gjulianm

61 ms·

571.
by gjulianm 5y ago
Shocking how every criticism of crypto is met with "you're out of touch" or "you're close minded" while the actual technical and social issues get overlooked.
572.
by gjulianm 5y ago
For plotting I prefer the latex output of Gnuplot, the graphs are still integrated but you have all the power of Gnuplot.
573.
by gjulianm 5y ago
I've used LaTeX extensively to write notes for my degree (math classes) and I can't stop recommending Tikz, it's one of the best parts of LaTeX. The Tikz/PGF manual [1] is absolutely great, as I could find solutions ther
574.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> There are lots of problems with gold Most people don't deal with those problems because they use banks and official currency. If the target of the blockchain is to replace gold, then I don't know why people insist on regular
575.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> an algorithmic censor-resistant, deflationary value network is a useful potential technology As the other commenter said, "censor resistant" is impossible to achieve. It's society the one that gives value to things, and
576.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> creative/unusual forms of technical innovation Crypto has been around for quite a few years already. How is everyone still close minded? Maybe the issue is that crypto has several problems that are consistently ignored by the com
577.
by gjulianm 5y ago
There are several issues with this. The main one is how can people trust a product that will let them lose money in the name of growth. The second one is that the more money, the more incentives to hack. And given that transactions are irre
578.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> here is an inner one, {x,+/-2#x}, and the outer one (the entire thing So in the inner one, x is the argument of the inner function or the argument of the outer one? Is x always an argument to anonymous functions? > / (like
579.
by gjulianm 5y ago
It does have some strange things: - What's the scope of x? it appears to be the argument of two different anonymous functions. - Is / both apply and reduce? - So 'x f list' applies f to list x times. What if I use '
580.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> but your whole program's source code plus the interpreter plus the whole database engine fits inside your server's L1 cache, so K programs tend to be faster Is that really the bottleneck? I've done quite a lot of profili
581.
by gjulianm 5y ago
It's not only slower to read but requires much more context to understand. Take a look at the Rosetta code page for Fibonacci [1]. For most languages you'll be able to mostly identify what each part is doing. They rely on concepts
582.
by gjulianm 5y ago
I remember a discussion on HN on this language like a year ago or so. In the end what I got was some extremely weird snippets for very specific little quizzes that someone claimed were faster than with other languages, the argument that &qu
583.
by gjulianm 5y ago
It's a very weak benefit. I don't know about you but most of my time programming is spent thinking about the program, not writing it. In fact, this would only increase the time I need to think about how to write things (what was t
584.
by gjulianm 5y ago
It's far easier to educate someone on correct hospitalization rates and death risks than it is to convince someone that covid is real when they think it's a conspiracy and that vaccines contain poison or something. I don't kn
585.
by gjulianm 5y ago
Proper productive conversation has been tried. People are labeled as deniers not just because "different opinions" but because they don't even share the same sets of facts from which to start. You can't have a productive
586.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> Dumping Facebook and its products as I and others have done is one strong step forward A strong step forward that gets nullified when Facebook buys the alternative app you're using, or when the app you're using does things as
587.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> First, early adopters come and verify it. They bring their friends. If it's really secure and they find no serious bugs, more people join. Then, a bridge is created between the services. That's quite the optimistic path. What
588.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> But who will formulate these laws that are supposed to give people freedom I'd bet that most people in HN live in democracies. > Who will put pressure on governments to formulate just laws if people are so hopelessly misinforme
589.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> This is how Signal and Matrix appeared and became (relatively) famous. And what happens when another app comes and says that "it's secure" and people start using it instead of Signal or Matrix? What happens if Signal sta
590.
by gjulianm 5y ago
Yes, because the "huge number of independent people" have never missed any serious bugs or backdoor, and they also verify every piece of equipment you use.
591.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> My point is that they are able to switch due to the openness of the platform. And my point is that most won't, and the ones that do will still go to another platform that's controlled by another third party and they'll s
592.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> I do not agree with this. You are saying people are too stupid to make decisions and that is amoral in my opinion. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that it's impossible for all people to make informed decisions on
593.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> If you have interoperability between different networks, you can leave If all your friends are in a Mastodon instance and you think that instance is scanning your messages, you'll find it hard to leave because leaving the instance
594.
by gjulianm 5y ago
> You can verify any small part and rely on the community to verify the rest. Or pay someone to verify. The only difference in this is who you trust. Be it Apple, the community or someone you pay, you're still trusting that someone
595.
by gjulianm 5y ago
AFAIK, the M1 is an ARM laptop and the Linux kernel already supports it. I also assume that it won't be too long until we see Bootcamp for M1 Macs. So I don't think that M1 or Intel changes anything in that regard.
596.
by gjulianm 5y ago
This is a moot point unless you always verify and check all hardware and software that you use, including communications devices.
597.
by gjulianm 5y ago
I honestly don't like too much these smug takes > 1) You willingly delegated the decision of what code is allowed to run on your devices to the manufacturer (2009). Smart voices warned you of today's present even then. 99% of t
598.
by gjulianm 5y ago
I have no experience in writing novels, but I do have quite a bit in being a student. I always cringe a bit at these purists thoughts of "you retain better when you write by hand" and "your creativity is better". The pro
599.
by gjulianm 5y ago
I don't think it's going down that path. We're seeing people use phones more and more, and a lot of people don't seem to need a computer for most tasks. Why buy a dock plus keyboard plus mouse plus monitor when you can j
600.
by gjulianm 5y ago
I think you need to use typing.NamedTuple to get typing support. On the other hand, you can use TypedDict [1] to get type hints on dictionaries. 1: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0589/

More ›