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by retzkek 6y ago
Note that PG has made "On Lisp" available for free: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
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The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab already demonstrated communication with neutrinos, admittedly over short distance: "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km,
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> If that describes you, today is a good day to remove dot from your path Good security tip/reminder! It's a slight inconvenience to have to type "./" in front of any local executable or script you want to run, a
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Matt Levine had a very good explanation of this in his newsletter today: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-ga... The TL;DR is that r/WSB et al primarily trade in options, which pr
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Pretend I'm naïve (better yet don't pretend): can't you set some boundaries? If you need to get out of the house why not go for a walk? Is it because doing something for/by yourself is seen as selfish (even by yourself),
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A study from 2014 [^1] indicated that prolonged fasting (2-5 days) caused the regeneration of immune cells and "reversed age-dependent myeloid-bias in mice". I don't have the knowledge to fully understand the implications of
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They actually do all of these already. Most of their development and marketing for the last couple years has been pushing their add-ons (things like machine learning, threat detection, application tracing), that are only available on their
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> just knowing you have the option to reduce stress is enough to make something less stressful I believe this is a huge source of stress today, with 24-hour news and addictive social media all constantly screaming "the sky is fallin
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Why not set aside some time each day to listen? Take a bath, lounge on the couch/hammock, and enjoy that time not commuting.
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Elastic.co has a lot of proprietary add-ons in their cloud and subscription tiers, for example machine learning, application tracing, endpoint security, threat detection, in addition to enhancements to the core software, like fine-grained a
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The Julia parser is actually written in femtolisp: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/eval/#dev-parsing https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/j
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> Elastic is a 14 billion dollar company I believe this is the real driver of this decision. $ESTC's PE is -100 and PC is -2500, they need to drive a lot of business to their hosted cloud or sell many more licenses to support their
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Predatory lending is the biggest example of how "it's expensive to be poor in America." There's a few ongoing efforts to improve this situation, such as https://bailproject.org/ and https://ww
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> for chopping it really helps to have a sharp knife. A dull knife... is also more likely to cause an accident. This is true, but sharp knives also require good handling skills. If someone has been using dull knives their whole life they
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I've been a mostly happy user of Elasticsearch for 5+ years, but agree it is a bit heavy for just logs (which is ironic, since that's the use case that really launched it beyond application search). I recommend Loki for logs, espe
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Fermilab is very close to the CME data center and is focused on neutrino research now, maybe a good opportunity for a partnership for some extra funding...
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> what if one of the protesters was a deranged person or enemy agent with a deadly weapon This person clearly intended to do much more than just take a selfie: https://i.imgur.com/e2s7UXT.png (description: a person dress
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Emacs too, of course: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode Despite that I still tend to ssh to machines and use a local editor, because I typically don't want to just edit files, I also want to run some comma
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> I make a mistake maybe once a year That you know of. How many mistakes do you suppose you make that you aren't aware of? Or maybe not even a real mistake, but a perceived "mistake" as seen by the other driver? I suspect
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Delayed Gratification is this, but quarterly. https://www.slow-journalism.com/ Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22200573 (not affiliated, and not a subscriber)
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> Backing Jaeger with Elasticsearch or Cassandra was a nightmare. Unless you're already running one of these, in which case deploying Jaeger is very easy (at least, that was my experience with our Elasticsearch backend). > much m
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> But because the entire idea that just visting your site entitles you (or anyone else) to income is incredible hubris and disrespectful of the intelligence of your users. I'm not sure your vitriol is called for here, it seems very
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Are you a Salarian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgCMgl0QDXQ
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Babashka is another Hy-like alternative, but based on Clojure, and recently discussed on HN: https://github.com/borkdude/babashka https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353476 Aside: another nice tool
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Or shortwave between the US and Europe https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr... (I recommend reading the whole series, it's fascinating!)
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> Replica placement strategy This is huge, currently you have to manually specify placement for all replicas when you increase the replication factor for a topic. Do this for many topics and it quickly becomes very tedious and error-pron
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"John judges others by the color of their skin" maybe? It actually feels an even stronger indictment to me, as it calls out just what is meant by "racist" and how absurd it is.
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I've been enjoying using Tanka [1], which is a command-line tool from the Grafana team to manage k8s configurations, which you define using jsonnet. Complete flexibility, with minimal boilerplate possible by using the older (unmaintain
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However, prefix notation becomes much easier to read and reason about when you have more than two things to compare: (> 3 2 1 ...) vs (3 > 2) && (2 > 1) && ...
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Robinhood lets users buy fractional shares [1]. What's the average and median share holding per user? 1. https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/fractional-shar...

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