rustybolt

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by rustybolt 1y ago
> Rarely in software does anyone ask for “fast.” Are you kidding me? My product owner and management ask me all the time to implement features "fast".
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by rustybolt 1y ago
> "and why you must too" Oh please
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by rustybolt 1y ago
> Your first impulse might be to use DLL hooking and patch the cimwin32. But that’s smol pp way of thinking. We can do better. What's wrong with DLL hooking though?
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by rustybolt 1y ago
Nice. > I asked the professors if we could instead port MINIX3 to the Raspberry Pi I think they were expecting you to fail. > QEMU's Raspberry Pi emulation accuracy was so abysmal When I did some hobby OS dev my strategy was to m
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> How it took me 2 days That can't possibly be the hardest bug ever
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by rustybolt 2y ago
Hacking isn't coding isn't programming isn't software development isn't software engineering. But in the end many people use these terms mostly interchangeably and making a point of the differences between the definition
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> No, all finite continued fractions express a rational number Any real number x has an infinite continued fraction representation. By efficient I mean that the information of the continued fraction coefficients is an efficient way to co
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by rustybolt 2y ago
In a purely numerical setting, you can only distinguish these two cases when you evaluate the expression with enough accuracy. This may feel like a weakness, but if you think about this it is a much more "honest" way of handling i
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by rustybolt 2y ago
Nice story. An even more powerful way to express numbers is as a continued fraction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction ). You can express both real and rational numbers efficiently using a continued fract
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by rustybolt 2y ago
On the odd chance that you read this and feel like replying, I have always been in awe of Sublime Text's UI. Can you elaborate a bit on how it works? There was a short comment by Jon Skinner that it is custom and written on top of a cr
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by rustybolt 2y ago
I'm very glad you're not reviewing my PRs.
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by rustybolt 2y ago
I really wanted to like SICP and I probably would have if I read it 15 years ago. I started reading it last month and I found it to be too broad. It covers too much interesting mathematical principles and then jumps to the next one right wh
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by rustybolt 2y ago
In some cases pretending everything is ASCII is the sane thing to do. With Unicode, sorting and case conversion are neigh impossible to do correctly. While there are algorithms for collating codepoints into (extended) grapheme clusters, the
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> This is just the brute force solution. It's the trivial solution. It's significantly more efficient than using backprop. It's much simpler and leads to practically the same result. This makes me wonder why you would use
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by rustybolt 2y ago
Feels to me like there is no need for backpropagation. I think you can just iteratively grab a random pixel and flip it of that would bring you closer to the target after one step. It would probably work even better if you tweak the loss fu
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by rustybolt 2y ago
One nice thing from knowing squares is that you can calculate for example 23 * 47 as (35 - 12) * (35 + 12) = 35^2 - 12^2. But this doesn't always work and you still need to be good at adding/subtracting.
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by rustybolt 2y ago
This is actually extremely basic game theory, but I agree that most CS programs would probably not cover it.
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by rustybolt 2y ago
That seems reasonable, and in that context I would think it's actually a good interview question. But it seems that Steve Ballmer used this question as if it has a single right answer, and that answer is "no". Unless it'
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> Do most people not do this? I'd say it's impossible to answer this question conclusively within the time frame of an interview. That makes it, in my opinion, a bad interview question. My answer to this question would be to sh
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by rustybolt 2y ago
The question seems like a mathematical one. What you're saying sounds to me like "your answer doesn't need to be correct, it just needs to sound reasonable". What you're filtering on with this question is good bulls
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by rustybolt 2y ago
I don't think this is true. Most people will not be bankrupt after losing a dollar. If this is true then Steve failed badly at communicating this context. To be honest, I think Steve just didn't grasp the mathematical deepness of
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> I would contact Apple, if there was a feedback option, but there isn’t This is infuriating and the same for all the big companies (at least Google, Microsoft, Apple); you have a serious issue and simply no way to talk to a representati
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> The thesis of the article is that you should use events as the source of truth, and derive logs, metrics, and traces from them. That was the main point? Man, the article goes on and on about definitions and semantic versioning and ho
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by rustybolt 2y ago
Bite-sized articles have their value. I don't know how many mobile tabs I have open, Chrome stops displaying the number when you reach 100. Most of the tabs contain a deep dive into a particular topic and it's not feasible to actu
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> Clearly, talking to some software over the network is 'using' it? In some sense, yes. But I wouldn't say my mom uses Linux when she uses her Ipad to visit a website hosted on a Linux server.
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by rustybolt 2y ago
I fully agree with you: Fruit and vegetables from local farmers is a bit more expensive. Whether it's from local farmers is also not really relevant to the nutritional value. So the whole line of reasoning is just complete bogus. The w
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by rustybolt 2y ago
> Telling people to eat more fruits and vegetables often tends to be 1 percent or a high-income solution Am I totally out of touch with reality or is this a completely ridiculous remark? Only 1 procent of people is able to afford the mos
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by rustybolt 2y ago
Yes
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by rustybolt 2y ago
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
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by rustybolt 3y ago
I have seen semi-regular updates from you on discord and it is awesome to see how far this project has come (and also a bit frustrating to see how relatively little progress I have made on my FPGA projects in the same time!). I was hoping y

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