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901.
by chongli 2y ago
I think it's also important to make a distinction between a pair of programs which compute the same function using an identical amount of space and time and a pair of programs which compute the same function with different amounts of e
902.
by chongli 2y ago
Population isn't the only factor. Do Indonesians buy a lot of Apple products?
903.
by chongli 2y ago
I think McDonald’s is under different ownership in different countries. They may even be using a different supplier for ice cream machines in Australia!
904.
by chongli 2y ago
It correlates with demand. These things go down quickly during peak demand because they can't maintain cold temps. You'll often see this during summer heatwaves as people flock to drive-thrus to grab some ice cream!
905.
by chongli 2y ago
The Wendy's frosty machine doesn't have the same automatic cleaning cycle and pasteurization feature that the McDonald's ice cream machine has. Thus Wendy's employees need to tear the machine down and clean it by hand, a
906.
by chongli 2y ago
Category theory does not derive the idea of a monad from philosophy, it merely reuses the word for an entirely unrelated purpose. It's like how a frog [1] to a farrier has nothing to do with the frog [2] from everyday use, nor to the f
907.
by chongli 2y ago
No, Kramnik deserved a ban because he was going after not-well-connected, young, up-and-coming players who have no other recourse to defend themselves. Nakamura made it very clear that he was not going to tolerate this because it jeopardize
908.
by chongli 2y ago
Kramnik is a former world champion who has taken a torch to his own reputation by accusing tons of people of cheating without evidence. He’s been banned as a regular columnist on chess.com after using his column as a platform to attack peop
909.
by chongli 2y ago
I'm surprised to see anyone bring him up here!
910.
by chongli 2y ago
The usual method to scoring top grades on an essay/paper is to flatter the professor. Not with literal platitudes but with a paper you think they’ll agree with, incorporating arguments similar to the ones they made in class, etc. Howev
911.
by chongli 2y ago
To add to this I feel the need to point out that the writing skill demonstrated by the average mid-length Hacker News comment is above the level you’d need to pass grade 12 English in Ontario. It’s an extremely low bar! Of course, if Englis
912.
by chongli 2y ago
Language is infinitely productive. Using a finite number of sounds or symbols, humans can produce unlimited utterance chains to communicate novel and complex ideas. Think about it: almost every nontrivial conversation you’ve had or comment&
913.
by chongli 2y ago
What about when reading and writing? My inner monologue internally voices the words as I’m reading and writing. Do you not do that?
914.
by chongli 2y ago
The “how many R’s are in the word strawberry?” problem can’t be solved by LLMs specifically because they do not have access to the text directly. Before the model sees the user input it’s been tokenized by a preprocessing step. So instead o
915.
by chongli 2y ago
Also Scrooge’s cash was in the form of gold coins that appreciate in value as commodity gold does. If it were a silo full of fiat currency it would be depreciating with inflation!
916.
by chongli 2y ago
Because memory vulnerabilities don't make programs immune to other dumb mistakes. You get these vulnerabilities on top of everything else that can go wrong in a program. The issue is that these great new tools don't just fix the
917.
by chongli 2y ago
K&R actually teaches this as a desirable idiom? People should not be recommending K&R to beginners today!
918.
by chongli 2y ago
Well in a language like Haskell you could solve this with monads and do-notation. The general idiom in Haskell is to use a Maybe or Either monad to capture success/failure and you assume you’re on the happy path. Then you put the error
919.
by chongli 2y ago
It’s not really an issue for me because I use a Mac. Having said that, I did remap the caps lock key to control which helps a lot. I usually press it with my ring finger.
920.
by chongli 2y ago
Please don’t quote me out of context. The full quote is: So then we should not be surprised at all that it’s so common for women to have an unrealistic picture of their prospects. I was talking about the mechanisms for why women would hav
921.
by chongli 2y ago
I’m not accusing anyone of being unhappy. I am believing people when they say they are unhappy. Furthermore I said specifically that it’s not women’s fault.
922.
by chongli 2y ago
It’s not about obligation, it’s about loneliness. That was the start of this whole thread. Women with unrealistic expectations creating the conditions for their own loneliness. I don’t think it’s entirely their fault though, as others in th
923.
by chongli 2y ago
I think it’s what you’re used to. I’m used to the Mac keyboard (since 1994) and I much prefer the command key for keyboard shortcuts. I can use my thumb all day but pressing control with my pinkie starts to hurt really quickly!
924.
by chongli 2y ago
Enshittification! Microsoft used to earn a lot of revenue from selling perpetual software licenses (like any software company in the 1990s). Now they've pivoted over to services, SaaS, and ad-driven freemium software (Windows itself).
925.
by chongli 2y ago
Conversely, throwing an NP hard leetcode hard at a senior dev with 20 years of experience and excellent culture fit with your organization in the 9th interview is basically meaningless. Worse than meaningless, it's a great way to tos
926.
by chongli 2y ago
For example, family-owned businesses are equally "capitalism", but they don't show up much in this kind of product-degradation story. Family owned businesses can be sold to private equity just like any other. Instant Pot wa
927.
by chongli 2y ago
to put a finer point on it: capitalism. That's still an extremely blunt point. While we can imagine some alternative world where we all live in a communist utopia and the internet is the great free place it was in its early days, it&
928.
by chongli 2y ago
It gets a lot better with an ad blocker and other annoyance-blockers. The deeper question is whether or not you think it’s worth it. I think many people visit Fandom pages only briefly from a SERP and then take off, like Wikipedia but speci
929.
by chongli 2y ago
Because having some degree of runway is almost always necessary but never sufficient. Thousands of Americans receive similar amounts of money from their parents in the form of inheritance of the family home and other major assets. Only one
930.
by chongli 2y ago
The author made this game for his son. I think this qualifies more as a hobby/side project than a serious effort at delivering a marketable game. In the hobby case I think the conventional wisdom no longer applies. That puts this sort

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