Quekid5

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by Quekid5 7y ago
Turns out that once you invent a system for "acceptance" (p < 0.05 or whatever), people will game it. Who knew?
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Yes, thank you, I think that was the one. Only missed by an order of magnitude or so.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
There is certainly room for art in our world. I'm just saying that what companies sell as products should not be made in the "art" mindset. Is that clearer?
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I'm always surprised by the mindset of the person you're replying to. I learned a few years ago from some DEFCON video[0] that someone had figured out a way to do a (basic) port scan of the whole internet in ~1 day (or something l
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by Quekid5 7y ago
At the risk of just jumping on a single point: > I build things for people to use and maintain. Maintenance. Maintenance. Maintenance. That's the key. It is the lack of that mindset which is killing our home world. Ultimately, it&#x
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Very well put. IME talking with our sysadmins face-to-face, I think a lot of the initial hostility was caused by emotional reactions like: This is different, I don't like it! (Don't get me wrong, it's a behavioral pattern tha
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by Quekid5 7y ago
It's not much of a difference in terms of consequences, but always-on bounds checking could alleviate OOB'ing the JIT at least.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
That's fair and I now know more. I'm not convinced that this is the biggest issue with JS engines/browsers, but I certainly have more evidence against me :). It's interesting how many of those are labeled OOB. Does that
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by Quekid5 7y ago
> JITs have been a huge source of security holes, and the language is so huge now that verifying the correctness of JS optimizations is extremely hard. Do you have numbers to back that up? There certainly have been 1 or more security ho
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by Quekid5 7y ago
You say "it's true" and yet you continue to say something completely tangential to what I said? I did not state any position on the matter at hand.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I think Sapolsky's Behave also had a good insight here (not his, just referenced) about the importance of the general culture of a region -- namely whether it's a Collectivist or Individualist. This simple dichotomy can explain a
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by Quekid5 7y ago
This is a very confusing thread for me. I think Idris -- while not exactly mainstream -- has shown that it's fine to treat type checking and types as a continuum. There's nothing about dependent types that forces anybody to prove
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by Quekid5 7y ago
The person you're replying to is talking about handling mutable state in a "stateless" way. That's a big distinction.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Compilation of C++ code is one workload. Just make sure you also have a lot of RAM!
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Yeah, I'd actually be happy to pay... and I do for LWN, for example. The problem is that publishers apparently(!) cannot properly distinguish between ad-driven revenue streams and good/loyal-customer revenue streams. (I don&#x27
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I honestly don't understand your point was. Help me!
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Ok, so this is a dense comment, so I'm going to try again. AFAICT, your nested quotations contained a quote (by you!), which said "it contains a ton of research into how these missions could work and may actually [...]" Ok, s
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I haven't read Kill Decision, but I have read The Martian, so I'll answer in that vein. I don't think The Martian is realistic, or even a good predictor of anything. Now, there may be an expedition to Mars in future, but AFAI
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by Quekid5 7y ago
A bit late... but as others have pointed out: This only works to the first order. If you have functions-that-call-functions-that-call-functions, you end up not being able to write(!) the correct throws clauses in Java.
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by Quekid5 7y ago
"Enter a New Dimension"... of what? I didn't advance beyond the opening screen. Is this going to educate me (mmm), seduce me (eww), stimulate me (eww/mmm?), or just going to advertise to me? The problem with all of these
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Do you find science fiction to be a good predictor for the near future?
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Is there any published research-level evidence that FAANG interviews are high-signal? I'm no expert, but the only published research I've read on this is "Thinking, Fast and Slow", and the original researcher has recentl
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by Quekid5 7y ago
My comment was actually made with many of these issues in mind -- I was trying to avoid needless nitpicking by being a bit vague. Perhaps that was a mistake. The point wasn't that these things couldn't be solved -- they could, a
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Of course the people around these parts tend to have very particular needs and use cases, but for anything resembling the "common case" the performance impact of not using sendfile should be negligible. (I'll just point of th
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by Quekid5 7y ago
(Just adding a bit to that:) It's not just subclassing. It also breaks with higher-order functions, e.g. what is the throws clause of a map() method on lists? There's really no good answer in Java, so what people do in practice is
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Racket truly has some great stuff wrt. macros -- I'm not sure if it was invented as a research vehicle for macros specifically[0], but they've even gone as far as implementing fairly advanced type systems as macros [1]. Besides t
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by Quekid5 7y ago
The idea that types are hostile to scripting sounds really weird to me. Turtle[0] in Haskell is absolutely amazing for scripting -- especially if you pair it with Stack (with its shebang support) -- and it is as strongly typed as Haskell. T
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by Quekid5 7y ago
I think people have even go so far as to make browser extensions to automatically rewrite "reddit.com" to "old.reddit.com". The redesign looks... well, I don't even know where to start, but it's pretty clear th
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by Quekid5 7y ago
Ideally, yes. In practice there are often complications, however. Usually, it's just office politics: Those cases can be quite difficult -- you really need buy-in and TRUST from management (and have to do the right political plays,
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Ask HN: Has NH become too well-known to provide any signal?
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