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961.
by mhh__ 3y ago
I would much rather have someone like Linus who at very least I would understand very quickly than a "leader" who is distant and only makes a fuss post-hoc
962.
by mhh__ 3y ago
The idea with a "count" in a British election is that so many people from all the different parties are wandering around (both counting by hand and observing) that it's difficult to get up to any funny business. There is obvi
963.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Shaders are for different hardware than regular code, both in the amount of independent work happening all the time but also the memory hierarchy is designed for very different workloads. I think it's the memory than explains why one h
964.
by mhh__ 3y ago
SIMT let's a scheduler get clever about memory accesses, SIMD can practically only access memory linearly (scatter gather can do better but it's still usually quite linear) whereas SIMT can be much smarter in terms of having lots
965.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Terry Davis has a nice video of him demoing a physics program he wrote, where he is coding a PID for a rocket.
966.
by mhh__ 3y ago
What does fast actually mean specifically? The slow bit isn't the client, surely?
967.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Why would someone working as an algorithmic market maker on the sell-side not be a "real" quant? I work on the buy-side for the record.
968.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Most quants work on the sell-side where direct forecasting is almost irrelevant (to an academic, a trader perhaps not...), in that they are usually attempting to "interpolate" market prices to be able to price derivatives.
969.
by mhh__ 3y ago
I use it for (some) quant finance work. It's not a toy, shockingly versatile.
970.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Couldn't resist, I take it?
971.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Alpha?
972.
by mhh__ 3y ago
It's not quick but "Computer Network Time Synchronization" by Mills
973.
by mhh__ 3y ago
A lot of games have GCs...
974.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Opposition to GC is mostly people being fooled by GC-ed languages tending to be higher level and thus generating more garbage. > Embedded systems In the embedded work I've done I barely allocate at all, so it matters not GC or other
975.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Formatters can also readily spot and preserve patterns if you want them. You can shape the cost function to value patterns. I suspect Walter formed this opinion when they were much worse. Also formatters have enormous benefit when you have
976.
by mhh__ 3y ago
The tail is not as painful as real engineering but as an industry we throw away billions in value every year to dumb processes. There is more to this than just the scar tissue. It's not just a feature, the model is fundamentally differ
977.
by mhh__ 3y ago
That's like saying it's OK to expect (say) Ford to make a car with no steering wheel. GitHub basically define the baseline for the entire industry and have millions upon millions to blow on trying to do better. (OK, Saab did actua
978.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Even if they do there are famous stories about how hard it is to be seen as sane the moment it's suspected you're not. For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
979.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Quora used to be amazing...
980.
by mhh__ 3y ago
IT hub isn't exactly the vibe you get from walking around Berlin IMO.
981.
by mhh__ 3y ago
British people in general are massively blinkered about trains. There are obviously flaws but if I said that I've seen Germans using british trains as an example of punctuality I'd imagine most people moaning about trains would be
982.
by mhh__ 3y ago
True of variables in most languages, are they evil too?
983.
by mhh__ 3y ago
As opposed to a stall induced by reference counting? Don't allocate => don't need to collect.
984.
by mhh__ 3y ago
vlookup is usually not the right tool for the job (index + match better)
985.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Good excel (such a thing does exist) should almost never refer to a cell by its coordinate rather than using either a named range or better still a table, this probably encourages not doing that.
986.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Or it's because she is often fishing for a contrarian position to take. I can't remember the specifics but when discussing electric cars for example she just comes across as whinging to own the eco people.
987.
by mhh__ 3y ago
It's also subtly useful to have them be actually on the disk when you need them.
988.
by mhh__ 3y ago
That was maybe true for C in the seventies but there's practically no difference anymore e.g. C has an as if rule too.
989.
by mhh__ 3y ago
I don't really know them well enough yet but some of these frameworks do seem to be in need of some compiler engineers e.g. with this compile time reactivity for example I was surprised there was no mention of dataflow analysis.
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by mhh__ 3y ago
It interesting seeing Mr Beast talk about AB testing thumbnails — his old style was apparently not actually what the algorithm wanted but he'd never tested it properly.

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