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by jlebar 6y ago
And to you this constitutes reporting that was "purposefully out of context and twisted in order to create rage click bait to satisfy someone's ideological crusade"?
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by jlebar 6y ago
Literally his whole memo was posted online, in full. I struggle to understand the context that was missing.
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by jlebar 6y ago
First of all, there are plenty of businesses that would do exactly this. It is legal in most US states. OK, but I don't think it's right. Here's why. We as a society have said, employers can "discriminate" (meanin
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by jlebar 6y ago
> Damore was not offered a chance to receive forgiveness by either the company or the outrage mob, therefore I don't respect what people generally have to say about whether what he did was right or wrong. Are you saying that it&#x27
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by jlebar 6y ago
https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
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by jlebar 6y ago
There is a finite set of Domino "prototypes" (a pair of strings), and you are allowed to use as many of each prototype as you like.
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by jlebar 6y ago
Hi, Andrew. :) Agree, I shouldn't have been loose wrt the distinction between inlining and LTO. I think I also ran that experiment with inlining sized-deletes and came to the same (surprising, to me) conclusion.
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by jlebar 6y ago
> Questioning things is good. HN could indeed use more epistemic uncertainty and gray (vs black-and-white) thinking.
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by jlebar 6y ago
> even without LTO, the compiler knows what malloc and free do at a semantic level. int *a = ...; int b = *a; malloc(42); b = *a; printf(b); If malloc is an opaque function, can the compiler nonetheless eliminate the secon
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by jlebar 6y ago
> First of all, let’s be clear: for a lot of algorithms adding call overhead around them is free because the cpu predicts the call, predicts the return, and uses register renaming to handle arguments and return. This is only thinking at
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by jlebar 6y ago
This isn't an appeal to authority. It's a suggestion that we consider the possibility that they are not wasting their time on make-work. This is Bayesian logic (our prior is that the systems engineers at Google are not incompeten
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by jlebar 6y ago
> My data says that perf of malloc/free in actual programs (not fake ass shit calling malloc in a loop) is never affected by the call overhead. Your data is legitimate, but you've got to ask yourself, would Jeff specifically an
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by jlebar 6y ago
There indeed isn't a ton of detail in TFA, and so I can understand your skepticism. Jeff Baker is an expert on this at Google. Until you've seen the sorts of analyses that are conducted inside of Google, it may be hard to apprecia
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by jlebar 6y ago
If there are any rust people here, you've probably considered that you can speed up your debug llvm builds by enabling some optimizations. SimplifyCFG comes to mind, but, like, you can experiment. I presume the reason you haven'
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by jlebar 6y ago
I left Google a few months ago, but I can speak to (1). I never worked on search directly, and of course I'm speaking only for myself. > 1. As someone generally frustrated with the quality of the search results I get on Google, is
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by jlebar 6y ago
> Does your ventilator regulate pressure and volume? Does it need a medical oxygen supply? Does it filter the exhaled air? Does it monitor the patients breathing pattern and sync with it? Yes to all. :) > Also what kind of testing ha
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by jlebar 6y ago
I'm helping lead software development for http://respira.works , another one of these emergency ventilator projects. Our software is licensed as Apache 2. I'm not sure if the HW license is settled, but the intent is to
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by jlebar 7y ago
How does iTerm2 accomplish this for you?
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by jlebar 7y ago
> The disadvantage is that it's [...] not trying to be a fully-fledged competitive neural network framework Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion, but to me this is an advantage. JAX is a library upon which you can build a neural-ne
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by jlebar 7y ago
The neural net predicts the upscaled image, then they add on the delta between that prediction and the desired output. No matter what the neural net predicts, you can always generate some delta.
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by jlebar 7y ago
> In-network shops can't be more expensive than out-of-network shops. "My insurance told me to go to X shop, which was 3x as expensive as this other shop and was going to take two weeks to repair my window." -my roommate
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by jlebar 7y ago
PayPal / Venmo also don't have support for proper security keys. :(
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by jlebar 7y ago
> A hospital charged my friend $5k for three stitches. They could pay 8 cents more per mask. But they care more about $$$ than the long term health of the country. Couldn't we say the same thing about the owner of this factory? He
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by jlebar 7y ago
> I understand the historical context of laws, my point was they are fundamental and we can believe them as fundamental truths. I...don't think so? Newton's laws are not fundamental; they are consequences of deeper ideas like
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by jlebar 7y ago
> I mean they are laws after all, You may want to do a little reading about what scientists mean by the words "law" versus "theory". It's more of a historical accident / the way scientists used to talk abou
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by jlebar 7y ago
> They are an authority, Saying it is settled tried to end the debate in the laymen eyes. Granted. And we further assume this scientist has a bona fide good faith expert belief that it is in fact, settled science. Is your position that
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by jlebar 7y ago
Genuinely trying to understand your position here: It's "authoritarian" for a scientist to claim, based on their good faith expert opinion, that a particular scientific question is "more or less settled" if...you di
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by jlebar 7y ago
> making authoritarian statements like "it is settled" If you are allowed to have and share your opinion that it's not settled science, would you be willing to elaborate on how it is "authoritarianism" for a scie
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by jlebar 7y ago
The thing I love about i3 is that the config file is the complete documentation. Forget how to do something? Open the config file. That's it. <3 i3
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by jlebar 7y ago
You mean "(well ok, 3 would be a poor choice)"?

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