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by gfd 5y ago
I was shopping for curtains recently but the stuff that I cared about were the technical specifications: how much light it blocks, thermal properties, noise reduction, etc. What should I be looking for instead?
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by gfd 5y ago
How should you bet if you're not comfortable with variance? I tried the "autobetter" simulation at the bottom of the page, always clicking heads, and it took 150 tries to max out. For most of the time it was way below the ini
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by gfd 5y ago
I don't really care about training some politically correct language model but I'm really interested in the red team model. In some sense they have accidentally created the perfect internet troll?
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by gfd 5y ago
Is the caps lock LED even implemented in hardware? I feel like I remember them not responding if my computer freezes but I could be wrong.
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by gfd 5y ago
To give a reference point, you get the equivalent of $300/hr starting around L6 at a FAANG: https://www.levels.fyi I don't think most people realize they can hire a putnam winner and world class crypto expert for the p
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by gfd 5y ago
You can find the rating distribution filtered for >5 contests here: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/71260 I am rated at 2100+ so I do agree that 1300 rating is low. But at the same time it solved https:&#x2F
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by gfd 5y ago
Relevant blogpost on codeforces.com (the competitive programming site used): https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/99566 Apparently the bot would have a rating of 1300. Although the elo rating between sites is not com
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by gfd 5y ago
That might explain why Singapore is surprisingly strong in CS. For example in the last olympiad (IOI) they managed to get 3 gold and 1 silver medals despite their relatively small population size: https://stats.ioinformatics.org&
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by gfd 5y ago
I wanted to see some benchmark numbers but the first hit on google returns a unresolved 150+ message github issue about how io_ring might not be better than epoll: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/189
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by gfd 5y ago
> I'd expect that no country has more than 1000 people whose job is full-time YouTuber There are probably more than 1000 full time youtubers in japan. I watch vtubers and just hololive and nijisanji alone employ over a hundred strea
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by gfd 5y ago
In theory, I don't think there's such a thing as simulation without simplifications. The world seems to be continuous but our computers are discrete. There's a small set of things we know how to solve exactly with math but in
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by gfd 5y ago
Does crypto allow colocation like stock trading? If it's gonna be some websocket endpoint, what's the point of optimizing microseconds?
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by gfd 5y ago
Hmm where did you see that? In the graph at the bottom of v7, it got "93% of the theoretical maximum performance"
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by gfd 5y ago
I really like these set of lecture notes for optimizing matrix multiplication: https://ppc.cs.aalto.fi/ch2/v7/ (The transpose trick is used in v1)
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by gfd 5y ago
> No one _actually_ offers unlimited bandwidth. Isn't cloudflare's whole shtick about not having egress fees? https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-now-even-more-unbound/
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by gfd 5y ago
https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
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by gfd 5y ago
You're probably thinking of this comment, oracle and 25 million lines of c code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
108.
by gfd 5y ago
It's been such a long time since I've seen a <marquee>
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by gfd 5y ago
Dumb question, but how does this deal with security? Can't anyone broadcast valid but malicious data on 1575.42 MHz? (e.g. to crash planes/missiles etc) EDIT: found wiki from some quick googling https://en.wikipedia.org
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by gfd 5y ago
Mojang turned out to be a brilliant acquisition compared to what roblox is valued at nowadays.
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by gfd 5y ago
Blizzard defined my childhood with diablo 2, starcraft, and warcraft 3, wow. But even the sequels (SC2, D3) and remakes (D2:R) never recaptured that magic. Is the blizzard IP actually worth that much these days?
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by gfd 5y ago
Do people not remember losing their characters/mules after 90 days of inactivity in the original diablo 2?
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by gfd 5y ago
Dumb question, but is price manipulation wrong when it's for something that doesn't have a "true" price? Like I get why it should be illegal for stocks. If you pump it and the price reverts back to some true price (calcu
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by gfd 5y ago
Sounds like a case of Mandela effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_effect
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by gfd 5y ago
Does anyone know when to choose http2 vs websockets?
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by gfd 5y ago
I don't know anything about websockets, but isn't it over tcp? Meaning if the client isn't keeping up, their buffer should be full and the server should be blocked from sending more until it drains (unless it's queuing t
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by gfd 5y ago
What's with crypto and tropical escapes? FTX moved their headquarters to the Bahamas and now they are trying to build it into a crypto-hub too: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sdjcH7KAxgB328RAb/...