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by cldellow 4y ago
D'oh, thanks, I've fixed that mistake in my comment.
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by cldellow 4y ago
Vern Unsworth is a cave diver who assisted with the Thai cave rescue a few years ago. He was derisive of Musk, who wanted Tesla engineers to help rescue the trapped children. Musk responded to this criticism by calling Unsworth a "pedo
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by cldellow 4y ago
It's worth noting that this presentation is from July 2016, and Rails 7 was released in December 2021.
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by cldellow 4y ago
In 2012, I was doing NLP stuff with the Stanford NLP POS tagger. They claimed it was highly optimized, and hey, who was I to doubt them? But man, it sure _felt_ slow. So I did some _very minimal_ profiling and, as a complete outsider, found
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by cldellow 4y ago
> doesn't support multi-core Can you expand on that? I thought it supported multiple readers, but only a single writer. They do all have to be on the same host, though. Since you mentioned Django - I think there are some complexitie
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by cldellow 4y ago
My path was: operate a high-volume service. It will fall over and force you to learn (unfortunately, through Googling). Less facetiously... I found searching for blogs by quantitative traders useful. You can write JVM code that has excellen
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by cldellow 4y ago
The jstat output also shows that CCS is at 99.21% usage, which could support this theory. At a previous company, we operated some Scala services and ran into an issue like this. I forget if it was triggered from a JDK update or a Scala upda
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by cldellow 4y ago
That page looks very helpful! I giggled at them trying to explain Mastodon, though: > There is no such thing as a social network called Mastodon! Instead there are thousands of independent social networks called Mastodon Instances. ...th
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by cldellow 4y ago
Presumably the artists are smart folks and can switch instances if they feel the rules are too limiting [1]. mastodon.art's policies are too restrictive for my tastes, and so...I don't use them, and wouldn't encourage others
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by cldellow 4y ago
Fedifinder produces a file you can import into Mastodon: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
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by cldellow 4y ago
I guess I'm quibbling over what he was forced to do, so maybe we're talking past each other. He _chose_ to buy it, with very few conditions. Presumably he was advised by very skilled lawyers during this transaction. He was _forced
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by cldellow 4y ago
"forced" is doing some heavy lifting to describe the world's richest person voluntarily making a binding offer to buy something. He's rich, he's smart, I feel comfortable ascribing agency to him.
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by cldellow 4y ago
I mean, page 9 of the bankruptcy filing says Alameda Research loaned SBF $1,000,000,000 [1], and a couple billion in loans to other owners or companies owned by the owners. Maybe he just fucked up. But when the music stops and instead of ha
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by cldellow 4y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but I noticed you said: > "and possibly for long hours" Why did you add the word possibly? The email explicitly says "this will mean working long hours". (I think wor
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by cldellow 4y ago
Twitter is under a consent decree from the FTC due to misusing users data in the past. This means they must do certain compliance activities that other companies don't. It sucks. Source: I worked at Microsoft while they were under a co
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by cldellow 4y ago
An owner is well-positioned to know the truth, but also has strong incentives to mislead to serve their own purpose. (See also: all the posts about crypto exchanges recently. I'm not saying Musk is a scammer, more that there are litera
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by cldellow 4y ago
Shkreli got 7 years, for crimes where it's debatable how much, if any, money his investors lost. I think 7 years in prison is pretty significant. Belfort got 2 years, another exec at his company got 3 years. That doesn't seem sign
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by cldellow 4y ago
It's from his email: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1590750376118341632 "Performance advertising" is a marketing term, as distinct from "brand advertising". Brand advertising: feel
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by cldellow 4y ago
That's a transcription error, it's not $38, it's $3B. You can see the source PDF here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23112929-elon-musk-t...
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by cldellow 4y ago
I think you're saying that if you were being fired, and you were given a choice of: (1) you're fired immediately, with 3 months severance pay (2) 6 months notice, at the end, you're fired with no severance pay you'd pref
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by cldellow 4y ago
I'm open to the idea that there might be some employees who would find this more humane. However, I think a lot of people really struggle with uncertainty. During these six months, especially in a large corporate environment, there wou
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by cldellow 4y ago
Some possible reasons: You may not get the number of volunteers you need, so you still have to do layoffs. Except now, more people have been stressing about it for a longer period of time. The "low performers" who will have a hard
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by cldellow 4y ago
The 6 times faster benchmark from that article is describing a Java server and Java client. This thread is about protobuf vs JSON in a JavaScript environment. The article you linked _does_ talk about JavaScript environments, too, but the nu
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by cldellow 4y ago
> special snowflake build toolchains That reminds me, wasn't there a build tool called Snowflake? Oh, it was called Snowpack [1]. And it's no longer being actively maintained. Yeesh. [1]: https://www.snowpack.dev&#x2
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by cldellow 4y ago
gzip is a pretty old, pretty core program, so I imagine it's largely in maintenance mode, and that there is a lot of friction to pushing large changes into it. At one point, pigz required the pthreads library to build. If it still does
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by cldellow 4y ago
Yeah, weird's an imprecise adjective. I'm not sure what the right one is -- I'm not assuming a nefarious motive, so I wanted a word that didn't have too much emotional baggage. For me, it's about transparency. Defin
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by cldellow 4y ago
I agree with what you're saying. At the same time, it feels weird that you work at Stripe, are responding to a question about Stripe, but are talking about companies generally while not disclosing that you work for Stripe.
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by cldellow 4y ago
I think you're thinking of The New Yorker, not the New York Times.
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The linked font has 92 characters (lowercase, uppercase, digits, symbols, punctuation) A 3x2 font can only represent 64 (2^6) characters. So I guess part of the golfing would be defining what the minimum set of characters is.
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by cldellow 4y ago
? It is literally coming from Meta. That's what the subpoena and court filings that are screenshotted on that page show. Meta sought the subpoena, the court granted it, and now Simula has to testify at a deposition where the questions

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