twawaaay

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541.
by twawaaay 4y ago
I can highly recommend control theory to all software engineers designing high throughput systems. It is sometimes super useful to think about large systems with high traffic of requests/messages as something that can be controlled.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Are they being screened more frequently and thoroughly than the rest of US, on average? You can solve a lot of health problems by just screening people frequently... including offsetting pretty serious pollution.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I believe Google is completely blind that these kinds of moves cause people to not want to invest themselves in their new products. Why would I want to pioneer using new something if there is good likelihood it will get unceremoniously kill
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The problem is, you are now not only behind but also much slower than your opponent. And as parent poster mentioned, energy is everything. I would also point out both aircraft are in straight and level flight, basically in formation, with t
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by twawaaay 4y ago
For me the main reason to use bakers' percentage is to design recipes. Once I have designed the recipe in bakers' percentage I use my handy spreadsheet to convert this to grams for the final recipe. When you spend some time making
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I wouldn't say it is stupidity. MS seems to have stopped innovating and exploit as much of their business before it dies. Possibly Google realised the same?
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by twawaaay 4y ago
So there are two types of enterprises that are trading. Those who invest and are after the price changes -- their entire goal is to buy things that will increase in value. And there are those who for some reason have to trade but the price
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Hedging... funny. It sounds important and smart until you realise, in simple words, what it means. I hate those kinds of words because they obscure the simple reality. When you invest in something you basically say that out of all possible
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by twawaaay 4y ago
That is very good question. These guys probably think they can predict the future, and we all know that's just not possible. Personally, I think it is hard enough to invest long term in stock issued by reputable companies. At least wit
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Betting pensions on margin instruments?
551.
by twawaaay 4y ago
The issue here is that the contract terms might change iteratively by some percentage, while development costs are exponential -- adding requirements to the project increases cost exponentially.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
When you build software for a client that is a completely different game. I divide this into two completely separate areas: * advisory -- you advise your client on what is prudent in their circumstances, * software development -- you produc
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is a tradeoff. Whatever you choose will have its costs. You need to know the tradeoff you are making but what I am saying is that, in most cases, it costs more to spend so much effort up front to be "cloud agnostic" than any be
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yeah, you need to do calculation of what you are doing right now vs AWS. If you already have a mature team that is doing well optimising the environment, you have stable demand and no need to develop things rapidly then it is very likely th
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by twawaaay 4y ago
There is two parts to this problem. Certain data needs to be made public and has to be truthful. On the other hand anybody should be able to make their own opinion of what is the value of the company based on the data. Everybody who sells
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by twawaaay 4y ago
This is baffling to me. Investors make their own valuations to figure if something is actually cheaper or more expensive than other people make it. It is literally the whole point of investing -- you are trying to figure out if what you are
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Yes. People knocking on our doors thinking they were hired and come to start their first day of work. What happened was the fraudsters asked the candidates to buy some hardware on their own claiming we will reimburse them. Then they said th
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Do you realise the risks US would be taking? Like the end of NATO? I don't want to say US isn't making stupid things, but this would be a whole new level of stupid...
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I solved a lot of audio problems in my complex setup (multiple inputs into multiple outputs) with a Toslink switch. Which is essentially a beefed up optocoupler...
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> Was the barista course useful? It very much was. I already knew a lot about making espresso but the course taught me a lot of small tips and tricks. It also gave me better understanding of end to end process and what is and what is pro
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am pretty sure in this case the scope is used just like scopes on artillery. You would be interested how artillery scopes resolve from tens of kilometers? They do not.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think most people who come for coffe don't care about espresso machines. My wife was shocked when I told her how much a good grinder and espresso machine costs. Forget about knowing particular brands and product lines. And people who
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think the discussion misses the important problem. It is possible to design a system where the algorithm will try to imitate a human being making human errors. There is, I think, couple of ways to do it. One way would be to not be greedy
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> My theory on good and bad coffee, oddly, can be summed up by something they talk about in Top Gun: Maverick, about how it isn’t the plane but the pilot flying it that matters. This is the first thing I learned on barista course (I am n
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by twawaaay 4y ago
There are more and more countries that are on a path to ban physical cash. Pretty chilling when put in this context.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> people in russia generally grok what has been actually happening, lets not dumb whole population down to brainless incompetents There is a difference between understanding what is happening and caring about it. I believe Russians do un
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Russian actually had a problem with too much hardware and not enough people (let's overlook for a moment that most of that hardware is soviet-era, badly maintained, incomplete and low quality). Why do you think so much hardware was cap
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Speech is one thing, taking money that lawfully belongs to somebody else is another.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The contract you sign is not absolutely binding and can be invalidated in part or in whole for variety of reasons. I personally feel that if ToS is too long and too complex for most people to read and understand it should be possible argume
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by twawaaay 4y ago
IDK. "Normal" financial institutions like banks have obligation to send the balance to the account of your choosing upon closing the account unless it is frozen. But the money can only be frozen for a specific reason and the bank

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