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by singhrac 4y ago
I grew up in a college town and I can highly recommend. I grew up with kids of professors and because of that (and, of course, my own parents) had a great academic environment. Schools in college towns often punch above their weight. Anothe
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by singhrac 4y ago
This accurately covers the area: ask your recruiter / someone else you might have met, and unfortunately it's very possible you'll never get a response or get something vague like "they were looking for someone with more
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by singhrac 4y ago
At least amongst a certain subgroup of the US, there's been a lot of backlash against "privatizing profit and socializing losses" (or lemon socialism). Many people pointed fingers at airlines needing a bailout in 2020 even th
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by singhrac 4y ago
A few more off-topic thoughts about this comment: (a) Two Sigma is an investment firm (a wrapper around a hedge fund), not really a financial company, (b) pretty much no one at Two Sigma is unaware of how often 2 sigma events happen, so I t
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by singhrac 4y ago
Do you think Blender overcame this challenge, or is it still a sticking point in the VFX industry? I know they're at very different levels of maturity but I'm curious if the open projects ended up helping with ironing out these ki
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by singhrac 4y ago
A small suggestion: since the machines aren’t always comparable (eg Redshift) maybe it makes sense to allow the user to make a plot of ($/hr) vs query time? I realize this adds to the complexity, but most people in this space are makin
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by singhrac 4y ago
Same, I agree with many of the thoughts there. When you get a moment, would you mind writing a guide on how to deploy it to Render.com? It sounds like the Heroku of 2022.
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by singhrac 4y ago
This is really cool! Does anyone understand the physics well or have a reference? I don’t fully understand why there’s a maximal power point.
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by singhrac 4y ago
I would love for this to happen. I’m no designer, but I enjoy thinking about design and tinkering in Figma. The reasons I don’t try to help on this front are because (a) I’m not a professional, (b) I doubt anyone appreciates a drive-by “des
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by singhrac 4y ago
Is there white-label open source (i.e. host it yourself) video hosting services like Vimeo / Mux / YouTube / NetFlix? The closest I found was NodeTube but I think it would need a UX/UI redesign before govts or universiti
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by singhrac 4y ago
> you can't assume anything is valid at the point you use the data. Just to double check my understanding: are you talking about raw pointers (i.e. void*) being common in C++ and not in Rust? You're right that I was using ADT a
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by singhrac 4y ago
> Rust is a really good language for writing parsers. C++ really isn’t. One thing I appreciate about writing Rust is that ADT support implies writing parsers is simpler under the "parse don't validate" mindset (which was c
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by singhrac 4y ago
This has been a systematic issue that I'm glad the FTC is taking a closer look at. Does anyone know if veterinary medicine spots are controlled a la the AMA's control on residency spots?
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by singhrac 4y ago
Hmm, I guess you must mean that the native Windows development environment (i.e. .NET/Windows App SDK) isn't very developer friendly; I'm afraid I don't have any idea or how to compare it to Swift or Cocoa. As a user, th
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by singhrac 4y ago
Really? I think Windows is in the best state it's ever been... WSL is incredibly nice to use as a development platform, and many well-designed apps have a Windows version ever since Electron started becoming the de facto standard.
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This is right. It’s just different, not inflated.
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I really liked this article, but if I can provide some sort of drive-by advice (also for others looking to write technical content), providing some examples of where to use various traits would really help, e.g. what kind of data structur
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by singhrac 4y ago
Another one if you enjoy this sort of thing like me is Raph Levien's work on the stack monoid; this [1] blog post and this [2] ArXiV paper are great places to look. [1]: https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2020/09
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by singhrac 4y ago
Given the topic, I figured I’d ask: I have been looking for something like Superhuman but considerably cheaper (maybe $5/month is the right price point for me). I need a desktop app for Windows that doesn’t freeze frequently and (most
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by singhrac 4y ago
If you use the battery for internal use (i.e. use it to run your AC during the day) you'll save more than the wholesale price difference from your utility bill (since consumer prices are higher than wholesale). A lot of this thinking a
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by singhrac 4y ago
As a TA we did something similar: we asked them to self grade their own homework using a provided rubric, and then we spot checked 1/4 of the students (without replacement) to punish lying about what grade you deserve. We didn’t punish
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by singhrac 4y ago
I didn't love the author's suggestion of Edison bulbs, but maybe I am missing something amazing about them that makes up for the fact that they use ~10x the energy of low color temperature (e.g. 2500K) LEDs? I guess it seems onlin
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by singhrac 4y ago
Curiously it sounds like AWS and Elastic are relatively cooperative these days, I hadn’t heard: https://venturebeat.com/2022/05/19/once-frenemies-elastic-an...
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by singhrac 4y ago
Is there a way for me to sponsor or donate? I know the most limiting resource is probably your time but let me know if there’s we can do to help.
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by singhrac 4y ago
Hey, I love this. Please keep doing it, we need more of this kind of high quality writing available on the web. When I was just getting started programming, I read the AOSA guides, but they were considerably harder to read than this. There
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It bills itself as "not concierge" medicine, but through a previous employer I had access to Summus, and found them extremely helpful in navigating the healthcare system. The turnaround from me being told by a med school friend th
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This is one of the best things about Reddit, which is that the individual subreddits still have relatively strong control over moderation over their own content. You can find incredibly niche subreddits that align with your interests or sen
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I too love LaTeX but it's important to remember that the writing experience might be nice and elegant in LaTeX with the right stys and ShareLatex and whatnot, but the editing experience is decidedly not. Everyone who has used it in a
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by singhrac 4y ago
It's usually a question of having the resources (usually developers to debug issues). IIRC pretty much all Windows wheels are maintained by one guy, Christoph Gohlke, he was a godsend when I worked on a Windows laptop. I owe that guy m
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A parade of these motorcyclists stopped traffic to a halt (running reds, going backwards on the street, going between cars so they couldn't move) in Times Square last week. I was in a rush trying to get an important appointment and was

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