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crb002··on Formality, a (proof)gramming language featuring optimal reductions
If you want faster adoption, have a repo that demonstrates solutions for 57 exercises: https://pragprog.com/book/bhwb/exercises-for-programmers
crb002··on Calcium could replace lithium in batteries that store solar and wind power
Sounds like a job for DE Shaw which has custom hardware for these molecular simulations.
crb002··on NSA Official: We Need to Prepare for the Future of War
DOD needs to harden common Linux ecosystem shotgun parsers with formal parsers.
crb002··on Sunsetting Python 2
Guessing some Python 2 users rebel and fork to provide security patches.
crb002··on Will the Long-Term Stock Exchange Make a Difference?
Maybe. Class A shares should be untradable for 5 years.
crb002··on New Google and Facebook Inquiries
They should sue under RICO. Smells of the Big Tobacco shakedown orchestrated by Iowa's dirty AG Thomas Miller.
crb002··on Jeffrey Epstein’s Donations Create a Schism at M.I.T.’s Media Lab
Sure the media lab can earmark the funds to human trafficking research. Got lemons? Make lemonade.
crb002··on Stripe Capital
If it is automated this could be amazing. A business is a machine for turning money into more money. Being able to hit the gas on demand is a good thing. Especially for SAAS that needs to do $10k of AWS crunching for a client with good credit not on retainer.
crb002··on A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble
I don't buy the liquidity argument. Their mere existence creates liquidity. Two sides to every trade. Index fund "sell offs" will likely go to buyers of the same index fund shares but at a lower price.

Apple alone has $50 billion in cash that will flow into Vanguard if index funds hit a 50% plunge. Same with Buffet. Index funds may be bubble priced, but they don't suffer from a liquidity issue.

crb002··on Slack plunges after posting first earnings report since going public
Haven't used slack for a while. Too spammy.
crb002··on The Internet Has a C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal with It
You can write shotgun parsers in any language. Don't write shotgun parsers.
crb002··on Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
Dating app with deep NN face generation to get the topology of what someone is attracted to. Get enough samples to generate a model for them so you can auto-rate photos.
crb002··on AWS EC2/RDS Outage in us-east-1
Curious. Lambda not effected. EC2 being physically tied to a box does introduce extra risk I hadn't thought of.
crb002··on Apple to Deprecate Scripting Languages in Future Versions of macOS
So they want to make it Windows? Going to get rid of AWK next? Not cool. Far too many things rely on them.

Good internally for Apple to stop relying on them.

crb002··on Bang Bros Bought a Porn Doxing Forum and Set Fire to It
Not understanding the GDP lawsuit. Who does adult film then gets upset at success? Seems like a back handed way to get to collect royalties. Good business for PH to pay top performers a reasonable share of ad revenue directly independent from their production company.
crb002··on How we reduced deployment times by 95%
Google "checkpoint restart". HPC community has had these tools for years, many in userspace. Can't wait to see a Java or C# shop doing the same hot boots.
crb002··on Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn
And the US uses DICE owned ClearanceJobs.com. So?
crb002··on Ask HN: Do you reuse components from your previous projects?
Religious copy paste
crb002··on Picking Rust for Web
- async IO - fast and safe parsing - JHipster style end to end code generation off a data model

My wish list. Been noodling at making a Python port of JHipster, swapping in Rust parsers.

All libraries need to make async IO a priority.

crb002··on Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
Angular/Spring simple app .Net Core simple app Kmett's Xuangi. Small Rust/Postgres app for benchmarking against my Django (likely swap over at some point).
crb002··on Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession
This is bad. Germany goes insolvent from malinvestment and we have a global deep recession on our hands. All their creditors will default because why not when there is a run on their banks?
crb002··on Google bans political discussion on internal mailing lists
How do you define "political"? Slippery slope.
crb002··on Does the Amazon provide 20% of our oxygen?
Guessing a lot is ocean based, and plants are more efficient at getting it with higher concentrations.
crb002··on Federal fraud indictment: KU professor secretly worked for Chinese university
I don't see the conflict as long as he did the work. Thinking he takes it to trial and wins.

Now Iowa State University ECpE, they have full on corrupt faculty working full time for their private company, showing just up for lectures to read out of the book. Their TA's do all grading. Their RA's must sign NDAs and take forever to graduate because he won't let them publish his "proprietary" stuff. That is fraud.

crb002··on San Francisco Bans Cashless Stores
So they install one self pay cash box? Not a big deal, and probably required for ADA. Not all seniors have access to electronic payment.
crb002··on Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming?
Dead end career "architects" going OO crazy with inheritance, factories, unessicary interfaces, ... instead of helping write more performance code or deleting code.
crb002··on A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
So Google wave was Slack before Slack??
crb002··on Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Run 20 Times Faster
Here is a link to the assembler instruction set for the PIMs. https://sdk.upmem.com/2019.2.0/200_AsmSyntax.html#assembly-i...
crb002··on Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Run 20 Times Faster
You have to obey speed of light latency, and that means putting compute in RAM right next to the data. Key is to have a reusable fabric so all the TSMC customers can pop their own chips in RAM, especially ASICS and micro-FPGAs.
crb002··on 15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
This is absurd populism. IMHO electoral college votes should come from US House district winners instead of winner takes all.
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