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by benkuhn 6y ago
I think this depends a lot on what peers you have access to through your work and whether you'd expect them to be comparably awesome (both in their competence and the depth of relationship you're able to build with them) to whoeve
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by benkuhn 7y ago
> Most of them are not classified as banks and run without banking licenses and governmental oversight. They are more convenient and cheaper but definitely a little riskier as well. This is really misleading. (Disclosure: I work for a re
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Ethernet Is Worth It for Video Calls(jefftk.com)
2 points by benkuhn 7y ago|0 comments
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by benkuhn 7y ago
You can make it precise if the language in which you define a "useful real" is richer than the language in which individual useful reals must be defined. For instance, model theorists will talk about definable reals in a model of
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by benkuhn 7y ago
> "Day 1" is when a country reaches 100 cases. A country is "X days behind Italy" if they reached 100 cases that many days after Italy did. Before 100 cases, the evolution of the epidemic is noisy, but it becomes pret
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by benkuhn 7y ago
South Korea had no mandatory shutdown, but according to Suki Kim nearly the entire city of Daegu voluntarily self-quarantined shortly after Patient 31 was confirmed positive. (Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news
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by benkuhn 7y ago
It's true that they weakened the wording in that section of the body, but the description of the actual research does make it sound like the factor of 1,000 was a typical case, not the worst case: > Using a popular family hatchback
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by benkuhn 7y ago
I'm somewhat surprised by how many people are focusing only on who owns the IP. You are now in a negotiation, and so "what can I ask for" is largely determined by "what is the BATNA,"[1] i.e. what happens if you and
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by benkuhn 7y ago
Sorry about that! I built dark mode after writing this post and it broke the main text color inside the `pre`s, which should have been #222. Should be fixed now.
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by benkuhn 7y ago
Sorry to everyone who complained about the colors! I added a dark mode recently and it broke the custom CSS in this post. I've fixed it now. (Well, you may still not believe it's fixed :P )
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by benkuhn 7y ago
Hey Michael, thanks for commenting! (And thanks for making f.lux which I've found incredibly useful for years!) I strongly agree that it's important to change light levels throughout the day; it's very obvious that bulbs this
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by benkuhn 7y ago
Have you tried buying higher CRI LEDs? Halogens have very good color rendering compared to typical LEDs (100 vs ~80 for typical LEDs), but you can buy specialty bulbs with closer-to-natural spectra. I haven't dug much into off the shel
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by benkuhn 7y ago
Ah, this does seem quite plausible--my local power utility doesn't seem super competent, and my landlord doesn't seem particularly excited about maintaining my house :)
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by benkuhn 7y ago
While LEDs do produce some waste heat, efficient ones convert 50%+ of the input power to visible light, so it's less than you might think (compare to ~10% for incandescents, iirc). The bulb I have doesn't have a perceptible effect
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by benkuhn 7y ago
If a 120-degree cone is good enough for you, try searching for "high bay lights"? E.g.: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=high+bay+lights If you're willing to pay more for much better color rendering than mine, my c
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by benkuhn 7y ago
Looks really interesting! How does it behave with slow/unreliable networks? Do you buffer events if they don’t go through immediately? What’s typical data usage for the SDK?
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by benkuhn 7y ago
This argument seems backwards. As far as I know, no database has ever had any of the problems he mentions with IDs not round-tripping properly during backup/restore. (Please correct me if I'm wrong! But why do I think this is true
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by benkuhn 7y ago
Everyone who's interpreting this in the context of full-time work / the traditional notion of "10x programmer" (i.e. ~every toplevel commenter) should read the abstract: > A "hero" project is one where 80% o
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by benkuhn 8y ago
> the median global network and device are both quite slow. This means a lot of the network gains from QUIC are potentially (largely) undone by the slower hardware. The rest of the article made reasonable points but this is a really bad
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by benkuhn 8y ago
It looks like the opposite to me? TCP minimum header is 20 bytes.[1] QUIC "short header" (after key negotiation) looks like it can go down to 2 bytes for non-roaming connections with a 1-byte packet number, if the server allows th
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by benkuhn 8y ago
Thanks! This is fair and useful criticism. I will update the post. In the case of the particular person I originally wrote this for he wasn't looking at FAANG, and my impression is that most large companies are not competitive with the
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by benkuhn 8y ago
I have this problem often when I’m in Africa. Sometimes the case shocks me very lightly as well. I’ve always assumed it’s a problem with lack of grounding and/or dirty power. (Had it with non-macs as well)
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by benkuhn 9y ago
It's a little disappointing to see so many developers--maybe on average the most comfortable job in the world right now--prioritizing comforts like compensation, using their favorite languages, or remote work, over helping to improve t
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by benkuhn 9y ago
For anyone else who was confused by the headline: it's "high-risk" research in the sense of "speculative" or likely to have null results, not in the sense of e.g. the lethal virus research that was on here a few day
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by benkuhn 9y ago
I think you missed something. Previously, machine translation required being trained on a bilingual corpus, that is, a corpus of the same set of sentences in eg English and French. These corpora are pretty hard to come by and expensive to
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It’s Okay Not to Like Modern Art(medium.com)
2 points by benkuhn 9y ago|0 comments
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by benkuhn 10y ago
Wait, that's still awful! It allows you to crack each character individually. For instance, a 10-letter password requires 26^10 ~= 1.4e14 attempts to test every option if you only have a hash of the full password, but only 10*26 = 260
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by benkuhn 10y ago
I mean, the uncertainties in the middle are less interesting than the uncertainties at the extremes. I'm sure you can't say anything useful about melon, but it would be interesting to know if (e.g.) "sleep" was consisten
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by benkuhn 10y ago
It's astonishing (and really awesome) that they were able to extract such a strong signal from daily weight swings! This makes me a lot more optimistic about the possibilities of quantified-self-type stuff. Three things I'm really
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by benkuhn 10y ago
I would really have liked to see them check whether the gender-blinding actually worked. Even if someone's voice is modulated, they may have gendered behavior patterns that could influence someone's performance ratings. I wouldn&#

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