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by nerdkid93 6y ago
True, but most of the negative sentiment by r/WSB that I have seen has been done through options contracts (from what I've seen at least).
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
CBOE doesn't allow options contracts on new IPO stocks for at least 3 days: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/04/072104.asp#mntl-...
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
"Weapons of Math Destruction" was our textbook for CS 6603 at Georgia Tech. It was a fascinating/terrifying look into some of the systems that seem to silently impact the lives of millions in the U.S. Cannot recommend it enou
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
Deno has first class support for WASM, I wonder if using that runtime for number crunching is better than how Python does numeric computations.
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
> then basically defaulted and forced everyone to accept dollars by force I found 3 instances of "defaults" over the history of the U.S. Federal Government[0], and I cannot figure out to which of those occurrences you might be
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
Looking at the Internet Archive for typescriptlang.org, most (but not all) of their original samples are doing something in a browser[0], so while it definitely became popular with backend developers, I don't know if I would go so far
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
Polymer is used by real people... even more-so if you include the spiritual successor to Polymer, LitElement. That's not to say either are incredibly popular, but still, that seems intentionally demeaning. [0] https://www.np
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
From my personal experience, CSS performance isn't really that much of a concern in the world of modern browsers. Maybe IE11 would hiccup on a particularly large page with 1,000s of DOM nodes, but all of the evergreen browsers are ridi
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
My TP Link router has a free dynamic DNS service available, but the DNS configuration they use fails on roughly 50% of the DNS resolvers I've tested. I use a free-tier Google Cloud f1-nano instance running cron to resolve TP Link'
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
That's not how taxes on RSUs work (at least federally in the US). Nothing happens when RSUs are granted because they have no value until they vest. Once the RSUs vest, you are taxed based on the cost basis of $0 (since you pay nothing
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
I'd argue that it's equally sad to see the open web get destroyed by massive DDoS attacks and malicious actors. How would you keep your own website up if it was constantly being attacked?
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
> I have yet to hear of an investor or a fund manager, though, who consistently beats the market. Renaissance's Medallion fund is one such outlier. They have averaged crazy returns over decades now, but they are likely only able to
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
I think in the case of Amazon selling hosted MongoDB calling it DocumentDB, they are actually using a fork of mongo's previously open source codebase. Prior to their license change in 2018 from AGPL to SSPL [0], Amazon would have been
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
It is? I did a quick search through the Constitution [0] and Bill of Rights [1] and found no mention of the word "privacy." [0] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri... [1] https:&#x2F
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
Tencent is not a parent company of Epic, they are a minority shareholder of 40% [1], while Epic's CEO is the owner with >50% ownership. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
I'm not sure about PostGraphile, but Hasura I know transforms a graphql request into a SQL request that can return the JSON response expected as part of the GraphQL spec. I believe that's the reason that Hasura only works with Pos
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
We investigated using Prisma v2 as a way of auto-creating a GraphQL API that directly interfaces with a PostgreSQL database, but we immediately pivoted to other solutions as soon as we discovered that the Prisma Client is really spinning up
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
> privacy focused Chat-App-Network... accelerated by Facebook Why would any company focusing on privacy partner with Facebook or Google? I would guess that some ardent supporters of such a product/company would be put off by such a
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
- WebP was initially released in 2019 + WebP was initially released in 2010
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Dark Skies over Pittsburgh(theverge.com)
3 points by nerdkid93 6y ago|0 comments
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
1,000 times yes! In elementary and middle school, I had weekly learning from our school librarian on seeking the truth through a consensus of multiple sources. She taught us how to properly use Wikipedia as a source for finding other source
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
> CodeCommit should have been called Amazon GitHub because Amazon can ignore trademarks? That would have been an entertaining lawsuit between Amazon and Microsoft though.
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by nerdkid93 6y ago
it hadn't been deployed yet, it's up now
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by nerdkid93 7y ago
Use or install? I can run Zoom post installation without sudo.
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by nerdkid93 7y ago
I think Teams is actually just leveraging the Skype backend. I looked at some of the network calls happening in their web app, and some requests are referencing skype (e.g. https://amer.ng.msg.teams.microsoft.com/v1/use
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by nerdkid93 7y ago
Google Cloud gives you 1 free f1-micro compute instance. Coupled with a CDN like Cloudflare or Netlify, it should be beefy enough for a static site.
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by nerdkid93 7y ago
It surprises me that GSMA's site would go down like that
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by nerdkid93 7y ago
I personally disagree with people who disable JS and expect the web to continue working as expected, but one of the other downsides of using Canvas for such animations is that there is no good way of exposing that animation to screen reader
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Wikimedia Cookbook(en.wikibooks.org)
172 points by nerdkid93 7y ago|57 comments
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by nerdkid93 7y ago
Their library version is GPL-3.0, so I'd say while everything might not be open source, some of their utilities are: https://github.com/zerotier/libzt

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