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by hansvm 10mo ago
That's Uber's approach, right?
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by hansvm 10mo ago
And you've spotted why normal, regular, simple, natural, real mathematics is so hard for people to grok at first glance.
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by hansvm 11mo ago
That brought out a nice, hearty chuckle. At least you're owning your style.
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by hansvm 11mo ago
> number of chars minimum not the goal For my tastes this is excessive (especially since the formatting is non-existent), but you do pay a cost for longer variable names. There's only so much you can grok when reading a passage, and
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by hansvm 11mo ago
That's... intriguing. I just tested out functiontrace and saw 20-30% overhead. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near that low.
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by hansvm 11mo ago
That depends on the code you're profiling. Even good line profilers can add 2-5x overhead on programs not optimized for them, and you're in a bit of a pickle because the programs least optimized for line profiling are those which
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by hansvm 11mo ago
The model might be fine (I have questions, but let's assume it's reasonable), but I don't think anyone could use the UI for more than a few minutes and not realize it was a hack job. For one fun one, on mobile web (android&#x
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by hansvm 11mo ago
I think I see the definitions we're disagreeing on. I'll lay out what I meant and then address your thing. 1. A couple levels up, the function somebody requested being continuously differentiable was the "benefits." You
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by hansvm 11mo ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. On top of lack of funding, you have: 1. Benefits don't come into effect fast enough to matter for emergencies. Even with expedited processing you can have to wait a week for food. 2. The bureaucrat
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by hansvm 11mo ago
Monotonic is what we have, and it allows cliffs. Suppose, e.g., that you can get $5k/yr in benefits if you make less than $10k/yr in other revenue and $0 otherwise. Unless you have a viable strategy for pushing past $15k/yr i
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by hansvm 11mo ago
The wildest part of that to me is that OP couldn't help out because there was somehow something more pressing than every non-franchise store not being able to accept payment and likely needing a lot of expertise to patch it fast enough
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by hansvm 11mo ago
A number of people make money letting people watch them code.
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by hansvm 11mo ago
That half an hour is a perfect argument for why _software_ speed matters too. Without fast software you get stuck being slow at the human parts too, ultimately reducing your potential.
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by hansvm 11mo ago
Ah, you mean like if we had some sort of knowledgeable, impartial third-party to grant the police permissions. They could, get this, "judge" whether the absolute bare minimum of evidence is likely to exist. So long as Flock didn&#
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by hansvm 11mo ago
> fundamentally requires async (in the conceptual sense) Sometimes, kind of. For some counter-examples, consider a security camera or a thermostat. In the former you run in a hot loop because it's more efficient when you constantly
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by hansvm 11mo ago
Just don't write bugs ;) More seriously, a reasonably sane way to create a lot of web-heavy services (writing out something simple for brevity, not anything perfect) is with large regions partitioned into ropes (for use with, e.g., iov
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by hansvm 11mo ago
> introduces some mental friction in walking away??? I don't think it's just mental friction. Suppose you've learned git well enough that everything you do in it is automatic and fast, and the things which aren't fast
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by hansvm 11mo ago
> You know, when I was young, I was able to rent an apartment while being a cashier in a grocery store. You still can almost everywhere outside of places like SF? I just spot-checked some data, and in Minneapolis for example currently av
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by hansvm 11mo ago
They're pretty common, yeah. 10% of the continental US, 90% of Alaska, most major bodies of water (70% of Earth), etc. When you factor in spotty service rather than 0 service (e.g., enough noise and contention that you can't load
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by hansvm 11mo ago
It's too late to edit, but I do have one more thought on the topic. From the perspective of an individual, ROI has to be large to justify a $5k/yr investment. HOWEVER, the general principle of "if something is your livelihood
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by hansvm 11mo ago
Most people who use computers for the main part of their jobs literally can't spend that much if they don't want to be homeless. Most of the rest arguably shouldn't. If you have $10k/yr in effective pay after taxes, heal
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by hansvm 11mo ago
In context (embedded programming, which in retrospect is still too big of a field for this comment to make sense by itself; what I meant was embedded programming on devices with very limited RAM or other such significant restrictions), &quo
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by hansvm 11mo ago
If I'm understanding correctly (that most code and/or most code you personally write doesn't need that flexibility) then that's a valid use case. In practice it should just be a po-tay-to/po-tah-to scenario, swappin
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by hansvm 11mo ago
Making it dead simple to have different tokens is exactly the goal. A smattering of examples recently on my mind: As a background, you might ask why you need different runtimes ever. Why not just make everything async and be done with it, e
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by hansvm 11mo ago
I was going off the 7.99/mo price I first paid (which they've recently stopped grandfathering in). Was that not a common amount people paid?
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by hansvm 11mo ago
It's >12x the ad revenue they bring in per monthly-active YouTube user (suggesting they'd still be happy with a much lower price), and the price has increased 75% in the last decade (compared to the 40% real inflation over that
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by hansvm 11mo ago
> what difference does it make Traditional fraud-detection models have quantified type-i/ii error rates, and somebody typically chooses parameters such that those errors are within acceptable bounds. If somebody decided to use a tra
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by hansvm 11mo ago
Reasonably far off topic: Visa hasn't worked for online purchases for me for a few months, seemingly because of a rogue fraud-detection AI their customer service can't override. Is there any chance that's just a poorly imple
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by hansvm 11mo ago
Suppose the graph admits only 4+ colorings, but when attempting a 3-coloring it's possible for only one edge to be misaligned. Then (A) you need O(n_edges) calls to the oracle to gain any confidence about the 3-colorability of a 3-colo
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by hansvm 11mo ago
I could be wrong, but "memory" and "patience" sounded like they were referring to machine memory and patience waiting for a slow algorithm, which is what you would expect from any derivative more involved than a Jacobian

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