anaptdemise (u/anaptdemise)

anaptdemise commented on Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon cnn.com/science/live-news... · Posted by u/complexpass

anaptdemise · a year ago

Everything is politics. Remember when the US forced the Ukrainian investor of Firefly to sell?

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/feds-who-forced-ukrain...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/max-polyakov-and-no...

https://noosphereventures.com/eos-to-create-its-own-radar-mi...

anaptdemise commented on Marijuana addiction is real, and rising denverpost.com/2018/06/24... · Posted by u/jeffreyrogers

StanislavPetrov · 8 years ago

Which speaks to the larger question, why are so many people in our society depressed?

anaptdemise · 8 years ago

Unsolicited life advice.

If you have to drink or do drugs to do your job, you should probably question your career path.

If you have to drink or do drugs to feel satisfied with your life, you should probably ask yourself what you have actually done to make your situation better.

Good for strippers, accountants, lawyers, anyone.

anaptdemise commented on Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out business.financialpost.co... · Posted by u/shahocean

kin · 8 years ago

I genuinely believe that advertisers are only pulling out because it's the PR thing to do. There are many other companies that would love to take advantage of a less competitive bid for Facebook ad space and I have no doubt they will be taking advantage of it and will continue to spend boats of money on Facebook.

anaptdemise · 8 years ago

Two of the largest advertisers don’t think Facebook ads are effective. The latest, P&G, specifically call out how narrow targeting is ineffective.

> After cutting back on certain digital ads, “we didn’t see a reduction in the growth rate,” said Mr. Moeller during the call. “What that tells me is that the spending we cut was largely ineffective.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304192704577406...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-g-to-scale-back-targeted-face...

anaptdemise commented on Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback bloomberg.com/view/articl... · Posted by u/jseliger

zip1234 · 8 years ago

Yes, I'm inclined to believe that rent control is a symptom, not the cause. The cause appears to be ridiculous zoning and building restrictions. If more housing is available such that the price drops, then rent control isn't even needed.

anaptdemise · 8 years ago

It also appears to reduce the amount of available rentals.

http://conference.nber.org/confer/2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade...

anaptdemise commented on Python’s Weak Performance Matters metarabbit.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/georgecmu

peterwaller · 8 years ago

> you write code (like in the example here [1]) that is bound to be slow, just from a glance at it > [1] https://git.embl.de/costea/metaSNV/blob/master/metaSNV_post.....

Given his code you referenced, could you elaborate on what makes it look slow at a glance, and how you might speed it up? :)

anaptdemise · 8 years ago

ln 221:

    if snp_taxID not in samples_of_interest.keys():#Check if Genome is of interest

Tracing through, looks like samples_of_interest is a dict. `snp_taxID not in samples_of_interest` would make membership check constant time.

anaptdemise commented on Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT github.com/mherrmann/fbs... · Posted by u/mherrmann

ReverseCold · 8 years ago

It's easy to do.

That's it.

Why learn frameworks and UI paradigms for different platforms if you can just build it once? You can have a desktop app in under an hour if you already have a web app.

anaptdemise · 8 years ago

https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/gui_opengl...

[edit] There is also emscripten-qt. Full circle.

http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/projects/emsc...

anaptdemise commented on FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky cyberscoop.com/fbi-kasper... · Posted by u/drewchainzz

anaptdemise · 9 years ago

Presumably, the AV suite would send "telemetry" and related "data" to their servers for analysis...

"Microsoft Wins Appeal on Overseas Data Searches" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/technology/microsoft-wins...

[edit]https://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/solution-briefs/sb-quart...

anaptdemise commented on Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08... · Posted by u/generic_user

anaptdemise · 9 years ago

Eh, on the inverse... In this situation, GoDaddy, Google, et. al. are the technocratic equivalent to Kim Davis. While, I respect their right to decide what they "host" on their platforms, as registrars, DNS is separate. Their authorization as Registrar is only authorized by ICAAN->US->IANA->(UN/WTO/etc...). They in practice, register (i.e. recored) DNS name to entity and are bound to list said DNS name to registered entity. So while they might have a right to not physically host the bytes of data for a controversial domain, they cannot, as Registrar for the domain, not record the fact that somedomain.com -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx because they are only proxies for the authority to say somedomain.com -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.

[edit] If the Kim Davis analogy is too loose. If the US decided to remove a book from the ISBN system. Might not have it in libraries... but there is still a gap in your number system... Sure it, is Mein Kampf today. But in today's world, it is not hard to imagine that the missing number might be the Quran...

anaptdemise commented on Paralyzed Man Uses Brain Implant to Type Eight Words per Minute spectrum.ieee.org/the-hum... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

flukus · 9 years ago

I hope they make a vim plugin for the software.

Edit - This was a joke, but I do wonder if command/movement style interfaces would be much better for this type of thing than a keyboard interface.

anaptdemise · 9 years ago

My hand is cramping... I volunteer to write the emacs one first.

But really, this is something I dream about as a spinal disease survivor.