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> I can get this access in under 5 seconds by opting into the desired exchange privileges under EXC or most likely just pinging my Bloomberg rep Because there is a marketplace. If …

Exactly: features will be coming. It just takes time for free software to match commercial offering at first, but eventually it surpasses them (too many example to list) for 90% of…

> and desirable. evidence required.

> What's wrong with boring, especially if you have a family? You are waiting for death. That is the only thing wrong.

So when threatened to have their source of funding cut (as most people wouldn't be able to pay out of pocket), a union of professionals attacked the moved as dangerous/cost cutting…

> Some compression algorithms support checkpointing the compression state so that it can be resumed from that point repeatedly ("dictionary-based compression" Is it some kind of me…

Very interesting, thank you! Do you have a tutorial and some examples? If not, could you write one? I sometimes deploy perl code at large scale for financial computing where only p…

> There are quite a few problems with that in the case of medical records. Only if you have a paternalistic view > Some of this information may be urgently needed at a time when th…

> What is she going to accomplish? Make money and make others follow her lead? And that would be great, right? She inspired me and other in her boldness > Maybe she is. I see no gr…

> However unimportant you may consider Simone Biles, the fact still remains that she's accomplished far more than you likely ever have or will. So apply your own rubric and find a …

Exactly. She does not bow down and obey. She keeps doing her thing, in spite of the obvious consequences. It's very American! I like that!! I wish more people in China mainland cou…

Good quote. But if you believe it is reasonable or desirable to engineer social changes to increase the birth rate to be able to create and support economic growth, I think your pr…

> A lot of our economic machinery more or less bakes in some big assumptions about the size of the workforce not declining Do it like software: if the implementation doesn't match …

> Both "it's shitty to intentionally under-score her performances" and "it's great that she's doing it anyways" can be simultaneously true. That I can agree with.

> The whole point is to generate an exciting event that an audience will watch. Multiple competitors having a chance of winning makes an event exciting Disgusting. Do all the compe…

Yet she keeps doing it. Her actions speak louder than her words: she just doesn't care what they think, so she will keep doing it, scores be damned. I applaud her continuous determ…

No, it's not about tactics or competition. > it's not supposed to be elementary school gym class where the goal is having fun You don't get it. It's about being so above the others…

> "Because I can" I love that spirit :)

Rare to see such high quality content here. I share your analysis. But I believe Xi came at a time the mainland needed to be strengthened, to avoid being trumped over again (opium …

They sorely lack m2 for high throughput storage. A board with a m2 port costs an extra $300 and only exists since last year: https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/04/updated-jetson-nano-x…

> The industrial/commercial cookware he lists is definitely durable No, it is plain wrong. He recommends borosilicate beakers for beer. I think he never worked in a lab: borosilica…

Check my link for github, IIRC I think it's the same USB driver so it should work too.

> A touch keyboard is a no-go for me, sadly. Especially for this kind of usecase Get a USBC mechanical keyboard if that's your thing ; an amd64 tablet with a eink display and enoug…

Give it a try. Highly underrated as a reading and notetaking device on top of being one of the rare laptop with eink screen that you can buy.

No longer sold. Old CPU. Not enough ram. Instead, get a Yogabook C930 with a dual display eInk + color, and touch + pen support on both screens. Great for notetaking in portrait mo…