frutiger

36 ms·

451.
by frutiger 6y ago
Mostly agree with your comment but linear search through arrays of size less than a few hundred will typically beat more sophisticated structures such as red-black trees or hashtables. This is due to prefetching and avoidance of unpredictab
452.
by frutiger 6y ago
It’s not the eyeballs that are valuable. It’s the money those eyeballs will spend.
453.
by frutiger 6y ago
> However the price difference with competing products here is so large I think Apple has priced themselves out of the market here. The idea that a comment on HN has done more extensive research and modeling than Apple for a pricing a pa
454.
by frutiger 6y ago
GNU Guile is the expression language for Guix (perhaps its major distinguishing feature, when compared to Nix, which uses its own bespoke language).
455.
by frutiger 6y ago
As I read the post, especially the references to Metafilter in combination with a lesson about homelessness, I thought to myself, “This sounds like DoreenMichele.” I press the back button and, see it is submitted by them. I press the forwar
456.
Feds say Facebook broke US law offering permanent jobs to H-1B workers(arstechnica.com)
14 points by frutiger 6y ago|2 comments
457.
by frutiger 6y ago
Is the 4th direction time?
458.
by frutiger 6y ago
That site already exists: delta.com.
459.
by frutiger 6y ago
There may have been a typo though, I think "with all its quirks" would be more correct.
460.
by frutiger 6y ago
There’s an error/typo in the “Even more power” section. The definition of the “def” function should mutate “variables” not “defs”.
461.
by frutiger 6y ago
Sure but GGP is saying that if it wasn’t a high schooler, they would criticise the project. Therefore they would criticise a project based on the author’s age.
462.
by frutiger 6y ago
> but most companies do not want to pay taxes in 50 states Surely not but I would wager that most employees work for companies that already have multi-state (and in many cases multi-national) operations, and therefore have the administra
463.
by frutiger 6y ago
Apparently the original story had the AI use the network of human brains as a giant neural network. As the story goes, the movie executives thought this would be too difficult for most people to understand, so they switched it out and used
464.
by frutiger 6y ago
You are very woke. Carry on.
465.
by frutiger 6y ago
That’s right but GGP was suggesting lying presumably to exceed such exemptions.
466.
by frutiger 6y ago
What’s the lesson here? That when the rule of law is weak we should all steal what we can?
467.
by frutiger 6y ago
> simply claim to customs that you had it already for a while? You can also simply hold a knife to a stranger and ask them to empty their wallet. Both happen to be illegal, however.
468.
by frutiger 6y ago
This is common knowledge for long time readers of HN. However, it would be nice if the submission UX encouraged this. Prefilling the title with the <title> tag after the URL has been entered and making the title read-only with an expl
469.
by frutiger 6y ago
Not really shedding much light but I believe this was the origin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectivene... .
470.
by frutiger 6y ago
True gravitational force is something that can’t be transformed away by an arbitrary choice of frame (even an accelerating one). As a brief example, consider two objects in downwards free fall toward the centre of some massive object. Since
471.
by frutiger 6y ago
This is what happens when you don’t bother to make a separate function!
472.
by frutiger 6y ago
> I got to warn you, stopping sugar consumption cold turkey is not easy and not nice. Just for another data point, when I moved to the US I did not like the taste of processed sugars in a lot of the standard supermarket food here and fou
473.
by frutiger 6y ago
I am the biggest fan of Unix commandline tools but I think you vastly overestimate how universal unix pipes are. For example, if I asked you to guess (no reading man pages or trying commands out!) how `find(1)` interprets input supplied to
474.
by frutiger 6y ago
It didn’t bother me so much when I finally understood that the duration perceived by an observer is simply equal to the path integral of distance along their worldline. When you think about it, you will realise there’s almost nothing else i
475.
OpenSSH 8.4(marc.info)
192 points by frutiger 6y ago|45 comments
476.
Neue Haas Grotesk (2011)(fontbureau.com)
174 points by frutiger 6y ago|55 comments
477.
by frutiger 6y ago
So does libreadline (and therefore bash). The following in ~/.inputrc does the trick for vi mode users: k: history-search-backward j: history-search-forward There is an equivalent for emacs mode.
478.
by frutiger 6y ago
And therefore directly reflective of net worth. A billionaire does not have a room of dollar bills either.
479.
by frutiger 6y ago
Only to pedants. Everyone knows that adding a pointer to a ptrdiff_t calculated from the same array gives you another pointer. If your real life benchmark heavily penalises this addition (and not the complementary subtraction when computing
480.
by frutiger 6y ago
> if this were my tomb or a tomb of a loved one, I wouldn't want it disturbed for at least a few hundred years A curious position. I use provocative words, not to antagonise but in a probably vain attempt to inspire: Why does the du

More ›