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by arijun 6y ago
They make trades at one exchange based of prices at another. For that reason there has been a lot of microwave relays set up between New York and Chicago, for example. Starlink could reduce latency from New York to London, another important
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by arijun 6y ago
I was hoping for something a bit more innovative or comprehensive, this seems to be just an oneil cylinder with no windows.
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by arijun 6y ago
Most languages don’t have dynamically resizing arrays, so IMHO vec is a better fit. But my point wasn’t about the name. It was that if you don’t want to incur the costs associated with automatic resizing or with the indirection in python li
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by arijun 6y ago
> python, but tov (good) More like “python, but rah (bad),” from where I’m standing. I’m surprised that there’s anyone who prefers brackets to indentation, unless the joke is going over my head. It’s much easier to spot an incorrectly in
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by arijun 6y ago
There are no such requirements, those are guidelines. All that’s required is you indent at all, and that it’s self-consistent.
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by arijun 6y ago
You're right. If a more efficient but unordered dict were to come out, it would have to be in an import and have less comfortable syntax, since the base dict has a requirement for preserving insert order. But python is not C, and speed
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by arijun 6y ago
The reason for the change for more compact dicts. Thus the fact that it also preserved insertion order was a happy accident with no additional cost; what I called "free".
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by arijun 6y ago
I'm surprised that there seem to be no examples anywhere of anyone seriously using chorded typing for programming. After cheap chorded keyboards entered the market and the associated software became free, I assumed it would only be a m
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by arijun 6y ago
Actually in this case I believe it did come for free due to a change in the way dict was implemented in 3.6: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-September/...
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by arijun 6y ago
I can’t find it now but iirc there was a blog post on HN about a month ago that estimated their training costs at $25 million, using many TPU pods.
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by arijun 6y ago
I would say really deceptive, or perhaps just plain wrong. The circles are, in fact, intended to convey coverage and left me pretty confused about the huge gaps everywhere. From the about section: > Dashed lines show the approximate cove
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by arijun 6y ago
This guy makes good points, and then muddles them by taking them too far. In the two examples given is basically "don't have these problems in the first place." Which would be great, if it was that easy. Since no one can snap
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by arijun 6y ago
For context, the author Chris Olah is a researcher at Open AI, who I think is one of the most clear and thoughtful writers in the space. He has a lot of articles on understanding ML models, and pioneers new methods of visualizations and int
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by arijun 6y ago
Thanks for that explanation, I was wondering how it worked.
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by arijun 6y ago
Yes? The whole thing may have been a ploy but I (and I assume GP) think their stated plan was very reasonable.
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by arijun 6y ago
This is a more polarizing opinion, but as someone who doesn't own a car I firmly support removing private cars from many cities altogether. Make anyone who wants to come in or out park outside the city and take public transport/bi
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by arijun 6y ago
What are some of the things?
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by arijun 6y ago
Wow, thanks for turning me on to this guys channel. I like how he goes through the science in a way that’s accessible but doesn’t skimp or handwave.
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by arijun 6y ago
Funnily enough, when I was first reading your comment, I was thinking, yeah, being a rocket scientist is great, but people who play KSP probably have better intuition about how wacky things like this would fly (as per the XKCD[1])[2]. [1]
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by arijun 6y ago
This is very cute! But I wonder why the creator decided to special case of Scunthorpe and not more common terms like peacock
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by arijun 6y ago
Actually one of Mobileye’s big strengths is their custom chips. They are purpose built and very efficient, which allows them to mount them under the windshield (important for their main business, ADAS), and they are built with the needs of
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by arijun 6y ago
It seems the job of driving a tractor involves everything but the one thing I would have guessed, actually driving it!
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by arijun 6y ago
I'm sure it's been said many times before, but there's a special irony to reading an essay about procrastination in order to avoid doing work.
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by arijun 7y ago
Wow seeing 2 other people post the same thing as me at the same time made me realize just how pedantic we all are.
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by arijun 7y ago
All of physics is simplifications. Calling one model a myth while relying on other simplifications (no friction, Newtonian physics) seems like clickbait to me.
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by arijun 7y ago
Really cool website! Makes it much easier to visualize the difference between different types of orbits. One suggestion would be to either disable panning or give a snap to center button. I found it too easy to pan by accident when zooming
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by arijun 7y ago
I wasn't linking that blog because of anything it has to say about veganism and that picture, but rather because it's proof the picture is from hurricane Harvey.
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by arijun 7y ago
That last photo is from hurricane Harvey, it seems slate didn’t even bother doing the basic fact checking of reading the top tweet responses (where I found this: https://avocadbro.com/fact-check/vegan-food-photo-mislead
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by arijun 7y ago
I agree completely. Putting a guide wire in the road would be spending a lot of money to (incompletely) solve a problem that’s already been solved.
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by arijun 7y ago
Your wish has been granted, just download the latest Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/11/04/restricti...

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