triangleman

Reddit deleted the_donald? WTF?

When did Apple stop making the "trash can" style Mac Pros? This link is surprising to me.

I believe it's not radical at all compared to the Perl 6 idea. It's basically "strict Perl 5" if I'm reading it right.

If Larry had said from the start "Let's make a new language and call it Raku" we would have had Perl 6 long ago, it would have been called Perl Enterprise Edition in the business world, and you'd never have heard of Python or PHP because everyone would be using Perl. Oh well, better late than never.

I'm working through the Llama book, seems like a fun alternative to Python.

That's so cool. Has anyone made a JSON-parsing chip, because I could see that being useful in today's servers.

But, but, the irony! https://qr.ae/pNKM3k

So how do you get a web server to take advantage of a hardware gzip accelerator? Is there like a custom nginx plugin that points to a custom driver? Seems very cool and I've never heard of something like this.

The distinction between app and web is blurred and I don't think it's easy to make this distinction.

Can anyone explain why some apps are mobile only, like the Shop app? I have not tried it yet as a result. Also, does Apple take a cut of those sales?

The irony runs deep in this case. The examples you point out are good ones for the term in common use through the end of 2016. Then this happened:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/hillary-clinton-fake...

December 2016 Hillary Clinton decides to use the term in reference to recent events like her losing the election. The media picks up on it and the term starts to lose its meaning. Then Donald Trump, always with a nose for catch phrase politics, picks up the term and runs with it, a turn of events that someone on HN called a huge "own goal" by the media, and I can't say I disagree with that assessment.

For more analysis of this cultural specimen:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320

This guy is trying to emulate x86 in the browser and run the actual Flash player within that:

https://medium.com/leaningtech/running-flash-in-webassembly-...

Nah, light trucks are in a whole other category (or exempt, I don't know) in "CAFE" standards, so that's why you see so many SUV's in America.

Nurses too. But it's a bit more of a nuanced problem. The nursing exam in the U.S. is called the NCLEX. American nursing school grads pass this test at a rate of 90%. International candidates pass at a rate of 36%. Are the international nurses that bad? No, they are not acclimated to the cultural milieu that is unwritten in every question (including English vocabulary of course).

Actually yes, now that I looked at dang's link to the same post discussed previously on HN, that's exactly what they were doing: determining dorm/hall based on IP address and other stuff.

So my comment was dead wrong. I'm sorry for assuming that facebook ever regarded its users as anything other than "dumb fucks" that they could track as they please.

I'm assuming that all of those targeting factors match up to the user-provided info in their profile. So for instance "house/dormitory" was probably a profile field back in 2004.

Kind of reminds me of how Google started selling ads, just buy a keyword, that's it. And the CPM was determined by bidding (though I'm not sure how you make that fair)

I have an iPad 2 which I jailbroke and downgraded to iOS 6.1.3, and I think with some work I can get it to do whatever I want... Install programs remotely over ssh? I sure hope so.

She also created LED signs that cycled through these phrases.

Also for a more artistic rendition on the web:

https://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html

Even with source, it's still a big undertaking to convert to .NET Core but efdee is right, it's just postponing the inevitable. I'm sure we will go to .NET 5 soon enough.

Right but converting a big application to .NET Core is hard. Is this project not sort of an emulator to allow a legacy .NET Windows app to run on .NET Core? I had better read TFA better.

The big question, for me at least, is can this be used to containerize a .NET application without having to package a full Windows OS into the container?

"That's with a B"

https://youtu.be/CB-hJUtYhxQ?t=608

"don't be evil" - there's a difference.

Sorry can you explain? Do you mean installing a VoIP app on your phone?

No, I think it's fair to say that if someone dies for whatever reason and they test positive for COVID-19 then their death should be included in the official total.

You have got to be kidding.

https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/

Your average gun costs like $500 too.

From what I have read the Italians have repurposed all kinds of doctors to be able to treat Covid patients as best they can with all available equipment. So I don't think it's too far out to say that in New York and other places you will see doctors stepping up and learning on the job in order to treat this disease. You will also see doctors coming into New York from other places to help.

Not only that but per the article:

"In televised remarks Monday, Newsom said the state will lease beds in struggling hospitals around the state and is eyeing convention centers, motels and state university dormitories for use as hospital wards. One such lease, in Daly City, may cost the state as much as $3.2 million a month for 177 beds."

Making small investments for the future is what economics is all about.

Hoping to see Czech Republic's actions bear fruit in the next few days: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1242894406031757313

A shrimp vendor at the Wuhan seafood market reported symptoms starting Dec. 10, so unless someone finds earlier cases elsewhere, I think that's as good a place as any to call the starting point.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/cor...

This is just an uneducated hypothesis, but maybe the implied risk adjusted discount rate of cash flows is actually quite high?

For instance, assume that investors don't really care about cash flows beyond 10 years. After all our government puts out 10 year budgets. It seems a reasonable assumption.

So in that case, if you run the numbers you will find that the discount rate has to be about 20% annually in order for the 10th year earnings to be worth 10% what they are today:

80%^10 = 10.73%

At that rate, the first 3 years of earnings represent 54% of the value, and the first 2 years are 40% of the value.

All of this ignores the book value of a company, but often these days companies are funded by debt, so equity investors may not even be expecting to pick up the scraps of a bankrupted company.

Finally, stocks themselves may have been at an unfortunate peak, right at the time of this correction. So they also have to correct whatever amount they were overvalued by in the first place.