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by pbh101 2y ago
Maybe. They didn't seem to communicate any specific knowledge of the Java standard library. Agree an Optional<V> get(K) sounds like an 'obvious' addition, though also I've found that when something '
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by pbh101 2y ago
The Map interface pre-dates Optional and does not return Optional, so it won't return an empty Optional but rather null. To be more clear: Map<K, V>.get(foo) returns a `V`, not an `Optional<V>`. If your `V` is `Opt
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by pbh101 2y ago
This is a great answer. Don’t assume without all the info; the real story may be more complicated… maybe the interviewer was playing dumb? Phrase in a way that isn’t accusatory or assuming in the slightest (maybe ‘cool approach I see… I rea
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by pbh101 2y ago
Agree on all the above except that iCloud sync seems to have been rock-solid for years now.
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by pbh101 2y ago
I set up SVN for myself before Git and IMO Git is definitely easier.
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by pbh101 2y ago
The alternative theory is that any word starting with a vowel sound is exceedingly uncommon after ’a’ in its training set, so it doesn’t need to plan ahead, just predict the distribution of the most likely next words and choose. Which is my
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by pbh101 2y ago
The one where Google pays them $20 billion a year?
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by pbh101 3y ago
Gambling can have many externalities too, starting with the families of gambling addicts.
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by pbh101 3y ago
Apple didn’t create contactless payment infra in the US either. The contactless interface was already there, had its own logo, usable by tap cards, etc. Some retailers eg CVS turned off tap payments when Apple Pay was introduced.
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by pbh101 3y ago
I don’t think I’ve ever felt upset at mobile Safari’s browser engine. What am I missing?
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by pbh101 3y ago
How long until ‘this app only works on browser X’ on mobile that is only available via a third party store? Not impossible. We’ve been spared that so far but happens frequently on desktop Safari even today.
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by pbh101 3y ago
Maybe that which is best for a mobile computing platform is different than a desktop one. I like my iOS and macOS each in their respective place today.
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by pbh101 3y ago
EU could decide next that app sandboxing is anticompetitive restrictive gatekeeper behavior and force Apple to change that too. It too violates the ‘it is my hardware let me do what I want’ ethos expressed in this comment section.
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by pbh101 3y ago
I don’t see any restrictions on these app developers requiring them to publish to multiple stores or the App Store. In fact, only publishing an app to an alternative store seems to be the point of much of this.
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by pbh101 3y ago
This applies in the other direction too: in this DMA world, at some point perhaps an app I will want will only be available in Meta’s Store and I’ll have to either accept their (maybe ickier) terms or forgo the app, whereas without the DMA
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by pbh101 3y ago
Looks like I found a similar one just now too from the group. Thanks! https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2015/file/8...
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by pbh101 3y ago
I remember running into a paper from Google circa 2017 IIRC discussing the maintainability issues with machine learning models but haven’t been able to track down since. Does anyone know which one this is and have a link?
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by pbh101 3y ago
A limited amount: https://podcasters.apple.com/5314-introducing-subscription-a...
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by pbh101 3y ago
I agree that this method will produce a better estimate of expected mean real world performance under certain load conditions, but still contend it just muddies the waters about which solution is in fact the fastest. And here is Andrei Alex
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by pbh101 3y ago
But this is a contrived test, and looking for the fastest solution, so your arguments point to taking the fastest: the one with the least interference.
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by pbh101 3y ago
> Each contender will be run five times in a row. The slowest and the fastest runs are discarded. The mean value of the remaining three runs is the result for that contender and will be added to the leaderboard. Shouldn’t he take the sin
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by pbh101 3y ago
1. No (nontrivial) test is perfect: we take each with a grain of salt and accompanying context 2. You can take these tests multiple times and use the highest score, reducing impact of one-off ‘off days’ for whatever reason 3. These particu
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by pbh101 3y ago
CFS quotas only become active under contention and even then are relative: if you’re the only thing running on the box and want all the cores but only set one cpu, you get all of them anyway. If you set cpus to 2 and another process sets to
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by pbh101 3y ago
Look at what people make in MineCraft. If people had the ability to do that in real worlds, they would. In addition to the effect you describe, I think energy consumption would grow with ergonomics/facility of use.
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by pbh101 3y ago
Pretty sure many appliance and auto requirements are indeed law and not suggestions. Much like ‘smoking in bars,’ these are things that the providers won’t do unilaterally because some large segment of consumers strongly don’t prefer it (an
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by pbh101 3y ago
The way I’ve seen it is each kid usually has a grade-specific curriculum they are following. There can be cross-pollination on some topics/deep dives and extracurriculars that different ages will get different amounts out of, but the t
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by pbh101 3y ago
But to anyone who cares about this, the clarion call is that we haven’t yet done nearly enough. From my understanding, doing enough is impossible (with current tech: fusion would change this and nuclear best option now) without massive ener
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by pbh101 3y ago
In my experience enabling the finobt (free inode btree) setting made for a better experience under consistent capacity pressure. Context: CentOS 7, 7 TB RAID-10 SSD with ~100million files and ~4% churn rate per day, in production above 80%
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by pbh101 4y ago
My grandfather gave me a worn copy of ‘The Cuckoo’s Egg’ for our 12+-hour road trip back home after visiting them for the summer when I was in middle school. Fastest ride home ever, and I had nearly finished it by the time we arrived. Had a
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by pbh101 4y ago
I’d say he admires their strategy/business model clarity post-Nadella, both in Office/services over Windows and Xbox subscriptions. He also worked there in the past and it comes through he cares more about MSFT than your average w

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