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by veqq 3y ago
Tangentially, it turns out one could use late 70s technology to store 5gb of data on a VHS tape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSnrQBfBCzY
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by veqq 3y ago
Thank you for sharing so much lovely material with the world. It is very appreciated. I'll dig deeply into this book.
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Flat Adverb(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by veqq 3y ago|0 comments
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by veqq 3y ago
To some extent, I like when people do it in other languages. It exhibits strong exposure to older programming material (where overshort vars abound), evincing great passion for programming, computer science etc. A lot of lisp material featu
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Ask HN: What's the Most Impactful Feedback You've Ever Had in Your Career?
2 points by veqq 3y ago|3 comments
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by veqq 3y ago
The difference in tooling stories of DIY ecosystems like Python vs. batteries included ecosystems like Go is fascinating. I've rarely thought of formatting in Go (occasionally wishing it would allow 1 line if statements). But this forg
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by veqq 3y ago
Therapy can often create problems ex nihilio if there isn't something obvious to handle e.g.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000579672... > eight-session DBT skills-training interv
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by veqq 3y ago
Ethanol is not doing something about climate change. Corn ethanol is not energy positive. It's straight green washing, with more energy (oil and other hydrocarbon derived products) in than out. Sugar ethanol (widespread in Brazil) is e
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by veqq 3y ago
What was the O365 apocalypse?
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by veqq 3y ago
There are a lot of these. Nowadays, gamma flows are discussed a lot in public spaces. Ignoring most of the topic, combining options expiry dates with typical fund rebalancing dates is simple. (Buy in the last week of the month, basically.)
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by veqq 3y ago
To go into further detail about systemic investing: There have been experiments like the turtle traders ^ 1 who applied "trend following", used today by many CTAs on exotic markets. For this, an investor taught some people his str
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by veqq 3y ago
Couchsurfing has a lot of events nowadays. I don't use it, but some friends occasionally invite me to things they find on it. Meetup still runs strong in some areas. For a time, FB groups carried the burden, but that fount's since
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by veqq 3y ago
I spent a decade traveling Europe in hostels and visiting clients. There's nothing inherently wrong with a pod itself. Indeed, I prefer it if it means you get expansive public space. Later, I lived in a New York building which was orig
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by veqq 3y ago
160/mo seems very expensive. I pay $900/yr for my parents' car.
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There are a few books which admirably explain the assumptions etc. - A Programmers Introduction to Mathematics (amazing for building intuition, explaining how to read mathematics papers, understanding beauty of proofs etc.) - Elements of Ma
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by veqq 3y ago
There are a few Go projects meant to be learned from: - https://github.com/pion/opus for to learn audio - https://github.com/benbjohnson/wtf for overall production quality - https://git
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by veqq 3y ago
Russian is an interesting situation, where the neuter gender is sort of dying in diaspora [1] communities or among young children. Currently, 13% of nouns are neuter, 41% feminine and 46% masculine. Before the education system and further e
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by veqq 3y ago
Some other Germanic languages have specific adverb order: - German adverbs are time-manner-place. - Swedish adverbs are manner-place-time.
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OpenTelemetry and Go: a whole new eBPF world(signadot.com)
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My summary: Linda Sapadin in “How to Beat Procrastination in the Digital Age" says: - defeatedness/lack of faith in success leads to avoidance, but this comes from different places - "defiers" drown in others' expec
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by veqq 3y ago
Technically, of course they are all encodings of the same thing (and can be transpiled into each other). The domain specific languages (DSL) crowd seeks to find the optimal encoding for a given problem. Sometimes this is quite blatant e.g.
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by veqq 3y ago
> I think you missed a crisis in Africa. You'll find that I specifically mentioned Setser's treatments of of African refinancing attempts. Either way, Chinese loans to Africa make up a very small portion of Chinese activity. If
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by veqq 3y ago
Sprezzatura is the name of this. A "certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it."
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by veqq 3y ago
These currency reserves largely represent loans China issued abroad, which have been paid off (or are in the process of being served). Similar to Eurodollars in the past yielding outsized interest rates, increasing demand and thus dollar ou
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by veqq 3y ago
I like the 2 sign up popups when reading about the very service disappearing! Does anyone have a view into why? Did they run out of outside funding? Another interest rate kill?
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by veqq 3y ago
What's the difference in computing efficiency between federated services and trad or even serverless cloud monstrosities? I recall an offhanded remark federation take an order of magnitude more compute, which seemed unsurprising for a
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by veqq 3y ago
Interesting. Do you have a viewable page example?
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by veqq 3y ago
Huh, I've actually been doing the same. Is your project public yet? Are you stating with RFC 6455's implementation and just changing the API or trying to approximate the implementations?
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by veqq 4y ago
Sounds good. How do we define or measure power?
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by veqq 4y ago
> Meccano ... are all metal, Multiple commenters in this thread wrote of unexpectedly plastic Meccano sets they purchased in the last few years (and the problems involved).

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