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How much does this meeting cost?(levels.fyi)
4 points by senkora 2y ago|0 comments
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by senkora 2y ago
+1. Back when I was interning at various places, the conclusion that I came to was that it almost never made sense to push back on changes, because the reality was that I would be gone in 3 months and the reviewer would be stuck with that c
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by senkora 2y ago
Fun fact: the "Final Fantasy" series of video games was originally planned to be named "Fighting Fantasy" until they realized the name conflict with these books.
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by senkora 2y ago
For gcc: #pragma GCC optimize ("O0") For clang: #pragma clang optimize off For MSVC: #pragma optimize("", off) Put one of these at the top of your source file.
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by senkora 2y ago
I’m impressed that they fit it within 4 hours, to be honest. Assuming 15 minutes each way to the hardware store, that’s 150 minutes or 2.5 hours total for just driving. So talking with salespeople, checking out, and the whole process of act
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by senkora 2y ago
I must inform you that in my mind this makes you a wizard. By which I mean, thinking ahead and preparing items that give you options in the event of unlikely but possible situations is a very wizard-like thing to do.
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by senkora 2y ago
Disrupting efforts to contain and eradicate a highly infectious disease with drug-resistant variants that kills over a million people each year [1], less than five years after a different global pandemic that killed half a million Americans
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by senkora 2y ago
The UMKC 6-year one seems to still exist as far as I can tell: https://med.umkc.edu/academics/degree-and-certificate-progra...
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by senkora 2y ago
> You lose expressiveness Or more, correctly, the following happens: 1. You gain the ability to use the compilation unit's anonymous namespace instead of a detail namespace, so there is better encapsulation of implementation details
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by senkora 2y ago
The best way that I know of to do this is the """ "Manual" export templates """ idea discussed here: http://warp.povusers.org/programming/export_templates.html (It's a great
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by senkora 2y ago
I was curious about what a “cultivation novel” is and found this blog post that explained it and wuxia / xianxia: https://www.mylifemytao.com/xianxia-wuxia-cultivation-and-mo...
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by senkora 2y ago
One thing I appreciate about modern games is that a lot of them have quest systems that can remind you of your next objective at any point, and/or maps that tell you where you haven’t been. This makes it easy for me to log on, do 30 mi
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by senkora 2y ago
> You're conflating America with the Americas. +1. To expand on this point, this is different in English vs. Spanish, which is where a lot of confusion comes from. In English, America is always the United States, and the Americas
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by senkora 2y ago
This bothered me enough to check the source code, because I simply had to know: template <layout_or_array A> std::pair<ArrowArray*, ArrowSchema*> get_arrow_structures(A& a) { arrow_proxy& proxy = de
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by senkora 2y ago
> until they become a "N+1 programmer" that Casey Muratori describes as "grouped element thinking" Thank you for this great link.
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by senkora 2y ago
That’s pretty cool. I would love to hear more about how this works. In particular, whether it is restricted in practice to types that are std::is_trivially_relocatable. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/
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by senkora 2y ago
Yeah, anything with a link gets silently removed. Wikipedia links seem to be an exception, maybe that’s special-cased.
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by senkora 2y ago
I assume that he is referring to "fearless concurrency", the idea that Rust makes it possible to write more complex concurrent programs than other languages because of the safety guarantees: https://doc.rust-lang.org&#x
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Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)(medium.com)
1 points by senkora 2y ago|0 comments
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by senkora 2y ago
You may know this already, but Nintendo has a design strategy that helps explain why they do this, "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology": https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-...
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by senkora 2y ago
The delivery in "Yes, Prime Minister" is very good. Here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD1d-6P6qI
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by senkora 2y ago
I guess I'll be the one to link the xkcd: https://xkcd.com/224/
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by senkora 2y ago
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
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by senkora 2y ago
I didn't know anything about this and found the article hard to understand at first, but thankfully the Wikipedia articles on the subject are pretty okay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenschein%E2%80%93Mantel%E
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by senkora 2y ago
Since a quick ctrl-f didn’t find any mention here or on the README: I assume the name is a reference to ChaiScript, which is a similar embedded scripting language for C++. https://github.com/ChaiScript/ChaiScript
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Thinking Clearly about Software(seangoedecke.com)
3 points by senkora 2y ago|0 comments
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by senkora 2y ago
Python (which I mention because it is the preferred language of LLM output) has grown stub files that would work for this: https://peps.python.org/pep-0484/#stub-files I guess that this usecase would be an argument to
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by senkora 2y ago
> CGP Grey has a monolithic OmniFocus build that uses perspectives to really nail down what needs/can be done this second. I highly recommend the early episodes of the Cortex podcast where CGP Grey talks about his system. I discover
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by senkora 2y ago
Also be wary of alcohol-containing mouthwashes. They increase your risk of mouth cancer by the same mechanism that drinking alcohol does, and many mouthwashes are 40-proof / 20% alcohol.
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by senkora 2y ago
This seems to be the reason for writing about the topic right now: > So, yes, in June 2015, I slowed down the whole company [Facebook] by a second. > Of course, here it is ten years later, and the guy in charge just sent it back fifty

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