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by crdrost 3y ago
I would assume that "believed" is not meant to be interpreted in an active personal sense but in a passive configuration sense. That is, I'd expect there was a flag in a database somewhere saying that those service accounts w
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by crdrost 3y ago
Oh my goodness -- I had this idea!! When I first read a blog post titled "Macaroons are better than cookies" I started thinking about the operational side and I really didn't like the fact that you had to make a network round
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by crdrost 3y ago
I think this is fun, but (a) knights' threats are disconnected and this "flower" approach while good is maybe not ideal. You might as well use a hollow circle at that point. (b) when we say "chess pieces can be redesigne
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by crdrost 3y ago
So I actually predicted that "probably next year this time there will be more layoffs" when I was laid off about this same time last year by Google. I'm just surprised that it's in the ballpark of ~1000 and not say ~5000
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by crdrost 3y ago
CICO is very nice if you put it into the proper context, which is, 1. The scale lies. Liar liar pants on fire it lies. (We could go into this in detail, my wife never seems convinced, but it is to my mind a basic fact of the physics of the
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by crdrost 3y ago
It's kind of shouting into the void but I always wanted to try to teach high school physics starting from energies rather than forces/velocities/other vectors... And the easiest places where people run into energies are light
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by crdrost 3y ago
Quick glossary: DAS - "Delayed autoshift," the delay is between when you press the button and when the long keypress starts to register as multiple clicks, auto-shifting the piece to the sides. So this is kind of a software-based
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by crdrost 3y ago
I am pleasantly surprised at how the monotonous crunch of the author’s meandering monosyllables really underscores how wrong he is. At times it’s forced caveman speech -- oops, I mean “words of ones who lived before books in caves and did
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by crdrost 3y ago
Slight change to the description: "Sometimes interpreting data is easy. For example, one of the reasons we know that smoking causes lung cancer is that when only -6dB of the population smoked, +6dB of people with lung cancer were smoke
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by crdrost 3y ago
They discuss in the article that the key thing is for the next Fibonacci number to not overflow, so you need f(n+1) < b hence b > φ^{n+1}/√5. So to calculate the best base for the n'th Fibonacci number, compute the (n+1)th F
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by crdrost 3y ago
Yeah I think this comment basically sums up my cynicism about that video. It's that, you know some of this happened and you don't know how much. So when it says "what the quack!" presumably the model was prompted &quot
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by crdrost 3y ago
For a while now, whenever I have taught SQL to people (which was only I think 3 times over like 8 years) I ask them to imagine that the word SELECT can be replaced with AGGREGATE which unlocks these magical words GROUP BY and SUM and so for
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by crdrost 3y ago
This also means you probably refrigerate some for the next day, which increases the "resistant starch" content, which might make them even healthier for you.
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by crdrost 3y ago
Sorry, you're right, got that switched around in my head.
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by crdrost 3y ago
XSLT was the best! Well, except for the syntax and the lack of resources and that it wasn't designed to be a programming language... Okay so it wasn't the best. But somewhere in there is a language which does want to be the best
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by crdrost 3y ago
> Additionally, dietary fiber from whole grains, cereals, and vegetables was associated with a reduced risk of all-cause mortality, while dietary fiber from nuts and seeds reduced the risk of CVD-related death by 43% Importantly, as HN f
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by crdrost 3y ago
I mean I think it can be, given that there's a $20-$30 markup per order, but it definitely requires some particular circumstances. The bigger thing is that if you're thinking of Lean manufacturing principles or Theory of Constrain
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by crdrost 3y ago
He's not, not really. This is neither directed at the guy nor is it all that fanciful. To understand it you do need to read it very carefully, though, this is kind of an "intellectual exercise" bit from Mark in my view. Sorry
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by crdrost 3y ago
FWIW if you're looking for book recommendations this is similar to the thesis of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
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by crdrost 3y ago
I had an iPod back when iPods were slowly not becoming a thing anymore running Rockbox, which has a 4x5 Lights Out called FlipIt which I’d play between or during university lectures: https://download.rockbox.org/daily/m
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by crdrost 3y ago
Theory of mind is interesting but one wouldn't want to hinge consciousness upon it. That direction would likely contain weird outcomes if the science progressed, something like "Dogs are barely-conscious due to their pack structur
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by crdrost 3y ago
Thanks, that helped! The idea of massively parallel computations like that was kind of what I was leveraging, I was like “I guess I treat this vec2 as a NumPy array of vectors?”—but it's cool that the job gets batched behind the scenes
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by crdrost 3y ago
Never played with shaders before, made a spinning watermelon. uniform float time; varying vec2 vUv; void main() { vec2 st = vUv.xy; float f1 = length(abs(2.0*st)/2.0 - .1*time); float stripe =
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by crdrost 3y ago
> Aside: I prefer Mercurial myself, and I hope to keep using it for personal projects until I die (: One of my favorite stories happened three or four jobs ago... at this job I kept a giant whiteboard that I had swiped from a conf room,
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by crdrost 3y ago
I agree that it is surprising that the first big whiff of collective bargaining that we see in Big Tech is “let’s save this asshole CEO (who would probably try to bust any formal unionization),”[1] rather than trying to safeguard the worker
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by crdrost 3y ago
Yeah. I think the given advice probably takes validation logic and floats it too high. It is of course nice to have early validation logic, but it is also nice when your functions don't mysteriously crap out with some weird error but i
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by crdrost 3y ago
Sure! So by that point I could tell that typical normal software dev problems had not been magically solved by Google: in an ideal workplace maybe someone would have invented a corporate culture where the actual requests were "micro-si
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by crdrost 3y ago
People do though. Making art for most people is like exercise. It's good for them and once they get into it they like it, but there is an initial cost and your initial attempts aren't going to be very fulfilling and all that. Almo
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by crdrost 3y ago
It's also, you have to make an artistic sacrifice when you're doing it. You're writing a first draft of a novel, but it's not meant to be a good first draft, it can have plotholes and characters who learn nothing and uni
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by crdrost 3y ago
Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, affecting tens of millions of mostly elderly people, characterized by the brain getting “gummed up” by various mechanisms like reduced interconnectivity of your neurons, the formation of

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