1maginary

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by 1maginary 10y ago
At least from my perspective, this wasn't a matter of remarkable vs unremarkable, it was about the expectation the title set. Maybe it was the "into the woods", maybe it was the "alone" part, but I just wasn't
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by 1maginary 10y ago
Completely agree that "sidestep" would have been a much better choice. I think the title is technically correct but that doesn't mean much since context matters a lot. "Sidestep" is a lot more intuitive and, I do
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by 1maginary 10y ago
>A movement is defined by what it does Can we really attribute what a noisy minority does to the movement's actions, though? Even if said minority claims to be part of the movement. At what point do we draw the line? Most feminists,
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by 1maginary 10y ago
> The "replacing multiplication by additions", the replacing multiplication with a shift and the hoisting I mentioned above are all redundant optimisations for a programmer There's also the fact that the code could get mar
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by 1maginary 10y ago
I guess I took the title too literally. I would expect every competent programmer to know what you explained, and that is probably what the title was alluding to. Thanks for clarifying.
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by 1maginary 10y ago
This is apparently from 2012. How outdated are some of these numbers? According to this[1] source (linked in the gist comments), ping is down to 144ms from LA to Amsterdam. [1]: https://wondernetwork.com/pings/
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by 1maginary 10y ago
>I expect this entire discussion to be flagged off the front two pages of HN and into oblivion fairly quickly. I guess you were right. As soon as I was done reading your comment I refreshed the page and noticed it got flagged. Not sure w
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by 1maginary 10y ago
He clarifies right after that he got to those numbers because he used a lossless vs lossy encoder. Really should've kept reading