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by ndr 7y ago
GIL is a problem only if you're CPU bound. For I/O bound problems Python can get you a long way.
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by ndr 7y ago
Apparently even his lawyers, from TFA: "It was Julian Assange who suggested holding the legal meetings inside the women's toilet due to his suspicion of being under intense surveillance. Lawyers had considered it paranoid on Assan
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by ndr 7y ago
> One big downside is that is has a margin of error which is very often unacceptable. You should look at the paper they mention The Case for Learned Index Structures [0]. It covers B-Tree-Index and how to use Hybrid Indexes to bound the
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by ndr 8y ago
How can you see this has been heavily flagged?
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by ndr 8y ago
Avi Leob is THE person. You might find also interesting his interview on Rob Reid's podcast: https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/040
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by ndr 8y ago
A() and B() could return two different classes that both support foo and bar methods. If your refactor is to rename one of those methods for one of the classes this code breaks and it's not trivial to update automatically, is it?
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by ndr 8y ago
This gets tricky with things like blockchains.
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by ndr 8y ago
If you're doubtful on where the money for UBI comes from, for the US Andrew Yang (running for 2020) suggests to increase VAT. He was on SH's show [0] and apparently has a book on it [1] [0] https://samharris.org/po
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by ndr 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UHFHT1WhPc if you want to see some
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by ndr 8y ago
What do you mean by defensively then Isn't patent war a bit like Risk in that whoever has more patents (no matter how related) used by the other party wins?
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by ndr 8y ago
What does FANG stand for?
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by ndr 8y ago
Doesn't that already happen when you upgrade to a new device?
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by ndr 9y ago
Aubrey de Grey is much more than just an Amateur Mathematician, I highly recommend Rob Reid's podcast episode with him: https://after-on.com/episodes/020
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by ndr 9y ago
Talk from the same author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BWYqHbF00c
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Secret History of Silicon Valley [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ndr 9y ago|0 comments
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Perceptions of Probability(github.com)
2 points by ndr 9y ago|0 comments
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by ndr 9y ago
It's because what he says doesn't make sense. And when reality catches up he moves the target. Take for example his conversation with Sam Harris[1] where Garry says that Human+Computer will always win over Computer only at chess.
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by ndr 9y ago
I wonder what's the delta on the actual production process. It seems the pieces themselves won't have a great impact as they're super durable. Is the factory any more efficient for these new pieces?
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Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete(toothycat.net)
3 points by ndr 9y ago|1 comments
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by ndr 9y ago
This is beautiful. To be honest the second image with the tilted c² is enough. From that picture alone you can figure the outer square has the same area as the inner square + 4 times the triangle area: (a+b)² = c² + 4(ab/2) a² + b² + 2
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by ndr 9y ago
Asking nicely would help. Offering to pay someone to put in the work would be even better.
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by ndr 9y ago
That is a fantastic summary, thank you!
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by ndr 9y ago
> I guess I see your point; there might be people who dislike crime and have done their homework on the policy, and the model unfairly labels them as dupes. That's exactly what I was trying to say. Thank you for putting it down so c
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by ndr 9y ago
While I understand how it applies in the shown cases I'm still puzzled about the quadrant naming. Are people on the top right aalways a Dupe? Is there any contrarian that would push for more policy on something? How does this apply to
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by ndr 9y ago
For a ctrl-f friendlier version: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonnew.htm I'm not sure whether the old vs new is about presentation or actual content.
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by ndr 9y ago
For the record, Hitchens died in 2011.
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by ndr 9y ago
" When the scientists asked the pianists to play a harmonically unexpected chord within a standard chord progression... " Can someone ELI5 (and essentially never played) what they mean by harmonically unexpected chord within a st
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by ndr 9y ago
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work on mobile.
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by ndr 9y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might
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by ndr 9y ago
Can you share some recommendations here?

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