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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I think ignoring it completely is a viable strategy once you've already gone through the stages - when your mind is in the right place. I have moved on a long way from the days that 12 factor was my bible, but those days completely red
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I’m not a ML person so forgive my ignorance here. It looks interesting, but I’m slightly confused about the way this is presented. It feels like it’s coming from the wrong angle. Specifically, reducing a time series to a sequence of pattern
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
In order to eat through over 99.99% of the price, this isn’t a low-mid market volume. It’s non-existent market volume. I’ve worked on everything from the ultra liquid equity futures markets down to the shittiest of shitcoins imaginable and
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I’m not sure what I’m finding harder to believe here. That one could lose more than 99.99% due to a timing fat finger (even on a quiet market - 11m over 30 minutes eating through the order book?), or that an arb bot that you forgot about ma
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
So a fire in a s*t factory. At least it is a welcome distraction from the very similar thing going on in Manchester Central this week.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I’m not a rust dev, but looking into how the Debug trait works, it’s basically what we’d need compile time reflection to get in C++. It generates code that uses the class name and class members. In C++ we have no way of doing that (without
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
(2) is a point I firmly agree with (though not everyone does), but it’s a hard one. Here’s the way I think about it. I don’t think I’m wrong but I’m absolutely open to being told otherwise. C++ is a language. It has a standard library. The
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
OTOH, in many of the cases where “isn’t safe” IS relevant, the developer believes it isn’t.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Not until we get reflection. And reflection efforts seem to be at an impasse, so I don’t imagine we will see it for a few years at least. I will add, though, that I’ve found copilot to be very handy when it comes to generating formatting. L
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I always wondered the same thing. But my theory wasn’t bandwidth, it was power, cost and (perhaps) weight. I had no idea that we still monitored these things from the ground.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
A common retort to this is that companies also exist to compete (and thus make a profit), so those that use AI to augment their staff rather than replace them will be at an advantage. Honestly, I can see it, but there are definitely SOME jo
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
This stuff reminds me of the days when it was trendy to put a swingy ball that follows the cursor. It’s technically cool (as in “hmm how did they do that?”) but it adds little to the experience aside from concentrated cringe. I absolutely d
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I have yet to read it, but it looks and feels like more of a review article than anything claiming to be progressing the field. The thing I find interesting about the idea of the paper (again, haven’t read it, so this is an assumption) is t
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
If you have to explain that you aren’t being sarcastic when you congratulate an effort, you know you’ve pushed too hard in the other direction.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Yeah, though that’s also kind of my point. You know and I know (having learned the hard way) that the mechanism involves storing parameters and intermediate values in an object that is referred to later. It’s obvious now I know, but the des
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It is due a bit of proof reading. There are some readability issues. That being said, it is a great article. C++ and coroutines is a story that has been going on for a long time, and the result surprised me. In a bad way. One bit me right f
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
(To the other comment - yes, this being fraud would be an exception to the above. I am assuming it was done in good faith. If it turns out that it was intentionally designed to be misleading, then that changes things - and would be monument
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Anyone who is afraid to be wrong shouldn’t entertain the notion of becoming a scientist. If it turns out they’re wrong, then they will likely do a follow up paper that explains what their mistakes were. No biggy. It’s just a couple of prepr
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I don’t know, I think the cloth thesis looks like a good read, and Hans Einstein seemed to have had a very successful career. I may be wrong, but I can’t imagine that any ridiculously gifted parent would care the slightest if their children
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
This is why I self-host. I don’t like the idea of buying something and having no control over how I use it, where my data goes, etc. I strongly urge anyone with a tech interest to get a Raspberry Pi (now that they’re widely available again)
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I strongly agree. Once upon a time, I was in condensed matter physics. I was (and remain) interested in a very specific niche within that, and I read a small handful of the papers that were published each week. I’m not actively researching
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Measuring is a highly subjective and personal experience in general. As a physics undergrad I had a fascinating discussion with a lecturer on metrology. I always used SI units, my friend always preferred natural units, and the lecturer used
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It seems like a contradiction, but is not. Many things are measured on a scale that goes from mild, to moderate, to moderately severe, to severe.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I would love to see it too. Papers about failed experiments are worth a lot more than no papers about failed experiments. Alas, it is rare.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Ah, yes, that makes sense! I'm thinking about framework from the wrong angle. I can definitely see why that's a bonus. So many data pipeline tools, but so many written in Java. It's for that reason that I've always reinv
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I run into that problem a lot, to be fair. Though my approach is to fork and maintain the fork until my PR is accepted, merged, and in a tagged release. Another is to apply a diff to the dependency within the build system, which is what I d
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Off topic here but > Carefully architected and written in C++ from the ground up with no dependency on any external framework, BlazingMQ provides… What a weird selling point. There are pros and cons to having no dependencies. Not long ag
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Being tone policed by a bot - what a time to be alive. Something that annoys me about AI bots is that the language is extremely American. This is no surprise. But polite in the USA is very different to the UK, where fake politeness is almos
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I balanced a consulting job and my PhD, so thesis time was incredibly productive. When I didn’t want to do one, I’d become very productive on the other, and when I got tired of that, I’d switch and get very productive again.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
This is it. This is the pinnacle of terminal experience. It’s all downhill from here. Perhaps this is the time to quit and become a farmer, so I don’t have to witness the decline.

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