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by patrec 3y ago
Corresponding eigenvector, you mean, right?
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by patrec 3y ago
> Stepping back... having higher "productivity" or "GDP growth" does not make a cut-and-dry "winner". Everything is a trade-off. OK, so what's the upside to working almost twice as long to achieve the s
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by patrec 3y ago
Indeed, fixed.
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by patrec 3y ago
P.S. Movies: Great example: https://youtu.be/Km6bFBSVty4?t=74 https://www.pastposters.com/details.php?prodId=4514 https://filmandfurniture.com/2014/09/blade-runner-design-whi... B
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by patrec 3y ago
Productivity: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=107229 Human Capital (let's take Pisa scores as a proxy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St... GDP growth, JPN vs
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by patrec 3y ago
> Before anyone dismisses the Japanese for using old tech - whether it’s fax machines or funny looking flip phones, I’ll say that it’s truly admirable of them to always focus on the problem than getting excited over new tech. Excluding t
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by patrec 3y ago
Indeed, I hadn't noticed the 000 (rather than 0f0) in there! Thanks!
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by patrec 3y ago
Well, there is a difference between not publishing what some interviewee tells you because you fear it would harm your own political goals, and not publishing what some interviewee tells you because you think they are trying to feed you som
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by patrec 3y ago
No, he says that the strings can contain spaces and other characters but that he wants them ordered (only) by the decimal digits in them. I don't see how this can work either.
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by patrec 3y ago
Why is this much more true of programmers than writers[1]? To what extent is it true of "proper" engineering disciplines? [1] A couple of people here doubt it being true. It is though, and I say that as someone who enjoys reading
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by patrec 3y ago
What did Amazon rip off from you?
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by patrec 3y ago
Modulo eco-system, it's called Ocaml. And maybe the eco-system will still happen.
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by patrec 3y ago
Network latency within an AWS AZ is <1ms and throughput is in the GB/s range. What percentage of python webapps do you think are hitting this as their latency and throughput limit? (Assuming effective DB use of course, i.e. not doin
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by patrec 3y ago
> We are about to enter a couple of decades of people using these pithy model systems to make real decisions that impact lots of people, If we're extraordinarily lucky. If not, you can take comfort in that fact that redlining won&#x
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by patrec 3y ago
https://techspot.zzzeek.org/files/2015/pymysql_runsnake.png
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by patrec 3y ago
Disclosure, not disclaimer. (Sorry!)
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by patrec 3y ago
It wouldn't. Databases are fast, python is slow.
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by patrec 3y ago
If cloudflare won't touch you, chances are neither will OVH.
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by patrec 3y ago
Have you used pandas? :)
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by patrec 3y ago
Here's a practical example: you have your beautiful statically typed check code in python. But still, something doesn't work, or works but is too slow. So you write, in less than a page of code, some function to instrument bits of
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by patrec 3y ago
Exactly. And if you are paren-phobic, you could also have a look at Postscript, Forth or even Smalltalk/Self -- the last two are about the most minimal you can get with infix operators (but no precedence) and "keyword-arguments&qu
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by patrec 3y ago
Prolog stands for "programmation en logique", and as might be guessed from that comes from France (Alain Colmerauer in Marseille, to be precise). Now Kowalski, who also was an important pioneer in logic programming who collaborate
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by patrec 3y ago
I'm not trying to make any statements about fairness or the superiority of the US healthcare system, I'm saying that for the purposes of comparing the cost impacts of different putative health policies in the US (which was the con
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by patrec 3y ago
> Only an order of magnitude if you're in base-2. Nope. Look at how much the Netherlands actually spends on Healthcare, it's about 11.2% of GDP in 2021 [1]. Per capita GDP in 2021 was ~53k€. ((53k€*11.2%)/12) ≈ 495€ Only p
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by patrec 3y ago
The problem with the above account is that the 150 euros you claim to pay per month for health "insurance" is transparently a fantasy number, and in reality you probably pay closer to an order of magnitude more into the Dutch heal
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by patrec 3y ago
Life lesson: don't waste 7 years of your life and and personal growth on some weird fringe language, you will not get them back. It can pay off to make a serious commitment to a non-mainstream technology, but basically only if it allow
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by patrec 3y ago
Excellent news. One big reason why the deleterious adware economy has no viable competitor is that somewhat sophisticated users can partially opt out of it and get subsidized by the less savvy. By forcing people to pay for youtube premium (
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by patrec 3y ago
Lisps have traditionally been optimized for very smart people solving cutting-edge problems (both in academia and industry) that benefited PL innovation in an interactive, fully malleable and explorable environment. People like Chaitin, Bak
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by patrec 3y ago
> Racket is probably the finest example of a modern day lisp bar none It's not. There are several nice and unique things about Racket, but it's a pretty poor example of a lisp, to the extent that if you want to understand what&
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by patrec 3y ago
> stderr being block-buffered As opposed to line buffered, I assume? That sounds annoying, but why is it a security problem? > no randomized hashes I'm not up to date, but I think last I looked, I had the impression that randomiz

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