JustAPerson

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by JustAPerson 2y ago
Eventually every game developer learns the hard way that they must remove the bytecode ability from lua's loadstring() function. E.g. here's a 12 year old blogpost on the topic from the ROBLOX developers: https://archiv
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by JustAPerson 3y ago
Slides: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/media/all-systems-go-2023/subm...
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by JustAPerson 3y ago
I’ve spent years of therapy trying to overcome my fear of talking to strangers. Mostly it just feels inappropriate and unwanted; like I would be intruding on people. I can talk to strangers when there’s an appropriate social context (e.g. c
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by JustAPerson 4y ago
Huh, is that the maximum number of students of the same age? To be clear, the Montessori school I went to had a little over 100 students with all 6 class years combined. For context, in the US many public middle/high schools are like
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by JustAPerson 4y ago
Yes, I went to a Montessori school through 6th grade (now 25 years old). I have mixed feelings about the experience. I agree that it did well to set my up academically. I ended up going to middle/high schools that were relatively avera
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by JustAPerson 4y ago
A substantial portion is funded with newly issued debt. https://fortune.com/2019/08/20/stock-buybacks-debt-financed/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-27/debt
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by JustAPerson 5y ago
This article doesn't provide much context on the challenges of the building's architecture. If the exterior[1][2] did not give any indication, the inside is quite difficult to navigate. Unless you're a grad student who lives
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by JustAPerson 6y ago
Location: Boston, MA Willing to relocate: NYC Only (specifically Manhattan) Remote: Yes Technologies: C++, Go, Rust, Java, Postgres SQL, Python, Linux Résumé/CV: https://jpriest.me/pdfs/jpriest_resume_fall_2020.pdf
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by JustAPerson 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 Here's a video lecture from the MIT Professor (Dennis Whyte) who was leading the research group that provided some of the key designs for the SPARC reactor. As the NYT articl
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by JustAPerson 6y ago
Does anyone have suggestions for how to check if your resume is correctly parsed by these tools?
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by JustAPerson 6y ago
The notable quote: > That 9 day and almost 14-hour rebuild means that using the WD Red 4TB SMR drive inadvertently in an array would lead to your data being vulnerable for around 9 days longer than the WD Red 4TB CMR drive or Seagate Iro
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by JustAPerson 7y ago
It's a combination of a lack of developer bandwidth, fatigue, and typical difficult google customer service. Previously it was just a sole backend developer who also did the server operations/SRE type stuff plus a couple front end
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by JustAPerson 7y ago
Not the person you responded to, but I just joined somewhere new and it's clear Firebase was the biggest mistake / is the biggest source of technical debt. It was helpful for bootstrapping 6 years ago, but now it stands out as the
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by JustAPerson 7y ago
Perhaps the craziest part of these graphs is the 3970X, this generation's second best, versus the 2990WX, last generations very best Threadripper processor. Both have 32 cores/64 threads, but the 3970X has 2x the multithreaded per
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by JustAPerson 7y ago
Location: Boston Remote: No Willing to Relocate: Yes (NYC only) Technologies: Rust (since 2014), C/C++, LLVM, performance engineering Résumé/CV: https://jpriest.me/pdfs/jpriest_resume_spring_2020.pdf Email: j
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by JustAPerson 7y ago
For anyone curious about using something like this technique, Facebook has a similar tool. https://github.com/facebookincubator/BOLT
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by JustAPerson 7y ago
Location: Boston Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (Bay Area, Seattle, New York) Technologies: Rust (since 2014), C++, LLVM Resume/CV: https://jpriest.me/pdfs/jpriest_resume_spring_2020.pdf Email: jason@jpriest.
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by JustAPerson 8y ago
I kind of like this trend of power-hungry beastly CPUs. The AMD 2990WX is also rated 250W (but for 32c/64t@3GHz). I have one with a 280mm AIO, and it sees high 60C under load at stock frequencies. I can only overclock to 3.4GHz while s
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by JustAPerson 8y ago
This is not the first time AT&T has pretended to have a newer network than their infrastructure actually provides. https://slate.com/technology/2012/03/4g-vs-3g-beware-of-the-...