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by scott_s 5y ago
I intended to say "This is not one of those times that this adage applies."
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by scott_s 5y ago
I live and work in NY. It was standard in my contract with my former employer.
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by scott_s 5y ago
This is one of those times that this adage applies. In the worst case, "begging for forgiveness" does not mean asking your manager for an exception. It means losing an expensive court case with your former employer about who owns
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by scott_s 5y ago
In an interview on The Skeptics Guide to the Universe ( https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-829 ), West explains that part of the reason the Defense Department cannot explain these videos is rather pedestri
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by scott_s 5y ago
Mick West over at metabunk.org has covered a lot of these. He has a background in video game programming, which he uses when trying to reconstruct three dimensional spatial relationships from two dimensional videos.
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In-Place Parallel Super Scalar Samplesort (IPS⁴o)(github.com)
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by scott_s 5y ago
Their name is not in the author list for the paper. Edit: Parent comment originally referenced the paper that caused this mess.
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by scott_s 6y ago
For many people, being head validates their experiences. It’s reassuring to be accepted by another person.
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by scott_s 6y ago
No, and that would make a great empirical study. (Maybe there has been one! I should check ISMM over the past decade, someone may have done it already.) From first principles, the biggest difference is that manual memory allocation can&#x27
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by scott_s 6y ago
Often, yes, you're better off just using the general purpose memory allocator. I think the replies to your comment are unfairly giving you a hard time. Modern memory allocators are quite good. Before spending the time to roll your own
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by scott_s 6y ago
As someone who worked on memory allocators in a past life: cosign. Size-class based allocation for small objects is how modern memory allocators have worked for a long time now. I'm genuinely baffled by how many people think that the b
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by scott_s 6y ago
OpenMP is not object-oriented. It is the correct version of what you alluded to, with 24 years of meeting the needs of the high-performance computing community.
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by scott_s 6y ago
First sentence: > LOMP, short for Little OpenMP (runtime), is a small OpenMP runtime implementation that can be used for educational or prototyping purposes.
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by scott_s 6y ago
And I have never internalized it! This is me, but for `typename` and `template` in expressions: https://xkcd.com/1168/
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by scott_s 6y ago
It's a straight-forward rule that (I think) I have mostly internalized. But coming from C++, I was initially mystified.
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by scott_s 6y ago
As someone who has been interested in Rust for a long time but has only in the past few weeks had the opportunity to use it in non-trivial ways, which of course then involves lots of documentation reading: Thanks, Steve!
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by scott_s 6y ago
Yes, and googling around for this rule is what landed me on this epic poem and test.
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by scott_s 6y ago
And the point myself and others are making is that you can get that without using blockchain. Blockchain is a specific technology that requires proof-of-work among distrusted actors for modifying a cryptographically secure distributed ledge
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by scott_s 6y ago
If you're wondering, "What is the turbofish?", it is the awkward syntax Rust requires when specifying generic arguments in an expression, such as: Vec::<u8>::new()
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Bastion of the Turbofish (2020)(github.com)
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Then you don't need blockchain. Once you have trust among the participants, you don't need blockchain.
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by scott_s 6y ago
How?
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by scott_s 6y ago
That is an absurd take. For all fields, most people are on the outside. Historical work for most people - produced by those on the outside - is how our society and culture understands itself. I recently finished an excellent one volume
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by scott_s 6y ago
Good faith.
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by scott_s 6y ago
Myself and a few others have done a lot of research on performing sliding window aggregations updates without recomputing everything. Our code is on github, and the README has links to the papers: https://github.com/IBM&#x2F
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by scott_s 6y ago
Ballooning spiders as well.
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by scott_s 6y ago
ESPN had an excellent piece in 2019 on how grueling the NBA travel schedule is for players, mainly in how it disrupts their sleep: "NBA exec: 'It's the dirty little secret that everybody knows about'", https:/
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by scott_s 6y ago
Fundamentally, homelessness centers around being unable to maintain a home.
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by scott_s 6y ago
Seconded on recommendation for "Evicted". Mathew Desmond provides a clear description of the interactions of racism, poverty and homelessness. He has both the stats and real stories of people he profiles. The book deeply affected
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by scott_s 6y ago
This reminds me of one of the most insightful quotes about loneliness and grief I read in one of the most insightful essays on loss and grief: I was reminded of our friend Liz’s insight after she lost her husband to melanoma. She told me s

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