Tommah

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by Tommah 3y ago
At one of my jobs, they used Asana when I started. It was too full of backlogged issues, so we moved over to Jira. Then Jira got too full. A month before I was laid off, one of my coworkers said, "Maybe we should try out Asana.&quot
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by Tommah 3y ago
Huh, I was using that rate in my head too. The yen was hovering around 9/10 of a cent from 2017 until the beginning of 2022. I only noticed the drop recently.
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by Tommah 3y ago
Interesting... I hadn't heard about that bug. Here's my current theory about what was happening. Back then, I was using an Intel Atom notebook, and some research tells me that the early Atom processors don't have the popcou
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by Tommah 3y ago
There is also a large set of algorithms for adversarial search problems, such as playing board games, that traditionally don't use machine learning. Minimax is the simplest one, and then there are negamax, alpha-beta pruning, negascou
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by Tommah 3y ago
Eh, you should probably test it either way. Performance can be very unpredictable. I ran into a weird case years ago when I was writing a program that needed to calculate popcount (number of 1 bits in a number). My method using a 256-ent
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by Tommah 3y ago
> When was the last time you changed your mail id? In 2006, when I moved from Yahoo Mail to Gmail.
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by Tommah 3y ago
For my chess tactics trainer at https://www.checkmatechamp.net/ , I tried a lot of different techniques to compress a small set of positions (about 800). I was not concerned with storing the positions in a fixed size, so
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by Tommah 3y ago
Python already has JIT compilers (PyPy and Numba).
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by Tommah 3y ago
I started using reddit in 2006, so I remember a lot of the Ruby vs. Python battle from around that time. Here are a few points that were often raised back then (and which I haven't seen raised here): - The common wisdom back then was
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by Tommah 3y ago
You might even call it... a red flag.
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by Tommah 3y ago
> Everyone is where they want to be, so of course they like working there. This reminds me of the joke where the economist sees the $100 bill on the ground and says if it were real, someone would have grabbed it already. It assumes that
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by Tommah 3y ago
Another regression in ChatGPT?
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by Tommah 3y ago
Don't go into business with family!
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by Tommah 3y ago
It is named like the <x>_of_<y> functions, yes. "Of" and "from" are both "de" in French. A native English speaker would use "from" there, but whoever named those functions used "of.
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by Tommah 3y ago
I did something similar to that at one of my jobs. We had a Java web app that we wanted to port to Python. I created a new Python web app and ran it alongside the Java app. Then I started reimplementing the Java code in Python, one endpo
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by Tommah 3y ago
For a while, it seemed that a new JS framework was coming out every day. There was even a "JavaScript framework of the day" blog, which unfortunately I can't find now. But things really slowed down several years back... I w
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by Tommah 3y ago
I played a lot of SimCity 3000, and as I recall, a lot of commercially zoned cells will end up being small parking lots. The game assigns whimsical names to properties, and the parking lots were named "They Paved Paradise."
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by Tommah 3y ago
If your company is ever looking for more OCaml programmers, please let me know. (My email address is in my profile.) I learned Haskell and OCaml ages ago, and once upon a time I tried getting a job working with one of them. Unfortunately
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by Tommah 3y ago
They should have titled it "Cut the Crap."
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by Tommah 3y ago
I watch soccer games on the OTA Spanish stations too. I'm nowhere close to fluent in Spanish, but my high-school Spanish has served me well. The announcers tend to say the same types of things over and over again, so over the years,
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by Tommah 3y ago
The joke about self-aggrandizing "X engineer" titles is very old. On "Mama's Family," the main character is essentially a homemaker, but in one episode she calls herself a "domestic engineer" to make it
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by Tommah 3y ago
> And what is up with the name nVidia? It's an alteration of "invidia," the Latin word for "envy."
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by Tommah 3y ago
/r/nba2 exists. It was created 10 years ago.
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by Tommah 4y ago
> they went from zero to a streaming service very quickly Disney basically bought MLB's streaming service and used that for Disney Plus.
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by Tommah 4y ago
Affirmative.
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by Tommah 4y ago
I used to say that it's a bad idea to go into business with family.
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by Tommah 4y ago
I think you mean Dreamgirls, not Showgirls.
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by Tommah 4y ago
Something similar happened with the Carolina Panthers in the NFL. The owner sold the team because of allegations that he was saying racist and sexist things, although there was no recording of him AFAIK. https://www.cnbc.com&#x
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by Tommah 4y ago
This one? https://youtu.be/KqAEC4jLFqA?t=905 BTW, her name is Ann Reardon.
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by Tommah 4y ago
The local games are all broadcast over the air, even the ones that are shown on the pay services. (I live in Philadelphia, and I watch all the Eagles games with a TV and an antenna.) However, if you're a fan of an out-of-market team,

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