shoo

97 ms·

931.
by shoo 6y ago
It's worth thinking about where you might want to end up in 5, 10, 20 years. There's many different perspectives: e.g. your interests, career, finances, social life, family. That said, in 10 years you'll probably be a somewha
932.
by shoo 6y ago
South Australia participates in Australia's National Energy Market (NEM): https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/electricity/national-e... The market operator, AEMO, hosts a NEM dashboard here - pretty in
933.
by shoo 6y ago
> Adding a market participant with the motive and means to buy when the price is low and sell when the price is high reduces the price volatility. Anecdotally, I've heard from people who work in business related to the australian en
934.
by shoo 6y ago
> premise that everyone has time for side projects. From that point I think about it as a bias. Yes. In many plausible scenarios hiring based on side projects will discriminate against people who don't have much free time: people wi
935.
by shoo 6y ago
how's this for a wild idea: humanity changes the objectives it prioritises to value long term environmental sustainability & to focus on benefits to society -- instead of prioritising things than benefit individuals & making d
936.
by shoo 6y ago
baseline suggestion for truly passive income is invest in the stock market: do dev work for people in exchange for money --> invest the money in the stock market (e.g. low cost passive index funds) --> expect roughly 5% real return on
937.
by shoo 6y ago
For heztner, just read the list prices for dedicated servers: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ or maybe https://www.hetzner.com/sb For example, a dedicated "AX51-NVMe" server for
938.
by shoo 6y ago
readers may also be interested in Benter's paper "Computer Based Horse Race Handicapping and Wagering Systems: A Report" -- https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/decision/1994-benter.p... >
939.
by shoo 6y ago
tangent: Part 1 "State projects of Legibility and Simplification" of Scott's book "Seeing Like a State" discusses how central bureaucracy likes to organise things to make things more legible and tractable to centra
940.
by shoo 6y ago
If you've got an interesting nonlinear cost function to minimise and can compute the gradient, you can do a lot worse than plugging the thing into L-BFGS-B and letting it optimise it. e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
941.
by shoo 6y ago
back when i was working on this (for a large org) they regarded anything in AWS as fundamentally lower trust than their own on-premises corporate networks, so there was a security requirement to do encryption in transit for all TCP connecti
942.
by shoo 6y ago
Lots of discussion about obstacles to speeding up python in older threads, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025309
943.
by shoo 6y ago
I worked with EFS but not lambda in 2017-2018 when migrating an app to AWS - an app which included a bunch of random application code that assumed it could read or write into a network file system. Having EFS as a migration target to replac
944.
by shoo 6y ago
Yes. "[]" would denote the operator for accessing element of collection associated with key/index k by [k] syntax. Similarly "[]=" would denote operator for storing element under a given key/index. E.g. in pyt
945.
by shoo 6y ago
> I'd guess the simplest way is to write a small script which copies the binaries over to all the machines I do roughly this. custom application is rigged to run as a service on debian , managed by systemd. I.e. path of least resist
946.
by shoo 6y ago
Totally get what you're saying. Ideally there's a way for user to supply additional information or constraints to the optimisation process which are used to influence the results without turning the optimisation process off comple
947.
by shoo 6y ago
A variation of this is that the query planner may produce better plan if you add additional redundant constraints to the query that are logically implied by the constraints that are already there. Personally, it feels like a bit of a fragil
948.
by shoo 6y ago
regarding burnout: http://nymag.com/news/features/24757/ One quote from this piece that struck a chord with me was "level of caring couldn’t be sustained in the absence of results." The last time
949.
by shoo 6y ago
there is a subset of embarrassingly parallel problems that are are heavily data intensive. E.g. suppose you have 100 TB of data files and you want to run some kind of keyword search over the data. If the data can be broken into 1000x100GB c
950.
by shoo 6y ago
similarly, dropping off supplies or deliveries -- maybe where they are dropped from a great height via parachute out of a plane. Or dropped off by a delivery truck. "Lattice drops recent EULA clause" would be easier to interpret i
951.
by shoo 6y ago
If you were an investor in Facebook, instead of Facebook investing excess cash, wouldn't you prefer Facebook to return the excess cash to investors? Then if you agree that investing in startups is a winner, you could reinvest the cash
952.
by shoo 6y ago
probably safer to buy put options than short the stock (shorting it exposes you to unbounded losses if the stock price rises), but as you say, you'd need to get the timing right. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HSB
953.
by shoo 6y ago
One hypothesis that may explain the bad perception of unions is if there has been continuing investment and efforts in anti-union propaganda by pro-business or pro-corporate groups. A similar argument is put forward by Kerryn Higgs' bo
954.
by shoo 6y ago
> messy startup spaghetti code to something more stable and resilient? Maybe the first thing is to try to identify what the actual specific problems are. Solve the key problems you actually have now, not the problems you want to have. Th
955.
by shoo 6y ago
I reckon the discussion of the history that lead dropbox to switch to a monorepo is more interesting than the git speedups. The last couple of places I've worked at are large non-tech companies, both orgs were internally using on-prem
956.
by shoo 6y ago
SeL4 was developed by NICTA, which was a fairly recent research organisation (opened in 2003) funded by the Australian federal government, but distinct from CSIRO. Indeed, NICTA has since been defunded by the government and the remnants abs
957.
by shoo 6y ago
( this reminded me of the sadly topical https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-... )
958.
by shoo 6y ago
Around a decade ago I worked for a place that packaged and shipped python applications to windows desktops using a similar bundling tool, py2exe. It worked pretty fine. Pretty much just unzips into a directory: there's your self contai
959.
by shoo 6y ago
> Why do people continue to work for management consulting firms? I gather the money might have something to do with it. As the great philosophers Devo once said: freedom of choice is what you've got, freedom from choice is what you
960.
by shoo 6y ago
Why? What is meant by "right thing to do"?

More ›