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by scott_s 8y ago
Yes, agreed, this is what I meant by “basically zero-cost queue synchronization”. Global queues tend to lead to more balanced systems, but at the cost of constant global queue access. But in grocery store checkouts, that cost is basically z
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by scott_s 8y ago
Agreed. But I have experienced self-checkout setups that just replaced a normal station with a single self-checkout station, replicating the old behavior. These are being phased out near me.
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by scott_s 8y ago
I don't have much firsthand knowledge of grocery stores outside the US, so I didn't want to over-generalize.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Understanding the basics of queueing theory means that you will be eternally frustrated in most US grocery store checkout lines. And you may be kicked out for screaming "Basically zero-cost queue synchronization and heavily variable se
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by scott_s 8y ago
The "Beyond Deep Learning" section of the article talks about this approach: > A more radical possibility is to give up trying to tackle the problem at hand by training just one big network and instead have multiple networks w
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by scott_s 8y ago
How? I can only see options to disable auto-playing the next episode. I do not see the ability to prevent the next episode auto-play to aggressively come on seconds after the episode has ended, and putting the credits in a postage stamp.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Agreed. I actually like automatically starting the next episode, but it's far too aggressive. I want it to autoplay after the credits have finished, as I also want time to process what I just watched.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Agreed, this infuriates me. I want to think about what show to watch. Or maybe I'm distracted and want to think about something other than what to watch. Auto-playing anything interferes with what I want to do, and I find myself co
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by scott_s 8y ago
I was extremely surprised to learn one of what I thought was Netflix's first original shows is not in fact owned by them: Orange is the New Black. According to this piece on Netflix's general problem ( https://www.vox.co
880.
by scott_s 8y ago
Standard library operations such as length() on a string are defined to return to return a size_type, which is usually going to be an unsigned integer ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string ).
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by scott_s 8y ago
In case you were also unable to figure out from context exactly what McSema is: https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema > McSema is an executable lifter. It translates ("lifts") executable binaries from nat
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by scott_s 8y ago
> And all of this for a 572ms -> 320ms performance improvement? The library is supposed to be part of a graphics pipeline. It will be called many times a second, and it will be part of what the eventual framerate is.
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by scott_s 8y ago
From the post: >One number that we haven’t moved substantially yet is the time it takes to run this code in debug using MSVC. While it’s natural to expect unoptimized builds to be slower than optimized, they have to be fast enough. Some
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by scott_s 8y ago
"Confidential" is a big word. There is a lot of internal information about a company that is not strictly labeled "confidential." Putting that aside, I think Levine's point, which he makes in the piece I linked and
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by scott_s 8y ago
Matt Levine has written extensively on how squishy the line can be: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-07-31/when-c...
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by scott_s 8y ago
For more on that: https://prospect.org/article/how-sears-was-gutted-its-own-ce...
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by scott_s 8y ago
That's a fine interpretation. But the way you phrased your objection, one could think that potatoes was not actually in the data set, and they pulled the comparison out of thin air. But it was in the data set, and it was a real compari
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by scott_s 8y ago
> Theresa May took his place after some debate; she was vociferously pro-Brexit I don't think that is accurate. See https://www.euronews.com/2018/12/12/what-is-theresa-may-s-vi... , https://
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by scott_s 8y ago
The article does make that assertion, and it is as an illustration: > The result was a series of visualizations that map the wide gamut of potential effects researchers could detect in the three repositories, and they reveal several imp
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by scott_s 8y ago
Local food is not necessarily more environmentally friendly. According to a paper on food transportation and reducing its carbon footprint, about 11% of typical US food consumption's carbon footprint comes from transportation [1]. If t
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by scott_s 8y ago
Another favorite of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861388
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by scott_s 8y ago
Some of my actually favorited posts: jjoonathan on Oct 6, 2014 on: Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416875 , "For most people it's not, but some people sub
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by scott_s 8y ago
Structured in the way it is, the reader is lead along the same path of discovery as the author. That path of discovery is one of the main points of the essay, as the author clearly generalizes that experience to broader situations. It'
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by scott_s 8y ago
Yes, but that's not important takeaway. What's important is that with better, recent methodology, we're discovering that the "moderate drinking is beneficial" effect vanishes.
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by scott_s 8y ago
It's a common joke because drinking water at a bar is seen as wimpy or uncool. Put another way, the only way the joke works is if we all agree that there's something wrong with drinking water instead of alcohol. I agree with PakG1
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by scott_s 8y ago
The Vox podcast Future Perfect interviewed Karianne Jackson, a North Dakota prison official, about just that: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/17/17983456/futur...
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by scott_s 8y ago
And yet. It's a rough heuristic, good enough for its purpose.
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by scott_s 8y ago
Thirded. One of the best take-away from his series of posts is that a programming model that a programmer can reason about is far better than compiler optimizations that a programmer can only guess about.
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Rome in Ruins(nytimes.com)
91 points by scott_s 8y ago|88 comments
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by scott_s 8y ago
I prefer to do it every night before going to bed. I like to feel like I'm choosing to get up at that time, as opposed to being under a pre-ordained schedule. (Which, of course, it is, but perception matters.)

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