AlEinstein

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by AlEinstein 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523517
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23523517
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
Options spread.
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
What’s heartbreaking is that he didn’t trade any leverage at all. He executed an options spread that was worth about $700k on each leg. Due to the nature of buying and selling options, the app showed his position as short $700k because the
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
The floating point results are suspiciously good compared to the rest of the results. I wonder if they have some good VLIW instructions for floating point or it’s just an error in the spreadsheet.
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
This doesn’t have any info about the instruction set.
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
The google translation is not bad: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
If you already know what a vector space is and what a tensor product is and you recognise and understand bra-ket notation I would say there’s a very good chance you already know what quantum entanglement is. So who is the target audience fo
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
It may be true that bitcoin will be a good store of value but this article doesn’t make a good case for it. For example, bitcoin is quite volatile, which would tend to make it a poor store of value. The article doesn’t address that aspect a
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
I once had my card skimmed while I was overseas. Westpac reversed all the transactions and sent me a new card.
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
You are correct! To answer your question, writing a NUL char to stdout is no problem. Some utilities can actually use it as a delimiter since it’s so uncommon. I think most shells would just print nothing on the screen.
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
Have fun in your HTTP 1.1 world.
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
You can multiply 1/3 by 3 and not get 1.
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by AlEinstein 6y ago
Did you even read the article? I’ve been wanting something like this for a while. It’s a solid engineering decision that needs good marketing to make sure people understand that it’s good for battery life.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Is this cache friendly on a modern cpu? On the face of it, it seems to be quite cache unfriendly.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Hmmm... design fashions change over time and are also affected by technological limitations. I’m the beginning we had text only terminals. Font designs were about it. Business machines stayed that way for quite a while. 8 bit machines came
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
What proportion of machines running web assembly are stack-based, would you say? I would guess negligible.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Wow that paragraph is like the poster child for the logical fallacy called “appeal to tradition”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
“difficulty, struggle and suffering are inherently worthwhile, more authentic and character-building” Is there any research on this topic or is this just your opinion?
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. It’s a fair question to ask. “Why can’t I buy” is essentially equivalent to “why doesn’t anyone sell”, which is basically “why isn’t there a market for?” It’s possible to have a conversation around
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
And assaulting women at conventions is cool and normal because it’s what Asimov did, right?
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
This article apparently goes from “most reals are non-algebraic and therefore contain an infinite amount of information” to “so if I use reals to describe a physical system then my mathematical model is infinite even if my physical system i
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Just a tip: you’ve used the word “whom” incorrectly here. You can just use the word “who” and you’ll always be correct.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Well it might use category theory and be buzzword compliant but the code you’ve written wouldn’t pass code review at my work. This code converts numeric data to a string and back to numeric data.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
"Everyone agrees that we should try to avoid extinction" Perhaps I'm an outlier here but I don't see why we should do anything in particular to ensure the survival of humanity.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Would it though?
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Because Perelman. I mean he wrote Perelman’s name so he must be onto something.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
The source code for the game, rather than the game itself.
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
Are you saying that you personally have zero quantum computers or that nobody has more than zero quantum computers?
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by AlEinstein 7y ago
“no Touch Bar” is listed as a con. I consider physical keys to be a pro.

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