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Facebook uses 10k Blu-ray discs to store 'cold' data (2014)

pcworld.com
19 points·by padthai·2 years ago·9 comments

Alexei Navalny Dies in Prison

amp.theguardian.com
57 points·by padthai·2 years ago·10 comments

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padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
Why do you use OrderedDict for now that regular dicts are ordered by default?
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
Getting Covid paper toilet crisis vibes here
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
Probably fire safety laws
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
So they will not use Smartphones? I am not buying it.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
I am getting Vietnam flashbacks of all the small incompatibilities between Numpy arrays and Pandas Series
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
I think Twitter is down 60% in advertisers and 30% in users? Elon personality is part of it, but losing so many people handling community, clients, institutions… I am sure the company has lost most of its institutional knowledge.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
Pandoc/Quarto markdown gives you most of these.

In my experience, it rarely really matters fine control. If the effort is too big to tweak the templates/markdown you export it to an intermediate state (LaTeX/Office/whatever) and drop the original markdown source.

There is no lock-in.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
They do from time to time: https://wirelesswire.jp/2017/12/62708/
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
No, I have flight tickets autoupdate when there is a delay.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
That’s the US perspective. But globally the final of the World Cup (which Messi played) was seen by more than 1.5B people (compared to <200M in the Super Bowl). It is a big name.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
> One thing I miss from RStudio is the Rmarkdown documents with inline outputs

This is already in Quarto! https://quarto.org/docs/computations/inline-code.html#:~:tex....
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
He does not want to be a AI/ML researcher, but a ML engineer.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
I took a look at Yesod and looks more like Haskell’s Sinatra and comes 6 years later than Rails, in 2010. By 2010 a simple web frameworm is table stakes, no huge differentiator.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
I am not a user of the language (although I learned it like you). I just came to chime in that (a) there is at least one very popular software written in Haskell and (b) Haskell seems to ship a good amount of software for its popularity.

Haskell never got the “killer framework” like Rails or Spark that allowed to become more mainstream, even if it was teached in Universities all over the world.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
> nor have I ever seen a program that I use, written in it

The only mass market Haskell software that I know of is Pandoc. Others like Shellcheck and Postgrest are popular in their niche.

I am not sure that Haskell is faring worse that other programming languages in its level of popularity, like Julia, Clojure or Erlang.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
I have one, everything seems fine but I have not crashed it yet.
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
Funny enough, historically anarchists have been called libertarians and were not against institutions and governance per se. Maybe you are caricaturing a bunch of movements that you do not agree with or are not well informed about?
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
I would be surprised if the database is here. Does not it rely on Q?
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
Does writing in this way has any advantage in practical terms (not aesthetically reasons)?
padthai
·2 years ago·discuss
Waymo is not Google. And Deepmind operated quite independently until not long ago.