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by jzwinck 6y ago
Professional traders know not to use brokers offering insane leverage because of the risk the broker will be wiped out. Do you have a way to protect one customer's funds when another customer is ruined?
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by jzwinck 6y ago
At a university recruiting event I asked one candidate if he was willing to move to NYC to work with us. Most people say yes, a few say no thanks and move on. This candidate said "Well my partner is considering a job in Texas." I
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Twitter run t.co so they know where the redirect goes without actually asking t.co. So they can preconnect to the target domain as well. And that's where they goofed up (I mean, apart from preconnecting to all these domains in the fi
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Sky is also an internet service provider. Not as far removed as TV really, and SkyDrive is hardly unrelated to internet service.
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Yes. I saw them doing just this in South Korea in 2015. The guys doing it were pretty chill, said I could not take pictures of their drone but they told me a bit about how it worked. Computer vision was part of it, human inspection was too.
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by jzwinck 6y ago
There have been several such designs. The first I remember was the Puma bike whose downtube was a pair of steel cables: http://www.designagainstcrime.com/projects/puma-bike/ That was over 15 years ago. They sold
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Yes! The spaceship operator (three way comparison a la strcmp) is very welcome, and the no_unique_address attribute will be helpful for people who care a lot about optimization. Simplifications like these really help, and don't take a
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by jzwinck 6y ago
"restrict" does exactly what you're looking for.
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by jzwinck 6y ago
> you can't exactly fly through a thunderstorm. You can't, but can a UAV? I'm curious how much more tolerant of bad weather a plane can be if there are no people inside. Are storms often strong enough to knock a plane out
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Making DST permanent can be done from a single point of control with a big cost to people who don't get on board. Expecting every institution to change will never happen. Else the US would be using the metric system by now. Permanent D
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by jzwinck 6y ago
They are only cooled by the wind when there is wind. Sometimes there is a lot of sun and no wind. One side of the blades will heat up more than the other, and potentially undergo rapid cooling when a rainstorm hits.
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Of course towers are a fraction of operating expenses. It was just an example of one piece of the puzzle. All labor costs in Myanmar are far lower, from marketing to lawyers to retail store staff. And as I said, there are other reasons such
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Cellular service clearly can be delivered more cheaply in poor countries. Telenor for example is Noweigian (very wealthy country) but offers service at lower prices in Myanmar. One reason is labor costs. Imagine how much it costs to build a
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Part of Toshiba was banned from selling into the US for two years at the end of the 80's for selling machines to the USSR which were used to make quiet propellers for submarines. https://apnews.com/aad45a6f2de8d599d972
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by jzwinck 6y ago
I was able to understand this, but then I found that some sliders make other sliders move farther than necessary. I even found a case where grabbing a slider to move it but putting it back to the original position before releasing the mous
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Good question. If it's a US style political system with only two viable parties, you could award near-ties alternately to each party. After all, if 50.1% of people vote for for party A every time, it is nonsense that party B with 49.9%
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by jzwinck 6y ago
If the difference is only 11 people, it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to say the result doesn't matter, both candidates got the same number of votes within a very small margin of error (which will never be zero). Either you d
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Why do you consider computations to be opaque? Do you not have the source code? There is a ton of low hanging speed in many computations that people treat as black boxes. Often as the result of knowing something extra about the specific inp
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by jzwinck 6y ago
The subtitle is "How can you process more data quicker?" NumPy. It scores an A in Maturity and Popularity, and either an A or a B in Ease of Adoption depending on which Pandas features you use (e.g. GroupBy). When you're usin
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by jzwinck 6y ago
This reminds me of Tilera, who had a 64 core mesh connected CPU ten about ten years ago. The problems seemed to be it was harder to optimize due to the mesh connectivity (like NUMA but multidimensional), low clock speeds, and lack of improv
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Thank you. I would suggest changing your "Image Attribution" text to actually say the name of the person or organization you're attributing to. Right now it's just a link which is less valuable to photographers than h
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by jzwinck 6y ago
I highly recommend the Airbus factory tour in Toulouse, France: https://www.toulouse-visit.com/let-s-visit-airbus/blagnac/pc... They definitely don't "reveal all the secrets of the A380" (as if), bu
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Sorry, TinEye links expire very quickly! Rather than posting another link which will expire again, I'll just give you the direct link to the image from Flickr: https://live.staticflickr.com/5519/14565350736_09ac87
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by jzwinck 6y ago
The first image, of people having a meeting, is stolen. It has a link saying "Image Attribution" (which should really say the name of the attributee) which goes to the Flickr account of some random portrait photographer who doesn&
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by jzwinck 6y ago
An even more concise form is built in, and I think more obvious to readers: v.insert(v.end(), { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 });
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Boost Assign never seemed really useful to me. More like "Here's a zany thing you can do in C++." Subsequent to the birth of Boost Assign, the language improved: for (int i : {1,2,3,4,5}) v.push_back(i); Sim
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by jzwinck 6y ago
Some diesel electric trains had regenerative braking in the 1930s.
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by jzwinck 6y ago
VW broke the law by deliberately defeating regulations which applied to them. Is there a regulation that applies to Intel and AMD which requires them to allocate die space and performance to improving security? I'm not even sure they c
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by jzwinck 6y ago
It depends on the context. If you're trying to fire your gun in a video game, sure, it should respect every button press (subject to hardware debouncing which is always required). If you're submitting an online payment, a delay
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by jzwinck 7y ago
The style of presentation, the manner of speaking, seems to be inspired by This Old Tony [0]. This is no bad thing. I wonder if Tony picked it up from somewhere else. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/featony/vide

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