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by koala_man 3y ago
In Google's heyday, around 2014, I was talking with Uszkoreit about a possible role on his then NLP team. I asked "What would you do if you had an unlimited budget?" He simply said, "I do"
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by koala_man 3y ago
My favorite example that I see pretty often is "In posix grep, what's a regex that matches lines that don't contain the word `test`?" The X answer is a lecture on language theory including the construction and inversion
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by koala_man 3y ago
I know I keep posting this, but my favorite (half-joking) programming advice was from a Google dev infra engineer who said "Any Python script over 100 lines should be rewritten in Bash, because at least that way you're not fooling
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by koala_man 3y ago
> Surely they could ask an artist to volunteer their time just as they volunteered theirs? Unfortunately "I spent a lot of time on this thing you have no interest in or relation to" is not a very convincing argument in the FOSS
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by koala_man 3y ago
Reposted story, reposted comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by koala_man 3y ago
Do you have the same view of other compiler optimizations? Would you prefer if the compiler never unrolled a loop so that you can write it out manually when you need it?
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by koala_man 3y ago
TIL that the Go compiler still does not have autovectorization.
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by koala_man 3y ago
https://archive.is/gts7L
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by koala_man 3y ago
I don't know, but I imagine accelerometers work ok for cars on roads, but less so for meandering pedestrians in alleys and semi-enclosed shopping plazas.
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by koala_man 3y ago
Presumably this is a general comment, since this release does not (and wasn't intended to) include any of the Quake II models, levels, graphical assets, sound effects, or music. It's purely engine source code.
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by koala_man 3y ago
The article makes a mere side note of the fact they also count revolving debt, i.e. what happens if you pay for groceries on a credit card and then pay off the amount in full every month.
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by koala_man 3y ago
This is already the case according to The Guardian. Imagine solar panels that generate 200W/m2 at night when it rains. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/13/rain-or-...
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by koala_man 3y ago
Huh, I rejected the cookie popup and it just said > You have indicated that you do not want to be cookied by us. If you continue on our site, you are agreeing to our Ad and Cookie Policy. If you do not agree, please navigate away from th
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by koala_man 4y ago
The interesting thing about this is not the case itself, but that we're starting to see novel benefits from having open, modular laptop hardware.
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by koala_man 4y ago
Ransomware groups come to mind.
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by koala_man 4y ago
> I will not compromise on this. Will you collaborate on this? Help ban heavier vehicles for everyone?
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by koala_man 4y ago
I heard from one large tech company that was pressured by the city to bring people back in order to prop up the city's downtown service sector. The company caved because they depended on city approval for some licenses. The person who
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by koala_man 4y ago
> constantly push listeners to download an app to 'listen anywhere.' I remember wondering how on earth iHeartRadio managed to integrate with so many small, local radio stations. As an IT consultant it was a struggle to get a sm
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by koala_man 4y ago
I used to round up back in Europe, but after living in the US for a while I never tip anywhere else. I don't want this cancer to spread.
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by koala_man 4y ago
> it's never a compiler bug I wish this was true. It would have made my job of writing compilers so much easier.
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by koala_man 4y ago
>seem That's the problem with USB cables. They all seem to work when you don't look too closely.
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by koala_man 4y ago
My least favorite thing about "falsehoods X believe about Y" articles is that they make a point out of not backing up or demonstrating any of their claims.
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by koala_man 4y ago
HN is the only useful escalation mechanism at this point, so have an upvote.
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by koala_man 4y ago
Most of the VR software I've tried have anti-nausea features like teleportation and unmoving frames of reference, so I'm not sure it's fair to say that no one's talking about it. I think the hope was that some combinatio
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by koala_man 4y ago
Really? This SO question says it's stored in /var/db/oah/ https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/427695/how-can-i-l...
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by koala_man 4y ago
Performance also translates into better battery life and cheaper datacenters.
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by koala_man 4y ago
> jigsaw puzzles Wait, how do they check these over? Do they solve them to make sure that a quarter of the pieces aren't missing. Do they count the pieces in a 5000pc puzzle?
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by koala_man 4y ago
HN is very US centric. Get yourself some UK advice. Here's what appears to be a free helpline for employee rights issues: https://www.gov.uk/pay-and-work-rights
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by koala_man 4y ago
> It's called Windows Platform Binary Table When I was in college it was called a hardware rootkit
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by koala_man 4y ago
> Single core CPUs are few and far between those days. I would not be surprised if it's more common to run on a single CPU machine today than 10 years ago due to cloud VM instances.

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