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by petters 9y ago
I love the fact that there are no dependencies. Just piping to netcat is really clever. Good job.
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The Vector from Japanese to Western Movies(strandmark.wordpress.com)
1 points by petters 9y ago|0 comments
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by petters 9y ago
Not on mobile, though, which is strange. I have to request the desktop site to avoid looking at the raw json.
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by petters 9y ago
The "different universes" in the multiverse are still parts of the same wavefunction. Therefore they can interact. It's just that after decoherence, they will never interact again and will stay separate.
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by petters 9y ago
That explanation still seems to allow faster than light communication.
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by petters 9y ago
Obviously I don't know the specifics of the situation here. In my experience, though, hiring committees at Google want at least some interviews closer to programming (for SWE). So don't think that this is the typical Google interv
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by petters 9y ago
This is not true. (I interview candidates at Google)
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by petters 9y ago
> For those brave enough to get an implant inserted into their hand, however, the time they save not standing in ticketing lines may be worth it. There aren't really any ticketing line problems in Sweden. Anyone can buy their ticket
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by petters 9y ago
This is a really bad example. Allowing constants like π to be passed to a function is the opposite of what you should do. There is only one correct value. Period.
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by petters 9y ago
A small black hole would probably glow very bright by itself, so it could be a useful energy source in orbit (for a while, until it crashes into Earth).
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by petters 9y ago
Both the article and that book compares "human fusion" to the sun. But there are surprising differences. In fact, the sun generates less energy per volume than a compost. It's all about the scaling of the surface area vs. the
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by petters 9y ago
Maybe, but trying to make a market better by regulating it sounds wrong.
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by petters 9y ago
That is a great list! (But I don't think it contradicts what I wrote)
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by petters 9y ago
But you said "When one unit of resource doubles your computational capacity" which I believe is what your parent comment rightly called bullshit.
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by petters 9y ago
> Adding 1 giga-qubit to your computer would make it 4.6 x 10^301029995 times better. That's unimaginably more powerful than anything any human can think of That's not true and you should know better. For example, there are ver
766.
by petters 9y ago
This wasn't the Monty Hall problem, though. The hypothetical interview question would be about putting something simple into words.
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by petters 9y ago
This is a puzzle that everyone gets intuitively, but formulating the error exactly is still a good learning exercise. Maybe a good interview question?
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Can Reordering of Release/Acquire Operations Introduce Deadlock?(preshing.com)
1 points by petters 9y ago|0 comments
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by petters 9y ago
A few years ago, he wrote an article explaining that computers could never be good at poker, because that required bluffing, a skill exclusive to humans.
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by petters 9y ago
Agree, binvis.io looks great! Just look at http://binvis.io/#/view/examples/elf-Linux-ARMv7-ls.bin
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by petters 9y ago
I agree. I was a bit surprised that this approach worked as well as it did. (I still think it would fail spectacularly on "super-human" sudokus.)
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by petters 9y ago
I agree writing C extensions is not a solution. It is evidently too hard. Even the standard pickle library in Python 3 has a memory corruption bug. http://bugs.python.org/issue23655
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by petters 9y ago
It's easier to make a car able to drive in a single city. Also, companies like Lyft could deploy manually driven cars for "hard" bookings. Developing an autonomous car for Lyft is easier than developing it for a normal person
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by petters 9y ago
Thanks for this comment. I learned something!
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by petters 9y ago
Two days? I wrote my thesis in Tex and i probably spent two weeks! But the end result was typographically great! When you're in academia, you can afford to spend that time. These days, it's all Google Docs for me. I've had co
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by petters 9y ago
Interesting that Google makes that mistake in 2017.
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by petters 9y ago
It should be quite easy to see the value of optimizing compilers. Compile your program with optimizations turned off. Now make it as fast as your release build again, while still keeping them off. For much of my code, I think this would tak
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by petters 9y ago
I copied my quote from the linked page. You are likely right, though.
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by petters 9y ago
Yeah, I used pdftex for my thesis in 2012 for this reason. When I use Tex now I use Luatex as it also gives good results but with easier font management.
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by petters 9y ago
> powered by XeTeX Does XeTeX support microtype these days? It is important if you want "best-in-the-world output" to PDF.

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