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by shoo 3y ago
does "air weapon" in this context mean air rifle, or a 20mm cannon & dumbfire rocket pod?
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by shoo 3y ago
Another example of this kind of thing is demonstrating that the set of rational numbers are countable. Each rational number has the form a / b for a pair of integers (a, b). This representation could be non-unique, e.g. 1/2 = -3&#
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by shoo 3y ago
i agree with you that, in general, different contexts benefit from different representations of numbers. but it's also helpful for a system like a database to come with reasonable defaults that give non-surprising behavior for common u
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by shoo 3y ago
If the webapp is attached to an associated business, it'd be a more useful exercise to consider the carbon footprint of the whole business, especially in terms of scope 1,2,3 emissions. E.g. suppose you have a business like a large ban
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by shoo 3y ago
https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/ https://yosefk.com/blog/dont-ask-if-a-monorepo-is-good-for-y...
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by shoo 3y ago
for many practical applications where we compute things, the input data isn't fully accurate, it's an estimate with significant error or uncertainty. when we consider how the outputs of computations are used, in many cases it isn&
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by shoo 3y ago
technically this looks really impressive. great to see a new compression approach that supports extremely high performance decompression, with a high performance open source implementation. re: winning adoption of new compression approaches
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by shoo 3y ago
It's good that this article discusses idempotency. Suppose temporal is correctly configured and operated, and gives you reliable and robust workflow execution. Your custom workflow executes code that attempts to perform operations on y
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by shoo 3y ago
the twilio demo gets mentioned now and again -- although that's demoing tech that exists, not before anything is built. new york tech meetup, 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VuXIgp9S7o previously: https:&#x2F
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by shoo 3y ago
there might not be that many opportunities to optimize brainfuck programs as the instruction set of the brainfuck virtual machine is so simple. arithmetic is unary, and staying within the brainfuck virtual machine doesn't provide a way
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by shoo 3y ago
This sounds a little bit like representing boolean functions as binary decision diagrams -- although for a superoptimizer presumably each node in the DAG would correspond to an instruction from the target instruction set, which might do som
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by shoo 3y ago
Fair point! Arguably the program `,` might not halt if a user never provides a byte of input to read! I've never seen a brainfuck machine with a read timeout.
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by shoo 3y ago
The shortest non-halting brainfuck program will have exactly three instructions. Here is one them: `+[]` here is another one: `-[]`. Brainfuck's state consists of an array of integers, an index into that array, a program counter, and
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by shoo 3y ago
In the company's own words: > State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market. I
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by shoo 3y ago
https://boringtechnology.club/
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by shoo 3y ago
I'll plug some excellent work that is underrepresented here: CJ Cherryh's "Cyteen". Won the Hugo for best novel in '89. The backdrop is Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe -- which is arguably one of those classi
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by shoo 3y ago
On the one hand, there is similarity in that both "The Mote in God's Eye" and "Blindsight" are first-contact-with-aliens scenarios. On another hand, Niven & Pournelle's story is painted atop the background
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by shoo 3y ago
> Doesn't the algorithm work on directed graphs, rather than only DAGs, i.e., also on cyclic ones? That's a difference with Dijkstra, where cycles are excluded from the solution With the Viterbi algorithm, you're decoding
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by shoo 3y ago
see also: https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/ece448/sp2021/slides/l... There's some good baseline material on HMMs in Russell & Norvig [1] (the chapter on "Probabilistic Reasoning over Time&
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by shoo 3y ago
see also - the section titled "Distance function" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality > One way to illustrate the "vastness" of high-dimensional Euclidean space is to compa
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by shoo 3y ago
If anyone has the time & energy to put into figuring out a production quality open source version of this, one place that could benefit is numpy's searchsorted function https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blame
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by shoo 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
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by shoo 3y ago
tangentially to swapping gender in text, there's a section in Delany's novel Babel-17 where one character is trying to teach another character the concepts and language of "I" and "me" and "you", and
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by shoo 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by shoo 4y ago
what's your underlying motivation to eliminate jira & notion?
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by shoo 4y ago
> when you design software you should have an idea under what circumstances it will run and optimize for This philosophy is sometimes referred to as "data-oriented design" see also: Mike Acton's CppCon 2014 talk: https:&#
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by shoo 4y ago
I empathize with your situation. You are angry and are still emotionally processing and reacting to what has happened to you. Your mind is focused on looking backwards and stuck thinking about your former employer. For me, what helped was:
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by shoo 4y ago
Here's a constructive critique: your post mentions the word "build" four times, but it does not mention the word "customer" once. One possible exercise: Research 20 different potential customer niches, who might hav
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by shoo 4y ago
You could get a physical computer to use as a server, and deploy your app onto it. This will have bounded costs, will require a fair bit of your time, will not teach you how to deploy to a PaaS, but may help you build more intuition and exp
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by shoo 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35006601

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