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by posnet 4y ago
So an open source kdb+ designed to be easier to learn than Q/k? neat. Would be interesting to see benchmarks against some of the newer columnar SQL databases, (ClickHouse, DuckDB, QuestDB) especially considering the mistique arround k
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by posnet 4y ago
You are not alone in thinking that, see 'The Thirty Million Line' talk by Casey Muratori. (Long, but worth it, assuming you haven't seen it already) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
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by posnet 4y ago
I find it funny that with the WFH movement people some to have forgotten the lessons learned from the early 2000s outsourcing/offshoring craze. Many companies tried to move their development offices offshore to India, Vietnam, Bulgaria
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by posnet 4y ago
Scapy is great, but if you need only something simple, it's hard to go past dpkt https://github.com/kbandla/dpkt
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by posnet 4y ago
And when it comes to user interfaces for deleting, have it repeat back to the person how many, and what is being deleted. And have them type out both the number and they thing they are deleting. https://rachelbythebay.com/w&
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by posnet 4y ago
Link to the actual repo: https://github.com/WolfireGames/overgrowth
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by posnet 5y ago
That site lists the number of migrants as being identical for the last 5 years.
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by posnet 5y ago
I wonder about these grand conspiracies. I am on the fence as to whether the world is controlled by a global elite of super geniuses stealing from the unwashed masses. Or whether the people in charge actually are just wildy incompetent. I&#
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by posnet 5y ago
Because for a lot of people, germline editing is the genie in the bottle. Specifically once it becomes accepted for morally justifiable things, like curing horrible genetic diseases, it will quickly start being used to alter non life threat
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by posnet 5y ago
Yes, but have they tried raising interest rates, and kill all the poor people? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
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by posnet 5y ago
China's anti-corruption campaigns have nothing to do with corruption and are just populist pretext for removing political enemies.
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by posnet 5y ago
The fact that the text is 'Hello there'. I wonder if a MSFT employee was typing a response to you, but accidentally clicked edit on your comment and it overwrote your content before they realised what they have done, then panicked
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by posnet 5y ago
There has to be a middle ground between "Nobody should derive any confidence from the language a product is written in" and "I only use products written in language X". You shouldn't dervive all confidence in a pr
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by posnet 5y ago
Well one of the big factors was tax avoidance. Basically mislabel your long term strategy as short term for a lower tax bill. Then just wait, and know that the final penalty fine (while still large) will still be less than the total you mad
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by posnet 5y ago
HFT firms use a tiny fraction of the energy of proof of work crypto schemes. Even if you take into account energy requirements they used to build their high speed networks. The main reason being is that they are all co-located with the exch
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by posnet 5y ago
Expand doesn't necessarily mean buys. It's a leveraged market neutral portfolio, so most likely built from a combination of the future and hedged options books. So would be a combination of buys and sells of derivative products. E
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by posnet 5y ago
I keep hearing this from people, so I must be in the minority. But I actually like the fact that they do limited run or self contained shows. Not only does it mean that the show doesn't drag on for 10 seasons slowly reducing in quality
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by posnet 5y ago
> "standards" like GitHub. GitHub is a for profit American company owned by Microsoft. They are beholden to no one other than their board, share holders, and US export control laws. Do not make the mistake of thinking they offe
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by posnet 5y ago
If you send a message to a public chat room; You should expect that the contexts of the message and its attachment to your username are permanent and accessible to anyone. If you are not comfortable with that, then don't send the messa
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by posnet 5y ago
If you haven't already, you should check out the C projects from Justine Tunny. Specifically redbean, cosmopolitan libc and ape. https://justine.lol/ Whether you should use them professionally is questionably. But for
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by posnet 5y ago
http://cobolcowboys.com/
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by posnet 5y ago
Reminds of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0 where the maker went to debunk the negative ion energy bands, only to discover some of them had highly dangerous powdered thorium coating them.
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by posnet 5y ago
Because most people think poison is like in the movies/tv where the victim chokes for 30 seconds, and drops dead immediately with a little bit of white foam dribbling out of their mouth.
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by posnet 5y ago
I think one of the major issues is that people associate longer life expectancy with old age. For most people, the idea of being kept alive by machines, bed ridden for decades into their 80/90s as far worse than death. They never consi
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by posnet 5y ago
> it's something that's been part of life for at least a billion years I know right. The dragon is just a way of life, and will be for all time. Anyone who tries to fight the dragon or even suggest it could be slain is a foolis
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by posnet 5y ago
Fair enough, and good luck with the rest of re:Invent
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by posnet 5y ago
Memento Mori
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by posnet 5y ago
Are there plans to provide Metal instances with these new SSDs?
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by posnet 5y ago
The NRO have the best mission patches. NROL-39 seems to be the crowd-pleaser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches
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by posnet 5y ago
Oh I'm well aware, I've loaded more than enough Metamako alpha firmware releases for one career. But there are a lot of professional software devs with zero real networking experience. Sure, they may understand the text book defin

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