mihaic

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by mihaic 5y ago
In practice I think the problem is linear, in that the required precision is proportional to log maxValue, that would be enough for a certain answer. It's just that a proof of this is considerably harder, since you can't just assu
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by mihaic 5y ago
There was a period in the last decade when most high-end TVs had 3D functionality. It required extra glasses, but it just felt so cool. I had a couple guests over a couple fun evenings, but just like other cool feeling pieces of tech - like
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by mihaic 5y ago
This has been the case for decades, but it can't be this way forever -- even Cobol apps get rewritten sometimes. I've been a lifelong Windows user, but I honestly can't see myself installing Win 11, even for my parents.
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by mihaic 5y ago
OSS fanboys have been hailing the coming of Linux on personal computers for years, but it just looks like Windows 11 might be the thing that makes it real, forcing it finally to mature. This is not Vista times, where you can easily get away
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by mihaic 5y ago
I spent this weekend removing Elasticsearch usage in our project. Just earlier I saw that our API wasn't responding, and was wondering how the hell someone with log4j got to us. Turns our AWS West 2 was down. If it weren't for the
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by mihaic 5y ago
A bit tangential, but I've always hated how opaque AWS makes the process of picking instance types, since they hide the specs and prices behind layers of complexity, mostly to make it easy for developers to waste the company's bud
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by mihaic 5y ago
The success of Squid Game I think is mostly that it somehow allowed western audiences to put on it the anticapitalist sentiment that is rightfully in the air. It often happens that there's some work that matches common sentiment well e
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by mihaic 5y ago
Actually, with the prelevance of polydactyly (about 1 in 1000 people have 6 or more fingers), and less accidents happening, most people might have a bellow average number of fingers in the future.
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by mihaic 5y ago
I think the previous commenter was refering to the NASA of the 1960s, which returned a human from the surface of the moon before Elon Musk was born. SpaceX has more than a few kilobytes of RAM and can't really be compared to the immens
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by mihaic 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure if you're sarcastic. These are all basic human rights in most developed countries, and even in many non-developed ones. At least in theory, regulations are designed primary for the people and not for better b
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by mihaic 5y ago
True, it might be that the bubble writers live in nowadays is stronger than it's ever been, and it's a guild that rejects all non-aligned newcomers. It might also be that people that understand reality go into more stable domains,
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by mihaic 5y ago
My greatest gripe with the show is that none of the writers seem to have any understanding of science, technology and have only a vague understanding of sociology, pretty much all of the main themes of the books. I actually liked the imperi
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by mihaic 5y ago
Besides the internal politics, I think the greatest blocker with improving python performance is not giving whomever is running the code any control. If I don't use any naughty C plugins, or if I can assure you that I've annotated
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by mihaic 5y ago
That actually sounds like the best solution, I do hope they put both maps side by side and actually observe people looking at them.
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by mihaic 5y ago
That advice could work in European cities, but NYC station names are often just the street number, and there might be multiple one with the same name (like 96th Street), but that are 1-2 km from each other.
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by mihaic 5y ago
If I have to use a proper street map, it's probably on my phone, and that can also have the topological map and a nice guide in the same app. The printed map is primarily for people with nothing else, where their battery died for insta
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by mihaic 5y ago
This feels like designers trying to make their mark, instead of judging the map by it's usefulness. Sure, traveling between any two points inside the subway is slightly easier, but what happens when you want to decide which station is
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by mihaic 5y ago
Starting a modern web project: Should I "npm install everything" or "yarn install everything"?
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by mihaic 5y ago
When Joe down the street and a lot of his neighbours go bankrupt they default on their mortgage loans, which can have a cascading effect, as it actually did in 2008. The taxpayer that chose not to gamble in the stockmarket will foot most of
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by mihaic 5y ago
It might seem like elitisms, but how is it that the greatest wealth inequality in a generation is happening at the time when the highest percentage of the population is playing the market? The more money we put into zero-sum games, the more
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by mihaic 5y ago
No, I meant banning speculating the stock market. Limiting the number of investments the average guy can make at 2 or 3 per year for instance, so they put into index funds or if they really care one special stock. If there were a will to st
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by mihaic 5y ago
There are solutions such as regulation for smoking that are incremental -- introduce the concept of a minimal bankroll and minimal accreditation and keep progressively increasing it over the years. The main thing would be an interest in reg
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by mihaic 5y ago
Maybe they shouldn't be able to buy that 60k car with credit card debt? If you're also proposing that the entire financial system needs to be redesigned to minimize leveraging and stop the insane focus on growth, I agree.
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by mihaic 5y ago
Agree, this shift in attitude might be a response to how poorly paid regular jobs are and how unfair the system is -- in practice and in perception. It's hard to keep focused when all you see on social media is superficiality being rew
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by mihaic 5y ago
Some liberties have always been taken away in any society: you cannot kill or steal as you please for instance. There is always a need to figure out a good balance between personal liberties and the greater common good. Gambling with your s
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by mihaic 5y ago
I feel more strongly than ever that trading should be strictly regulated and not permitted to the general population. It's framed as an equalizer, but it ends up moving more money from the middle to the upper class. I don't think
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by mihaic 5y ago
I think the article touched on some points (construction boom on a budget), but I've always felt that contractor could get away with this level of shabby building because few Americans actually lived in other countries, and knew what s
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by mihaic 5y ago
Well, yes, my main point was that the weather is much closer to a perfect continuous model than the economy, and we get weather predictions wrong all the time. I doubt we'll have a change with the economy in the next 50 years.
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by mihaic 5y ago
I find it hard to believe that there could ever really be a good economic model. Predicting the weather works with a supercomputer since all the processes (temperature, pressure, etc) can be modeled as continuous. A very successful Spiderma
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by mihaic 5y ago
I honestly believe the only way out of this would be to stop trading for the general population, by enacting strong regulation. Having all middle-class adults be experts on stocks, NFTs, what new fork some shitcoin is having, etc., is a hug

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