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Improving Software ‘Numbers’(noncombatant.org)
26 points by stncls 5y ago|3 comments
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by stncls 5y ago
I'm really curious about this. I can imagine very "managed" methodologies being attractive for gigantic teams working on an enterprise client project where the complexity stems from the endless stream of feature requests. I h
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by stncls 5y ago
I'm curious about the issues you faced. Could you share some of them? I have used it only lightly, but I always liked its simplistic API. Also, I thought the performance was unbeatable at what it does (of course not comparable with nat
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by stncls 5y ago
I see, thanks! Open Route Service [1] uses Vroom [2] under the hood. It seems to be based on local search with some "Solomon I1" (?) heuristic. So good heuristic routes (obtained quickly), not optimal ones. [1] https://
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by stncls 5y ago
Very nice project! > Optimule uses state-of-the-art routing algorithm's, run thousands of times, which guarantees that the routes generated are the fastest and shortest, while maintaining real-world business and customer constraints
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Can We Solve Linear Algebra Problems at Extreme Scale and Low Precisions?(nhigham.com)
95 points by stncls 5y ago|25 comments
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by stncls 5y ago
Geoffrey de Smet, Optaplanner, and Constraint Programming (CP) are all amazing indeed. If we're talking about underhyped tech that actually works wonders in practical business problems, I would also take advantage of the limelight to
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by stncls 5y ago
The laptops are: i7-3517U with realtek ALC269VB audio chip i7-6500U (I don't have access to this one right now, but it was a Asus ZenBook flip -- on this one I've definitely seen 15%+ usage by PulseAudio during video calls.) i5-72
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by stncls 5y ago
There is a sibling comment describing the same experience. But I think that this behavior can't be reproduced nowadays. I think it must depend on the relative performance of the software resamplers involved (ALSA's in-kernel plugh
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by stncls 5y ago
I just tried, but I could not reproduce this on my laptop here. The overall system load is consistently higher with PulseAudio when playing an audio file with mplayer -- even when using "plughw" (which allows in-kernel software re
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by stncls 5y ago
Whenever there is sound playing or recording. I think it was lower than 10-15% on my most recent desktop, so maybe 4-5% makes sense if your computer is powerful. (While I fully appreciate that it is a very minor annoyance, 5% still frustrat
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by stncls 5y ago
Note that PipeWire was initiated by Wim Taymans, one of the driving forces behind GStreamer. I think it is one case of the right people in charge of the right projects :-).
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by stncls 5y ago
For the last ~12 years, I gave PulseAudio a try every time I upgraded the Fedora distro on my main computers. I almost never had the catastrophic bugs many people complained about. But pulseaudio has always taken 10-15% of one CPU when in u
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by stncls 5y ago
Yes, Facebook's upper management is definitely not freaking out about Mastodon. However, from my own experience working at a large, somewhat ethically-challenged organisation (not fb), it would not surprise me in the least if they ge
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by stncls 5y ago
> The new brand name was unveiled on Monday, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted the COVID-19 vaccine's emergency-use status and granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech. "New name"? "Unveiled on Monday&
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by stncls 5y ago
It probably does not affect the cheaper models to the same extent, but Kia's design language has changed quite a bit over the last 5 years. For example, The Grand Tour's James May was full of praise for the Kia Stinger in 2017 (
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by stncls 5y ago
Even more convincing to me is the face of John Malkovich being on the poster of Being John Malkovich. Unless the description includes a pretty accurate description of his face (hairstyle, gender, age, facial hair, skin color), the model mus
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by stncls 5y ago
> [...] “Metcalfe’s Law”: “the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).” That is, every time you add a new user to a network you double the number of ways th
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by stncls 5y ago
> My wife is at home full-time - Chief of Domestic Operations - and that’s what makes it work. I feel that this is very important and makes a huge difference. I think most families still have a "primary" caregiver (by that I me
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by stncls 5y ago
If you can actually cure some cancers, it will probably be a net positive economically. For example, in medical circles in my home country, smoking-related cancer prevention campaigns are widely believed to pay for themselves easily, despit
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by stncls 5y ago
There was a story here yesterday whose title was so clickbaity I was tempted to flag: "The Simplest Social Media Algorithm Hack to Transform Your Entire Life" [1] The advice was "click on many influencers you like everyday an
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by stncls 5y ago
Slightly disturbed by the article's use of the term "first bits" for describing the most significant ones. [Sure they are the leftmost ones when writing down the number, but all CPUs are LSB-first now... Plus, I'm a loya
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by stncls 5y ago
Your code is nowhere near as egregious as the OP's. Actually, I would even suspect your code is made better by not using hacks, because you deal with bases (radix) that are not necessarily 2. And using strings is a necessity since your
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by stncls 5y ago
Better link if you don't like Twitter's threading format: https://medium.com/@EpiEllie/what-does-the-delta-variant-mea...
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Delta variant: Estimating the impact of vaccines, masks, etc. on R_0(twitter.com)
3 points by stncls 5y ago|1 comments
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by stncls 5y ago
For linear programming I much preferred the Bertsimas/Tsitsiklis (Introduction to Linear Optimization). Not free, but if you look at the first couple Google result you may get nice surprises.
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by stncls 6y ago
Indeed the strawman is so huge it is tempting to translate the purported 10-tenet list into what reasonable people may actually believe. > 1. When black people say you have insulted them, apologize with profound sincerity and guilt. But
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by stncls 6y ago
> My guess is they aim for convergence and it works well in practice but it's still unknown if that's guaranteed to be correct. I guess you refer only to the computation of transcendentals sin, exp, etc. (because even in native
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by stncls 6y ago
Dear ihityoko, bosons [1], subhendra [2], drsubhendra [3], You may or may not realize that your claims are extremely strong. You wrote about having been "ridiculed and called mad" [4] about them in the past. In case this is not tr
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by stncls 6y ago
Skill is a very delicate topic. For "quantitative", assuming we're talking about STEM, I don't think many people would strongly defend any of the established measures (job interviews? performance evaluation? corporate pa

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