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by eslaught 2y ago
How many people here are commenting based on their kids' experiences and not based on their own? Nothing in a 4 year-old trend (or whatever it is at this point) is going to be anticipated by people who were that age 10, 20, 30 years ag
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by eslaught 2y ago
https://wakamaifondue.com/
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by eslaught 2y ago
The entire point is that crash recovery fails because you rarely test it. By making it the one and only code path, by definition, you will be testing it all the time, so it is much more likely to work in the first place. (The obvious counte
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Answering my own question.... I grew up in Davis, CA and then spent 4 years in San Diego as an adult before moving to the Bay Area. The biggest shock was how unhappy everyone seems to be here. I don't think Davis and San Diego resident
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As a Californian I'd be curious what culture shock you experience coming here.
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I wish I had gotten to the comment section earlier because the top-level summary of this article is simply incorrect. The majority of the revenue of the Big 5 publishers may come from celebrities and repeat best-sellers. But the majority
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> value prop of a BMW made between 1975 and 2005 I'd be curious for someone to explain what this is, and what happened in 2005 that changed this.
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> books not recouping their advances This is in fact a feature , not a bug. Traditional publishers consider a book to be a "success" when it has recouped about 70% of its advance. Publishers prefer this situation because advan
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by eslaught 2y ago
Has anyone done anything like this for historical time periods? I realize the data is inherently sparse, but I'd be curious to see what the results would look like in 1900, 1800, 1700, 1600, etc. My impression of the data is that, actu
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by eslaught 2y ago
Looks like no one answered this question from the last time around: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24492646
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by eslaught 3y ago
I had my own "oh shit" moment in my PhD, which I wrote about among other things, here: https://elliottslaughter.com/2024/02/legion-paper-history I'll just add one more comment: it's entirely po
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by eslaught 3y ago
I believe I got my original GitHub invite from another HN user, back in the days when it was still invite-only. I confess at the time I didn't really "get it", despite having played with Darcs and the like prior to this. But
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Legion 24.03.0 – Control Replication(github.com)
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I've been writing a profiler in egui, and so far have been very happy with it. Comes with the nice bonus that I get both native and web UIs: https://legion.stanford.edu/prof-viewer/?url=https://sapling...
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by eslaught 3y ago
I work on a distributed runtime system for heterogeneous supercomputers [1]. As an example of the sort of bug we regularly deal with, I am at this exact moment tracking down a freeze that occurs on 8,192 nodes of a supercomputer [2]. That m
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by eslaught 3y ago
What you've identified is known as Gustafson's Law. If you can keep solving larger and larger problems, your solution time doesn't necessarily go down, but "speedup" is potentially uncapped. Of course there may be s
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The Wiki article has a brief summary of the history, but basically the original author wanted to transfer responsibility for the user-facing maintenance to someone else, who started seeking donations and (I believe) taking payment for &quot
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by eslaught 3y ago
There's more going on here. They are adding a notion of "places" (what I would call "field paths") and an explicit syntax for "modes" (what I would call "privileges"). So you can now say: s
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A Personal History of Legion, by Way of Its Papers(elliottslaughter.com)
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On the contrary, I thought it was quite apt. If you follow the article's link to this Stack Overflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15140227/1614219 Which summarizes a discussion by the C++ standards com
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by eslaught 3y ago
Music is the perfect counterexample to what you're saying. It's the only remaining digital platform where it's still possible to buy legal, DRM-free copies of digital files, which you can download to your own machine and thus
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I thought the point was that they would intentionally seed the audience with one or a couple of people who would storm out in (apparent) anger (if none of the actual audience members got to it first), and thus the music is the experience of
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> How is that different from cars that project information on the windshield? Are there any cars like that? At any rate, for such cars to receive regulatory approval, they would need to be vetted to ensure that the UI elements don't
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by eslaught 3y ago
I'd just use Pandoc Markdown. For simple things, you can easily write Markdown that is compatible with all dialects. Mainly, remember to indent your lists 4 spaces if you soft wrap. But Pandoc Markdown has the most extensive support fo
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Ok, but you have to view this through the lens of what was on the market at the time and what kind of expectations Intel likely would have had. I can't imagine that Apple told Intel what they were planning. Therefore, it would have bee
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I agree mobile was a miss but the linked article actually quotes Intel's former COE making a pretty good argument why they missed: > "The thing you have to remember is that this was before the iPhone was introduced and no one k
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It depends. As an intern, working an extra hour to get free dinner and a bus ride home was absolutely worth it. But it's not as if they were forcing people to stay (for either the work or the food). My experience was that people with f
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> ... as it didn't kill off the fashion industry. Clothes are inherently consumable goods. If you use them, they will wear out. If you do not use them, they still age over time. You cannot "copy" a piece of clothing withou
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by eslaught 3y ago
Isn't PyPy up to 3.10 by now? At least that's what Homebrew reports to me. PyPy seems pretty alive, all things considered, and for my code bases I've seen pretty dramatic speedups on the order of 2-5x. That's basically a
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I totally get that. I'm just one person, but for me, this was the feature that made me switch to a minimalist text editor for writing. Otherwise, why not stick with Emacs? Plain text with light syntax highlighting is something Emacs

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