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by vegabook 3y ago
all true but you miss that naive UTC has become a _de facto_ standard in many (particularly finance) codebases. Sometimes conceptual beauty must unfortunately reckon with long-established reality. It's basically very late to be doing t
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by vegabook 3y ago
I suspect a lot of financial data code is going to break. I've worked on a number of codebases where the explicit instructions were "everything is UTC, all the time", and enforced at the entry edges of the code. Bringing in
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by vegabook 3y ago
Microsoft should now hire Altman in the ultimate double bluff.
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by vegabook 3y ago
Wouldn't be surprised if there were Microsoft motives in the background, possibly to fold OpenAI into the firm wholesale. Noticed a little "searching on Bing" spinner had appeared in my ChatGPT prompt recently.
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by vegabook 3y ago
After 10 years of loyal Ubuntu usage on all my servers, I have gone with NixOS and I have to say that it's not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. Home Manager and graphical apps can be a pain, but server side stuff is much,
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by vegabook 3y ago
Nor with Ilich Ramírez Sánchez aka Carlos the Jackal
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by vegabook 3y ago
probably their VCs.
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by vegabook 3y ago
A highly regarded quant analyst once interviewed me and could not understand why I took a powered motorcycle in for my (early morning) 11-mile commute to work. "You spend 30% less time on your commute, but you increase your injury risk
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by vegabook 3y ago
1USD = 1349KRW
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by vegabook 3y ago
With all due respect this is an insult to those of us who have loyally purchased AMD for numerous years, trying our very best to do compute with days, nay weeks, of attempts. Now 5 years too late we get told its suddenly their number one pr
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by vegabook 3y ago
It was a great product - I remember your pitch and indeed we met a few times at the London python for finance meetup (remember the "Enthought Python Distribution"?). The only issue is that Resolver was IronPython-based so there we
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by vegabook 3y ago
you guys seem very <ahem>, determined, to do things your way. I'm kinda new to the whole nix community and it just feels like you guys are a bull in a china shop. Maybe that's what it needs. Strong, opinionated, decisive, le
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by vegabook 3y ago
I've always wondered if Norway turning all its oil into dematerialized paper securities as fast as possible, is really a better long term investment strategy than just leaving this tangible commodity right where it is, to be tapped whe
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by vegabook 3y ago
Except if the range of the function given the same domain is much, much bigger. Extrapolation of a [massively multidimensional, non-linear] function is a lot harder than interpolation.
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by vegabook 3y ago
Downside of all the ggplot-alikes in languages other than R is that they lose the enormous number of amazing add-on libraries[1] available for the original. Personally, where it's better I do a lot of data crunching in Python, then exp
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by vegabook 3y ago
If they charge these big numbers more it's precisely because they're trying to capture some of the embarrassingly better value you get from vertical scaling. It's a testament to vertical scaling's effectiveness that they
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by vegabook 3y ago
Precisely. In fact the same time variable is being redundantly mapped to two visual dimensions, where one, colour, would have sufficed.
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by vegabook 3y ago
Forth is the only language I have dabbled with that in some ways feels lower level than assembler itself.
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by vegabook 3y ago
Quite the robust defence of scalar, coming as it is from from a vector guy! https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN
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by vegabook 3y ago
Interesting that both "winners" in their relative spaces, Discord and WhatsApp, both ramped up using BEAM languages.
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by vegabook 3y ago
[Un]intended consequence: "AI is too dangerous for you little guys. Leave it to we the FAANGs" - rubber stamped with legislation.
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by vegabook 3y ago
You've been able to fix Beyerdynamic DT770s forever, which is one reason why they're so popular with studios.
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by vegabook 3y ago
this is where the new third player, Intel, can (if it can tear itself away from identical behaviour in the consumer/server CPU market) hopefully break the duopoly. Love to see a 32 or 64GB card from Intel. Their software stack on Linux
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by vegabook 3y ago
May sound trite, but Ubuntu feels more visually polished than any other distro. It's clearly in the Canonical DNA to actually care how stuff looks design wise which is an otherwise major failing across the other distros. After all I&#x
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by vegabook 4y ago
The Treasury issues around 15bn GBP (~18bn USD) of bonds every month. There are multimillion pound "opportunities" to leak information about which bonds will be issued (because that'll cause that curve sector temporarily to c
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by vegabook 4y ago
I've literally just bought a 2 year old 10nm Tiger Lake Intel i5 16GB, 512GB_ssd, Lenovo Slim 7i notebook, on Ebay, for 400 USD. Thanks to M1/2 these devices are going for cheap: 500 dollars in general for like-new (mine had a few
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by vegabook 4y ago
I do a lot of... some_pandas_object.values to get to the raw numpy, because often dealing with raw np buffer is more efficient or ergonomic. Hopefully losing numpy foundations will not affect (the efficiency of) code which does this.
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by vegabook 4y ago
Take a look at LXC/LXD containers. lxd init # choose defaults except use "dir" for disk lxc launch ubuntu:22.04 my-ubuntu # or any other distro lxc exec my-ubuntu -- bash Clean, lightweight, full virtual machine e
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by vegabook 4y ago
Personally I think Pandas gets too much credit, credit which really belongs with Numpy, and which was probably the reason that Pandas was built on it, rather than say, Ruby, which in the late 2000s was a contender. This is especially true i
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by vegabook 4y ago
Here in Europe I'm thinking of using more Rust simply for power efficiency. If it's twice as fast as, say, Go, then it's using half the (incremental) power. That's non trivial now that energy is a serious cost considerat

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