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by patrec 4y ago
> No apparent reason? He bought one of the biggest influence platforms on the planet and roughly simultaneously began heavily pumping the narratives of the MAGA faction, making throwaway declarations of political neutrality. The "no
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by patrec 4y ago
> I think many people, myself included, assumed Musk's course was always "just do what's best for me." So he's really just holding to that. As far as I can tell Musk is currently self-destructing for no apparent
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by patrec 4y ago
But Berkeley has been, and as a result thousands of hours of high quality course content has been permanently removed. > In 2016, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) received letters of complaint stating that UC Berkeley’s MOOC media cont
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by patrec 4y ago
Is this MIT internal only, or can anyone subscribe to this mailing list?
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by patrec 4y ago
I wonder if the truth is not more depressing (they don't want to get sued under ADA).
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by patrec 4y ago
I don't think what you describe is functionally equivalent. I suspect the main benefit of non-competes is not that you can move around from bigcorp A to bigcorp B (although that's also useful for spreading know-how and utilizing t
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by patrec 4y ago
I find it very strange that the word "non-compete" does not occur in the article. Having California style non-compete legislation sounds like it would be one of the easiest steps to improve European competitiveness.
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by patrec 4y ago
I love this!
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by patrec 4y ago
The video shows some useful techniques but falls a bit flat as vim advocacy for me. Any modern editor (including sublime, vscode, various jetbrain things and of course vim itself with vim-visual-multi) can do this better and more easily wit
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by patrec 4y ago
How would sitting on the side walk in front of a school constitute a criminal trespass?
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by patrec 4y ago
I feel we must be talking past each other. I thought the examples so far were about random access of N units of memory. The standard convention of pretending this can be done at O(1) always struck me as bizarre, because it's neither tr
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by patrec 4y ago
> The latency of accessing memory is not a function of N. How could it not be, given that any physical medium has finite information density, and information cannot propagate faster than the speed of light? And on a practical computer th
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by patrec 4y ago
I think you are right to also worry about your safety and would likely need some help and advice if you are trying to help him. I haven't extensively read Freddie de Boer, but in what I read, he comes across as empathetic, perceptive,
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by patrec 4y ago
What makes you think so? Do you have any examples of particularly healthful highly processed foodstuff in mind? Or is this more some "there are no slow programming languages, only slow implementations" type of argument about the a
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by patrec 4y ago
You seem to be a lot more saddened than I am that a nice two letter name wasn't successfully squatted for all eternity by a no longer maintained ultra obscure niche language that no one has ever heard of let alone used. Now perl steali
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by patrec 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what problems did your narcolepsy cause your management so that they decided to fire you under a pretext?
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by patrec 4y ago
Sorting (assuming your numbers are unsigned and same width, you can sort them as byte strings). Dispatch (if only the topmost n-bits (or bytes) are needed to make a decision, that's all you need to read).
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by patrec 4y ago
Can you provide any numbers showing that more than 0.1% of networked ARM devices are big-endian? Pretty much all modern consumer facing ARM devices (including anything made by Apple as well as Android phones, as well as Nintendo) are little
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by patrec 4y ago
How is that "better advice"? Big endian architectures are pretty much dead (x86, ARM and RiscV are all little endian; some ARM chips are bi-endian, but not Apple's) and there's no discernible compelling advantage that wo
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by patrec 4y ago
Hash functions are only incredibly difficult to invert when the input domain is large, which is not the case with phone numbers. Even if you use a password hashing function that takes 1s to run (and if you need to frequently compare the has
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by patrec 4y ago
A Bluish color palette with "optimal focus and readability for code syntax", right... https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/
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by patrec 4y ago
> De-facto standard discovery mechanism DNS does not work with ports Yes, it does, see SRV records.
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by patrec 4y ago
It is kind of hard to control perceived risks to passengers without taking actual risks to them into account.
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by patrec 4y ago
> I thought it was telling that Andrej immediately "reframed" the question because Lex asked the "wrong question". This is a classic evasion technique I agree with this assessment. However: > Telsa can't suppo
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by patrec 4y ago
So modern civilization currently requires the average human to consume roughly 3-4 times his body weight in steel per year. And given that steel production has roughly doubled in the last 20 years, this will probably still go up a fair deal
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by patrec 4y ago
Pyston is already at the "our incredible journey" stage ("We’re very excited about these changes and [...] Marius and I (Kevin) are planning to gradually reduce our time investment in the project"). Pypy, as a practical
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by patrec 4y ago
I think python 3.11 has effectively killed off both Pypy and Pyston. Now that the CPython team has finally shown both willingness and ability to deal with performance problems, few people are going to fool around with some esoteric version
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by patrec 4y ago
How did you arrive at the conclusion that his work is important? I ask because you say that you were hitherto unfamiliar with his works and to me the present article gives no indication of so much as an interesting idea.
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by patrec 4y ago
> Disconnection from the world is solved by high resolution video passthrough. This one will go into my treasure trove of HN quotes.
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by patrec 4y ago
This is easily accomplished in python: _DEFAULT = object() # bonus points: make this reload safe def frobnicate(bar=_DEFAULT): if bar is _DEFAULT: ... But really the main reason this comes up is because pyt

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