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by downut 5y ago
Indeed. Notice the last author. Halide has had transparent autodiff for some time now. I am guessing, this is follow-on work in the usual academic style. (Not trivializing at all.) I've been watching Halide for a while as I really l
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by downut 5y ago
Yeah, that's an obvious thing to do, right? However, the company armored themselves against this sort of competency attack against The Machine by having in-house IT by policy gate keep access to the ERP db tables, which are exactly as
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by downut 5y ago
This has happened in my wife's rather staid manufacturing industry. Many plants in the US have no on-site engineers. The "engineering" design is performed by remote fresh-outs at the exurban headquarters, and a lot of that
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by downut 5y ago
Super successful people at Facebook need Facebook "prestige" to get... car loans? Huh. And you can get that prestige and success working a couple of hours a day. Huh. What a weird world.
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by downut 5y ago
Missing the most important part: avoid them (including boost), when you have a choice. Professionals often don't have that choice. Cue many thousands of comments on HN why working in c++ sucks.
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by downut 5y ago
Yeah. In the last three years I picked up Joyce's Ulysses, which I sputtered out on 35 years ago, and Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, which I sputtered out on 15 years ago. I now believe that Ulysses is the best book I've ever
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by downut 5y ago
In the last 4 years (I intentionally include the 2 years before COVID), I have had at least one side of every multi-connection across the pond itinerary destroyed by either AA or UA. That is, delays longer than 12 hrs, advances of start of
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by downut 5y ago
Simultaneous with collapse of Soviet style communism, then the impressive shrinkage of the US military. The explosion of the uses of PCs by individuals (who could, commonly, program those PCs) fed a completely delusional optimism that fina
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by downut 5y ago
I am not sure this is opposite advice, really. I make myself do an ops thing by hand, for a period of time. Eventually the repetitive parts begin to really annoy me. Then I automate the repetitive parts. But I am deeply lazy. My father
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by downut 5y ago
Huh. So do I. Now I'm doing something about it. Heading down to Guaymas to take two ASA courses next week. I posit there is a hackerish view of sailing, especially bigger boats. Complex systems with a lot of dependencies, and eg th
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by downut 5y ago
Or radon.
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by downut 5y ago
I loved the writing in this essay but disagree with the conclusion. Let's just say that I doubt that individually wrapped grocery store meats are apex civilization, and no human civilization every thrived without exploiting[1] animals
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by downut 5y ago
Also, for example a Prius has an solid 450 mile range, takes less than 10 min to refuel to max range, which generally coincides with the passengers need to refuel and/or pit stop. Someone told me that a Prius can drive all day at 85-9
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by downut 5y ago
Right. You got in late, and... you're going to catch up, how? I'd really like to understand your wealth accumulation algorithm here because, having lived in CA, I wrote a bunch of programs to model my family's guessed at exp
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by downut 5y ago
But the riding on public roads is what all of us ever did. Not "especially". For 45 years I have been a member of the cyclists who just ride on public roads. Since COVID I have not done a century but I feel an overwhelming need
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by downut 5y ago
I don't think there is a real barrier between 100km and 200+. It's more a conditioning problem. I have seen many people who don't look especially fit successfully complete 100 mile rides here ("centuries"). A big
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by downut 5y ago
Potatoes! In 1988 I rode from Portland PDX up to Astoria and down to N. LA in 17 days, with maybe 30lbs of gear. Camped every night. I was very poor. Lost my wallet the first day, noticed 50 miles out. I returned to where I thought I l
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by downut 5y ago
I went pretty hard on the books during the late... viral disturbances, and I think it was for the better. But the best hardbook experience I've had in... decades? was to finally restart and finish Ulysses, in a 40 year old copy, that
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by downut 5y ago
Ah, well I had no intention of implying that all of life is suffering, but the succinctness of my comment can be read that way, sorry. Your take is quite reasonable, IMHO. The gist of a lot of the quotes that search brings up is more or
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by downut 5y ago
Search string: life is suffering People have been thinking on this very question since the beginning of people.
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by downut 5y ago
I have never been suicidal. I do know, having been through a months long Stage IV cancer watch, which provides a solid view of the terminal medical industrial complex experience, I'll efficiently terminate myself before embarking on t
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by downut 5y ago
If you're not using Wen Ho Lee as a counterexample this is misinformation. I was watching this at the time and... yeah, ex Q cleared at the time, and NYT revealed some of its underlying profit driven sleazy motivations with that hack j
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by downut 5y ago
I never did any TS stuff with my Q clearance. Nor was I on track to do so. I got the impression that it was just another level of interview screening, because they could. Frankly though the emergent social environment gave me the creeps,
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by downut 5y ago
I am really glad to hear this. The first time I looked at housing costs in Montpellier I was astounded. I asked some of my EU friends and they said yup. City center is about the same as Nice apparently, and I consider that dirt cheap. I
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by downut 5y ago
Why would I work for 36k? This discussion is about remote work. I'm not worried about making 3x that. As I mentioned, I've lived in Mountain View and Santa Clara. Sunnyvale is in the middle. I'm a cyclist and loved to cli
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by downut 5y ago
I looked into Paris and the 19th looks very reasonably priced and apex civilized to me. (I've walked all over it.) A two bedroom for say €2000-2500/m with easy access to the Metro. Am I wrong? I was surprised when I looked at
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by downut 5y ago
In our house the rule is all fast and web spiders are removed. The jumping spiders and the big lazy floppy guys that hang on the ceiling are allies. They are non-aggressive and clearly eating something that shouldn't be in the house.
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by downut 5y ago
We're not rich, but we are maximally financially solid and stable. I mean, I drive a 2001 truck I bought new, for cash. Better half drives a newish base Prius. House is not fancy. How on earth can it make sense for us to get issued t
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by downut 5y ago
And before our master Kahan, there was Pat H. Sterbenz. I still have my "Floating Point Computation" in the photocopied bound sheaf that was handed out to numerical analysis grad students at ASU in the late 80s. I learned an enor
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by downut 5y ago
I have not looked at filing separately for many years, but I ran the numbers back then and the result was the same.

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