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by roel_v 7y ago
From what I understand, all transactions. It's very hard to enforce between individuals, of course.
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by roel_v 7y ago
It was the same in the situation I was talking about; all numbers that would always be integers because of their nature (and in the data source they came from, they were integers, there was no way this could ever have been floating point, o
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by roel_v 7y ago
"all non cash transactions. Which you kind of have to do to with any sizeable quantity of money (say over 100k)" Sort of related, in the Netherlands, we will soon (2 years or so) have a ban on cash transaction of more than 3000 eu
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by roel_v 7y ago
Lots of researchers cargo cult floating point programming. I had a Fortran program a few months ago where the author did "if var > 0.99 and var < 1.01 then" etc., where "var" was an integer. I tried to search back
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by roel_v 7y ago
There is a lot more to scientific computation than statistics, and the only thing R is good at is statistics.
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by roel_v 7y ago
I have seen and fixed code that was first written as a prototype, then used as is in a follow on project and so on, until it turned out to be used for deciding on whether or not to grand certain subsidies. Except whoops in one spot it inter
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing", arguably the first book with a how-to for what we'd now call 'internet startups', was about using Oracle and Perl to build web applications. But yeah it was publishe
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by roel_v 7y ago
This is cool, but a lot of it is about bash programming, and it also heavily ties you to PDF output. IMO no real Markdown based authoring workflow is workable without a preprocessor. I've used many, from GCC's to several home writ
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by roel_v 7y ago
You're being downvoted, but there are places here in the Netherlands where figs are doing well where they didn't 20 years ago.
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by roel_v 7y ago
No, you are the one missing the point. Modern building design is based on an (ideally) thermo-proof house, minimal heating and carefully controlled ventilation. In the winter, the warmth of inhabitants plus some minuscule floor heating is e
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by roel_v 7y ago
It happens in Australia, too. But it's not common.
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Masculinity isn't an unchangeable trait though" Can't tell satire from serious arguments any more. Not sure if that's because I'm getting old or because the world is going nuts.
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by roel_v 7y ago
I'll admit I haven't been on IRC in 20 years, but while I remember fiddling with active/passive FTP settings and port forwarding every week at the very least, I do not remember any times where I had similar issues on IRC (usi
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Aggressive law firms are only making things worse." Are they? Would you, or the one writing the cheque, care without them?
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by roel_v 7y ago
How is it possible that 2.5% of the workforce is a programmer? One out of every 40 people?
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by roel_v 7y ago
Maybe there once was a breakpoint at the return false, or an assert, and it was just left like this in case the breakpoint is needed again.
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by roel_v 7y ago
" Sure, it may not have drastic tempo changes like a drummer who isn’t listening to a click, but it still has human variation. Making MIDI programming sound convincing and realistic is not an easy task" Not knowing anything about
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by roel_v 7y ago
I don't know - I knew that my input data wouldn't have to deal with such cases so I didn't have to deal with / check for it. This was part of 'etc' catchall :)
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by roel_v 7y ago
A few years ago I wrote a naive Java string-to-floating point conversion routine that only converted 'simple' numbers, i.e. no scientific notation, only one (fixed) decimal separator, etc. It was the first Java code I had written
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by roel_v 7y ago
But switch to where? All.the alternatives don't have the features and/or are even more unreliable (Google). If only Fastmail would build a product like this, them I would trust...
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by roel_v 7y ago
Click the 'web' link.
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Over here (Finland, like all of Europe) we have roads, we have bike paths, and we have pedestrian pavements. E-scooters are always good for bike paths, " These escooters aren't even legal to use at all in any place that is p
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by roel_v 7y ago
It's one metric, not the only one. Im my residential installation, I was constrained by roof surface. Given certain subsidies, it would have made economic sense for me to pay more per watt if that had meant I could have produced more o
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by roel_v 7y ago
Your self-published paper on arXiv is not going to get great (lots of) citations. Being a sole basement genius yet doing work that will be noticed by mainstream academia doesn't exist (any more). Even for grad students it's hard f
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by roel_v 7y ago
"(I don’t want to build it, but someone else should" Me too! I'd pay for a weekly newsletter!
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by roel_v 7y ago
"The Link has recently migrated from being a hardware device to being software that runs on your TV (I have a Samsung TV" Wait what? I have a hardware Link and a Samsung tv. Are you saying I can dump the hardware? How do the contr
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by roel_v 7y ago
"I wrote this on mobile, though I'm sure I'll get to cleaning this up in the next couple day" That's a very ironic conclusion on a remark on there being too much low quality, throwaway or fix-it-when-I-get-there stu
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by roel_v 7y ago
Fritzboxes are quite sparse. E.g there is no per-client resource use, meaningful QoS, no way to assign custom dns suffixes and no way to set static dns records. These are just some of the limitations I've run into recently, I forgot ab
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by roel_v 7y ago
Because the topic is not "what's the default legal situation".
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by roel_v 7y ago
"Also, I am told a constant issue with pills is dosage is deeply uncertain, hence the MDMA deaths issue at Australian festivals" I'll admit I haven't kept up with the research since I stopped going to house (now known as

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