Agingcoder

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by Agingcoder 1y ago
I’ve spent many years working on hpc problems, and most people simply don’t have , or don’t care about, or don’t know what to do with performance problems. Don’t have to because they usually have a full machine, and unless they saturate it,
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
I got one from the play store once - I called them. The conversation was a bit surreal ( they kept telling me it wasn’t their fault , before eventually suggesting a refund )
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
I don’t really care about google’s ai features - I’m fine with regular old fashioned search engines. I’ve stopped using google because it doesn’t work anymore - I used to be able to find what I want , and now I can’t. Everything is lost in
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Both Ada and spark have zero costs abstractions, they’re designed to run on embedded platforms. Spark is a different use case from rust - it’s a full prover, and the goal is formal verification, typically in contexts where human life is at
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
This is what happened to me a long time ago - I used to write software 3D engines, then 3D cards (3DFX in particular) happened. I remember losing interest at that time ( I eventually figured out that there was still work to do but still…) N
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Indeed. Let’s add electricity and maybe double the costs ? Note some of the costs will be shared anyway with the bacteria culture anyway ( you need folks to interpret the results, real estate , etc ). Still at 4 usd/ analysis, it look
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Thanks - I would suggest you write this explicitly on your website. I’ll add that the 23andme story will make some people at bit wary.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
What are you doing to avoid data breaches ?
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Do you know how cheap culturing bacteria is ( I really have no idea )? At 1 million/year ( worst case ), that’s roughly 3k/day so 40 dollars / analysis using your numbers . Assuming the machine lasts a bit longer ( say 5 year
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Precisely ! The dictée is a typical exercise which exists only because the language is irregular. Most people in France dread this particular exercise, since you can’t win - points get deducted for every mistake, most people will make at le
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Well, if you’ve built a career on something, you will usually actively resist anything that threatens to destroy it. In other words, what is progress for the field might not be progress for you ! This reminds me of Thomas Kuhn’s excellent b
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
No, French is highly irregular. Reading it is easier than English but writing it is very difficult because it’s irregular. A typical 13-14 year old cannot write a full page of French without making lots of mistakes ( source : my kids’ tea
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
‘English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
First of all , I agree with all your points. I used to not use YouTube because it was unusable ( try to watch an educational video when you get interrupted every 5 minutes …). Most of my problems got fixed by paying for YouTube premium, and
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
This is what I’ve done - YouTube is a much better place now.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
It depends on where you are - many large banks have their derivatives pricing libraries written in c++ or c#.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Yes you need it, and no it’s not trivial. Not all quants need it on a daily basis though.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
This is not entirely true - they’ve invested quite a bit in maintaining backwards compatibility at least hardware side through various emulation or translation layers : first during the ppc/x86 migration then more recently with the x86
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Agreed. The difference is stunning.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Where did you find this ? This is just plain wrong. Airparif is a collection of people involving regular people, the local cities, major polluters etc. https://www.airparif.fr/airparif/missions-dairparif ( unfortunatel
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
This is certainly not very common in Paris. Cyclists behave extremely badly, but don’t ride on the sidewalk. E-scooters were another story though, and were indeed banned for this reason.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Sure there are cars. In my ( very personal, more than 20 years living here ) experience, it’s a completely different city, and there definitely are fewer cars than before. Now if car exhausts are better and both effects compound I won’t com
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Mismanagement is (very) well documented but corruption is a very serious accusation. Do you have examples ? ( that don’t go back to Jacques Chirac )
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Indeed - I don’t work in the US so hadn’t considered that.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Try small businesses, large corps which don’t sell IT products, or even universities / government / etc. Avoid startups / competitive places. You probably want to address your anxiety as well - where it comes from, how it aff
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
There’s also ‘don’t do it’ ( just turn the whole thing off because it’s actually not needed ) and ‘use a better middleman’ ( os, compiler etc while not going lower level). In my experience these are very cheap and usually not looked at and
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
It depends on the Brie - pasteurized or not, from Meaux/Melun/etc. I find Unpasteurized Brie de Melun to be very strong.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
The main idea here I think is that having someone who’s been embezzling money run for president would greatly undermine democratic institutions and the public’s faith in French institutions. However, the far right will claim it’s a politica
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
It used to be the case in France too. For a truly incredible version of it see the helicopter affair : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Toubon?wprov=sfti1#Con... In many ways, sending high profile politicians to p
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Find people who understand it. I’ve seen epic failures when things grow , you lose a DC and hell rains on you. It’s not magic , you will need people who get it ( source : unstable cluster of a few petabytes where I work ).

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