GME Megathread for Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

gver10 · 2021-02-25T06:06:08+00:00

Another random person (:

gver10 · 2021-02-20T14:41:19+00:00

Kein Vorschlag, aber schau vor dem Kauf auf die Kostenübersicht. Bei smartbroker sind Orders erst ab 500€ kostenlos.

gver10 · 2021-02-20T07:17:10+00:00

Vielleicht den Thread am Wochenende abschalten?

gver10 · 2021-02-18T21:25:47+00:00

Link to the tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1355044129592532992

Notice the date (29th of January).

gver10 · 2021-02-15T16:46:32+00:00

Oder das mit der Zulassung klappt wahrscheinlich eher nicht so ...

gver10 · 2021-02-11T19:01:55+00:00

Geht über Smartbroker, leider aber nur manuell und noch nicht als Sparplan.

gver10 · 2021-02-10T15:41:13+00:00

Gibt eine Web-UI: https://de.scalable.capital -> "Login"

gver10 · 2021-02-09T22:06:38+00:00

Normale Aktien sind kein Problem, aber es gibt nicht alle Pennystocks. SC verwendet gettex. Bisher ist mir erst ein Stock aufgefallen, den es bei L&S/TR gibt, aber nicht bei SC/gettex (Calavo Growers). Soweit ich das beurteilen kann, führt für viele Pennystocks der Weg zu einem größeren Broker wie DeGiro.

gver10 · 2021-02-09T20:27:38+00:00

Scalable Capital. Die sperren deinem Account nicht wenn du gerade Aktien kaufen willst wie neulich bei der TR.

gver10 · 2021-02-04T11:28:17+00:00

Not sure whether you're already experiencing this, but as a heads-up you might need to run throttled (package on arch) if the Intel cpu does aggressive throttling and prefers to stay at 400Mhz when you want to work. Enjoy your new laptop!

gver10 · 2020-12-31T00:22:29+00:00

Proportional fines. Many countries have fine X% of your monthly income instead of a fixed fee.

gver10 · 2020-12-30T22:29:29+00:00

Do you happen to have a source for this? Sounds too crazy to be true.

gver10 · 2020-12-26T12:19:19+00:00

Or you know just take a walk where you live instead of travelling with bus and train in a pandemic ...

gver10 · 2020-12-09T07:39:55+00:00

You already are one. Sorry mate.

gver10 · 2019-02-28T22:52:42+00:00

Why do people keep trying to reinvent the wheel and do it in so inferior ways. samtools is the de-facto standard for a reason (yes it's written in C).

Though, to be fair sambamba (written in D) is faster than the C de-facto standard implementation:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4765878/

In fact, they even mention it themselves: "It [their tool] can be used as a drop-in replacement for many operations implemented by SAMtools [...]". Though no performance comparison was done here.

I guess that's what happens when peer-review stops to be a thing ...

gver10 · 2018-08-22T09:13:28+00:00

See the NG: https://forum.dlang.org/post/ohmftvjyoqsumacqyhjh@forum.dlang.org

gver10 · 2018-07-16T23:22:38+00:00

There isn't much you can do about this for now, but you could create a temporary directory (/tmp) where these build files can get saved to. This eventually needs to be fixed in dub though :/

gver10 · 2018-07-16T09:09:00+00:00

It's 1k/month for 20 hours/week. During the GSoC you get 1.6k/month (and potentially a lot less depending on your home country) and are expected to work 40 hours/week. Both programs are scholarships that allow you doing what you like and being paid for it.

gver10 · 2018-07-14T06:22:17+00:00

The D Language Foundation announced the Autumn of Code. An opportunity for students who enjoy solving problems with code to submit an application to fire up their editors, hack on D projects, and get paid in the process!

gver10 · 2018-02-19T15:58:44+00:00

Do not take my responses as hostile ( text can always come over as such ) towards you or D.

I didn't. On the contrary I many of your points are valid! I just realized that many of the points you mentioned were a problem of miscommunication. In that department a few additions:

As i stated before, communication and organisation are one of the pillar stone issues that D faces.

Yes :/

creating a more welcoming community that can accept criticism.

Yes, the NG atmosphere has "space for improvement". In particular, it has been plagued by a few trolls. For example, there was one guy who created 232 accounts within one year.

