mruts

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by mruts 7y ago
Then just use it with symbolic links?
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by mruts 7y ago
I live in Tanzania and here any kid that is above the age of 2 has free rein to go wherever they want. Maybe it's not a better way (though I suspect it is), but it is certainly easier (assuming you don't have 8 children like most
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by mruts 7y ago
Maybe we should each decide what we want to forget or not forget.
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by mruts 7y ago
Would you pick up a $20 bill on the ground? I think we all know the answer to that question, and if you know the answer to that question, you know the answer to your question: To make fucking money (of course).
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by mruts 7y ago
I don't think you understand what many HFT firms do. They arbitrage between exchanges. For example the option or futures price of a security in Chicago and price of the underlying in New York. Also arbitraging between equities listed o
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by mruts 7y ago
You can’t really do any data analysis without pandas in python though. In fact python is a terrible language and the only reason anyone should use it is for access to sklearn, scikit, pytorth, and pandas. Hopefully Julia will be able to uns
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by mruts 7y ago
Maybe we could grow trees and then cut them down. Choose something that grows really fast and make the wood good for something (besides firewood).
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by mruts 7y ago
I’ve always thought the vigenere cipher was incredibly elegant and beautiful. Also, the Enigma cipher is effectively just a vigenere cipher with a super long key.
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by mruts 7y ago
If you want your business to succeed, you need to have multiple edges against the competition. Simply using what other people are using isn't going to give you a technological edge. Look at Paul Graham with Viaweb. He used lisp because
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by mruts 7y ago
Will this mean that Akka can support true multitasking like Erlang? If so, that sounds amazing. Being able to write blocking code in actors is such a big win.
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by mruts 7y ago
Kids can roam much more freely in a city that the suburbs. You need a car to get around in the suburbs and so kids need their parents to drive them everywhere. Cities are much better for kids because they can take the train or bus and gain
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by mruts 7y ago
I thought moving to Connecticut with kids was the ultimate status symbol.
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by mruts 7y ago
That's not what it implies. The article is just talking about the price of housing in Seattle. The journalist was comparing the cost of the home the family bought, with a theoretical similar house in the city. Moreover, almost everyone
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by mruts 7y ago
Suburbs are way worse for children than cities are. As a teen/pre-teen in a city you have independence, you can go to places with your friends and hangout. Suburbs make your children dependent on you for rides and consequently stunts t
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by mruts 7y ago
Bloomberg is a great company, but I do agree that there’s something wrong with their investigative journalism. For a firm that has such high reputation and trust in the industry, they are really sloppy in a few areas.
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by mruts 7y ago
What phone doesn’t change timezones automatically?
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by mruts 7y ago
Yes of course, the mean is the first moment and a Bessel correction would be inappropriate. Now I feel stupid. The mean calculated by sum(p_t x_i) or 1/n sum(x_i) is already the best linear unbiased estimate. Maybe we can't get be
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by mruts 7y ago
Seeing that it's a uniform distribution, let's start out with assuming our sample mean (the average serial number we find) has the same distribution as the true mean (the actual number of tanks in existence). If this is true, then
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by mruts 7y ago
I’ve always thought it unfortunate that fexprs were dropped for macros in lisp. For a language that touts homoiconicity and first class functions/objects, it feels strange that macros aren’t first class. My understanding is that fexprs
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by mruts 7y ago
Do many people use TeXmacs? Now that you can export markdown and org-mode to LaTeX, TeXmacs doesn’t seem to provide much value. I use org-mode with embedded LaTeX for many documents and it works really well for standard stuff. You still are
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by mruts 7y ago
Is the drug seroquel? I’ve been taking 50-150mg for over 10 years (since I was 15), and am worried about the potential chronic cognitive effects.
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by mruts 7y ago
I would hardly call wxmaxima a “nice frontend” for maxima. It doesn’t even render equations nicely (in LaTeX), say. The emacs or LyX frontends are much nicer.
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by mruts 7y ago
> Meaningful markets account for a relatively small portion of modern economies. There's no way that's true. Like, how many monopolies in America, say, can you even name? I've almost never in my entire life been in a situa
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by mruts 7y ago
Life in 2D couldn't have an esophagus or an intestinal track. Then the organism would be split in two. Maybe you could have an organism that surrounds something and spits it out after sucking up the nutrients. As to 1D life, I find it
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by mruts 7y ago
Walking on moss and sitting on glaciers. Whatever is Iceland going to do about such anti-social and destructive behavior?
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by mruts 7y ago
Honest question: why doesn’t everyone just use hash functions for passwords. Generating a Base64 string from a secret salt + the website name sounds ideal. This is what I do, and it works very well.
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by mruts 7y ago
I don’t think anyone really knows if other people experience anything that is similar. I go back and forth on that a lot. But in terms of medicalizing things, who cares if it’s normal. It’s not about being normal, it’s about being better. I
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by mruts 7y ago
I’m not a database guy and I only know enough SQL to get me through whatever task I need ro be complete. I used MemSQL at my last job and it seemed like an interesting idea. Can open source solutions provide the same features as MemSQL, MSS
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by mruts 7y ago
The inherent weakness of any and every society is always going to be the government. As the entity with the monopoly on force, the corruption and influence on government from interest groups will necessarily be the weak point in the system.
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by mruts 7y ago
> For instance, treating some types Leukemia require teams of dozens of caregivers over months-long hospital stays. It seems to me that there's no way a market would make that affordable to the average person, and it seems inevitabl

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