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by svetb 1y ago
Not OP, but we have contractors in Nigeria, and paying them via regular bank transfer is nearly impossible. For example many banks will outright refuse to make SWIFT transactions to Nigerian accounts. This is just one example of a few facto
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by svetb 3y ago
Europe “missed the Internet” (and the US didn’t) because of various underlying factors - smaller/more fragmented markets, a more muted entrepreneurial culture, shallower pools of capital, etc. I don’t think the fact that Google, Amazon
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by svetb 3y ago
The absolute value of a complex number is defined in a different way than that of a real number. For complex number z it is sqrt(Re(z)^2 + Im(z)^2). GP’s examples are correct, I don’t think there’s any ambiguity there. https://en
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by svetb 3y ago
Am not the author of that comment, but the fact that comes to mind is that aluminum is used for virtually all transmission and distribution lines - for price reasons - even though copper has better conductivity. If we did discover a room-te
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by svetb 4y ago
> WireGuard supports TCP and UDP directly, which allows securing MQTT or AMQP directly without adding an extra layer of HTTP/QUIC. MQTT over TLS is pretty standard, and supported out of the box by virtually all clients/brokers.
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by svetb 4y ago
Mypy can work really well in many cases, but we seem to get bitten by bugs on a daily/weekly basis. There are >1,000 currently open on Github [0], so it doesn't take much effort to hit one. And having the type-checker tell you
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by svetb 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer, this seems really neat! Although from what I can tell it primarily provides a data interface geared towards relational databases (or other record-oriented data sources). I played around a little and am missing actual