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Tired of chaos, investors retreat from oil market at record pace(reuters.com)
4 points by mriet 3mo ago|2 comments
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by mriet 3mo ago
"Former Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeffrey Currie said this week the real reason the oil price had not returned meaningfully above $100 a barrel in the past few weeks was not a sign of supply - which has been severely constricted
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by mriet 4mo ago
Their business model is to allow as many possible "valid" transactions, not to serve their "clients". They're a PSP...
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by mriet 4mo ago
Realistically, without data from a large testset that compares this thoroughly to Samtools (and others?), I wouldn't touch this. Note to the OP: specify a focus please? short, long, mega-long read and bacterial, human, small plant or l
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by mriet 4mo ago
And yet, Escape from Tarkov is not on Steam, which would seem 5o contradict what you're saying.
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by mriet 6mo ago
Wait. You built a new language, that there's thus no training data for. Who the hell is going to use it then? You certainly won't, because you're dependent on AI.
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by mriet 6mo ago
I would argue that craftsmanship includes a thorough understanding and cognitive model of the code. And, as far as I understand it, these agents are syntactic wonders but can not really understand anything. Which would preclude any sort of
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by mriet 7mo ago
So, I respect the entrepeneurship and technical skills to make this. Well done! That being said, this is insane. Maintaining your social network is a skill, just like being able to swim, doing math, being able to hold a good conversation, b
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by mriet 7mo ago
Lots of mayo.. and butter. It's more like a butterich, realistically. ;)
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by mriet 8mo ago
I'm already having flashbacks of how the tobacco industry faired..
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by mriet 8mo ago
Think about moving. Job markets are vastly different geographically and have been for some time.
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by mriet 9mo ago
It's kind of weird that Romania has done so well, given that amount of turmoil in Romanian politics and Romania in general in the last 20 years. Basically, it went up for Romania because they got access to the EU market (in terms of bo
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by mriet 1y ago
Idiotic and massively overlooks/underestimates how complex biology is. What about beneficial and neutral but important bacteria and viruses? "Air" is actually a complex soup of all types of things. This like applying HCl to a
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by mriet 1y ago
Take theater classes. Or join a (team) sports club. Both teach you skills that you most likely will not acquire elsewhere and that are directly applicable to interviews. Also, having been on both sides, I can tell you that hiring is just a
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by mriet 1y ago
I can understand this for "small" data, say less than 10 Mb. In bioinformatics, basically all of the file formats are human-readable/text based. And file sizes range between 1-2Mb and 1 Tb. I regularly encounter 300-600 Gb fi
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by mriet 1y ago
Further down in the discussion, he also adds this comment, which is also good: https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/issues/229#issuecomment-6...
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by mriet 1y ago
This comment on github, by Yann Collet (of zstd fame), is the most enlightening, practical information about the practical uses of hashes and checksums that I've seen about hash collisions. I highely, highly recommend it: https:/
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by mriet 2y ago
See "Debt, the first 5000 years" by Graeber. Debt exists because of (the threat of) violence. Money exists because of debt (.. is in fact debt). Modern society is based on our monetary system.
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by mriet 2y ago
I worked as an open source developer (remote) between 2011 and 2016. At the end, my social skills were deteriorating (despite a reasonable social life and hobbies) and I was less motivated, disciplined and less productive. I now work at a c
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by mriet 2y ago
Agree fully with recruiters being BS. Google keyword alerts/searches and/or word of mouth, although the latter is less trustworthy. Search , goshdarnit! Have also randomly contacted a few people in my LinkedIn network for advice
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by mriet 2y ago
Spent basically 19 years doing enterprise software dev for your typical slew of companies: logistics, banking, fintech, retail, etc. After a particularly unpleasant startup experience, decided that 1) recruiters are BS and 2) I wanted to wo
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by mriet 2y ago
At some point, hopefully we'll also figure out how to get AI to catch itself when it makes bugs. This will also be an important skill. Or otherwise to recognize what type of bugs the AI will make -- like the way you know what type of b
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by mriet 2y ago
I think there's a good chance of there being some really bad bugs/system failures in about 25 years because of this. "AI can do code" -> less experienced engineers -> no one has deep understanding of the whole syst
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by mriet 3y ago
Wow. The reviewer/writer manages to completely miss some of Graeber's key points. The reviewer writes "That some questions about inequality are obscure or ill-framed does not indicate that inequality of wealth is not a fundam
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by mriet 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. Thank you for saying this.
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by mriet 3y ago
This duplicates research that is at least 20 years old. Also, depressed people (and people with similar mental conditions) resist sleep also partially because being tired means that you feel less, and thus are relieved from the pain you fee
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by mriet 3y ago
Exactly! Ironically, dvc doesn't really scale well and is limited to small-ish files.
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by mriet 3y ago
Wonder if he tried zstd --long=31 Or, given that he's basically mentions FCM/PPM, zpaq.
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by mriet 3y ago
Sounds like it's related to Graeber's book, "Debt, The First 5000 Years".
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by mriet 3y ago
https://www.adyen.com/blog/updating-a-50-terabyte-postgresql... And that was in _2018_. I wonder how big it is now.

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