TimMurnaghan

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by TimMurnaghan 16d ago
Nitpick or two. Holborn in London was a little earlier. Also neither was really a grid. That took another ~45 years. Maybe that's better for your argument - but I'm not quite sure that the analogy fully holds - as it's a diff
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by TimMurnaghan 1y ago
Interactive brokers is real
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by TimMurnaghan 2y ago
> Fourth you must bet big. No. You must bet right - and it depends on how right you are. Look up the Kelly criterion. Bet 1 - 2*probablity of losing of your current pot - will maximize expected return (but is a bit volatile for some tas
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by TimMurnaghan 2y ago
The only source for the "I refuse to see a pimp in the mirror in the morning when I shave." quote that I can find is Drucker hmself. The German Ambassador didn't resign in 1906. Maybe it was a deputy or a different country, o
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by TimMurnaghan 2y ago
They're a (quite sour) eating apple. Bramleys are better cookers.
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by TimMurnaghan 2y ago
Nice try to bring in some EU bashing. But Switzerland isn't a part of it.
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by TimMurnaghan 4y ago
Obligatory counterexample, comedies. A quickfire screwball classic like "His Girl Friday" has lots of smart lines per minute where recent Hollywood ones will have two jokes in 90mins that they've had to put into the trailer,
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by TimMurnaghan 4y ago
It's not so much the language as the horrible layout - with all the navigation at the left leaving the text so small. The reported lower vitamin D levels in more severe RA are more likely to be consequence than cause. Our data do not s
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
Vaguely competent financial management is by no means assured. I suggest reading Tim Geithner's "Stress Test" to to see how hard he had to fight to get some basic things done.
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
Agreed if you're making a web page. However there are lots of us writing applications which are delivered by browser. With that lens you're completely wrong. Then I do want to send json from the backend and have lots of behaviour
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
No. Every golang stdlib proxy I've tried to use is a toy. They very inefficiently copy the message body and the memory behaviour is just horrible. Try posting a 10MB message. (That's actually not a lot for modern technology) and i
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
Nice try millenials. But the boomers grew up in times of lower car ownership and general road traffic - so while there was leaded petrol - the exposure to lead wasn't necessarilly so high. What do we call the generation of around 1980?
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
Nice to see some love for wavelets. They're great for many more things. Robust volatility measurement, galerkin methods for numerical solutions to differential equations in finance. Just please don't use a Haar wavelet for anythin
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
I'd really like some kind of architecture picture describing what runs where. Regardless of whether it's promoting the cloud service why would I want that to run a rPi service? A picture might explain that.
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
Not very like gravity. They explicitly say "outperforms gravity models". Also the economic concentration laws behind this would often follow power laws - so maybe the inverse square is just a 2nd order approximation rather than a
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
Bit of a leap of logic there. Using proprietary cloud services is the decision that causes lock-in, not the tool you use for managing it. Terraform and Pulumi do a resonable job of making similar APIs for the variations of cloud providers -
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
I never got to the article as I gave up after 25 "no" clicks on the cookie form. (I know I could block better - but sometimes I like to see the state of the bad ui design). Websites like Forbes and The Condé Nast ones don't e
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by TimMurnaghan 5y ago
Houses in Cornwall need Radon surveys. https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment/environmental-protec...
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
This isn't Citibanks UI design. This is about Oracle's core banking software Flexcube. It's way deeper than UI. The loan entity didn't support the update they needed to make so they tried delete and re-create - which inv
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
In the end this could work out well. People go where the stuff that they want is. I occasionally dust off an old twitter account when I want to reach an org which is otherwise hiding any means of human contact. So if scihub does manage to m
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
Not seeing it on my watch. Just a fairly uninteresting solar graph. Maybe it's not available on my watch - but shows a real problem in modern UI design. The "shadowban" school of UI. The problem with that is discoverability.
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
Next year they're planning to hold the conference in Scunthorpe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem It's 25 years since that problem was identified and people are still using dumb block lists, yo
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
"Nature will castigate those who don't masticate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
Shame that there isn't a review in this rambling incoherent article. Academic writing at its worst. Wonder what grade it'd have got if turned in by a student.
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
Does this give a better space saving than a gyrator? https://www.sites.google.com/site/roelarits/home/gyrator
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
That's true - but where do you put the function? In a complex system I can end up with loads of these totalling functions scattered about. I might have gross and net versions of the total and, given human nature, they get created near
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by TimMurnaghan 6y ago
I'd also position this as being up against openshift which is in the managed k8s/hybrid cloud space. Hybrid cloud is definitely a thing as you scale up. For a big enterprise with a significant base load you're paying 5-8 time
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
By Betteridege's Law - no of course not. For a slightly better answer we need physicists rather than philosphers - and need to consider at what scale the quantum measures work - and what scale they're observing at.
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
From TFA "... it brings Python on par with PHP" Faint praise indeed
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by TimMurnaghan 7y ago
Thunks can be an anti-pattern. They encourage multiple dispatches to redux which can leave people designing "set data" style reducers rather than more meaningful ones. Parent comment suggests sagas and that's much better. An

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