lotsoflumens

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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
OK - now that's out of the way. Let's move on to ASCII vs Unicode ....
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
> Hacker News is a high quality forum because it disallows political discussion. It's interesting that you think so, because this very discussion is extremely political, though perhaps meta-political. I think Hacker News may be uniq
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
Very true, but think of all the litter on beach that wasn't collected instead.
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
That was a great show - but I haven't seen that episode. Maybe Netflix will revive it someday.
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
The irony, as I see it, is that immediately after the transfer, the "you" that doesn't get transported might still be aware of your surroundings and understand completely what "your" fate will soon be (killed quickl
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
OK - in the spirit of a nice friendly discussion on a slow news day (LoL)... What makes you believe that either copy of "you" would be diminished in any way? Also, which foundation of consciousness would be shattered?
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
That's interesting. I think I want the complete opposite though - I want the latest Ubuntu core with a stable desktop.
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
I think we see that in all software projects. It is usually more fun and maybe even easier to redesign than to fix. I prefer to think of it as "aggressive refactoring" - which is not necessarily bad. I think the process of softwa
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
Yes - it's very annoying. There seems to some strange interaction with Oracle Java that it just can't handle. The KDE bug reporting process is completely broken. You need an account on their system just to report a problem. I susp
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
I predict a resurgence of interest in KDE. ... despite the numerous Plasma crashes lately.
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
survival? Have we all been transported to Bartertown ?
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
No, the idea the HFTs reduce spreads is false. See the research done by Nanex: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4594.html
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
>> Then there are companies, or rather teams inside companies, that send buy and sell orders into the exchange that they never want to execute, on millisecond timescales, to disrupt the market. They are trying, in simplified terms, to
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by lotsoflumens 9y ago
I think you're confused about the meaning of "value". HFTs don't provide any value, but they do extract a lot of money from what used to be called a "market".
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Yes! Just like a DMCA bot searches for media and automatically files a complaint?
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Yes, I know. Tell that to your grandmother.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Perhaps the use of the word "certificate" is somewhat to blame here? .. in ordinary English, a "certificate" is a proof or guarantee of authenticity.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Same here - the lag with just doing simple things in Atom, like moving the cursor, became too much. Since I made the switch I've found VS Code to be quite nice. I miss having Hydrogen available but I can always run jupyter notebook if
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
I think that I'll have to agree mostly with article. At first I thought async/await would be a good feature, but after studying it a bit more and trying to use it in a real project, I've become very disappointed. There was re
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
This PJON thing needs some rework... He requires a yearly renewal of a "bus id", otherwise he'll give yours to somebody else. I guess he's never heard of UUIDs, or public encryption keys, or MAC addresses or ... ... it d
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
If you see someone talking about climate data over a period of time less than a million years, they are full of shit.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Javascript will use Numpy and then both will rule data science.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
You should try the new docker images. In the transition to msbuild projects they mixed-up the runtime versions. The documentation on using docker is wrong and very confusing - the Microsoft web site and the instructions on docker hub are no
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
From my "less than awesome" experience over the last couple of days with .net core on Linux, I doubt that there is anything I ought to know about it in 2017. I realize that the situation on Linux is very new for Microsoft but th
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
It looks like a tail-recursive process without termination unfortunately ... I think there are some much better ideas surfacing soon.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Maybe 2017 will be the year of "functional fatigue"? I can only hope I guess ...
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
Terrible or not, it's the correct way.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
So true! Latency may be very difficult to reduce given our reliance on the internet protocol.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
I should file a patent for the orbiting warehouse ... and the submarine warehouse too.
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by lotsoflumens 10y ago
I don't think so - the machines will serviced by machines. It's easier to design machines that can be easily maintained by machines than to design machines that can replace humans.

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