floober

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by floober 4y ago
> And yes, in finance, the correlations between asset classes shoot up toward 1 in periods of crisis (black swan event) . Hence, the research for tail-hedging strategies... Related to what you said here, I was surprised there wasn't
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by floober 4y ago
Efficiently? Maybe. Providing the same type trust and guarantees? Probably not. A public, append-only Merkle tree just has a lot of interesting properties and I think there are spaces where they are useful.
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by floober 4y ago
> So they set out to describe it as „an accident“ because „blameless post-mortems“ are something people really like? As someone who has operated bug bounty programs, understanding what processes might have prevented things from going off
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by floober 4y ago
This looks fantastic! I'm working on a desktop app and I've been struggling with the extensibility story in the back of my mind for a couple of weeks now. Thanks for building this! edit: For what it's worth, the use case and
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by floober 4y ago
> I can't find any motivation to write abstract algebra to build UI widgets This made me chuckle, because I am at this very moment trying to apply the "tagless final style" described here[0] to a custom GUI in a personal-
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by floober 4y ago
For me, I use the simple stuff (Semigroup, Monoid, Monads, Functors, ..) the most. Often times I'll be reasoning about a problem I'm working on in Haskell and realize it is a monad and I can reuse all of the existing monadic cont
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by floober 4y ago
I would imagine in the current climate the properties are operating at a profit, don't you?
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by floober 4y ago
What about incitement to violence?
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FTC seeks to hold Drizly CEO accountable for alleged security failures(cnbc.com)
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by floober 4y ago
Right? Also these companies probably hired a lot of folks during the pandemic, and also relaxed their performance criteria while everyone was adjusting to remote work... So this just sounds like some folks are being caught off guard by the
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by floober 4y ago
Why would a crime (especially one external to the university) be better handled by the university than the legal apparatus?
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by floober 4y ago
Agreed. If you're an individual who wants to work this hard, hopefully you can find a team of like-minded folks who will work hard with you and make sure that it is structured in a way that you all reap the benefits.
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by floober 4y ago
Flask is a multi-threaded server, so while only one thread can execute Python code at a time (due to the GIL), you still get concurrency with respect to IO. Not to say that e.g. FastAPI won't get you more RPS, but it may or may not be
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Arc Partners with Stripe to Offer Startups an A.I.-Powered Twist on Lending(forbes.com)
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by floober 4y ago
I definitely had some uncanny valley vibes watching it, but I think it might be a combination of the camera's perspective (distorting distances away from center) and the footage being sped up/slowed down.
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by floober 4y ago
I'd think it is something like a ratio of bitrate to entropy. How quickly is information being processed relative to how quickly it is being lost?
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by floober 5y ago
I think it is safe to assume that most/all (large) modern countries have paramilitary forces that are used to carefully tip the scales toward outcomes that are in their best interest in situations like these.
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by floober 5y ago
Uniformity, presumably
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by floober 5y ago
Presumably there would be a similar page in the Gitlab Handbook if they had findings
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by floober 5y ago
I'm not sure how meaningful it is to separate politics from religion at the the level of the individual person. Those two things are strongly interconnected and together constitute a large chunk of an individual's personal belief
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by floober 5y ago
In the physical world there are folks who design bridges, dams, buildings, telescopes, furniture, and a million other things. All of those have unique requirements and skill sets. In software, we also make a huge number of categorically di
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by floober 5y ago
> does any sort of protest outside the capitol = "coup attempt"? The rally was organized under the headline "Stop the Steal." It was very explicitly the intent to prevent the peaceful transition of power.
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by floober 5y ago
Note that this doesn't appear to have been submitted by the post's author, and HN may not have been the intended audience.
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by floober 5y ago
> It insists on having a chain of updates from a single user, which feels unnecessary to me and something that adds bloat and rigidity to the thing — each server/user needs to store all the chain of posts to be sure the new one is v
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by floober 5y ago
> 2. it's unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game Is that not the very purpose of legislation? Laws are not written in stone
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by floober 5y ago
I think the severity of this would very much depend on the permissions that would have to be granted to the extension in order for it to happen.
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by floober 5y ago
I don't have an Oculus or even Facebook, but I remember a decade ago that my older relatives were hostile toward the idea of Facebook and moving aspects of their daily lives online. That all changed very quickly and has been very prof
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by floober 5y ago
> Clear the wool from your eyes. The truth is far more complex and nuanced ... > Start with basic geography. California’s two largest rivers don’t flow to the Pacific Ocean — at least not directly. Oof, that certainly doesn't see
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by floober 5y ago
I agree that it doesn't improve things at the service interface level. What I have found is that I often have several internal libraries, and a monorepo ensures that I know if a change to my library breaks another service because they