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721.
by fock 7y ago
I don't think the people who are non-obvious rich put their money solely in an index fund. They'll generally have about 50-500 apartment units in some big city, which (if properly insured) guarantees you can weather anything excep
722.
by fock 7y ago
Yeah, still it's an order of magnitudes faster...
723.
by fock 7y ago
that's because tensorflow is advertisement for Google and while it's technically open-source, it doesn't stand for any kind of community-project, it's all there to show off (and ingrain in its users) the way Google wants
724.
by fock 7y ago
https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (though it has a large overhead)
725.
by fock 7y ago
another point is that by having to use more time for long distance travel, the relation between the substantial energy cost and the travel time becomes more reasonable from a "what if everyone uses the possibility to travel long distan
726.
by fock 7y ago
probably the idea is to put people (or traincars!) onto a ferry and then go to Helsinki harbour. That's not as hasslefree but still ok, even if it makes the journey a very long one for finns. alternatively, one could build a rail throu
727.
by fock 7y ago
not sure, what's requiring billions of euros, a full, factory new train (e.g. classic cars and a locomotive) built for relative high-speeds on existing rails (e.g. maxing out at 160 to 200km/h) costs around 20-30Mio euros iirc (Au
728.
by fock 7y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/a-dange... I suppose the explanation is that classic ads can be easily served by a multitude of agents and there will be no billion-dollar business. N
729.
by fock 7y ago
and except for simple formalities, Arxiv isn't reviewed, typeset or anything else, which a normal journal usually entails (and typesetting costs... hands up, who is doing all the integral d-s in mathrm...). And yet people cite Arxiv of
730.
by fock 7y ago
and truth be told: anders madsen has a full CS degree. So he basically took a 1-2 year private PhD-time, in which he produced 1 paper. Which is not terribly special. As for the person in question: there's money in it and if there are m
731.
by fock 7y ago
at least here in europe, the real talent (as opposed to business-people) in my experience doesn't care a lot (why should you, if you're a workaholic) about where they work, except that I know a lot of people who don't want to
732.
by fock 7y ago
well, it's not directly related to browser/app development (which is still the purpose of the non-profit Mozilla foundation???), but instead it's all part of the rebranding of Mozilla as a consumer SaaS-company which is curre
733.
by fock 7y ago
given Mozillas funding and the fact that most users don't care about browser marketing (except for sneaky performance "tricks" or Google's "want some more speed"-in your face mechanism) I really think, they sho
734.
by fock 7y ago
use Tk. I regularly stumble upon old tcl-utilites which "just work"
735.
by fock 7y ago
currently you can build a recent Python with a pretty old, standard C-environment. You can even build a lot of the "classic" packages upon that. So I guess that will work as well. Things like pytorch (I only want gcc-7.3.1) and te
736.
by fock 7y ago
ok, if it is, what the wiki-article tells, we had this with autohotkey 15 years ago. How is the RPA integrating with the data from this processes? Does it rely on accessibility APIs (good luck with that for more specialized software)?
737.
by fock 7y ago
if you just remember that all the classic unix-editors were used by secretaries/data input persons picked right from the typewriter, that's not surprising at all. What's surprising is that this insight was so fully eradicated
738.
by fock 7y ago
because generally projects like these have some opinionated person who is maintaining it, which actively blocks "get the ssh-keys"-patches. compare that to the 100+ dependencies of your typical node-package.
739.
by fock 7y ago
because it's extremely easy to "deploy" on old-fashioned cgi-hosts. You need a python-cgi configured, drop 2 files with ftp and your app is up and running. Also auditing is a lot easier (and you only have to trust a handful o
740.
by fock 7y ago
or the competitions are not that hard?
741.
by fock 7y ago
why do you have to look forward to new versions of the base language if you have a problem with plotting?
742.
by fock 7y ago
and yet all these businesses run excel in production. I'd rather implement R code (with localizreed variables and dumb algorithms, so there's something funny in it) than an excel-spreadsheet. But somehow there's a difference.
743.
by fock 7y ago
while with high-performance you mean documented FFI and friends? this should be possible with R as well. It also seems that the actual open-source ML-community (vs. Google: we want you to use our software to ensure you can't ever own y
744.
by fock 7y ago
so, if this runs android: how about extracting the launcher and putting it on a 40USD Android Go device... Just kidding ;). But really: if you buy aforementioned device, don't sign into google play, get your apps from f-droid, enable b
745.
by fock 7y ago
but with permissions you can conveniently ovveride by default!
746.
by fock 7y ago
so that's basically like putting the whole app in a initrd? One could have done that for some time...
747.
by fock 7y ago
if you understand, how containers work, this is something you can do with a statically linked executable today. That's basically what Go is built around. So, it seems like it's a not so futuristic idea.
748.
by fock 7y ago
so, a hundred of the cheapest cloud instances cost you what? 1000 USD per month? You can easily get a deskside workstation for 10000 USD with a nice 2TB NVME-SSD, a 32-Core Threadripper and 128GB of memory... Utilization might be lower of c
749.
by fock 7y ago
so, would you mind showing any non-FANG, but write heavy site? Besides that, even the operation of most social networks should be very easy to be split into town-sized instances with batch-updates in-between instances (see mastodon specs h
750.
by fock 7y ago
well, it was not about the case, but about the thriving service sector in GPs-link, where people are offering the service of formatting word-files for e-book export. Considering that self-publishing is probably in the 20$-wage-range, the au

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