SonOfLilit

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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
The questions were published a few days ago. The 2025 IMO just ended.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Russian culture considers translated (I think) Shakespeare to surpass the original. We Israelis also had one of our more famous poets (Alterman) translate some Shakespeare but I'm not aware of the translation being considered a masterp
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Did any Trump voters think he will be harder on Israel than Biden or Kamala? In Israel the debate was "should we be rooting for Trump because of how much of a blank check he will give our government, or against him because of the damag
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
The moment you start building evaluation pipelines and running experiments to validate your ideas it stops being guessing
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Man, what. This is something that Claude will get right in a single prompt. It's the idea that's valuable, as well as the experience report.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
There are now 71 comments arguing semantics of the word "know" and zero comments even acknowledging the substance: Our current approach to safety is to give the model inputs that are similar to what it would be given in certain si
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Prefix scan is a great intro to GPU programming: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/2_2/sdk/w... After this you should be able to tell whether you enjoy this kind of work. If you do, try
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Oh no I snack all day every day. Can still taste those cashews from a few minutes ago.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
This is wrong. People have different genes. Some people would weigh 200kg with my eating and exercise habits, I weigh 79. GP, try climbing or martial arts - indoor air conditioned activities that have much less toxic culture and are much mo
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
I have extremely lucky genes and have managed to stay just within the green BMI range despite eating all the carbs and fats you can imagine and at times consuming 200-300g of milk chocolate a day. Some of my friends are obese despite exerci
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
There's this amazing gif at the top that shows local storage running circles around network storage, and then the benchmarks are... x1.5-x4? I feel like the graphic is very misleading here...
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
You can make money modeling buy/sell decisions in floats and then having the bank execute them, but if the bank models your account as a float and loses a cent here and there, it will be sued into bankruptcy.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Are grocery store discounts for six packs compared to prices before the change or did they raise the price of single items? Here they don't even advertise it as a discount, so there's no ethical problem with raising the individual
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Look in the hacker jargon file
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Interesting, I can't recall any specific expensive toy except that the RKR guy's wife liked expensive interior design, and my main takeaway from it was "accountants can make unimaginable amounts of money, both by creating val
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
I'm halfway through Feld and Mendelson's Venture Deals and earlier this year worked through Ittelson's Financial Statements. Having cofounded a startup that raised investor money before, I can state confidently that both are
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
I can't
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
This is legal communication written by a lawyer and intended to be read by lawyers. Consistently, the first thing every lawyer has said to me when preparing for any interaction with third parties that had a legal aspect was "never volu
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Reproducing a paper is Hard, and also Expensive. I'd expect that they wouldn't pick papers to try and reproduce at random.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
This comment deserves to be much higher, assuming this user speaks for Substack (no previous submissions or comments, but the comment implies it).
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
I don't agree. WAFs usually add more attack surface than they remove. https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2023/wafs/ Of course, Wordpress is basically undefendable, so I'd never ever host it on a machin
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Having had three opportunities in my life to diagnose this exact problem and then successfully resolve it by turning off the WAF rule (see my top level comment) - I don't know you or your work history, but trust me, the author is much
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
You're being downvoted because WAFs work exactly like this, and it's intentional and their vendors think this is a good thing. A WAF vendor would say that a WAF parsing JSON makes it weaker.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Your auditor wants your WAF to block those things. _You_, at least I, never ever want to have a WAF at all, as they cause much more harm than good and, as a product category, deserve to die.
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Why would I run strlen() on the second one but not on the first one? Presumably I know that I defined an array of chars and not a cstring? Or if I forget, couldn't I forget in the first case too? Once I defined it, they're both ju
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
First time something on-prem, maybe F5. Second time AWS. Oh, I just remembered I had another encounter with the AWS WAF. I had a Jenkins instance in our cloud account that I was trying to integrate with VSTS (imagine github except developed
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
After having been bitten once (was teaching a competitive programming team, half the class got a blank page when submitting solutions, after an hour of debugging I narrowed it down to a few C++ types and keywords that cause 403 if they appe
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
Yes, you're missing something. Sometimes I'll need an array of 4 ints, so I'll define one: int a[4] = {1,2,3,4}; other times I'll want 4 bytes. So sure, I can write: char a[4] = {'A','B&#x27
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
I agree that the brew devs are not stupid or lazy (as can be seen by the great popularity of the tool they developed among the complaining demographic). I suspect they are wrong in this specific care based on the "every other package m
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by SonOfLilit 1y ago
It is in their interest, both in terms of their mission and financially (people who scroll a lot become donors and contributors)

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