LPisGood

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by LPisGood 1y ago
I think this is an upfront cost, not an annual cost.
482.
by LPisGood 1y ago
I think your analogy is interesting but it falls apart because “moving fast” is not something we consider uniquely human, but “solving hard abstract problems” is
483.
by LPisGood 1y ago
It very much tells you something. Accuracy is a measure of overall correctness. Accuracy is something different than precision and recall.
484.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Useless is perhaps a but harsh. It tells you something.
485.
by LPisGood 1y ago
I don’t understand what benefits this kind of “decentralization” offers
486.
by LPisGood 1y ago
I believe someone working there once said “Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers!
487.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Go has this issue
488.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Software supply chain attacks are well known and they are a massive hole in the entirety of software infrastructure. As usual with security, no one really cares that much.
489.
by LPisGood 1y ago
I think it’s actually easier to make code more complex than it is to identify simple elegant solutions that will continue to work as the code expands.
490.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Constraint solvers (or MILP solvers) while not asymptotically optimal are often as fast or faster than other methods.
491.
by LPisGood 1y ago
I also have to imagine it completely shreds to pieces any accessibility reader.
492.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Indeed, this same principle has been shown to work with sound waves and not just RF waves. There was a paper a few years back that used car speakers and the microphone to be able to detect the number of people in the car for the purpose of
493.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Is that normal? It seems to me like we’d expect Q2 agricultural exports to usually be much higher than Q1.
494.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Well unfortunately even relatively high quality organizations are filled with people like that.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Yeah, yeah all that’s true. Ideas are better if they’re challenged, etc. but the fact is people don’t like being challenged. Also, software engineering is a field where there’s rarely some ideal truth we’re trying to achieve, and indeed eve
496.
by LPisGood 1y ago
What kind of thing is bad enough that it warrants multiple discussions without the junior engineer getting the hint that it’s a bad idea?
497.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Unfortunately people have ideas, projects, and solutions that they care deeply about. Like it or not, some tact when dealing with these things goes a long way.
498.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Mine is forrest fire fighter. Surely with climate change there will not be a shortage of work, and while dangerous and bad for you, it seems kind of fun.
499.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Remember that TM’s read their input left to right. Therefore if there is some fixed number N where the TM halts on all length N inputs, then it would halt in the same number of steps if input where length N+1 because TM halts before it can
500.
by LPisGood 1y ago
There is no relationship between n and N, of course. N is some fixed constant. Log(n) is unbounded, yes, but if a Turing machine halts in sub-linear time then there is some length input for which that TM halts before it reads every cell of
501.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Log(n) grows slower than n. That means there is some number N where the process terminates in fewer than N state transitions. But in a Turing machine, you can read at most one new cell on the tape with each state transition. Therefore the a
502.
by LPisGood 1y ago
That’s because you could define it in a lot of different ways. For example, if you define it as the number of steps it takes some Turing machine representing some algorithm to halt, then there is no such thing as a logarithmic time algorith
503.
by LPisGood 1y ago
n^2 algorithms on _massive_ inputs seems a little far fetched, no? Around one to one hundred billion things start getting difficult.
504.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Which 6 words did NYT remove?
505.
by LPisGood 1y ago
Here is a paper on just how a serious ultrafinitist copes with that https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/mamarim/mamarimPDF/... The short answer is that they deal with such things symbolically.
506.
by LPisGood 1y ago
To an ultrafinitist, there is no such thing as a number that is inexpressible.
507.
by LPisGood 1y ago
In my experience web apps are almost always worse than native apps unless the native app is just a wrapper around a web app.
508.
by LPisGood 1y ago
>Can you imagine raising $288 million from VCs for a software application while delivering so little? Yes, absolutely. I think you might be overestimating VC’s a little bit.
509.
by LPisGood 1y ago
> See how much hate DOGE gets for even proposing cuts or higher efficiencies I think you should be aware that “proposing cuts” is not why people why DOGE got hate. I find it disappointing that serious people believe that.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The thing is that the image can change entirely, say from a gunny cat picture to an image of a dog.

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