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by bfz 4y ago
Some more respectable commentators suggest the current environment is the start of a second tech bust, and although that seems sensational, it might be fair given current trends of shrinking credit, de-globalization, explosive inflation and
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by bfz 4y ago
I was thinking somewhere vaguely along the lines of easy credit as something like heroin addiction/withdrawal, that's where poison came from. I guess it is awkward
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by bfz 4y ago
It warms my heart to think I could still be graded on language use so late in life. How would you describe it?
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by bfz 4y ago
Worth recalling there are >5 rate hikes priced in for the remainder of the year, and that the problem with CloudFlare isn't just the speculation, but for their legitimate business, the credit fuelling many of their customers, which
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by bfz 4y ago
Seems that .70 floor might possibly have been due to some mechanics at Binance https://twitter.com/hasufl/status/1523817151471230976
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by bfz 4y ago
FWIW many of these yield generation products work by selling options under the hood.
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by bfz 4y ago
I think most of this comment can be answered by highlighting the difference between supposed "Internet friends" and "real friends". Over corona there have been a wide range of studies published on the negative effects vi
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by bfz 4y ago
Mostly Asia. I stopped for exactly the reason in the previous comment.. I realized that what initially seemed like a fun and academic idea about the people I was meeting absolutely did develop into a fundamental life choice, after the umpte
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by bfz 4y ago
Just for some context, I was nomadic for well over a decade and consider that time an extravagant extension of youth, and a needless stunting of my growth into adulthood in absolute terms. By my late 30s I see no reason to encourage nomadis
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by bfz 4y ago
I'm not sure I have the faculties to address what bothers me about this comment, but there is so much tied to traditional society the comment seems to ignore. - Voting districts - obviously tied to physical land, with different styles
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by bfz 4y ago
> It is a fundamental problem of a "graph". So why are we using it for so many naturally non-graph problems? 90%+ of developers' exposure to graphs is through tightly abstract interfaces, I could name maybe 3 graph-related
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by bfz 4y ago
I've yet to encounter a GraphQL off-the-shelf server (from Python and JS spaces) where hitting a slow query didn't immediately turn into half a day's work The whole concept is what happens when you let a smart person work on
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by bfz 4y ago
Perhaps it can also be renamed "SHP" (strict homepage processor) Why would anyone prefer a tool dead set on undoing their productive investments with each new release? Decisions like this are a massive red flag. It doesn't al
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by bfz 4y ago
Article makes a variety of already well understood points, but only briefly touches on the most interesting one (from my perspective): durability. If the thing you're integrating is an evolving, improving moving target, and it's c
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by bfz 4y ago
Can anyone offer a working link for a Javascript player wired up to a notable example? Weirdly inaccessible world. I found Slouching Towards Bedlam, but the site wants to run a Java applet
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by bfz 4y ago
cumulative count of posts having matching URL over time
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by bfz 4y ago
Graphical form: https://imgur.com/6rnFVsl
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by bfz 4y ago
The story according to Wikipedia is truly amazing, covering multiple acts of obsolescence, lost originals and technology failures, and societal issues (e.g. copyright) that seem actively conspiring to prevent this content surviving: > It
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by bfz 4y ago
Even where the ports are available, 25 Gbit from a single address is well into the realms of looking like attack traffic in a wide variety of scenarios. Past even 500 Mbit I'm way more interested in latency considerations than raw band
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by bfz 4y ago
Interest rate increases, selling reserves, RUB sales bans, demanding customers pay for energy in RUB, demanding local businesses sell non-RUB reserves, banning foreign sales of Russian assets The rate may look similar, but it is against a b
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by bfz 4y ago
> Are there people who believe Disney is somehow pro-LGBT? They're a corporation: they're anti-LGBT and pro-money; the only time they seem to be pro-LGBT is when they think there is a monetary advantage to seem that way. Worth
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by bfz 4y ago
Intro page could do with some liberal screenshots.. it took 4 clicks into the manual to see references to some kind of UI, before which I wasn't sure whether or not this was just some backend thing. These projects are a dime a dozen, a
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by bfz 4y ago
> They have symmetric gigabit fibre in all of the villages, for €20 a month. I often wonder at observations like this whether it's the result of massive subsidies or massive over-subscription of the infrastructure. How is actual ban
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by bfz 4y ago
I may be mistaken, but I believe he can achieve $21bn in short exposure to Tesla through swaps and never have to report the "sale" publicly
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by bfz 4y ago
You can frame-by-frame on YT by pressing '.', but yes, still an amazing catch by parent
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by bfz 4y ago
apt-get install linux-tools perf record -g myapp perf report Play with the output for a few weeks. "Why is this slow?" is a never-ending question leading down infinite corridors and weird specialist tools. Cachegrind and VTune are
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by bfz 4y ago
While this is true, please don't let it overshadow the tremendous work (possibly even the bulk of it by now) by subsequent maintainers. In the ffmpeg case that involved fighting a well-resourced hostile fork over a period of years, in
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by bfz 4y ago
Travis is the creator of NumPy.
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by bfz 4y ago
Amazing story :) Though I am left wondering if there are ever any circumstances where minorities don't get used as leverage somehow
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by bfz 4y ago
It's possible to build a speed test site out of media file fetches from otherwise public assets from third party sites, the quality of the measurement will just be a little noisier. In many ways this would actually be a better test tha

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