rejectedalot

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by rejectedalot 8y ago
Check out peter norvig’s python code
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
I think since a vector has a direction, he’s suggesting that the direction of the vector is pointed “the wrong way” with respect to time
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
In Elizabethan England, didn’t a lot of women wear lead based makeup? I’d be interested in seeing how that affected crime rates or other metrics, if that data were available.
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
23 yo Last tech thing: learned how routers work Last non-tech thing: some strategy in technique for amateur cycling racing
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
I learned recently that when elephants are very hot, they need to wildly flap their ears to cool their blood (as the blood flows from the body to the brain by way of the ears.) Maybe they hypothesized a similar effect?
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
It seems like you get a lot of your feeling of meaning and contentedness from social interaction. From what you’re saying about how travel, projects, etc don’t seem as fulfilling anymore, it really seems to me like you have some depressive
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
I missed that - thank you for clearing this up!
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
It says that the snails retracted only briefly as a baseline, but learned to retract for longer periods of time to avoid the jarring electrical stimuli. I’m totally unfamiliar with this stuff, but it seems to me that injecting a snail with
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by rejectedalot 8y ago
When dealing with burnout, you should identify what specific stressers exist for you in relation to programming, and then work to cut those stressers out from the process. I’m afraid that from person to person, programming burnout can come
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by rejectedalot 9y ago
Going into the microservice aspect above, it provides a nice abstraction of remote function calls, so that you can write microservice code that looks like it's executing a local function, but is really just expecting a remote server to
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by rejectedalot 9y ago
See section 4.3 in the Spectre paper - https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf It includes an implementation of the exploit in a few lines of javascript.
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Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf](cs.brown.edu)
235 points by rejectedalot 9y ago|66 comments
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by rejectedalot 9y ago
I’m learning how to interview well and face rejection. I’m graduating this year and I’ve been rejected at the final stage from numerous “big 5” companies and some startups, and it’s hard to keep going, but I know that grit is important, so