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by almog 4y ago
Yes, Facebook has weathered past storms by adapting to changes, but anyone using Google+ failure to draw parallels with TikTok, is making a superficial comparison at best. For one, Google+ never matured in terms of user engagement or DAU th
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by almog 4y ago
That was my thought too, pointing out why NTP smearing might be fragile is a crucial point in any argument against leap seconds, and the reasoning in this post are lacking (regardless of the conclusion's correctness). My only guess is
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by almog 4y ago
I'm assuming that: 1. There's some non-thorough verification of the items rather than completely trusting the merchants. 2. Merchants could sanctioned if caught sending counterfeit items. 3. You don't get to choose how Amazon
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by almog 4y ago
Unless they changed how inventory commingling works, you might even get a counterfeit item when ordering an item that's sold and fulfilled by Amazon. That could happen because they consider (or at least considered) items with identical
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by almog 4y ago
Too late to edit but I forgot to paste the link to the timing wheels overview talk that I mentioned, so here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AftX7rqx-Uc
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by almog 4y ago
> Collective (learned) helplessness here is really going to fuck us over, we already forgot how to run servers it seems, now we're not even able to host services.. soon we won't know how to write code, I'm sure. I agree wi
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by almog 4y ago
The Hierarchical Timing Wheels is an efficient data structure/algorithm for managing timers (event scheduling) when: 1. The timers variance is large. 2. Timers are likely to be cancelled. 3. A fixed (configurable) precision is configur
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by almog 4y ago
Was going to mention Fenwick Tree here as well, but since you've already did, I'll just add that this is IMO a great introduction to Fenwick Trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPaJfAUwViY
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by almog 4y ago
Another advantage to Fenwick Tree: while it shares asymptotic space complexity with Segment Tree, it has better constant factors, which can be useful in very restricted environments.
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by almog 4y ago
I guess that would work great even today for _internal_ emails, but as soon as they'll need to deliver emails to any address that's hosted behind gmail, outlook and probably other dominant players, there's a long list of conf
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by almog 4y ago
> Starting a fire would be easy, not obvious and devastating. I'm not sure how starting a fire would be non-obvious but, in general, fire prevention, detection and suppression a risk that space crews are well trained to deal with,
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by almog 4y ago
>probably a thousand other things that would result in the deaths of everyone aboard? Guns are just a distraction in this case, or more precisely, removal of guns from this situation doesn’t seem to meaningfully reduce risk I imagine tha
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by almog 4y ago
For me at least, it's quite on the contrary, there are few viable cases for content I wish not to consume via RSS. Some of my reasons are: 1. Having a central place where I can keep track of my my reading lists. 2. Offline first (downl
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by almog 4y ago
> The hardest part of building any search engine is keeping the index up-to-date with changes made to the underlying data store. That makes sense and I'm curious to know if you're referring to the challenges that arise from att
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by almog 4y ago
Good point. I did try to say that whether that's a viable technique would depend on your query (but omitted some verb that should have made it better resemble a sentence in English :)). But yes, even if no nulls are present in any tabl
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by almog 4y ago
I agree that this is often the use case but depending on how the query (as well as how sparse the nulls are, the total data size and partitioning scheme I guess) it's also possible to achieve this through a join-table without introduci
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by almog 4y ago
This is the original video post by the hiker who caught this footage: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfyT6xcA27D/ It was sheer luck that the entire group came out of it without significant injuries. Had they went do
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by almog 4y ago
Non paywall: https://archive.fo/kOsEH
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by almog 4y ago
Also here: http://web.archive.org/web/20220708191653/https://www.vice.c...
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Google might extract parts of its ads business into a separate Alphabet entity(wsj.com)
3 points by almog 4y ago|1 comments
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Congress to Investigate Data Brokers and Period Tracking Apps(vice.com)
5 points by almog 4y ago|1 comments
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by almog 4y ago
Ironically, around a year ago I disclosed (using their White Hat bug bounty program) that I'm able to access recruitment data (candidates details mostly) using very cheap form of scraping against a 3rd party service provider, they dism
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by almog 4y ago
After going through Google Reader, Feedly, Newsblur and QuiteRSS, I've finally settled on Newsboat, as I can really customize it to my needs, debug it and even integrate custom html to rss generators. For example, ebay has recently rec
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by almog 4y ago
Non-paywall: https://archive.fo/zjEn4
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Meta to shut down Novi service in September(bloomberg.com)
2 points by almog 4y ago|1 comments
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by almog 4y ago
To that I'll add another common problem: people don't monitor their own mic, thus even if they invest in a decent dynamic mic, it's easy to fall into bad mic technique, too much gain that results in clipping or insufficient g
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by almog 4y ago
Wasn't aware of it either. Chris has video where he shows how it can be used to create a smooth edge on a card scraper (prior to burnishing): https://vimeo.com/154986086 I find that file alone is quite enough for me b
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by almog 4y ago
I haven't upgraded my Mac for a while and been wondering about what the measured range of delay might be for M1 (or M2) over 1080p video at 24fps. My experience on an older Mac (late 2014) was that even at 320x240 I'd get non-negl
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by almog 4y ago
Nice to see these world collide here on HN! Hope you don't mind me sharing the truly dirtiest trick of them all: when you realize you didn't hit that sub 10 lbs base weight, start marking them items as worn weight. What, surely th
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by almog 4y ago
> it's not suggesting we should do anything to black people Should I provide you with a list of racial slurs that do not suggest to do something to a minority? > "Yellow" means caution or slow in most contexts. It'

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