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I spot a bad remote employee(latypoff.com)
2 points by nlitened 1y ago|5 comments
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by nlitened 1y ago
> C programmers, then `int x;` can either have a value which is just not known at compile time I am pretty sure that in C, when a program reads uninitialized variable, it is an "undefined behavior", and it is pretty much allowe
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by nlitened 1y ago
Psychologists are notoriously bad at statistics though
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by nlitened 1y ago
If you "dredge" any data set (even the one you can 100% trust) over and over with random hypotheses until p-value is <0.05, you will eventually (actually, pretty quickly) support some false hypothesis. That's why "dat
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by nlitened 1y ago
Einstein equations
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by nlitened 1y ago
So, what are the tradeoffs? In some ways it’s better than both VPNs and Tor — but in what ways it’s worse?
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by nlitened 1y ago
Sir, this is a forum for people who make things
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by nlitened 1y ago
An interesting development in this direction is Clojure’s anomalies taxonomy: nine outcomes (two retriable, two maybe-retriable, five non-retriable; nine respective ways to fix) See table here: https://github.com/cognitect-
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by nlitened 2y ago
But how pleasant is it to write?
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by nlitened 2y ago
> *citation needed You are already citing the person, do you really need that person to cite another person in order to form an opinion?
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by nlitened 2y ago
> If supply can be ramped up quickly here, that could mean very fast. Just at a rate the supply side of the market can actually respond to. But with this you inevitably create a bureaucratic committee that would hold the power to decide
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by nlitened 2y ago
> If reshoring manufacturing was an honest goal, the way to do it with tariffs would be to start them at some very low amount ... > Then have tariffs rise on a schedule designed specifically to give importers time to adapt economicall
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by nlitened 2y ago
Anybody can get a slice of USA’s GDP growth — just buy S&P500. Too many people instead prefer to spend that money on Uber Eats and new iPhone every year.
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by nlitened 2y ago
Ports are part of TCP and UDP, not IP, as far as I can tell. So ports are tied to the protocol
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by nlitened 2y ago
You can! The job is called VP of Engineering
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by nlitened 2y ago
A manager that organized their team so that each team member makes concrete thought-out proposals with all details covered, so that it's their only job left is to give approvals and do nothing else? I'd say that's a brilliant
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by nlitened 2y ago
I actually believe that most of useful real-world software is “one step away from Excel”, and that’s fine
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by nlitened 2y ago
> I can tell you that cloud billing is the least of your concerns if you pay even the cursory attention to writing good queries and adding indexes in the right places. I read this as "in building your startup, you should be paranoid
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by nlitened 2y ago
I like my 13 mini, but now I will be happy to trade some size for a bigger battery. Also, some websites turned out to be unusable on a smaller screen, so today I am thrilled for the 16e
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by nlitened 2y ago
I believe most people do iCloud backup/restore nowadays. I only do manual backup/restore once every few years when I upgrade my iPhone (even then, I could probably do that via iCloud also)
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by nlitened 2y ago
You can’t make those people happy, I guess
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by nlitened 2y ago
To be fair, I’ve not used the cable for anything but charging for at least five years
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by nlitened 2y ago
Could someone please explain how could carbon capture ever work? To me it looks as if it is a mathematically impossible thing: if you produce energy by releasing carbon, you would need to expend even more energy to capture the same carbon b
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by nlitened 2y ago
> If DOGE doesn’t provide enough benefits But if it does, people involved will be the part of unique historical turnaround of a falling empire, and their names will be written in gold.
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by nlitened 2y ago
This setImmutable would return a new instance of Array<Animal> which would not be Array<Cat> like the original, and would contain any mix of cats and dogs. So immutability resolves the covariance problem, I think?
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by nlitened 2y ago
I can’t help but keep noticing that all of the notorious problems with OOP are not due to inheritance, but due to mutability.
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by nlitened 2y ago
How about we let senile old men sign executive orders they are unable to read in full or recall half an hour later? At least we will not know who’s making those executive orders, so we will not have some easy target to complain about. Also
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by nlitened 2y ago
> deciding everything that happens in government as if they were a king Isn’t it what the head of executive branch supposed to mean? Trump does exactly how he promised he would do if you elected him, and you guys elected him overwhelming
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by nlitened 2y ago
Results of 1-bit matrix multiplications (essentially, counts of one-bits in rows) are integers, and a non-linear activation function may be applied, I think
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Ask HN: Why are 1.00-bit LLMs not used?
2 points by nlitened 2y ago|2 comments

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