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by lsb 7y ago
You see some of this with Numpy, where a +, for instance, has been overridden to mean addition of n dimensional arrays, and Numpy is foundational for a lot of the data science programming these days
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by lsb 7y ago
1) I've successfully put >1M points into a deck.gl point layer with cute hover effects, and on a modern computer I can easily get 30fps on a map in the millions of pixels. 1a) Large-scale map viz in the browser is not only challengi
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by lsb 7y ago
Blogspot!
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by lsb 7y ago
Author here. I'd figured they were big, but I had no idea that big until I did a www-wide TLS scan. Here for questions
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Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains(leebutterman.com)
673 points by lsb 7y ago|141 comments
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by lsb 7y ago
If you are correct then your consultancy can stand to make hundreds of millions and save companies billions on their Oracle instances! More likely, though, is that Oracle users use Oracle-specific flavors of SQL in lots of legacy apps that
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by lsb 7y ago
It's a "formula". Kleos aphthiton I think was the first discovery, back in the 1790s, that's etymologically equivalent to sravas aksitam in the Sanskrit (hence, they are from an Indo-European language family), but you&#x
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by lsb 7y ago
There's a beautiful essay by the late William Harris about exactly this: http://wayback.archive-it.org/6670/20161201175416/http://com... The ancient Greek word purphureos, which comes into English a
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by lsb 7y ago
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/16/nrcs143_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushel#Weight A hectare is ~2 ac. Wheat looks like 2-5 tonnes/hectare Looks like 20 ton
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by lsb 8y ago
In the newest Chrome I'm getting NET::ERR_CERT_SYMANTEC_LEGACY Subject: devblogs.nvidia.com Issuer: RapidSSL SHA256 CA
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by lsb 8y ago
This is how IKEA designs its products. At IKEA we design the price tag first and then develop the product to suit that price. IKEA product developers and designers work directly with suppliers to ensure that creating the low prices start
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by lsb 8y ago
That sounds like a valuable experience report to write up and link to!
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The 'Thanksgiving Effect' and the Creepy Power of Phone Location Data(wired.com)
5 points by lsb 8y ago|0 comments
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by lsb 8y ago
The google-bot calling your place of business is tantamount to someone's butler calling your place of business. Often time, people prefer talking to professional appointment-bookers. Sometimes, not. When HR departments are recruiting,
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by lsb 8y ago
Imagenet, the dataset upon which many DNNs have trained, has half its images from Flickr, and it was last updated in 2011. Most of the images from Flickr have still not been taken down. It would be wonderful to add to this foundational data
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by lsb 9y ago
You can do this! It is a little work. It sounds like you are able to deploy your own infra, and it sounds like you are not making any writes to the db. These two factors make the app significantly easier, versus needing to hold writes (and
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by lsb 9y ago
Five and a half years ago, one DGX-2 would be in the top 10 supercomputers in the world[1], and you'll probably be able to rent one on EC2 for under twenty bucks an hour before the year's out. You can already get the DGX-1 for und
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by lsb 9y ago
As detailed in The Box, the unions in NYC back in the day were strong enough that they managed to negotiate for no jobs lost when containerization came steamrolling through. Lots of people for decades were paid to not work, and hiring freez
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by lsb 9y ago
Today, when lugging 3 enormous picture frames to work, it was either walking to the city bus for $2.50 (or walking farther to the subway for $2.00), or $6.05 door-to-door in a shared hired car via an app (so I hired the car)
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by lsb 9y ago
Yes, a comparison with GMP is the first link: https://bellard.org/libbf/benchmark.html
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by lsb 9y ago
Training via synthesis from at least one pre-existing generative model (image / speech / et cetera) is definitely a thing that people do
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by lsb 10y ago
For a few hundred gigs I've found SQLite is a very efficient storage format, plus b-trees and declarative data access for free.
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by lsb 10y ago
The attack is carried out on an existing product, an open source chip OR1200 that has its schematics generally available.
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by lsb 10y ago
I really enjoy the US Postal Service's $0.39 stamped postcards. There's a blank front, which makes it convenient to sketch what I'm seeing when I'm writing the message. (A few parks, like Yosemite, will frank the stamp f
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by lsb 11y ago
This war is a tragedy and an outrage, and its devastation of our World Heritage should make us all ashamed. While politics is often seen as off-topic, this has applicable lessons to those of us building distributed systems. 1. Any large eno
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by lsb 11y ago
"similar to an open-source [version of] datomic, which also stores quads"
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by lsb 11y ago
In James Gleick's The Information, the first chapter is about a West African culture, turning phonemes, stressed and unstressed, into drumbeats, for conveyance over longer distances than one could shout, and needing to compensate for t
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by lsb 11y ago
Really depends on where you work. In SF, it's pretty amenable to that. A smart friendly co-worker had gotten locked up for drugs a few years before he started, even warning the HR department that his background check wouldn't come
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by lsb 11y ago
I'm looking forward to reading his most recent book: http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Being-Expendable-Experiences...
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by lsb 11y ago
1) What would your recommendation be if it's not only an API but an ensemble of services that need authentication and authorization? It's feasible to use signed (and maybe encrypted) JWTs for such a purpose, but it'd be inter

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