into your personal life. It's reaching into businesses to stop them from selling damaging and high
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by fnord123 7y ago
Academic view of AI/ML in legal system: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603763/how-to-upgrade-jud... Reality of AI/ML in legal system: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017&
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Just say it’s an outmoded right that we are not going to enforce. Just remove it.
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by fnord123 7y ago
> US investment banks are ahead of the US ones Crikey I'm a typo machine. Hopefully it's obvious that I meant US investment banks are ahead of the EU ones
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by fnord123 7y ago
They are discussed in the article.
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by fnord123 7y ago
The topic is investment banking (not retail banking) but both RBC and TD Bank entered the US market by buying US banks. And this is exactly what I said European investment banks tried to do. >Europe also runs a trade surplus with the U.S
911.
by fnord123 7y ago
This is about investment banking. Not retail banking.
912.
by fnord123 7y ago
The US doesn't use IBAN. WTF, America. Sort it out.
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by fnord123 7y ago
The primary component in the success of US banks over European banks is that European banks struggle to do business in the US. This is because the jingoist zeal in the US puts up massive hurdles in the way of any foreign bank. In other word
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by fnord123 7y ago
The article is about investment banks. Not retail banks. US investment banks are ahead of the US ones but the retails banks in the US outrageously outdated.
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by fnord123 7y ago
NPR + rejecting cookies under their GDPR scheme makes the page a dream.
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by fnord123 7y ago
OEM and data centres are the big accounts. Power consumption is crucial to battery life in remote devices (in this case, laptops) and electricity is roughly 50% of the cost of a super computer over five years (a lot of it is for cooling, an
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by fnord123 7y ago
You're over thinking it. They will go with time travel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzeOrA2in1c
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by fnord123 7y ago
All the Atlassian suite is somehow dog slow on Firefox on Mac. They're unusable.
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by fnord123 7y ago
Athleisure was born in Europe in the 80s (shell suits). But lululemon has like 5 shops in total in the continent (Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich, Frankfurt, Berlin).
920.
by fnord123 7y ago
>were single-handedly responsible for "athleisure" Pretty sure that was Nike, Adidas, and Puma.
921.
by fnord123 7y ago
There are situations where you are correct but I think your brush is too broad. Sometimes unsolicited advice is welcome but there is an art that some people have when giving it.
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by fnord123 7y ago
That's not an issue in Java.
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by fnord123 7y ago
Apparently that was done in the Ruby community and Github "helpfully" uploaded all the Ruby packages to the gems repository meaning all 217 forks of https://github.com/httprb/http became potential gems. But t
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by fnord123 7y ago
> I don’t think this is particularly useful as it does not let you to fully form an idea in your head. Granted, it forces you to spew out your mind but in that case I would prefer to have a voice recorder with good speech to text algorit
925.
by fnord123 7y ago
>Basically Discord for work This was very confusing for me since I use Discord only for chat for various open source projects. Tandem is voice and video chat - the part of Discord I never use.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>How can we - users, programmers, hackers - fight this? Pardon the interruption -> close window.
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by fnord123 7y ago
It's been around since 2011: https://github.blog/2011-11-01-introducing-github-enterprise...
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by fnord123 7y ago
Maybe git push -f my-branch I can't imagine having a month of work on a local machine that hasn't been pushed anywhere so it has to be something about pushing.
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by fnord123 7y ago
>Robert Gordon's examples of new technology are almost all physical. It may be true that 1970 was the end of a century long "mechanical age". Now we are in the information age, and innovations are virtual/mental rathe
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by fnord123 7y ago
No. Moore's law is that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months. People confuse this with clock cycle doubling every 18 months (which did stop) but with the expansion of multiple cores, AIUI, Moore's law is

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