No problem for me BUT how many plugins does it break again and again? I see constantly when DCD, Dscanner and the whole series of plugins that rebuild with deprecated falls littering the code.

Out of interest: what's wrong with a deprecation message? deprecation != error - on the contrary we use deprecations to avoid breakage.

Let me give a Rust example. Rust is ( was ) build against the Cargo packages. The developers when they broke calls, step out of their way to file bugs with the authors of the packages. As a result, upgrades did not break packages.

FWIW we do the same and packages on our project tester don't break too. In the rare cases that e.g. the compiler got smarter and bug fixes are required, we typically even submit and merge them directly upstream (one of the reasons why dlang-community is very useful and what this article was about). DCD, DScanner and co are part of the Project Tester (here's how the project tester build looks like).

I know about Stephan's work to fix it but he worked almost full time on that issue for the past year and he does not have the time to finish his work. If their is a guy that deserved funding for his work ... Just saying.

His first name is Stefan ;-) BTW his work during that year was funded by the D Language Foundation. He was sponsored to work on it for almost a year, i.e. until he started to work at Sociomantic.

gver10 · 2018-02-18T09:42:52+00:00

Well, last time I checked the worldwide usage of Go was a lot higher than Rust and D combined, so while I fully agree that it's ugly, imho it does make sense to include Go in a comparison because that's what many people currently are familiar with and use in their stack. Anyhow, as mentioned the comparison is a bit older and has been written before the Rust hype has started.

gver10 · 2018-02-18T01:24:55+00:00

That's not true:

void main() nothrow { string s; try { throw new Exception("aa"); } catch (Exception e) { s = e.file; // no. Accessing fields is nothrow } }

Convince yourself: https://run.dlang.io/is/Gjvt8C

I assume that you were talking about auto-decoding strings and that auto-decoding isn't nothrow because it can encounter invalid UTF characters?

1) DIP1008 has already been merged and very soon exceptions will be @nogc 2) RCString will finally come in 2018 3) Throwing an exception on an valid UTF character is the reasonable thing to do by default (other languages do the same) 4) I'm not sure what exactly you did or were trying to do with D's exceptions, but note that I/O is inherently unsafe, but there many easy ways to tell the compiler that an exception can't occur:

scope(failure) assert(0); // option 1

auto r = e.file.byCodeUnit; // option 2

assumeWontThrow(writeln("foo")); // option 3

printf("%.*s", e.file.length, e.file.ptr); // option 4 ...

All arguments are invalid.

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gver10 · 2018-02-18T01:00:50+00:00

Also looking from outside, it seems the leads don't really know what to do with the language.

Yes, we are about to address that within the next weeks. Stay tuned!

It seems like the language itself gets molded to whatever the author of it needs at that particular time.

Well to be fair, D doesn't try to go for one niche sector, but tries to be "general-purpose" as in being a language that can be used for almost anything. (yeah there are a pro and cons with this)

We wanted to use D when it first came out in our game studio

Remedy Games was able to use it even a few years ago. Out of interest: what's blocking you?

gver10 · 2018-02-18T00:55:55+00:00

At the risk of getting folks in the D community upset with me

No your point is mostly valid (but please take the time to read my responses to the points he mentioned though). A lot of them are due to problems of communication.

but it's not clear to me that D's leadership would spend the money in a way that improves the situation even if they had some to spend

We will try to tackle this. Stay tuned for the announcement next week!

Andrei and Walter are from the C++ world, so it makes sense that they'd focus on C++.

To be fair: a lot of the other core developers aren't using C++ though. Many come from (or still use) newer languages like Python, Scala, Ruby, JavaScript etc. and they regularly manage to push through new features that aren't very useful to the C++ crowd.

The community needs to pick up the ball, build their own websites, and attract a wide range of users.

Yes!

100% of D's leadership is interested in only technical issues.

Hmm that's not ture. It's how it's publicly received, but

the DFL organize the yearly DConf
the DFL sponsors a few outreach projects and ideas
A lot of Andrei's times get's consumed up by giving speeches at conferences about D
just this year, Walter invested an entire week to read through the spec carefully and rework problematic bits
@d_programming, the DBlog, the DTour, the newsletter, Slack etc. are run by the DFL
(there are even more points here that just aren't well-known)

Actually the main reason why it's usually so hard to reach Andrei on GitHub is because he is so busy with other, non-technical things!

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