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by teh 11y ago
A friend of mine works as a beetle curator. Telling species apart is actually surprisingly difficult. He shot down a lot of my technical solution suggestions with ease. Genetic sequencing might work some day but it's not there yet (and
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by teh 11y ago
For us the free doesn't matter because certificates are cheap. It's the byzantine and insecure process of obtaining a cert (sending us our private cert in a zip in a plain text mail. I mean, really?) that makes LE so great. Edit:
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by teh 11y ago
Do you have pricing information available anywhere? All I can see is [1] but that's not really interesting. Compare with [2] which makes it quite easy to guess how much I'd pay. [1] http://www.alchemyapi.com/produc
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by teh 11y ago
We're using Nix in production. It has some polish issues but even in its unpolished state Nix is adding a lot of value for us. I meet people that have all kinds of familiar issues with puppet, chef etc. We used to have those problems a
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by teh 11y ago
Shuffling can be done in linear time, e.g. with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle so yes.
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by teh 11y ago
This is not what's happening though AFAIK. In the lottery illustration there will be a single payout. In derivatives the risk of default for a certain "class" is treated as IID, and banks can leverage a certain amount on diff
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by teh 11y ago
Super interested! I often find technical blog posts like this years later and I'm really grateful to the people who donate their time to the difficult task of writing them.
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by teh 11y ago
Transferwise already require receipts for some payments. I recently ordered something from Asia where payment went through an intermediate European payment provider and Transferwise wanted a receipt from me to proceed.
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Flow and TypeScript part 1: Flow(blog.wearewizards.io)
2 points by teh 11y ago|0 comments
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by teh 11y ago
Python's print method is actually fairly clever picking the "nicest" representation that's still correct. https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/floatingpoint.html#tut-fp... Quote: "In current
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Noise: An encrypted pipe protocol(github.com)
3 points by teh 11y ago|1 comments
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by teh 11y ago
Can you elaborate which ones you're missing?
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by teh 11y ago
The R&D costs argument is a diversion. Profit margins for Pharma companies are consistently 3-5x of more competitive industries (e.g. car makers [1], [2]). Health is a failed market full of rentier corporations. It's hard to argue
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by teh 11y ago
I'm one of the people running passopolis. We think that Mitro was already pretty good but we've fixed several bugs, packaged it for the Chrome store, made sure the server runs reliably etc. As the FAQ explains we changed the name
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by teh 11y ago
I'm running a small agency with two friends and we're keeping mitro alive (and better: are fixing issues) here: https://passopolis.com/ Firefox and Chrome extensions are working, and I'm currently spending a
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by teh 11y ago
It's a super interesting topic to explore. Investigating how much bang we get for a buck in medicine is a touchy subject because when I'm ill I want the very best but while I'm fine I'm more willing to consider trade-off
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Mitro lives on as Passopolis(passopolis.com)
3 points by teh 11y ago|0 comments
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by teh 11y ago
Hey, I just signed up and I'm a bit unclear on how the "reproducible" part works. If I download my files they don't contain e.g. a requirements.txt?
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by teh 11y ago
My gut reaction is that I'll be paying money to install my telescreen? I have this slightly panicky feeling that my perception of what's acceptable sharing of private data is so disconnected from current popular sentiment that I&#
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by teh 11y ago
Can I ask which library you are using? I found a few [1] but none seem super robust. Also, how do you deal with the bytes type? [1] https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-json/ https://github.com/benho
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by teh 11y ago
Not sure transit is designed for the same space. E.g. there seems to be no schema, and the default JSON encoding isn't super readable either. Protobufs can be encoded as JSON and as text, so there are some ways to address the readabili
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Using Protobuf instead of JSON to communicate with a front end(blog.wearewizards.io)
167 points by teh 11y ago|95 comments
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by teh 11y ago
Another issue is full paths to the nix config file encoded in the state file itself. The state file should not point to the config files used IMO.
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by teh 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand how image grammars (whatever that is exactly) suddenly pop up as a solution after such a long introduction. I could not find any evidence or literature about them in relation to learning. The author is stating
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by teh 11y ago
Today I looked at Nim in a bit more depth because it keeps popping up. I have a slightly uncomfortable feeling about it that I hope is unfounded! To me it looks like it makes the unsafety of c more accessible because of better tooling and n
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by teh 12y ago
I thought it was trivial to quickly compute SHAs so you can try lots of passwords. In the case of sending bcrypt output wouldn't the "password" be long and essentially random and therefore not easy to enumerate? Or is SHA als
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by teh 12y ago
Hypothesis looks fantastic. A friend of mine and me spent a while on Google collecting Python QC implementations but didn't find any that implemented shrinking. Hypothesis escaped our search. I don't know how but the project cou
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by teh 12y ago
IANAL so I didn't get that. Thanks for explaining!
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by teh 12y ago
What makes the patent grant unfair? I think saying "you can use our pretty powerful technology until you sue us" is a great way to defang the patent system. [1] https://github.com/facebook/react/blob&#x2F
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by teh 12y ago
Does anyone know what this means for spot instances?

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