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by singron 6y ago
> there are mathematical proofs that at least one stable Nash equilibrium must exist in any game That's actually not true. E.g. the game "you get the amount of money you ask for" has no equilibrium because you can always a
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by singron 6y ago
E.g. Future wraps any Throwable in ExecutionException, which is a checked exception. But ExecutionExeption could wrap any exception! It may as well just throw Exception. I really would have loved e.g. Future<Value,IOException|FooExceptio
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by singron 6y ago
> * I want to allocate an object (by value - not by pointer) straight onto the stack (not the heap). The JVM does escape analysis to perform this in cases where it can prove the lifetimes will work. > * I want to specify that a class
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by singron 6y ago
I think this skips a step. You don't need a copyright license to use software. Copyright only protects making copies, making derivative works, and public performance. This is why shrinkwrap EULAs are a thing. You don't actually ne
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by singron 6y ago
> Maybe one day all FAANG companies will open data centres on Earth orbit. I know you are joking, but the weight, power, and heat dissipation all make this impractical. They tried similar ideas with cargo containers and underwater enclos
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by singron 6y ago
In some places I've worked, HR has a hidden target total compensation for each employee. When they make compensation adjustments, they try to bring you slightly closer to that goal. In this case, they might drop just your salary propor
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by singron 6y ago
I don't think this really matters in practice. The DHT is public and you can already scan it to find all the public torrents, all the files they contain, and what IPs are sharing them.
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by singron 6y ago
This is the same company that declared s3 has 11 9s of annual durability. They might have enough objects that they can verify that number now. In the ebs outage of 2011, volumes were unable to remirror after losing 1 mirror. That increased
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by singron 6y ago
Solar panels on home roofs aren't necessarily configured to power the house without the grid. Also you would additionally need batteries and related hardware to have a usable source of power at any time, so unless your house is set up
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by singron 6y ago
Being a Googler project, I expected this to be a version of cxx that used StatusOr and -fno-exceptions.
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by singron 6y ago
Isn't that issue orthogonal? I don't think the iPhone has the userbase it does because it takes more than 1 click to switch to android. Many people have expensive devices that they like along with the software they prefer. The fac
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by singron 6y ago
Of course the single best way to make the top more relevant is to block ads. On YouTube, I highly recommend turning off personalization and watch history, especially if you find yourself spending too much time there clicking recommended vid
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by singron 6y ago
Receipts (paper records received after voting) are OK as long as they don't reveal who you voted for. Confusingly, sometimes this is called "receipt-free".
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by singron 6y ago
The situation also presents the animals implementing DP to protect themselves from the farmer, but in reality the farmer collects the raw data and also applies DP at their own discretion.
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by singron 6y ago
IdeaVim has a few issues due to being thrust onto another application. E.g. Ctrl-V pastes from the clipboard instead of entering visual block mode. Also, it sometimes doesn't process input in order. E.g. pressing Esc Shift-O will somet
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by singron 6y ago
go has //go:noinline for the same effect. I don't think you need these weird trampoline calls and they are probably somewhat fragile since a future compiler might figure out how to inline through them.
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by singron 6y ago
Misreporting regional grain production caused the central government to export "excess" grain and led to domestic famine. Replacing unnecessary uses of the word "slave" in corporate codebase probably has less dire conseq
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by singron 6y ago
In philosophy 101, my professor said that philosophy was focused on controversial topics because once you could prove a side, it would become science. E.g. the heavens used to be a philosophic topic until we had the ability to prove helioce
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by singron 6y ago
Eve has some advantages that let it avoid some problems. Space is split up into distinct solar systems with a "jump" required to transition from one to another, so a system can be controlled by a single process. Within a system, y
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by singron 6y ago
This is a great idea. Actually drawing the glyphs can be computationally expensive too. I'm not sure what browsers do, but in the last game I made, it was an enormous win to have a glyph cache for the various combinations of (size,glyp
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by singron 6y ago
Ah that explains it. Don't use parity with btrfs (i.e. RAID5/6). If you really want that, that's a good reason not to use btrfs.
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by singron 6y ago
I think you can argue that current day MS is a little more afraid of anti-trust action than 1990s MS. Game developers were legitimately scared that MS was going to do this for windows and start taking their own 30% cuts from all PC games. I
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by singron 6y ago
What parameters are you using to make btrfs waste 6TB? With 2 copies (RAID1) and 2+4+6+8, that calculator shows it with 0 unusable space?
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by singron 6y ago
> when we replaced drive+PS the tech may have picked the wrong direction to restore :X) In my experience, we lost RAIDs mostly to similar human error. RAID protects against a relatively infrequent but catastrophic failure. Since it'
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by singron 6y ago
I left the title alone, but as far as I can tell, this is still the case unless screen readers have adopted some type of workaround (I don't personally use one). I was trying to update my ad blocking filters for the new layout, and I t
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Facebook didn’t mark ads as ads for blind people for almost 2 years(qz.com)
37 points by singron 6y ago|4 comments
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by singron 6y ago
I think this is unfortunately close to the truth. I think Chrome only entertains extensions on desktop since desktop browsers are somewhat competitive. On Android where their bundling deals ensure Chrome is the default browser, they don&#x2
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by singron 6y ago
They had different knobs available to them, and it's not clear given the opportunity that they wouldn't try it. E.g. it was less common for PCs to be connected to the internet and receive OS updates, so they wouldn't have an
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by singron 6y ago
I'm not sure how this would work legally with employment contracts, but it would be worth it to get your employees hired at Google so they can professionally execute that role for you. We have joked before about not poaching friends fr
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by singron 6y ago
As far as bazel bugs, it's safe to say that if you stick to the ways that Google uses blaze, then you are unlikely to run into bugs. E.g. Google doesn't run blaze on windows or use system toolchains, so it makes some sense that th

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