anthony_r

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by anthony_r 4y ago
we're lucky that this happens at 360 Kelvin and not at 200 Kelvin or even lower.
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by anthony_r 4y ago
I do not know what your point is. But there are lots of cases where people fly cheap commercial drones around an airport, and that is completely unacceptable. It could easily result in a criminal charge and even prison time.
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by anthony_r 4y ago
Lol, indeed. Imagine that you have to explain to drone pilots that even a very small drone is completely unacceptable in an airport vicinity. Yes, your 0.5kg drone can seriously damage the compressor of an engine!
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by anthony_r 4y ago
> Which is rather likely, because why else would big tech companies push this if it didn't benefit them in some way? They switched to this internally a long time ago which basically eliminated phishing attacks against employees. The
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by anthony_r 4y ago
It's literally the opposite. You "must" have a cryptographic device (a dongle) that is only doing that one thing, authentication. Doesn't have a built in radio (unless for NFC, if you want it), doesn't have any micr
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by anthony_r 5y ago
FWIW: the gas price is about the same in Germany, which has a median yearly income of about $45k.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
LPG powered SUVs are the future.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Yup. Converted to gallons and the US dollar in Switzerland you have to pay $9.35 for gas (CHF2.3 per liter). Yet there's no shortage of cars on the highways here.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Have you seen what happened in the finance world with respect to Russia recently? Feels to me like it is perfectly possible with the right Zeitgeist. Pretty much all the on/off ramps for Russian money are gone at the moment.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
This. I don't understand how more people are not catching up to this simple fact that central bank "digital currencies" are nothing more than a by-pass of distributed private banking (brick and mortar + online banks). It&#x27
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by anthony_r 5y ago
And, so what?
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Half-joking, but yeah. "Managing the board of directors" of course means keeping the board happy, which is done by what ansible wrote. Not just directly trying to talk them out of firing the CEO.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
The main job of the CEO is to manage the board of directors (i.e. the shareholders). And the main job of the board of directors is to decide when to fire the CEO.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
This is exactly what YouTube does already. In fact I see no reason why Twitter couldn't spill ad money to the content (tweet) creators within the next year or two, creating a similar ecosystem. Maybe the value attributable to individua
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Because arithmetic is completely solved and boring, duh. There was a time when it was at least a little bit interesting, and many mathematicians were actually quite good at it.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
<chuckles nervously as a software developer>
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by anthony_r 5y ago
> I'm talking about having a compiler which could produce more optimal code in any given case, or most given cases Funny coincidence, that's exactly what the vast majority of compiler code is for, with tens (or hundreds) of tho
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Yeah you could optimize GCC to work really well for those problems, there's a great ROI for the "write something trivial really quickly into /dev/null" class of problems. Let us know how this goes if you embark on t
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by anthony_r 5y ago
You can create an operating system that just displays a static image within milliseconds yourself (shouldn't take you more than a few weeks), it would work even when compiled at -O0.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
This is a very specific problem that lends itself to some fantastically cpu-friendly optimizations. Doing a single hash-map lookup here on the hot path would kill performance, and let's not even get started on any serious I/O (dis
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by anthony_r 5y ago
And the distance between the two, specifically formula - x/(x+y+1): https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot++-x+%2F%28x+%2B+y...
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by anthony_r 5y ago
This is cool. But what I usually do is replace x/y with x/(y+5), and hope for the best :). The 5 can be replaced by 3 or 50, depending on what I'm dealing with. (in less important areas than sorting things by ratings to direc
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Indeed. People do not realize just how advanced the reliability infrastructure of those services is. Things like diesel power generators have been baked into cloud datacenters for what, a decade now? Probably longer. Show me your alternativ
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Yeah, that's what I don't get: if you're going to invest effort and energy into reversing the oxidation of some element, why not choose carbon and decompose CO2? It will require non trivial amounts of energy either way.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
FYI, normal TIPS have the fixed rate well below zero (which makes the total yield add up to close to where the fixed rates bonds trade at, around 1-2%). These retail instruments are kind of no brainers if their fixed rate is artificially no
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by anthony_r 5y ago
> As an expert on the Chinese real estate market (I first heard of Evergrande 3 days ago), I can tell you the situation is very bad. https://twitter.com/Cokedupoptions/status/143980011582110105...
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by anthony_r 5y ago
Win % is a really useless metric in this business, try computing win % for something like long vol strategies (for example things like what Taleb did back in the day), it might come out to 5% or lower and still make money. And because every
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by anthony_r 5y ago
I would classify it under "art" rather than "shitpost", but yeah.
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by anthony_r 5y ago
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. https://www.wyliecomm.com/2016/08/quotes-on-list-writing/ https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/about-lists
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by anthony_r 5y ago
So what? Most, or at least a lot of, Web documents are pretty much static, but they don't load nearly as fast. (static, except for the tracking scripts and ads :))

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