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by cbhl 8y ago
The wiki can get you there, but I still recommend going through the stages (with the Wiki open to make it go faster) to see the ending itself. https://universalpaperclips.gamepedia.com/Universal_Papercli...
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by cbhl 8y ago
Governments can contain businesses, and those businesses should run sort-of like businesses. They should care about customers. Ideally, not at a huge deficit. In Canada, this is called a "crown corporation". Canadian examples incl
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by cbhl 8y ago
You know what would be great? Someone should combine this with 401k contributions/matching, and make it opt-in by default. Let's say everyone gets, say, $250/month ($3000/year). If you have student loan debt, it goes to
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by cbhl 8y ago
Wasn't the result of this that nobody runs conduits anymore? "Microtrenching" is the new hotness (aka, let's dig a hole 1cm wide and put a wire in without a conduit, and cover it back up).
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by cbhl 8y ago
It's not at all clear that FAQ link is tied to Lockbox; I usually associate small gray links at the bottom to be domain-wide boilerplate (privacy policies, getting a phone number to call support, etc). I would have expected visiting fr
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by cbhl 8y ago
I was under the impression that those kinds of tricks already happen with today's technology. Advertisers will put the advertised price in a hotlinked image served from a server, and they will both (1) use the image being fetched as a
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by cbhl 8y ago
If you phrase the problem as "design a better hash table, given the hash function h(x) = 4", then the obvious first thing to do is discard the provided hash function, and use any reasonable hash table implementation with a new has
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by cbhl 8y ago
I would argue that an organization the scale of Facebook is the most likely place for this mistake to happen. Log in and sign up pages -- especially on mobile web -- are being constantly iterated on by "growth" and "emerging
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by cbhl 8y ago
It's constant-time lookup (only two possible places to check). But if you give it the "return 4" hash function, it will fail to insert after the second or third entry. The result is the same, you have to fall back to somethin
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by cbhl 8y ago
If memory overhead (load factor) isn't a big issue, readers may also find cuckoo hashing rather interesting. (Theoretically, it has a worst-case constant lookup time. Learned about it in one of my university algorithms classes, but hav
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by cbhl 8y ago
It doesn't; what I meant to say is that "just because you don't see slackers doesn't mean they're not there". As for the courses and the professors' capabilities, there are a bunch of systemic issues there
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by cbhl 8y ago
For a CS degree, the slackers can read the slides at home, do the assignments from home, and only come in to do the exams. You're not going to see them until the graduation ceremony. (At least, I didn't.)
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Google GDC 2019 Gaming Announcement(youtube.com)
2 points by cbhl 8y ago|0 comments
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by cbhl 8y ago
I think folks have, but it's hard for any one group to break the loop: Local government mostly represents native San Franciscans who, understandably, do not want to give up their home so that "other people" can live there (ev
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by cbhl 8y ago
(Disclaimer in bio.) It's not the edge cache itself that matters; it's that many ISPs peer directly with Google. Google Cloud can route the audio/video/keyboard packets mostly over Google's private network and then
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by cbhl 8y ago
Reasonably well paid doesn't alway hold compared to the cost (and supply) of housing in the bay area; new grads are often forced to share bedrooms even though they make $110k+. (This isn't entirely tech companies' fault --
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by cbhl 8y ago
Probably to avoid tipping off the robo-callers' authors
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by cbhl 8y ago
Maybe to fit in better with the surrounding neighborhood? There's a lot of English on signs in Tokyo; in part because foreign cultures are cool, and in part because it's friendlier to tourists. (They also have the Olympics coming
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How Do You Do, FNU? Some in U.S. Handle Just One Name(wsj.com)
2 points by cbhl 8y ago|1 comments
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by cbhl 8y ago
If you work on a sufficiently long lived system, you also discover that you usually want string ids instead of numerical ids. Among other things, numerical ids are subject to enumeration attack (especially if exposed in a GET url parameters
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by cbhl 8y ago
In my opinion, the root cause of this is that Linux made a conscious decision to not maintain binary ABI compatibility with device drivers. Android is open source, and Linux-based. The licenses allow phone manufacturers to fork Android and
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by cbhl 8y ago
Agree on the iPad recommendation. That said, 2-in-1 x86_64 Chrome OS devices are bearable. Unlike Android; all the drivers are upstream. I really like my Samsung Chromebook Pro, but would recommend looking for something that's on a lat
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by cbhl 8y ago
The problem is that Apple isn't the leader, by market share, in cell phones. That would be Android.
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by cbhl 8y ago
> the single mother who wants to give her children milk are less important The Canadians thought of that too! They give parents a refundable tax credit of $5481-6496/year per kid under 18, and that's just at the federal level.
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by cbhl 8y ago
There are jurisdictions outside of the US that transmit health records by fax to avoid them being subject to the USA PATRIOT Act when they transit routers in the United States.
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by cbhl 8y ago
Here's my attempt: Making multiple computers all store the same thing is hard because they have to send messages between each other, and sometimes messages get lost. Other people have tried to write down how they solved this problem, b
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by cbhl 8y ago
I'm under the impression that the IFRS (international accounting standard that replaces GAAP) changes this: equity instruments need to be measured at fair value, even if they have unrealized gains or losses. https://www.iasp
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by cbhl 8y ago
I'm way less worried about this than when Waymo was originally called the Google Self-Driving Car Project. If Uber and Tesla continue with their current plans, they will have enough accidents that self-driving cars being in accidents w
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by cbhl 8y ago
Does that address show up when you request your credit report by mail? It should be free (apart from postage).
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by cbhl 8y ago
Only if you're writing words in the dictionary, and you're using the English alphabet. Handwriting recognition is way more impactful for users in, say, Chinese.

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