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by maksimum 2y ago
This is good nuance to add to the conversation, thanks. I think in most cases you have to trust some group of parties. As an individual you likely don't have enough time and expertise to fully validate everything that runs on your hard
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by maksimum 5y ago
A reference (that lays out the statistical arguments) is "Common Sense on Mutual Funds" by John Bogle.
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by maksimum 5y ago
What would you rather have for the next 5 years? Why?
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by maksimum 7y ago
Many reasons. Time value of money, competition, maybe even regulation.
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by maksimum 7y ago
Compared to __slots__ (also Python 3.7.4) Using your definition of class X %timeit x.w() 313 ns ± 18.3 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each) Add __slots__ class X: __slots__ = ('a') def
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by maksimum 7y ago
> The condition is, though, that I need to be able to quickly run the program to validate just all of it to work. That's a condition for all TDD. > I know there's testing frameworks, although it seems more of an eclectic mes
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by maksimum 7y ago
TIL... Thanks for highlighting this.
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by maksimum 7y ago
> We've lost this battle. I think you could look at the battle/war from a different perspectives, and come up with different conclusions. In the mainstream (whatever that is?) it appears that convenience wins. And hardware&#x2F
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by maksimum 7y ago
Wow, that's super unlikely. How many commits did the repo have? According to [1] using 3 letters you'd need at least 72 commits to have at least 50% chance to observe a clash. Using 6 letters you'd need at least 3977 commits,
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by maksimum 7y ago
> It works in conjunction with the command line Do you know of git GUIs that explicitly maintain a bijection between the GUI and the underlying command history? It'd be cool to use the GUI and see the command history, or use the CLI
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by maksimum 7y ago
> I don't interpret this as charging different customers different prices per se. Based on my experience Lyft and Uber charge different prices to different customers with identical trips. I've tested this by asking friends with
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by maksimum 7y ago
> more precisely predict what riders might be willing to pay for a ride It's weird to me that this sort of price discrimination is legal. E.g. given this information, my incentive as a rider is to never tip (so that their algorithm
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by maksimum 7y ago
Docker + setuptools/pip + python is great for development and production. Docker is definitely worth learning, and is pretty easy to learn.
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by maksimum 7y ago
It seems like long builds are either (a) necessary or (b) user error. (a) If you have a tree of dependencies and you change the root, you should rebuild everything that depends on it to make sure it's still compatible. (b) if you place
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by maksimum 7y ago
I think contemporary best practices start with the production environment and work backwards towards creating a development environment as close to the production environment as possible. These days, most productions environments are effect
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by maksimum 7y ago
That does sound convenient. I wonder if the virtualenv aspect is relevant though, i.e. do people really deploy npm apps outside of a container/isolation layer? I imagine if you're deploying docker, you probably should be developin
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by maksimum 7y ago
> It’s not really clear how to best use containers to protect your privacy Do you think private browsing sessions are also unclear/have unintuitive UX? It seems like firefox containers are just private browsing sessions that you can
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by maksimum 7y ago
As a python programmer I would have no idea what `valid_P` is supposed to mean. Valid Pascals?
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by maksimum 7y ago
Yes, async/await. https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#awaitabl...
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by maksimum 7y ago
Whenever I hear people talk about picking up journaling I come away a little annoyed. They publicly describe a habit that they claim is useful. To me that implies that they're suggesting others invest time into the habit. But I've
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by maksimum 7y ago
Took me about 3 weeks to get to proficient and a month or two to be fluent. Mainly playing on a dvorak typing tutor website while watching TV.
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by maksimum 7y ago
There were a bunch of (online) games without a well-defined end popular in the late 90s/early 00s too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Brood_Wa
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by maksimum 7y ago
Have you been tipping on your AWS bill? Or the package delivery workers? (What does Amazon have to do with this?)
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by maksimum 7y ago
A similar neat O(log(n)) solution https://kukuruku.co/post/the-nth-fibonacci-number-in-olog-n/
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by maksimum 7y ago
Did you vet your question and its phrasing with your co-workers? What did they say?
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by maksimum 7y ago
For what purpose?
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by maksimum 7y ago
Interesting topic. :) This is mainly relevant if your data is used for training. It seems like you'd want to use a log-based system like kafka to manage versioning and state in this case. I imagine you could: 1. Store incoming training
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by maksimum 7y ago
> Containers are meant to be stateless infrastructure. By downloading something at startup, you're breaking that contract implicitly. I feel that mounting a NFS partition is a similar break of contract. I.e. you could see the same i
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by maksimum 7y ago
> platform providers that primarily monetize through advertising should be in their own category: as I noted above, because these platform providers separate monetization from content supply and consumption, there is no price or payment
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by maksimum 7y ago
Facebook (and Google and others) can easily identify themes in natural language both written and spoken. They're really good at those problems because they're used as inputs for ad sales. Identifying themes in video is harder than

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