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by rsecora 4y ago
It will be nice to check also CDE or even OpenWindows. CDE was once a behemont eating the scarce RAM of the 90s workstations. But those where 64MB workstations
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Some tips and tricks for doing Advent of Code with Haskell(wjwh.eu)
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FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried: Your Guide to the Crypto Crash(wsj.com)
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by rsecora 4y ago
It depends on the resources peak (Oil Peak, Gas Peak, Lithium Peak, Minerals Peak...). Our modern societies maintain themselves via energy consumption, if the energy production problem is solved, then the societies will evolve to more autom
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by rsecora 4y ago
The title of the classic Niklaus Wirth book. "Algorithms + Data structures = Programs". Rereading the Wirth's book 20 year later, I finally realize it. Every product I have been working on was a data structure indexed by a k
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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)(cacm.acm.org)
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DeepPlastic: Enhanced Object Detection for Epipelagic Plastic(github.com)
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by rsecora 4y ago
SGI -> Nvidia
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by rsecora 4y ago
"I just don't understand it, I don't see how this is possible, how this one chip can replace these racks of electronics, I just don't get it" "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his hom
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by rsecora 4y ago
Not enough timber in the world. There is a risk of deforestation and ending as Easter Island inhabitants.
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by rsecora 4y ago
>>>> Usually when there are limitations, the computer and display are able to negotiate compatible options and hide the incompatible ones. Ejem... there was a time were X configuration was black magic, and only the bold venture
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by rsecora 4y ago
Not really, VHS was similar to Betamax. Beta has a slightly better recording format than VHS due to resolution (250 lines vs. 240 lines). Both same scanline ratio. The misconception is people confuses Betamax with Betacam, (both from Sony).
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We Recommend a Singular Value Decomposition (AMS) (2019)(ams.org)
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by rsecora 4y ago
2005: Yahoo! invested in Alibaba buying a 40% stake in the company for US$1 billion. 2014: US$10 billion in Alibaba's IPO alone to Yahoo. 2019: Altaba (yahoo remains owning Alibaba+YahooJapan) liquidates for US$40 billions.
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by rsecora 4y ago
There was an industrial revolution, but it was being developed at Isengard/Orthanc (saruman tower) and at Barar Dur. The middle earth kingdoms (Rivendel, Gordon, Rohan), were feudal domains with little incentive to change. Fortunately
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by rsecora 4y ago
Paralelisms with deep learning. He mixed training data (pool of quiz) with test data. By the second midterm, he changed the approach to catch the cheaters.
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Time-Series Modeling with Neural Networks at Uber [pdf](forecasters.org)
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by rsecora 4y ago
It was quite common by 2000/2001 (Burst of the dot.com bubble) and again in 2008 (Financial Crisis). It was 2001 when a mayor semiconductor company stop the hiring process two days before signing the contract, and one week after leavin
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by rsecora 4y ago
It will not run in 16Mb. It's a headless Firefox with an extension to render the DOM to text. From the docs: "When the CLI starts, it looks for a compatible browser (currently only Firefox) and starts it in headless mode...."
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by rsecora 4y ago
Or Lehman or ...
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by rsecora 4y ago
It doesnt work. If you invest 1$, you will pay fees and gas for it. If you try to redeem you will pay fees and gas for another two coins. (Even if they are pegged) If you redeem those tho coins you pay fees. Furthermore USDC aren't $s
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by rsecora 4y ago
Hacker news is becoming a nostalgia site. That direction is neither good, nor bad. Just a comment.
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by rsecora 4y ago
Being there, price move me out. The selling point was easy and reproducible deployment. But there are must cheaper alternatives, and dynos productivity didn't have enough benefits for the cost.
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The origin of Oracle scott/tiger(dba-oracle.com)
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by rsecora 4y ago
Rigth, ms office apps are big COM application that can be instantiated by other programs.
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by rsecora 4y ago
Excel, Word, PowerPoint are COM objects that can be scripted by any language (python, delphi, c++...). It's a pleasure seeing a template word document being managed and compose by python and then sent to a printer to fill report.
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by rsecora 4y ago
For the uninitiated. YS and SU were two highly distributed magazines from the 80s. YS: Your Sinclair https://archive.org/details/your-sinclair-magazine . SU: Sinclair User https://archive.org/details&#x2
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What every computer science major should know(matt.might.net)
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by rsecora 4y ago
Underrated parent comment. Requirements are living entities and subject to Darwin rules. Only the fittest survives.
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AI can help reverse-engineer malware: Predicting function names of code(theregister.com)
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