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by joek1301 5y ago
Hi HN! I'm the author of this blog post. I was stuck in quarantine with COVID, and I became absolutely obsessed with WORDLE. There were a few great technical articles posted here, and I became inspired to write my own WORDLE solver bas
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Building a Wordle solver in Python using Knuth's Mastermind algorithm(kerrigan.dev)
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by joek1301 5y ago
Obviously switching away from Cloud Functions does away with the architectural limitation of processing requests serially, but from my (limited) understanding of Node.js internals, Express applications are single-threaded anyway. Do you hav
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by joek1301 5y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. "Best practices" suggested by AWS, GCP are to architect these services with one function per endpoint, with API gateway handling the routing. Sounds good but if you need reasonable tail-end response latenci
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by joek1301 5y ago
I just popped open DevTools on an SPA I made using create-react-app with default settings. Sure enough the minified production JavaScript uses shortened variable names. This is default configuration for Webpack, which is pretty widely used
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by joek1301 5y ago
do you have any advice for "bootstrapping" your SSB experience as a new user? The original post inspired me to go download Patchwork and join a public pub, but I'm having difficulty finding real interesting conversations to j
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Deux Filles(ltmrecordings.com)
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by joek1301 5y ago
I think Scott Alexander’s piece on slippery slopes and Schelling fences [1] does a nice job delineating between good- and bad-faith slippery slope arguments. “Slippery slopes legitimately exist wherever a policy not only affects the world d
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by joek1301 5y ago
Yet another similar story. A side project of mine was building a rudimentary neural network whose weights were optimized via a genetic algorithm. The goal was operating top-down, 2D self-driving cars. The cars' "fitness" func