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by maayank 7y ago
Not having a specific behavior at infinity != doesn't having an effect
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by maayank 7y ago
> Try the semantic map of https://swisscows.ch/ Was excited to try it more after an initial impression, but this is a no-go for me: > 1. We promote moral values. Which of course is code word for "We promote our
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by maayank 7y ago
Why the relative high cost of threads on ARM? If anything, I'd imagine it is more geared towards "massive parallel" scenarios (i.e. dozens of cores).
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by maayank 7y ago
> We didn't write any documentation or have any internal wiki or anything like that, and everything seemed fine. Just evidence that documentation != institutional knowledge. It's not actionable knowledge if no one reads it.
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by maayank 7y ago
> Someone's just bought a $1000 call option on a stock that's currently $400? Automated trading systems will probably raise alerts on that stock since someone must know something for that to happen. The trading system and its o
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by maayank 7y ago
I use it when needing vast geographical spread - e.g. nodes that are closest to exchanges or some such. Because so many others use it, if you care about latency to the counter-party server it's often a nice way to ensure low latency (b
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by maayank 7y ago
I feel like I’m taking imagination-b-gone pills. The only potential uses off the top of my head that I’ve witnessed are credentials management and financial instruments arbitrage, and in both cases it was solved well by other measures. I’m
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by maayank 7y ago
Would personally be happy to see more skills of which the importance has rapidly risen in 2020 or expected to rise. Exercise has always been important. So has connecting with people or marketing.
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by maayank 7y ago
Do they though? Haven’t seen many companies with graph problems at such scale that require a new solution integrated, leaving aside the social network trope
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FBI probes use of Israeli firm's spyware in personal and government hacks(reuters.com)
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by maayank 7y ago
Someone who is more versed in the usual statistics, how serious is it? Without domain knowledge, I have no idea if the few dozen deaths in this period at these locations is significant or not.
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The medications that change who we are(bbc.com)
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by maayank 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. It's a shame that such interesting developments are shadowed by the brand-name and infamy.
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by maayank 7y ago
Tangentially related, does the Linux spotify app provides any additional features to the web-based client?
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Airbnb’s Q1 Loss More Than Doubled(theinformation.com)
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by maayank 7y ago
Seems like you're correct. I unflagged.
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by maayank 7y ago
EDIT: I was wrong. As a reply to this comment mentions, the article mentions another treaty that Israel ratified in 1964. Original: Flagged for editorialized (and wrong at that) title. Israel never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as me
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Secure web browsing with new browser architecture (2008) [pdf](cse.psu.edu)
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Free cash flow and Amazon: Bezos' “ultimate financial measure”(vox.com)
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by maayank 7y ago
> Calling Python code from Rust or Rust from Python is totally doable, and there is in my view no reason why you shouldn't use both in the use cases that suit them. What would be the best route to do so in your experience?
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FAA bans recalled 15-inch MacBook Pros from flights(9to5mac.com)
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by maayank 7y ago
I'm on the exact same boat (Air then 1st touch bar Mac). I've resigned to using it docked only both at work and home.
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by maayank 7y ago
Very limited shared state (only c types, including structs), which in practice means (for non trivial apps) some form of marshaling from python classes to the C structs. Boilerplate abound! In other words, nothing behind mmap with simple si
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by maayank 7y ago
I share your sentiment. An encyclopedic knowledge of interview problems and related algorithms can be a boon for a career. It reflects how broken they are, IMHO, but there’s that.
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IEEE-754 Floating-Point Format Video Series(youtube.com)
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A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation(nytimes.com)
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by maayank 7y ago
Any favorite non trivial paradigms in python for the functional enthusiast?
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by maayank 8y ago
I worked in Israel in various big companies and I could see situations for myself or others where overtime was never explicitly specified, but a monthly salaried software engineer had been given an amount of work that cannot be completed wi
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by maayank 8y ago
What country if you don't mind sharing?
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by maayank 8y ago
I really like their hardware. Recently upgraded it to a wireless AP and it's the best AP I ever had, including Google's OnHub

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