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by scott_s 3y ago
No disagreement here. Do you think your point is in conflict with mine?
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by scott_s 3y ago
I'm not saying balance was a problem - quite the opposite. It turns out balance is not a problem. I'm saying that in a world without bicycles, I don't think it's obvious that balance is not a problem. My point is that
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by scott_s 3y ago
I think the author should give more credence to it not being intuitive that people could easily learn to balance on a bicycle. The other examples he gave - horse, canoe - are stable without a rider. If you put a canoe in the water, it will
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by scott_s 3y ago
Alex Ross (comic book artist who paints his pages; https://www.alexrossart.com/ ) also uses models for most (all?) of his work.
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by scott_s 3y ago
Johnson's whole schtick is "Don't Die", so "nation of immortals" is a logical consequence of that. See, for example, his book he wrote: https://protocol.bryanjohnson.com/DONT-DIE-by-Zero Or a N
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by scott_s 3y ago
I had heat pumps installed in my house last year, to replace oil-based heat from baseboards. We have no drainage lines on the the front of the house, and only one bundle on the back. It follows the roof line, and then down a corner of the s
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by scott_s 3y ago
Outside of the northeast, most large research universities in the US are state schools.
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by scott_s 3y ago
The first three comics on this list are fantasy. At least a quarter, maybe closer to half, of the rest of the list are also fantasy.
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by scott_s 3y ago
Email the first author.
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by scott_s 3y ago
The SPEs only had individual scratchpad memory that was divorced the traditional memory hierarchy. You needed to explicitly transfer memory in and out.
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by scott_s 3y ago
If you'd like to get more attention from academics, you could try submitting a journal paper of the work. The ACM Computing Surveys journal may be a good venue: https://dl.acm.org/journal/csur
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by scott_s 3y ago
Seconded that the main reason was probably avoiding a mod. But it's not because of the compiler , but the processor. Mod and division instructions are always more expensive than additions and multiplications. If this function was on t
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by scott_s 3y ago
Interesting - I looked into your code a bit. I found your window aggregation library [1]. You may be interested in looking into the Rust implementation of some of the research work I've been a part of [2]. In Flink, I believe the reaso
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by scott_s 3y ago
I worked on a push-based streaming system which could arbitrarily distribute each operate to another compute node. Backpressure occurred naturally: if the thing you’re pushing into is busy (internal queue is full; TCP socket is busy) you wa
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by scott_s 3y ago
From the submitted article: > Proteins, sauces, veggies, the dressings that go in their gigantic salads, the chicken marsala and mushrooms — it’s cooked on the spot. If there’s any part of the Cheesecake Factory that resembles an industr
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by scott_s 3y ago
Strongly disagreed. Unless you regularly buy and sell houses, when it comes to buying a house, you are out of your depth. You need the help of a professional, and you want one who is looking out for your interests. I admit finding a real
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by scott_s 3y ago
I considered the emergency vehicles to be violations of the rule, but that they were defensible exceptions. To borrow a legal concept, that they are emergency vehicles was an affirmative defense, meaning I had to first admit they violated t
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by scott_s 3y ago
How I see it: computer science as an academic field is roughly split between theory and systems . The theory folks tend to evaluate progress through proofs. The systems folks tend to evaluate progress through experiments.
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by scott_s 3y ago
Fascinating. I obsessively listened to Metallica as a teenager, and the Justice album in particular. I know no musical theory, but I think the thing that Lars hates about that song - the tempo changes - I love.
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by scott_s 4y ago
If you're interested in a code-walkthrough of the Linux boot process in 2004: https://www.scott-a-s.com/the-linux-boot-process-of-2004/
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by scott_s 4y ago
A fair implication, but they mean "Python-based" in that the language the compiler implements is based on Python.
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by scott_s 4y ago
Not any of the people who developed it. But some of the lay-public is under this impression, so it’s an important clarification to make.
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by scott_s 4y ago
I worked for IBM Research for a decade, from 2011 to 2021. Of that, 8.5 years were in the Yorktown Heights building mentioned in this article. The building is still in good condition, and it really is a great physical location for research.
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by scott_s 4y ago
It was used in the excellent show Severance: https://www.curbed.com/2022/05/apple-tv-severance-bell-labs-... edit: I assumed they were asking about Bell Labs center in Holmedl, NJ.
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by scott_s 4y ago
I have also recently discovered his channel. It is a joy to watch him work.
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by scott_s 4y ago
It’s not cheap, but I’m happy with the OWC Thunderbolt Hub: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-hub It has its own power supply. I have a USBC 14 inch monitor and a webcam plugged into the hub, and the hub
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by scott_s 4y ago
Agreed. However: powerlifting style training has more risk of injury. Pushing the limits of what your body can handle in the 1—6 rep range is riskier than pushing the limits of what your body can handle in the 6—10 rep range. With that said
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by scott_s 4y ago
Strange, they may have changed their text since you read it, because this is what I see: > We read every resume. This means that a lot of tricks you’ve read about how to beat automated screening such as include certain phrases of job des
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by scott_s 4y ago
There are. We just have a high bar. I wrote this, but others have also pointed to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289
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by scott_s 4y ago
Without a join, you are sending the entirety of Table B over the wire and processing it in Python. Then you send that back to the database, inline in a query, to do an ad-hoc join on Table A. The results are then sent back over the wire t

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