teambayleaf

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by teambayleaf 6y ago
It's disappointing to read this thread. Even tptacek, a prominent speaker on Hacker News, exhibits bizarre ignorance regarding this topic. Generally speaking, it seems to me that much sloppy thinking in the current debate involves the
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
> What's the source of this idea that "abstraction" means "combining duplicated code"? It's coming from the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon's Empiricism. Some people believe that abstract ideas are mostl
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
A really cool frontend for OSM is https://mapscii.me . You can try it out via: $ telnet mapscii.me (Use arrow keys to move, and a/z to zoom in/zoom out) I was totally blown away when I first connected to it.
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
Right. And IIRC Arthur Andersen and Accenture had been kinda hostile to each other for a long time. It was funny because they seemed pretty much like brother companies from outside eyes. The trouble was that AA kept trying to invade the tur
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
Right. The original fork name was "GitHon" because hon == book in Japanese. The author recently renamed "GitHon" to "HonKit" due to Git being protected by U.S. trademark law.
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
Japan's "B5" originated from the official paper size in Edo-Tokugawa era. So it has quite a bit of history, and IMO it's handier than ISO papers. A fun fact is that "letter" size is pretty much hated in Asian
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
The major advantage of u2f is phishing resistance. If you always use u2f for auth, you can be sure that you are not fooled by fake login pages. It ain't just matter whether secondary otp is available. (it's just a backup for when
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
Except those buying HTZ are not quite "buy and hold" people? I assume most of them are just doing gambling. They are fully aware that HTZ is going to be worthless in near future, but they buy the share anyway because they believe
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
OP is not an empirical study, but model-based one. The paper first assumes that facial mask prevents individuals from spreading covid-19, then tries to estimate how it is effective at lowering the mass reproduction number. So this paper p
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
I think the lesson here is "don't be a commodity"? In this light, PHP coders are real commodities. They are paid lowly, treated as expendable, and get no respect by peers. I think they're going down the same path of &quo
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
It's not dead, but just stunned.
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
Are you suggesting that they should instead say "Hey George, we sincerely feel bad for you, but we can't help but let the mob burn down your house, because, you know, we're at a BBQ party weekend. Also your career is entirely
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
The discussion was originating from this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/28/78 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/28/1237 Although you're right that his comment ma
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
> Having debt in your capital structure indefinitely is a perfectly fine decision to make. We're hearing this argument a lot recently, but aren't we past that already in 1980s? As I recall, it was somewhat popular among compani
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
I'm always surprised that Java is actually younger than Python, and is as old as Ruby. Hell even JavaScript is just 9 months younger than Java (both born in 1995).
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
http://www.textfiles.com/food/recipe.002 This french soup recipe is a gem. I didn't know that I could use "3/4 cup of COCA COLA" to make onion soup.
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
> 2) take frequent backups My argument is that people really should use POP3 (not IMAP) for this reason. POP3 by design creates a continuous local "backup" that contains the entire history. IMAP doesn't.
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
Also 1968 Flu pandemic killed 1 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu Different perspective. AIDS was (and still is) definitely much much scarier infection than COVID-19, but yet it did not fund
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by teambayleaf 6y ago
Also due to its bulkiness, there is a limit on how many units can be delivered per truck. In short, toilet paper is a low margin, least-stocked product with difficulty in transportation. Logistics matters.
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
Does anyone remember "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree Jr? Listen Zombie, believe me. It was a real cyberpunk novel in 1970s.
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
The total return (including dividend payments) of Nikkei 225 between 1989-2019 is around -20%. I don't know any handy English source for it, but I can tell you that this is the correct number. Note: It's called "Nikkei 225 t
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
Shiller P/E ratio is 24.2 today, which is ... slightly below the level of 2006 before the last recession started (25.6 in 2006.3). Frankly I won't be surprised even if S&P loses more than 30% from the current price. It is simp
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
The Japanese response was not so bad when viewed in hindsight. In comparison, Korea's response was disastrously wrong. Their "Let's test everyone" policy sent lots of people into medical limbo ("We can’t let you go
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
The mortality rate of COVID-19 is estimated to be around ~0.1% for young people, which is five times higher than seasonal flu. > the risk of death among young adults would be smaller than that of older adults, e.g., at most 0.1%–0.2%. W
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
I second this. My experience with many core machines (32-64 cores) is kinda dissappointing so far. Yes, running "make -j" on these machines feel amazing at first, but you will soon either 1) run out of memory, or 2) notice that yo
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
You are right in a narrow sense. Yes, you can construct a situation that makes "betting 99.99% of my wealth" profitable. But: * You're assuming the winning probability p does not decrease as the odds Y goes up. This is a si
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
> Yes, maximizing the log implies you shouldn't bet everything. But you should still bet 99.99%, if the odds are a googol to 1. Not quite. If the odds are infinitely favorable, the log wealth is maximized when you bet 0.1% of your w
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
> The link says it's trying to maximize log wealth Yes it is maximizing log wealth. Think this way: If you give all of your fortune to the mugger, your capital will end up being 1) 0 livres(99.9%) or 2) 20000 livres (0.1%). So the e
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
> If you're trying to maximize log wealth, someone promising an insane amount of wealth for a trivial investment is a positive value for log wealth. Nah it does not work in such way. Mathematically speaking, even if the mugger can p
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by teambayleaf 7y ago
> Kelly criterion doesn't work. Your link says it maximizes log wealth. If potential wealth is unbounded, you will still take bets that are positive E(log utility). Actually Kelly criterion works well, since it would limit your expo

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