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by k_sze 5y ago
As far as I understand, that’s not even really true in the case of the Three Gorges Dam. The community upstream suffered from the lost of ancestral land, while the cities downstream benefitted the most from the new, cheap electricity (and l
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M1GRAIN for something about atomic ops.
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I wonder if we can breed, via artificial selection, cats that only hunt rats.
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Proper environmental hygiene: - No hole for them to sneak into kitchens, etc - No food left around for them to eat - No place for them to hide and breed That, and maybe rat-killing robots, equipped with computer vision, who won't cheat
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What I don’t understand is why can’t they at least use codenames like Ubuntu does. At least the alphabetical ordering makes it easy to tell which one is newer over roughly 13 years.
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I'm glad you appreciate that. My mother tongue is Cantonese and for a long time I spoke French better than English because I moved to Montreal when I was a kid. I still say weird things in English, even though, like you said, they are
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Here is a crazy conspiracy theory: maybe they are both legit and MS used shady-looking e-mail addresses on purpose. Security-minded people will look at them and call them out, thus bringing to light how shitty the Chrome Extension store vet
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by k_sze 5y ago
How does an article on nps.gov have so many grammatical errors?
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Just a FYI in case you didn’t know, but Vorbis is kinda superseded by Opus now, which is a newer, royalty-free lossy codec that has a few nice qualities, such as, if I understand correctly, less decoding latency, higher compression ratio fo
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by k_sze 5y ago
This makes me think about the way we define “harsh”. What’s actually so harsh about Mars? Let’s imagine some alien civilization tries to send a probe to Earth, they’d be saying things like: “Dude, that atmosphere is gonna burn our shit up b
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What happened during the Hong Kong 2019 “protests”(twitter.com)
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That, and knowing how to ask questions on StackOverflow or in IRC/Discord/Slack/Matrix.
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Jens Gustedt is a co-editor of the ISO C standard, so he knows his shit. Modern C is probably the best book about modern C, short of reading the standard.
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I need this to become small enough that I can stick them into the barrels of my fountain pens. But then there's no replaceable battery that would fit yet.
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Also, it’s _possible_ that things got “cheaper” simply because the costs have been externalized.
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Did you read it in original Japanese or translated?
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by k_sze 6y ago
Even if everything was in Chinese, hiring a Chinese translater costs pennies compared to any disaster that this could cause. The translater doesn’t even need to be Chinese; there are probably enough Europeans who have studied in China and
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That’s not really homomorphic encryption, IIUC. In homomorphic encryption, you don’t even need decryption and re-encryption steps.
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Maybe it uses homomorphic encryption?
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Heh. I don't claim my method is perfect, but I believe it's reasonably better than hardcore leetcode stuff. FizzBuzz is the kind of problem that doesn't need any preparation to solve for any person who can program. In fact, i
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At my last interview (which happened less than a month ago), I said I used to do "stupid stuff with Raspberry Pis" (my exact words) and I got hired. Maybe I was just lucky, but I think you don't have to be all "florid&qu
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Or maybe I should put it another way: they've seen past the priorities of values of the West. I think that, as civilisations, we all aspire to mostly the same values. We just have very different priorities. For the Chinese, it's
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How many Mainland Chinese do you actually know? Have you talked to them? My in-laws are all Mainland Chinese. They have access to safe and good tap water, either back in their home town literally in the mountains or in a big city like Wuhan
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Yes, but you don’t need to know how to “reverse a b-tree” for that. You just need to be aware of something called algorithmic complexity and big-O notation. You don’t even need to know how to determine the big-O for all the known algori
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by k_sze 6y ago
See this reply I wrote to another branch of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26793636
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The way I do "technical" interviews: 1. FizzBuzz, always, unironically; this easily weeds out 99% of the people who can’t program. I don’t even ask for an elegant solution, just a solution that works, in any language they choose.
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I would argue that “preparing for interview” is exactly what’s wrong. Nobody should be “preparing for interview”, especially the really hardcore technical kind of interview, unless the job itself really is about hardcore technical stuff.
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Here is one source (in Chinese though): https://tw.appledaily.com/international/20210217/2TSNJAXQZRG...
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> If a former politician the government dislikes owns shares in a company, the government should not simply punish the company - including all the other shareholders, many of whom are small retail investors and pension funds! If a former
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I think there is a version of the story that the West somehow doesn’t hear a lot about. In Mainland China, the sudden interference of the government is attributed to the discovery of the stake of Jiang Zemin’s faction in Ant Group. It’s not

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