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by chrchang523 4y ago
Note that "well-administered for a military, but not well-administered in absolute terms" can be a feature rather than a bug, as long as the military is able to attract and utilize better human capital in times of trouble. I agre
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by chrchang523 4y ago
Note that Google's "Frequent rewrites" practice -- see section 2.11 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01715.pdf -- substantially reduces the severity of this problem (though it requires a good higher-level a
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by chrchang523 4y ago
Yeah, I regularly link to LAPACK today and sometimes use gfortran on Ubuntu to do this. The associated learning curve could be gentler, but this is definitely not a lost art.
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by chrchang523 4y ago
If you haven’t had enough, https://pistolshrimpgames.com/uqm2/ might be relevant…
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by chrchang523 4y ago
A world where Twitter is controlled by a self-interested Musk, while Facebook is basically aligned with the US political establishment, enables better dissemination of ideas than a world where Twitter and Facebook are both aligned with the
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by chrchang523 4y ago
Yeah, I remember hearing about "190000 Russian troops" at the outbreak of this operation, and thinking that that was an awfully small number given the size of Ukraine.
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by chrchang523 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22140337
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by chrchang523 4y ago
(2018)
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by chrchang523 4y ago
Much higher than the previous official inflation rate of 2% per year, yes. But not (previously, anyway) higher than 11%.
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by chrchang523 4y ago
I was able to migrate to render.com this weekend.
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by chrchang523 4y ago
See also https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/ , which makes the point that slack and efficiency are not opposites: "Slack prevents desperation. You can avoid bad trades and wait for bett
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by chrchang523 4y ago
Yes, debug logging is a great way to encode educated guesses about where unexpected behavior will appear in the future, in a way that should save time on net when a guess is correct. But one should be aware of its limits. Debugging often i
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by chrchang523 4y ago
To be fair, engineers didn't all have smartphones that could take great photos in 2006.
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by chrchang523 4y ago
"Your margin is my opportunity." Is this behavior significantly reducing the startup's competitiveness? If so, this should be exploitable by a competitor. Assuming you don't have the bandwidth to directly work for or ad
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by chrchang523 5y ago
One significant omission from this comparison: the Ukraine:Russia population ratio (~0.285) is almost TWENTY TIMES as large as the Taiwan:PRC ratio (~0.0163). The Ukraine:Russia ratio is almost as large as the ratio between the Confederacy
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Closely related topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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by chrchang523 5y ago
It is worth noting here that this "one assembly instruction" is not that cheap. The hardware on a multicore system does have to perform some locking under the hood to execute that instruction. But yes, it still has enough of an
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Like Elon Musk, he wasn't born in the US and is therefore ineligible. (edit: "natural-born citizen" is not as well-defined as I thought, and Ted Cruz qualifies on account of having a US citizen parent at the time of his birt
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Are you aware of any games made in the last 20 years with writing quality comparable to Star Control II (or Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)?
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Note that, if you coded these two Fibonacci functions in e.g. Python 3, the "naive" solution remains correct as n goes into triple digits, while the "fancy" one runs into floating point error and then range overflow...
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by chrchang523 5y ago
If you look at the rest of Tanner Greer's blog, you would quickly learn that he has read a lot of other material about China, and has also spent time on the ground there.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Source for "Trust in governments is at an all-time low"? I looked at the G7 numbers for 2006-2020 at https://data.oecd.org/gga/trust-in-government.htm , and they do not seem consistent with this claim.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Counterexample: a lot of Americans, especially here at Hacker News, think highly of Snowden even though he betrayed the US government.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Well, Hong Kong had plenty of co-dependence with the rest of China, and everyone already expected greater integration in 2047; yet the CCP still chose to accelerate the schedule in defiance of the expectations of both a majority of HK citiz
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by chrchang523 5y ago
This is made more difficult by the fact that Tibetans tend to have biological adaptations to life at that altitude which Han Chinese lack.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Not an endorsement, but you might want to take a look at the scale that human moderation is currently applied at in China.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
It is worth noting here that the 1876 election was substantially worse than recent events, and US democracy survived that.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Yeah, the author is using "accuracy" when he means "precision" on many occasions, and the lack of awareness of this distinction greatly lowers the blogpost's quality.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
Nitpick: it's the related "count trailing zeros" operation that is useful (in combination with movemask) there, not popcount itself.
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by chrchang523 5y ago
There is an interesting "converse" to this observation for open-source projects, though. Namely: if a nontrivial abandoned project is still widely used, it probably represents a major career opportunity for anyone willing to take

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