jkaptur

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by jkaptur 2y ago
What about when you are the boss or tech lead?
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I've been toying around (in my head) with the idea of using a diff algorithm to align things like this.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
My town has one of these and it seems to work great. I don't love it as a cyclist, but the bike path just goes underneath it, so I absolutely never have to go through it.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
> We want parity of outputs, not parity in how we get there! To be clear, though, you don't necessarily have parity of outputs. It seems strange to me to sacrifice correctness for readable output. I would prefer a deterministic stra
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by jkaptur 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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by jkaptur 2y ago
It's frustrating that there isn't an easy way to see the "canonical" value and format of a cell (in Sheets or Excel). Just looking at a cell, it's not trivial to see if it's the number 1 or the string 1 (you ca
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I like to say "it's not the variance that gets you, it's the correlation." In my experience, "fat tail" risks are really about incorrect modeling of correlation.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
I was talking about this case in particular, where we know the list is basically isomorphic to the call stack.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Another cool aspect of this and (if I understand correctly), where Rust really helps you is that you can explore multiple branches in parallel, since the linked list is immutable.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Maybe a silly question (I don't know anything about this) - how do you program / reprogram it?
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by jkaptur 2y ago
> In fact, if you have two CPUs handy, maybe you could write some code to have each CPU do half of the elements, and suddenly map is twice as fast. I remember this came up a lot in late-aughts functional programming discussions. But is t
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Another issue is that the term "document" is also used to refer to XML or HTML.
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by jkaptur 2y ago
Yes. There's nothing particularly magical about any UI framework. They all have to deal with the fundamental fact that UIs are enormously stateful, the state is a function of approximately everything the user has ever done, various inp
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by jkaptur 2y ago
A designer once advised me to align an icon with the "typographical center of gravity" - as in, of the "ink". This would make the location of an icon next to text depend on the text itself, not just the font. Obviously,
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by jkaptur 3y ago
> The unreasonable effectiveness of randomness led him to think about the nature of randomness itself. He, like other researchers at the time, questioned how necessary it was for efficient problem-solving and under what conditions it cou
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I believe it was invented by Margaret Hamilton and a research assistant during the Apollo project: "Often in the evening or at weekends I would bring my young daughter, Lauren, into work with me. One day, she was with me when I was doi
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by jkaptur 3y ago
The article says it's the term used by the largest donor to the project.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
This view of spreadsheets is 100% accurate, beautiful, and inspiring. Spreadsheets have brought the power of computation to everyone. ... but I love to contrast this view with the behavior that Joel Spolsky observed: "... We visited do
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I think the map example is better. Without the animation, you have to figure out visually how far the map moved.
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I've often wondered about a missing application: "Excel for graphs". Just like Excel for tabular data, it would support RAM-sized data (enough to require a computer, but not so much that you need a data center), implement lot
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I agree with this take - graphs are in an interesting superposition where implementing a large set of algorithms correctly and in their full generality is hard (as the article points out), but getting started with an implementation that s
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by jkaptur 3y ago
> Right click A0 and click "insert row above" Instead, right click A1 and click "insert row above". Google Sheets (and, I'm 99.99% sure, Excel) adjust the range inside the SUM to be three rows high. I've p
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Quick bug report: I set A0 and A1 to 1, then set A2 =SUM(A0:A1)+A0+A1. As expected, A2 evaluated to 4. Then I right-clicked on the 1 row header and inserted 1 row above. Expected: A3 should become =SUM(A0:A2)+A0+A2 and evaluate to 4 Actual:
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by jkaptur 3y ago
It seems like this approach is really popular. Have no spammers/data brokers caught on and started stripping the +identifier?
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by jkaptur 3y ago
To be fair, their "About" page says as much: "The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization — or think tank — that creates a presence for and promotes libertarian ideas in policy debates. Our mission is to origi
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by jkaptur 3y ago
What an amazing choice of new word - it's "Generation Alpha's first foray into internet culture" https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet
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by jkaptur 3y ago
Users reuse passwords. We've had decades of trying to educate people to do something else (use a password manager! come up with a unique password and keep it in a little book! anything!) but it simply hasn't worked. That's an
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by jkaptur 3y ago
> I originally posted this page on 2004-06-01... Diff debugging isn't a term that's caught on much in the industry, but I haven't seen a another term generally used to describe it. I can't speak to 2004, but these day
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by jkaptur 3y ago
What is going to be different about the next five years vs. the past five years? The point is that inflation happened and the price of Bitcoin in USD went down. Why is that pattern going to change?
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by jkaptur 3y ago
I read "He developed a procedure for constructing systems in which the fastest way to determine whether one state is reachable from another is to map out a sequence of transitions between them." as saying that there is a proof tha

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