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by scott_s 7y ago
This subthread explains why it's more memory efficient to use a tree-based structure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22239393 . Short version is that in order to get good performance out of a hashtable based str
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Zoo Animals and Their Discontents (2014)(nytimes.com)
11 points by scott_s 7y ago|5 comments
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think this is the first year that they are reporting the results of each round. My guess is that the round-to-round numbers didn't match expectations, and my guess-the-second is that more people leave between rounds than we realized.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The caucuses are not normal elections: there are no ballots. The results are literally counting where people in a room are standing and recording that on a spreadsheet. The problem has been relaying that spreadsheet to the party.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Earlier-time kettles may be more common than you think.
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by scott_s 7y ago
distcc does this for C and C++: https://distcc.github.io/
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by scott_s 7y ago
> It's not clear who the audience is. People who design and implement features in notebooks. The conclusions in the blog post and research paper are clear that improving these identified problems could improve user experience.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think that has been the conclusion for a while. I went poking around for old stories, and the best I could find was a thread from 2016: “AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure browser,” https://news.ycombinator
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by scott_s 7y ago
What you're missing is that this is not akin to the teams you have lead at work. Those teams are working towards delivering some product: the team exists for some outside purpose, and has an exterior goal. That is entirely different fr
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by scott_s 7y ago
Creating a new community with the purpose of helping a set of people who experience harm in the wider community is not abusing people of the wider community.
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by scott_s 7y ago
A charitable interpretation of what jwomers meant is that overall, when looked at in the aggregate of our society, men face less harmful discrimination against their gender than women do.
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by scott_s 7y ago
The author has experience with mostly UK institutions, so it may be the case there.
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Berkeley's $5M Glitch(insidehighered.com)
60 points by scott_s 7y ago|47 comments
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by scott_s 7y ago
I am patient - I distract myself by reasoning through how to improve the process.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Yes, that is what I said in the close of my comment.
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by scott_s 7y ago
It's not a significant problem for the airline . But for a passenger, staring at people wrangling their bags, blocking those already up with a clear aisle from them to the exit, it's frustrating.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Very good point. And unlike boarding, trying to handle exceptions first or last doesn't really work because people are physically blocked from leaving their row. I've figured we'd never do this for cultural reasons, it's
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by scott_s 7y ago
I'm also convinced that we exit the plane in the worst way possible. We basically do it row-by-row: as the people in front of them leave, people in a row get up, get their bags, start walking down the line, and this cascades up the p
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by scott_s 7y ago
A classic. For those who haven't seen it before, it's worth watching the whole thing.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Because it is the norm. You're probably coming from the opposite frame, that requiring cash up front for all transactions was the norm. It wasn't. We've been extending credit and taking on debts for millennia. It's just
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by scott_s 7y ago
I don't want small code samples. I want well defined problems that this particular language is well suited for, as demonstrated by a dozen (or a few dozen) line program which uses the core features of the language to elegantly solve th
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by scott_s 7y ago
Lindsay Ellis has a great video essay exploring this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think that is true, and I still think we should have those regulations. Companies in regulated markets area always incentivized to do bad things to skirt around those regulations. That doesn't make the regulations bad.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I had a similar experience when I got a 2018 Honda Accord. I used to rarely ever take advantage of my brights, but now they're on regularly because my car automatically determines when they can be used.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I prefer: The only difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
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by scott_s 7y ago
This piece in The Atlantic, "The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21583001 ), blames management from afar by executives with no understanding of the engineeri
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by scott_s 7y ago
Out of all of the responses in this thread, including my own, I feel that tristor's is the most helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21722841 Please seek out support groups or one-on-one counseling related to
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The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die(nytimes.com)
4 points by scott_s 7y ago|1 comments
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by scott_s 7y ago
I think a local support group is an excellent suggestion.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I am sorry about your condition. But I don't think your understanding of dating and gender dynamics is accurate. Please don't give up on dating if you would like to be in a relationship. The dating apps are a minefield, but someti

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