tgflynn

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by tgflynn 5y ago
If you feel so underutilized maybe you're at the wrong company. The concept of the "10x programmer" has been widely discussed and according to conventional wisdom it is just the sort of unicorn that the FAANG's are supp
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If you are thoughtful enough to write this comment I think you you should be thoughtful enough to avoid downvoting if you believe it is wrong. I agree with you, by the way. I've been above the downvote threshold for a long time and I
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by tgflynn 5y ago
The only Covid related statistics I somewhat trust for country to country comparisons are the excess mortality statistics. Here' a site that compiles them: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deat
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If you've done so well with bug bounties do you really need a job, can't you make a living doing that ? I'm personally very interested in the answer to that question because that's a route I'm considering pursuing
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> The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative. I'm disabled and in the winter I can't even leave my apartment building. I get almost everything I need from Amazon and I honestly don't
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I'm surprised to see them take such a narrow view of what kind of sites are suitable. It seems to me that the OP is providing a useful tool, why wouldn't Amazon want to reward him for driving (probably highly motivated to buy) tr
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by tgflynn 5y ago
So they have no appeal process for this kind of decision ?
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I have no idea. Have you tried asking them. I know Google is notorious for being impossible to contact but I haven't heard the same about Amazon. EDIT: On further thought I wonder if it might have something to do with the name of you
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by tgflynn 5y ago
Basing it on Julia would make sense for certain reasons, basing it on Coq would make sense for different reasons but basing it on Python, as appears to be the case from the only code sample I've seen, doesn't make a lot of sense t
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I'm pretty sure it is though. I mean I think dang is a YCombinator employee. I also don't know of many sites that let 3rd parties run their subdomains, unless they're explicitly and obviously set up for that purpose, like m
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That strikes me as rather unlikely. Surely to pass at least some courses some not completely trivial amount of coding was required. Maybe the issue is the context in which the "Fibuzz" test is given is so different from that of
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While I'm not at all surprised that foreign students could easily get sucked into this kind of scheme what really surprises me is that an American CS grad would not have much better options, especially with all the hype about "lac
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Interesting, for me that makes the consistent strong sentiment here against cryptocurrency and especially NFT's all the more surprising.
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It's a question I've often wondered about, especially given how much crypto/web3 is talked about in the more mainstream media and how many developers seem to be interested in working in the field. One thing I'd like to k
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Image processing and OCR is a problem space that interests me and that I have quite a bit of prior work experience in. I can't help you with the scanning itself but I'd be interested in taking a crack at processing the images you
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It doesn't stop at 1 because the previous function call (dfs(19)) hasn't finished processing its neighbor list yet. If you're wondering "how does it know that" it's because each function call creates a stack f
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by tgflynn 5y ago
This title needs to be qualified with "during World War II" or (1942).
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Approved for what, the course or the license ? If you mean the course I can confirm that I just started it and no "approval" was required other than the accepting the usual terms and conditions.
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That's definitely not true in general, in fact my impression has always been the exact opposite. France, in particular, has a very large number of distinct municipalities (called communes). Paris proper includes only the very high-de
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A duopoly is nearly as bad as a monopoly and niche solutions that < 1/1000 people actually use don't change the big picture either.
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by tgflynn 5y ago
> I managed to root every Android phone I owned since I was a teenager I suspect it depends a lot on how much you can afford to spend. The higher end models can often be rooted but have you tried rooting a sub $200 phone from Samsung or
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by tgflynn 5y ago
How do you know Apple has no responsibility for any of that ? Are you privy to all of their strategy and the deals they make with carriers and other participants. Apple is one of the richest companies in the world, it's naive to thin
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I doubt that's a realistic solution for 99+% of the population. I've long used Linux exclusively on laptops/desktops and in the past I've been a Linux/Unix sysadmin but I have no idea how to go about getting a smar
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I added a contact email to my public HN profile. Send me an email if you like, I'm definitely interested in talking with someone who has more 3D modelling experience than I about what features might be useful.
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During the 50's and 60's many nuclear bombs were tested in the atmosphere. I don't know the exact total megatonnage but I do know that the largest test, the "Tsar Bomba" alone was 50 MT. So the total megatonnage o
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by tgflynn 5y ago
The author says that this problem is in PSPACE. That's not obvious to me because I don't know how you sum arbitrarily long binary numbers in polynomial space. However if you and he are both right that would suffice to prove P !=
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by tgflynn 5y ago
In your post you say that a PSPACE algorithm exists. Do you have a reference for that algorithm ? Another commenter here is saying the problem has an explicit exponential or worse lower bound. If both of those claims are true that would pr
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by tgflynn 5y ago
OK, I think I understand the problem now. It's that the actual answer can be very small but non-zero. You can put error bars on your calculations but that doesn't necessarily tell you which side of zero the answer is on. In fac
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Do you have a reference for that claim ?
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There's a known upper bound for the error on each pair delta caused by the finite number of bits. So that gives upper and lower bounds for the error on the sum of the deltas. Add enough bits to your representation to account for that

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