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by 0xfaded 2y ago
> the sys design interview was about an obscure optimization problem that I specialized in for years - though I didn't let on that fact Honestly I feel this situation is an invitation/opportunity to show your depth. I had a sim
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
I'm one of these, though I use a simple version of autocomplete which only suggests other strings currently loaded in my vim buffers (helps with RSI). I liken it to spaced repetition. The first time I don't know where to find some
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
This puzzle is used to inrto entropy in "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms". Basically there are log2(12) + 1 bits or log2(24) of information (which ball and heavier or lighter). Any solution must reveal all i
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
First I agree the driver shouldn't have been on their phone no matter what. I think before passing judgement though, I would like to know how a human would have performed. Aviation investigations often recreate scenarios in a simulator
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
I think that chart is annualized debt payments plotted quarterly, i.e annual interest is ~1T.
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
An African swallow or a European swallow?
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
Here is the authoritative video of an English radio engineer explaining how VOR works. It truly is 60s level wizardry. https://youtu.be/tZ2gG1v9Xg8
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
I'm going to hijack the mention of ML to share xbyaku, a c++ library presenting a DSL for assembling machine code at runtime (useful for JIT). It's used by some of the pytorch back ends. https://github.com/herumi&#
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
I played breath of the wild during covid and was just blown away by it, both as a work of art as well as technical brilliance. Knowing the switch's limitations, it felt like a AAA demoscene. I only learned later that the Wii was also a
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
That's pretty much the idea, that governments have a monopoly on the use of force. The last 80 years have been unusually peaceful by historical standards. My guess is that the crumbling of governments will lead to more human deaths.
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by 0xfaded 2y ago
I met Dick at the Voyager Restaurant in Mojave, and he was very friendly. At the time I had a Grumman Tiger, the same model he and Burt once owned. He made small talk about his fond memories of the plane, but honestly I was just a little to
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
It's a fair point, and at least I think of myself as a fairly conservative driver. I think it is the only time though that I've been faced with a stationary car suddenly appearing where I wouldn't expect one, and that's
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
I had this happen with Teslas FSD about a year ago. A car missed a turn at a light because they didn't get into the turn lane early enough ... so they decided to make the turn from the "going straight" instead. But the light
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
The simple solution is to have the government pay out the child support and make the debt to the government.
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
Omg I was being interviewed on coderpad today and something was eating my ctrl-c. So frustrating
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
Denmark does this, but only for a limited period (7 years I think). Part of it is competitiveness to make competing for top talent on par with lower tax countries. The other part is the temporary nature since higher earners are more likely
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
This argument is equating human perspectives of the world to physical realities. Ancient populations certainly left their mask, Romans deforested Europe for the sake of glass making. But that is nothing compared to the resource extraction a
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
It really is difficult to compare apples to apple. But I think if the average person were to make an informed choice between a life with a job earning $22/h job in Denmark or the US, most would choose Denmark. FWIW, I grew up in Austra
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
It's difficult to do apples to apples. Looks like $22/h with six weeks paid vacation was widely quoted in 2021. After social redistributions your probably in the ballpark of $40/h US equivalent. For what is worth, looks like
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
You can look to Scandinavia to answer this question. Basically labor becomes vested in being part of high value activities. You will order your big mac from a touch screen and pick it up from the window when called. The burger meal will sti
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
I work for a self driving doing mapping. There are definitely roles out there, more broadly look into other areas of state estimation. It gets interesting when these systems need to be productionized and scaled. A strong software engineer w
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
While we're at it, std::atomic<std::shared_ptr<T>> https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/atomic2
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
The fix is really quite simple, develop separate routes for cyclists and motor vehicles. Where those routes unavoidably cross have proper intersections. The person you are replying to is right, four-way-stops are a travesty, both for cyclis
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
My personal world view is that it is because housing has become financialized. In this situation the rent probably doesn't even cover the fixed ownership costs for the property (caveat: prop 13). So why are investors clamoring over hou
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
Their long term thinking includes leveraging bullying over their iMessage lock-in to ensure market capture of children. I believe there are leaked emails floating around which pretty much irrefutablly confirm this.
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
Unfortunately people will fight tooth and nail to maintain their existing expectations and will see public transit as a threat to their cars. You have to take away cars (parking) first so that they start demanding public transportation.
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
Since part of the reason people move to cities is for access to economic opportunity, perhaps it would be better to remove existing residents who do not meet the expected productivity bar and make way for the newcomers. In seriousness thoug
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
The argument this article makes is that Australians as a whole are not richer thanks to higher home prices, which is natural if houses a viewed as non-productive capital. Therefore "rich" can't be the problem to solve for, it
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
Working through "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms": https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/comput... Finally found the trifecta of an engaging lecturer with recor
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by 0xfaded 3y ago
I have an older friend who lives around England in his Model S after a business partnership turned sour. He's also grandfathered on free supercharging. It's not like it's the life he chose, but he seems to be doing all right.

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