cryptofistMonk

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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
Could be that each dreamer participated in multiple trials
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
I'm sure the exchanges like the buckets of money that HFTs pay them, even on their discounted commission fees. There's also billions in industry just around supporting HFTs, including FPGAs, silicon fab, networking equipment, etc.
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
HN loves chess recently. I've also gotten (casually) back into it. I wonder if this is all because of the queen's gambit
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
Is this really all based on roads needing replacement every 14 years? I don't know where the author came up with that number... But if you've ever lived on a low-traffic road for more than 14 years you will know that they are not
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
He claims it's written in a subset of C99 that also compiles as C++
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
Reading "FGPA" in the fourth paragraph confused me more than it should have.
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
Yes, I was just thinking that, if you really wanted to control for the relative power of votes in a different counties.
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
I guess I'm really talking about the "lightness", not saturation
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
I wonder how much difference it would make if vote "density" was used to determine the saturation, rather than total number of votes. By my thinking, a geographically large county with 500,000 votes appears much more significant t
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
If you claim a loss what are they taxing, revenue?
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
The audio was very crackly for me, anyone else? Also the dull sine wave was fairly difficult to differentiate at small intervals, I wonder if the researchers considered the effect of different timbres
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
The ears often don't match
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
So go for highest percentile wage in the region of the hire
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
It's not just about how I expect the web to work, I'm looking at Google's website on Google's phone in Google's web browser and it's _janky_. It's just bad. I as a software developer feel confused and diso
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
Scrolljacking like this is just never a good idea, why do massive companies keep trying this? I can't imagine it improves their metrics. Go ahead and put your pictures and videos in there but let me read the damn page. It's not im
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
I'm shocked to see no mention of the tweets by David Bateman that seem to have set this off https://twitter.com/davidbateman/status/1307212066017521667?...
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
"How many hours would we really need to work in order to maintain a functional society — that is, if we got rid of all the useless or destructive occupations like telemarketers, lawyers, prison guards, financial analysts, public relati
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
Commenters should note the constraint in the problem definition that the maximum number of buy-sell pairs allowed is two.
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by cryptofistMonk 6y ago
Containers and smart pointers will pretty much do the trick. There's really no need for manual memory management anymore, can't remember the last time I used new/delete. Only problem is most large C++ apps, Chromium included,
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by cryptofistMonk 7y ago
There might be a few websites that could get away with this, but for the vast majority usability is king. If I can't quickly navigate, find what I need, and read your site - what's the point?
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by cryptofistMonk 7y ago
Could use something like rsync to automatically check for a difference and copy