1024core

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   by 1024core 4y ago

   As a Californian, I wish we'd overtake Germany in welfare indicators too: free college, great schools, good healthcare, etc.
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   by 1024core 4y ago

   > and part of the reason the costs are so high is because PG&E is holding the city hostage. One thing you'll see when you live in SF long enough (20+ years here) is that they'll come up with all sorts of crazy excuses to ju
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   by 1024core 4y ago

   A large number of City employees live outside the City. According to this article, only 40% of the City employees live in SF. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/remote-work-17510522.... So why is residence a r
4. 664.▲
   by 1024core 4y ago

   It's simple. It's not their money. When you ask any SF Department to give you a budget for something, they will just hallucinate a number and pull it out of their ass. Matt Haney (the State Senator) asked the Parks & Rec Depar
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   by 1024core 4y ago

   "The Internet" is much, much bigger than 500bn floats. The latest snapshot of archive.org has 505 billion web pages itself.
6. 666.▲
   by 1024core 4y ago

   See the "joke explaining" examples on Page 36 of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311 and tell me if it's just "passable garbled nonsense".
7. 667.▲
   by 1024core 4y ago

   I can imagine the Clintons doing some sketchy stuff.
8. 668.▲
   by 1024core 4y ago

   Michael Flynn. Scooter Libby. Joe Arpaio. Steve Bannon. Paul Manafort. Roger Stone. etc. etc.
9. 669.▲
   by 1024core 4y ago

   Is this DALL-E or DALL-E 2 ?
10. 670.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    If you remember Duke, you're old. I still remember when Sun was going around holding Java events, touting the advantages of Java, with Duke shirts, mugs, etc.
11. 671.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    > What's Google's interest in pointless clicks? Short term they could get some extra charge for those Because there are humans in the loop, and "Google" isn't a monolithic all-seeing entity. Sales guys, devs, etc
12. 672.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    I guess the old "NVidia -vs- Linus" battle on kernel modules is still being fought....
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    > Do you know such people who work on large software systems, as opposed to, say, micro-controller firmware, or kernel drivers and such? Redis is written entirely in C.
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    I believe HH gave up his position a few years ago, and there have been elections (among the Tibetan exiles) ever since.
15. 675.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    I am forced to use Python, and I hate it.
16. 676.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    Pollen is big enough that you could detect it directly.
17. 677.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    HotMail (remember that?) started this way. The founders had an idea for a database hosted on the web(?), and pitched it to some VCs. They had been working on it as a side gig. Naturally, the VCs asked: did you do it on company time? Did you
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    The free publicity alone will pay for that.
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    I blame managers. In my (middling-long) career I have noticed the following cycles: Company grows and takes on new projects. Workers start getting stretched thin. Work starts to suffer as people are thrashing, there's no more concrete
20. 680.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    TIL there are Deepfake video calls... :-(
21. 681.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    Does that mean a bulb like one of these would be useful for those of us stuck in foggy/cloudy climes (like San Francisco): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=uvb+reptile+light
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    Weirdly, the article links to all of the competitors _except_ one: Mahindra, the Indian automaker. For completeness, here's their site: https://www.mahindraracing.com/
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    > Those charts almost always showed that consumers would make thousands of dollars more by selling to Opendoor. If Opendoor is paying more than what you'd get in the open market, where are they going to make the money from? Aren&#x2
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    I met a guy who was ~ 45 or so. He had been with his (then ex-) partner for 15+ years. She had wanted kids, and he kept saying "next year", "not ready yet", etc. Finally, at the age of 43 she gave him an ultimatum to mak
25. 685.▲
    by 1024core 4y ago

    Those are probably homeless guys who have hotwired scooters.
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    I was going to mention Sparse Arrays, thanks for mentioning it. One of my favorite data structures.
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    > Say you have a list of 1 million IPs that are black listed. A trivial algorithm would be to compare every element of the set with a given IP. The time complexity grows with the number of elements. In the case of IPs, you just have to m
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    Isn't there some site called "Dead Company" or something like that which keeps track of layoffs? Or am I thinking of the 2002 dotcom crash... Edit: oh right, thanks @blakesterz, it was called "Fucked Company"
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    An electric fan sucking your car downwards sounds all nice and lovely for a street-legal car, until you hit a speedbump and womp womp womp.....
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    by 1024core 4y ago

    If this were security scanning, why does it identify itself as BingBot? Doesn't that just allow cloaking and offer an easy workaround for any adversary with a modicum of intelligence?