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by dbt00 8y ago
The java.util.HashMap implementation uses chaining, but for example the google guava libraries that are frequently used are open addressing based.
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by dbt00 8y ago
Thanks for writing and posting this.
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by dbt00 8y ago
the Law and Order episode "Seed" in season 5 (1995) dealt with a similar case. I'm not surprised it's coming out in real life as genetic testing becomes consumer-accessible.
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by dbt00 8y ago
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/southwest-airlines...
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by dbt00 8y ago
In short, the Max-8 ships with a shitty default configuration. After the first crash, the FAA and the major american airlines with these planes aggressively updated the instrument panel settings, warnings and processes to ensure pilots were
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by dbt00 8y ago
Even if it was done in software, it was still easier to write against planes because you had to run on hardware with wildly different hardware capabilities, so drawing routines were far easier to parameterize over planes than over various b
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by dbt00 8y ago
> I say this as a lifelong Democratic party member and voter. (Until recently.) In 2019, inequality is propagated through differences in access to effective educational environments. It's the Democratic party which opposes school vo
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by dbt00 8y ago
TCP over TCP has always had serious performance issues, because the congestion controls combine in toxic ways. SSH tunnels that connect to something other than localhost on the remote end have similar problems (i.e. ssh -D 1080 as a SOCKS p
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by dbt00 8y ago
Men outside of mandatory service ages can father children.
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by dbt00 8y ago
Can you tell me what the affect of dietary ammonia are on folks suffering from IBS/IBD? Food spends time in your body before it makes it to your bloodstream. (I’ve got a kid that already avoids hard cheeses because it upsets him and br
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by dbt00 8y ago
The entire asteroid belt weighs less than 5% of the moon, and most of the material would have little economic justification for bringing it down.
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by dbt00 8y ago
We call that social security in the US and that’s roughly how it works, other than the trust fund con.
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by dbt00 8y ago
Most people use the term to describe businesses that require little ongoing effort (hello, “4 hour work week”), but yeah, the implication that people who take vc money aren’t interested in a particular lifestyle is kinda hilarious.
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by dbt00 8y ago
I think the post you're responding to is thinking of the unleashing of non-Bell-owned equipment on AT&T lines. This was prohibited by AT&T until the FCC forced them to drop this provision. Commonly known as the Carterphone deci
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by dbt00 8y ago
Seems like a fun hardware hack, but if he wants his niece to be able to communicate effectively he should probably just learn frickin sign language. It's unlikely that these can read a vocabulary, just the alphabet, which is incredibly
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by dbt00 8y ago
Surviving a visit from Oracle’s lawyers isn’t practical.
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by dbt00 8y ago
It's a mixed bag. There are projects in ICE that are necessary, and there are people administering programs where children are separated from their parents and thrown in cages. If you want nuance, fine. But ignoring the evil they'
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by dbt00 8y ago
ML models are created and driven by human intervention. Humans are biased (in various directions). All models are biased in one way or another. Now, you say this article should engage this counterpoint, but you haven't actually made a
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by dbt00 8y ago
An algorithm optimizes on something, that something is set by humans. Full stop. We've already seen naive "content-neutral" engagement-preference algorithms fail spectacularly (russian propaganda on facebook, elsagate on yout
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by dbt00 8y ago
Uber wins through three things. one, the convenience of the app model. two, subsidizing rides to flood the market with drivers. three, offloading risks like employment law and fleet management onto drivers. None of the stuff you said about
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by dbt00 8y ago
Lean forward and "sweep" the region parallel to the back half of the car with the side view mirror.
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by dbt00 8y ago
How is an MBA or marketer evil in a way that Zuck isn’t?
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by dbt00 8y ago
> I know $60 Ibuprofen can seem like a lot, but is anyone arguing that you're literally paying for only the pill(s) with that $60? Aren't you paying for the instant availability, the insurance that it's not expired (do the
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by dbt00 8y ago
The problem with "just use a damn library" is that software is full of abstractions and they leak. If all you know is libraries, and you don't invest in knowing how underlying technologies and algorithms work, you're goi
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by dbt00 8y ago
As someone who's done a ton of tech interviewing for a blue chip silicon valley firm, viewing this as a homework problem to which there is one correct answer is exactly not what I'm looking for. I want to see your problem solving
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by dbt00 8y ago
It helps if you've read the rest of his series on his history in technology and at Apple, where he adds more context. But it also helps if you have management/political experience. Essentially, he was being "promoted" fr
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by dbt00 8y ago
This was the home remedy for carsickness my parents used with me when I was a kid. "Look at the horizon" is how they put it. Within a couple of seconds I'd internalize the movement of the car and my gut would stabilize.
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by dbt00 8y ago
The war ended in 1974. That was 44 years ago. You're either talking about people who are of retirement age, or have no adult ties to the country. This is callous and gross. It's going to ruin lives. People are going to commit suic
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by dbt00 8y ago
Taxi licensing was not cronyism, it was simple economics. Taxicabs can either have x drivers all at a subsistence level, or 0.5x drivers with a reasonable standard of living. Licensing with a cap and fixed rates becomes a policy decision dr
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by dbt00 8y ago
I mean, Uber Black was allowing existing private car services to float their services on an on-demand market and soak up excess capacity. Sidecar/UberX/Lyft etc have always just been wildcat taxis, except at least a real wildcat t

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