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by nas 5y ago
How so? Does Rust have zero runtime overhead? I would find that hard to believe.
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by nas 5y ago
It looks interesting but phrases like "embarrassingly parallel execution" make my marketing hype detectors trigger. Maybe they could tone down their self promotion just a touch. Also "Even though Polars is completely written
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by nas 5y ago
I think it can't use the same recipe. Sam's approach for CPython uses biased reference counting. Internally, Pypy uses a tracing garbage collector, not reference counting. I don't know how difficult it would be to make the
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by nas 5y ago
> Surely you mean density? The ideal gas law applies, at least nearly enough. So PV = nRT. By saying the density is equal between the top and bottom, you are also saying the pressure is equal. The air around the wing is having it'
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by nas 5y ago
That sounds like the problem of explaining how magnetism works. Engineers and scientists understand very well how airfoils generate lift. It is not some kind of mystery like the article implies. It is true that most of the popular simplifi
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by nas 5y ago
I'm afraid it would end up like the Android store changelog where all you get is "Bug fixes and performance improvements". Only a small percentage of devs would actually take the time to write something useful. I guess hav
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by nas 5y ago
Open location codes (plus codes) are just as good and non-proprietary. Sad if actual emergency services have been persuaded to use a proprietary system.
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by nas 6y ago
The fact that you have to use quoting nearly everywhere is a design flaw in the Borne shell. Some shells, like Plan 9's rc, for example, don't expand after variable substantiation. They have an operator to call if you want to ex
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by nas 6y ago
We have been using M5 Hosting for one of our servers since 2011. They have been extremely reliable up until today. Based on what was posted about the Hacker News server setup, we have something similar. We have a "warm spare"
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by nas 6y ago
Interesting but I would be reluctant to touch anything controlled by Oracle. They don't have a good track record of treating developers nicely. E.g. trying to claim copyrights on APIs. Or, recent Java licensing changes. Bit like st
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by nas 6y ago
I'm not sure why people would be much interested in what Kasparov has to say about AI. He clearly doesn't know much, as displayed with his wild accusations of cheating by the Deep Blue team. He knows a lot of about top-level ch
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by nas 6y ago
I don't have high hopes either. It takes a combination of hardware and software to produce a really good trackpad implementation. Apple has the advantage of total control over the hardware and years of research on the software. They
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by nas 6y ago
I use Bitrefill to buy pre-paid credits from my daughter's mobile phone. Paying with Lightning gives me a small discount and the payment process is easy. I use the "Bitcoin Lightning Wallet" app on my Android phone (BLW).
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by nas 6y ago
It will be interesting. The amount of fiat money being created right now is a bit crazy. Whether that is "good for Bitcoin" is not entirely clear. Bitcoin has failed to live up to initial hopes. Transaction fees are too high a
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by nas 6y ago
Likely yes but it depends on the Bitcoin price. The amount "wasted" (i.e. securing distributed ledger against attacks, providing difficult to fake notary service for transactions) is dependent on block rewards and fees. Since th
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by nas 6y ago
Are farmers in Ontario planting corn already? Seems a bit early in the season to me.
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by nas 6y ago
The OpenOffice people will probably still tell you the project is not dead. However, they have been almost incapable of making releases for the past few years. If you look at their code repo, there are an order of magnitude more commits g
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by nas 6y ago
She is using a "planter". That is a quite expensive and complicated machine. It's used for crops that have expensive seeds or very precise planting requirements. Corn seed is expensive and a significant cost of growing the
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by nas 6y ago
Yeah, I grew up not far from St. Brieux and the Bourgault plant. My father was one of the first farmers in the area to start using a "new fangled" air seeder system. That was back in the early 1980s. The machines have gotten a
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by nas 6y ago
The user experience is a lot better than it was a few years ago but you are correct, it's a lot of screens. There are two screens for the tractor itself. The lower screen above throttle, displays and controls tractor related stuff. T
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by nas 6y ago
I'm guessing that video is taken in the US since she is planting corn. Here is another video from Southern Saskatchewan. People might be interested in the equipment being used. Mike is quite an character. He works on a big operatio
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by nas 7y ago
Right. It was meant to intercept Soviet bombers coming from the North. For other purposes, like air superiority, it would have been ill suited. People thinking it could be resurrected as an alternative to the F-35 are wildly confused. If
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by nas 7y ago
Your confusion is why I hate the term "mining". Call it "transaction notary service" and things make more sense. Currently the people with hardware get paid by a combination of transaction fees and inflation of the bit
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by nas 7y ago
They know how to make the old equipment. Buyers with enough cash to buy new equipment don't want it. They get warranty and they want all the fancy electronic features on the modern stuff. Deere know what they are doing.
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by nas 7y ago
As someone who grew up on a farm and spent 7 years running one (few thousand acres so fairly good size), I can provide some background on why this is happening. The large farms are driving new equipment sales. They are the ones buying the
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by nas 7y ago
I have a 13" XPS and a 15" Macbook Pro. I wanted to like the XPS but the Mac is just much better hardware. First, there is no comparison between the quality of the touchpads. The MacBook one works great but the XPS is terrible (
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by nas 7y ago
Python 3 making 'bytes' an array of integers was a minor mistake, IMHO. I.e. b'abc'[0] should be b'a', not 97. That change made it harder to port code and also makes the bytes() object a bit more unhandy to u
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by nas 7y ago
I don't wish the Tauthon project ill but I suspect people are underestimating how much work goes into maintaining Python 3. If the Tauthon project scope was limited to taking Python 2.7.X and doing bug fix only releases of it, I think
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by nas 7y ago
I suggest taking this article with a grain of salt. The assumption seems to be that it's totally fine that Linux can have filenames that are arbitrary byte strings and that don't convert to valid Unicode text. First, Python 3 ha
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by nas 7y ago
Look at the cpython history. There is a major change from Mercurial to Git. It's not that Mercurial doesn't support the "rebase" workflow. It does discourage it though. Personally, I much prefer the "rebase your

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