sweeneyrod

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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
What does "premier cloud language" mean?
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
If Digital Ocean is giving you an hour of downtime every two weeks (two 9s and a 7) then they're breaking their SLA (four 9s).
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
> if you try to sum up fatality risks of nuclear by referring only Fukushima, and including (in that part of your post) any mention of Chernobyl Good thing I'm not doing that then! I'm sure what would give you that impression,
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
This position is not justifiable, and the author must surely know that based on his experience and the lack of any quantitative comparison. In other words, he's lying and his lies will kill people if we listen to him. > Coal and nat
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
I've also experienced my IPs getting blacklisted (albeit on the free plan). I can understand this happening (you get what you pay for) but what I can't understand is that their support response was saying that I just had to deal w
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
> Their GDP per capita places them at #95 (below Iraq) - around $5,500 - they're a very impoverished low-income nation. That's nominal not adjusted for cost of living. For the latter they're close to the world average, abo
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
I think some popular misconceptions about OCaml are actually driven by its connection with Jane Street. Because they are the most prominent industrial user, people can think it is good for their niche but not useful outside it, or that it&#
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
This isn't really what market makers like JS do. While they do make profit from the spread between prices they buy and sell at, the key difference is that they will buy from seller A and sell to buyer B at different times. For the dura
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Oh yes, you definitely want to install it with npm rather than your package manager, unless you are trying to completely avoid npm.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
More specifically, the Reason syntax has JSX: you can use React without JSX in OCaml/BuckleScript and you can use JSX for non-React things in Reason (either BuckleScript or native).
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
What problems did you have installing? I think it was straightforward for me on manjaro.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
The situation with Reason is (arguably needlessly) confusing. Reason is just an alternative syntax for OCaml, despite being often advertised in combination with BuckleScript (the more recent OCaml to JS compiler). You can use either Reason
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Yes, it has a very 2006-era "OCaml as an alternative to C/C++" attitude, hence the claims that OCaml has an extensive library ecosystem and developer tooling: compared to C this is true but not compared to Python/Java in
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
GAFAM is the more sensible acronym.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Lots of people must be selling immediately after the event because that's the mechanism by which the price decreases.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
That figure is adjusted for cost of living.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
The people you know are almost certainly not representative of the world at large. Maybe 80% is a bit high, but the number is certainly over 50%. The median global person earns less than $3000/year.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
And you don't need VC funding.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
> The weirdest thing, language-wise, that I noticed was scoping. Not the spaces in variable names?
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
In what ways is Rust more pragmatic than OCaml?
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
I don't understand your last sentence. What benefits does lack of a GC have other than more performance?
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Any natural language parser will let you get the most probable parse (for some definition of probable), some can also return a list of the n most probable parses. There are a few different types of parser implemented here https:/&#x2F
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Gaelic speakers actually tend to have very clear accents in English (in comparison to typical Glaswegians), possibly because many of them learned English as a second language in school.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
If I offer you the opportunity of not having your kneecaps broken in exchange for only $100/month, is this potentially completely fine because I could spend the money on "stimulating demand"?
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Why would criminals use these kinds of apps rather than e.g. Signal?
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
They're not quite comparable, the Hetzner equivalent to that would be the CCX41 plus some extra storage for around $200/month (but you get 11 TB extra transfer). In general I think DigitalOcean VPS's are 1-3x the price of Het
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Stereotype threat is probably not a thing https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23743603.2018.1... - publication bias
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
£80k income puts you in the top 2% of the UK. Something that 98% of people (lower in London but not vastly lower) manage without can hardly be called "table stakes".
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
What is your basis for saying this? The UAE has the third highest oil production per capita in the world.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
Certainly hardly anyone should be physically managing their servers. The relevant comparison is between getting 1GB RAM in the form of a $50/month Heroku dyno and getting it with a $2/month VPS (actually with Hetzner that will get

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