mikko-apo

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by mikko-apo 3y ago
Nokia's then CEO's Elop's "burning platform" memo leak in 2011 seemed to hurt Nokia a lot by painting their existing and upcoming phones as inferior. > I have learned that we are standing on a burning platform.
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by mikko-apo 3y ago
Can you elaborate? Do you mean like the Promise API with the "spesialisti APIs"?
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by mikko-apo 3y ago
JDK21 has structured concurrency. It works with virtual threads so the main task will be moved aside (from the OS thread) until the sub tasks finnish. https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/06/structured-concurrency-
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by mikko-apo 3y ago
Before virtual threads, Java server would reserve a full OS thread while that code is being processed. OS threads use lots of memory and there might a limited number available. With a single incoming request or low traffic that is not a pro
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by mikko-apo 4y ago
I disagree, the success story has details that reveal lots on what's going on. > The team uses software to prototype their instruments before implementing hardware designs. With the basic software platform already functional, develo
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by mikko-apo 9y ago
Only time when I noticed my fans revving up was when I went to a site that tried to mine some bitcoins. Closing the tab reduced the cpu usage to normal levels.
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by mikko-apo 10y ago
Keeping the safety belt on protects other passengers too. A person weighing 80kg has surprisingly high amount of kinetic energy when the plane trashes around. Kinetic energy is also the reason why the flight attendants try to lock as much a
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by mikko-apo 10y ago
I don't know about Sweden, but in Finland the number of firebomb/grenade attacks increased a lot in the past few years. All of them due Finnish born right wing zealots trying to burn down the shelters housing the refugees. Luckily
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by mikko-apo 10y ago
Actually with film it wasn't that straightforward: "In the early days of color film, the color balance of the film’s processing chemicals were made with the primary consumer market in mind–which, at the time, was predominately lig
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by mikko-apo 11y ago
I think it's about balancing various things. Having less code is good unless there's a hidden catch you need to be aware of or it takes a few weeks to unravel what the code does. I prefer code that is understandable right away, is
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by mikko-apo 11y ago
It's about the performance of selecting which function to call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dispatch
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by mikko-apo 12y ago
Chrome displays if the browser is 64bit in its about box, but for Firefox that information is a bit harder to find out. It's in about:buildconfig
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by mikko-apo 12y ago
We used Docker for the Hello World Open coding competition. We provided CI for the 2500 teams and also ran the competition using Docker (both on top of AWS EC2 instances). I think that without Docker the implementation would have been a lot
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by mikko-apo 12y ago
Hi! Unfortunately there's quite a bit of context behind those statistics that doesn't fit in to the title nicely. I suspect that mentioning just HWO or Hello World Open or real time race car AI coding competition is not enough eit
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by mikko-apo 12y ago
Actually back in 2012 Java wasn't that popular. Here's the language stats for the 200 teams 1.5 years ago: Ruby 28.4% Python 27.5% Clojure 10.1% Java 9.2% CoffeeScript 8.3% Haskell 6.4% JavaScript 5.5% Scala 1.
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Java is back? Programming language trends for 2345 teams(blog.helloworldopen.com)
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
I would image the complexity being really high because the game is about racing against other AIs. What do you think? And I'm afraid local versions are out because: 1. players would reverse engineer the server's simulation code 2.
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
Unfortunately due budget constraints we can't allow unlimited access to test game servers. Do you have an estimate on how many rounds would you need to evolve the algorithm enough?
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
Hi Unfortunately due budget constraints we can't allow unlimited access to test game servers. Do you have an estimate on how many rounds would you need to evolve the algorithm enough?
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
Yes, we'll provide test game servers that you can use.
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
Hi! Very good question :) The message protocol is synchronized because of latency. When the developers test their bots against the game servers, the server allows long response times. When automated races are run in the cloud (with low late
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
We're trying to keep the competition both fun and challenging so the simulation is kept fairly simple. More details will be revealed when competition starts.
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
During the competition the server code is not released. There are going to be game servers where developers can connect and test their bots. We haven't discussed about what happens after the race. Lets see :)
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
There's nothing that makes internet somehow undo-hostile. But your observation about relational databases not having the support for undo is in the right track. Actually it can be expanded to most data storage mechanisms, sql, nosql et
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
Yes definitely, you're right. What I mean is that bad design or bad architecture can take months to fix while most editors can fix formatting automatically with a few clicks. At the same time I prefer my own projects to have very clear
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
Code style shouldn't change the value of code in any way. If it does something went horribly wrong :) For me code's value comes from what the code does and how elegant the overall implementation is. Code's value definitely do
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
Hi Cool, sysadmin at a research university sounds like a nice position to be at. Yes, it's already on github. Unfortunately, since it's missing those critical features it's not easy to see how the whole system is going to wor
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by mikko-apo 13y ago
I've built a similar system, around 5 year ago. Users were able to deploy any version to any cluster from a nice UI. Basically you could select any version, click "Install" button and follow the logs in real time. Behind the