sireat

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   by sireat 5y ago

   This time series plot is the most depressing thing I've seen this year. You almost want to believe it fake, but you see how many data points are there and for how long the measurements have been taken. The trend is so strong - I wonder
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   by sireat 5y ago

   1) http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ is amazing when done properly. It should not be confused with productive procrastination which is closely related but much less useful. So the idea of structured procrastination
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   by sireat 5y ago

   I can confirm that in Eastern Europe Bing and DDG image bring nothing on 'tank man'. However 'tank man' brings the relevant wikipedia as the top result in regular search. So Bing and by extension DDG must have forgotten
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   by sireat 5y ago

   CSV<->JSON is fundamentally an unsolvable problem because of mismatch in data hierarchies among them. Plus you have the type looseness for both and lack of standards for CSV. A trivial 2-D case is handled well by Python library such a
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   by sireat 5y ago

   Also first paragraph of "Count Zero": "THEY sent A SLAMHOUND on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling f
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   by sireat 5y ago

   I am making a claim that there has been insufficient progress in e-ink space. I would love to hear your expert opinion on the causes. We have not had the explosion in devices and the reduction in prices that has happened in other areas(scan
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   by sireat 5y ago

   It is good to hear from someone in the display industry! Please do provide some evidence. (not a snark) So often here on HN we hear from experts in some field that common wisdom is wrong but we do not see the evidence. (HFT insiders come t
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   by sireat 5y ago

   We are talking about two issues - progress and existing availability: 1. Improvement on panels - you are right, physics is holding us back here. It is debatable whether cross-licensing so prevalent elsewhere in the industry would help. Even
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   by sireat 5y ago

   Namespaces in XML might be ok in theory. In practice not so much. You will curse namespaces when you encounter some XML with multiple namespaces and your favorite parser starts choking on them.
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    by sireat 5y ago

    e-ink is another area where progress is glacial because of the way a certain patents holder has decided to monetize.
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    by sireat 5y ago

    Question is if you allow using prebuilt Map type data structures. Then it is easy just bucket count with keys being integers in the list and iterate afterwards filtering for value >= 2 Now if no Maps are allowed it is a bit trickier... y
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    by sireat 5y ago

    "The receptionist’s phrase had prepared her for the only kind of link she knew, a simstim signal routed via Bell Europa. She’d assumed she’d wear a helmet studded with dermatrodes, that Virek would use a passive viewer as a human camer
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    by sireat 5y ago

    Writing Scala with IntelliJ is just so fun - 99% of time I get the right suggestion for Scala and/or Java libraries that I have not imported yet. Nice style suggestions that do not nag. Instant ScalaDoc generation. Pretty much picks u
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    by sireat 5y ago

    Looks like there are plenty of more DeFi hacks/internal fraud/incompetence https://www.rekt.news/leaderboard/ Setting aside the hacks, what good is DeFi anyhow for those outside crypto space? Seems DeFi curr
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    by sireat 5y ago

    I've been extremely happy with IntelliJ plugin for Scala. I do use Visual Studio Code for Python,JS,web, etc. What would be advantage of using VS Code over IntelliJ for Scala?
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    by sireat 5y ago

    For some reason I am reminded of a short anecdote from Good Soldier Svejk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk Before WW1 in Austro-Hungary a small game of cards takes place in a bar. The stakes
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    by sireat 5y ago

    I refuse to let my students touch AWS directly exactly because of this infinite billing problem. My current workaround is finding some SaaS provider that is willing to take the risk on free accounts and act as a middleman. Currently using a
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    by sireat 5y ago

    I guess then it would be more correct to say that Scala and Rust share a common inspiration in ML languages.
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    by sireat 5y ago

    Syntax wise Rust seems heavily inspired by the "good parts" of Scala. - Pattern matching via "match" - if being an expression (among most things) Those are both found in Scala.
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    by sireat 5y ago

    As a chessplayer and programmer these tiny chess programs have always impressed me but annoyed me too. Why? Most of them skip the full ruleset. Per Wikipedia: ZX Chess implements chess rules except for castling, promotion, and en passant. T
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    by sireat 5y ago

    Original AdWords in early 200Xs were quite a breath of fresh air compared to other type of advertising on the net. The ads seemed relevant. I actually clicked on them with a sense of purpose! At the time AdWords truly seemed how advertising
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    by sireat 6y ago

    Reading: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... it seems the drives are included. That 10.3k includes drives but you have to assemble the pod yourself. For 12.8k you get drives and assembled po
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    by sireat 6y ago

    I love Lichess (13k+ games and counting). It is a worthy alternative to chess.com model . There should be room for both.(chessbase.com, ICC, FICS are lesser alternatives now) That said this low pressure model only works when you are a lean
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    by sireat 6y ago

    Thank you for the answers! I can absolutely see a need for collaboration tool. Collaboration on regular Jupyter is a pain. I create a shared folder for coworkers and well read/write permissions* are not fun. * knows chmod - https:&#x2
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    by sireat 6y ago

    We will have to agree to disagree then. The whole term invigilation is a bit dystopian. It is a huge slippery slope because this privacy invasive software ends up being used for such mundane things like weekly quizzes. Do you really want to
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    by sireat 6y ago

    I am a lector at a University and would never force my students to install something that is so privacy invading as Proctorio on student's own computers. If you absolutely need this type of monitoring it should be done at some sort of
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    by sireat 6y ago

    Very cool idea and look! Read the first few emails, checked out the bank and web and started advancing next turn. And... nothing.. just calendar advancing month at a time. No new e-mails warning me of unemployment, no warnings about expirin
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    by sireat 6y ago

    what would be advantages to going to Deepnote from regular Jupyter notebooks based workflow? Let's assume someone who has been working with Jupyter notebooks(mostly Python based) for a long time. Are Deepnote notebooks exportable? The
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    by sireat 6y ago

    Love the little explanations on the left! I've used many of these same problems as small assignments when teaching programming to novices. However all my assignments look much uglier. And looks do matter.
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    by sireat 6y ago

    I am surprised a workable IPv4 based POS coin has not been produced. The consensus protocols are already using IPv4 That is one IPv4 address -> one unit of vote Difficulty adjusts based on how many IPv4 addresses participate Sure, it giv