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by karparov 2y ago
Whether a birth certificate for a same-sex couple in the IVF case mentions "mother" or the less ambiguous "inseminated person" is indeed fully inconsequential for the vast majority of the American public. Doesn't st
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by karparov 2y ago
Trump and Musk claiming they fight against "the elite" is one of the major jokes the rest of the world is laughing at.
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by karparov 2y ago
It will soon stop being considered that, when Trump and Musk keep widening their censorship apparatus.
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by karparov 2y ago
It doesn't help that the tech sector is falling in line. Spearheaded by Musk who is still glorified my many in the industry, other tech giants are following suit. Meta, Google, Amazon, nobody dares challenging the new US order and is p
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by karparov 2y ago
A 10x person who brings down 20 others to a small fraction of their potential and causes other rockstars to leave is still net-negative. Good management understands this. (And I'm not sure why I'm downvoted for this. Nothing about
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by karparov 2y ago
Exactly. Somebody who is universally hated by their co-workers should just be let go. Nothing to do with a layoff. So everybody who is around has some reason for actually being there. In a well-managed place, that is.
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by karparov 2y ago
The article doesn't actually explain why . It claims that they don't work and supplies statistical evidence. But why don't they work? I've only really seen speculation...
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by karparov 2y ago
If I want to create an entry in Apples DB that I looked at this app, then sure, it's easy to find out. The local currency argument is wrong btw. I'm located in Europe and use a Spanish IP. The prices shown are in USD. There are lo
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by karparov 2y ago
There is more to hiring than technical competence. I'm not seeing any red flags in his videos, but just saying, ability to work in a team is not obvious from such posts.
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by karparov 2y ago
I still maintain that if that's the case then something is wrong. More users reporting bugs for relevant edge cases is not a nuisance, it's the crowdsourcing of testing and each such reported issue is gold because then he can fix
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by karparov 2y ago
Sorry, that's a BS reason. If you don't want that, just ignore all opened issues. That's it. If you are nice then you put a README that explains this in a sentence or two. If a community forms that wants to fix issues, for ex
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by karparov 2y ago
It very much is. sqrt(x) is just x^(1/2) which is x^(2^-1). Dirac's solution is using iterated square root of 2, effectively generating a sequence similar to what's used in this post.
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by karparov 2y ago
I'm a little surprised that folks here are investing so much time into this app. It's closed source, only available for a non-obious amount, time-limited or subscription-based and lots of details of how it works are missing. With
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by karparov 2y ago
This can be done much faster and safer. You can group all files into buckets, and as soon as a bucket is empty, discard it. If in the end there are still files in the same bucket, they are duplicates. Initially all files are in the same buc
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by karparov 2y ago
Not the whole file but it would duplicate the block. GP didn't claim that the whole file is copied.
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by karparov 2y ago
TL;DR: He wrote an OS X dedup app which finds files with the same contents and tells the filesystem that their contents are identical, so it can save space (using copy-on-write features). He points out its dangerous but could be worth it ca
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by karparov 2y ago
A suggestion for your speed converter: different sports use different units which your converter could support as well. A few examples: Running usually measures pace in minutes per kilometer or mile. That will be extra fun for you since it
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by karparov 2y ago
And those other people are free to do whatever they like in their interpretation of the game.
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by karparov 2y ago
Let karparov(2222) be defined as the number of whole seconds that have elapsed since this message was posted. You cover all naturals this way! But you're all missing the point. A winning "solution" to this game is whatever th
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by karparov 2y ago
Moving the goal post? If you are asking which is the "first algorithm" a human learns in their life then it's likely more related to movement (crawl? walk? move food towards mouth?) or selection (which item can I eat? who are
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by karparov 2y ago
Another obvious example: What's the mean of an unsorted list of integers? If you do a random sample of sqrt(n) values and mean over that, you guess is with high probability pretty good. Or a log(n) sample. (That's how election pol
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by karparov 2y ago
I've never understood the appeal of such themes. If you really love to have an Apple logo in the top left corner, why not buy the original? What's the point?
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by karparov 2y ago
Nobody forces those Ph.D. students to do that.
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by karparov 2y ago
And since everybody knows that this is how management deals with estimates, there is no incentive to improve upon their own.
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by karparov 2y ago
You need to read this for a while to understand that with "engineer" they mean "programmer". Nowhere does it say "software engineer". Indicating that somebody is trying to give general advice but is actually to
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by karparov 2y ago
If you make it about ethics, it's not going to work. Your C-suite folks wont be on board. You need to make it about utility. Open sourcing some package or contributions to an existing package is giving you returns far beyond your inves
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by karparov 2y ago
> Your second paragraph is explaining perfectly why open source doesn't work > some guy's free time project and is created on a $0 budget. > Programmers work for free You seem to be completely out of touch with what FOSS
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by karparov 2y ago
Exactly. If I want to hire a group of people who are good at communicating I should focus on that aspect during the interview process rather than ensuring that they are all homogeneously white or brown or black or asian or men or women or c
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by karparov 2y ago
Hm not sure. Workplaces which have multiple teams compete on the same thing tend to have quite toxic cultures.
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by karparov 2y ago
And this is one of the main utilitarian arguments for diversity in teams. If everybody has the same socio-cultural background, it's harder to leave the frame.

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