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by throw149102 4y ago
FWIW I did not feel like everyone was super smart at my FAANG job. I didn't even feel that anyone was particularly curious. Obviously, YMMV depending on the company and the team.
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by throw149102 4y ago
I cannot imagine a worse way to organize a city than to put it on a line in the middle of a desert with no economic activity whatsoever. Here's a question - what does this city produce? What industries could possibly exist in a city wh
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by throw149102 4y ago
I would contest that in this sense VRChat is just a VR version of Omegle in this sense. If a parent lets their young children onto a VR headset unsupervised, well they probably would also let them onto Omegle unsupervised. In both cases I&#
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by throw149102 4y ago
The other way to look at it is to see it as very intelligent filtering by the author. If I only want to work at places that are committed to my mental health, and I have the expertise to get hired at Google, then I might very well be comfor
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by throw149102 4y ago
It would be interesting to see a study on whether Tylenol reduces empathy in people who are sick/in chronic pain. My guess would be that Tylenol increases empathy in these situations, despite the general effect it has in reducing empat
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by throw149102 4y ago
I like to use the metaphor of driving somewhere, and trying to estimate when you're going to get there. Maybe you have a hotel reservation, and you want to make sure you don't get there too early nor too late. Then (with some time
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by throw149102 4y ago
I think a critical point here lies on what exactly you're accomplishing when you're programming. A person could spend a lifetime on improving Google's ad network, make an incredible amount of money from it, and for all that h
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by throw149102 5y ago
A fun excerpt from "Capabilities: Effects for Free" Capability-safe languages prohibit the ambient authority [18] that is present in noncapability-safe languages. An implementation of a logger in Java, for example, does not need t
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by throw149102 5y ago
Well that already exists, Grovers algorithm is provably faster than any classical algorithm.
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by throw149102 5y ago
If you're interested in the topic, you'd probably want to look at the source the article cites: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr... The raw data isn't biased or
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by throw149102 5y ago
From my experience playing DotA 2, it does help, but it's not a magic bullet. You will have a lot less people griefing/throwing, but you'll still have a hyper-competitive atmosphere where people will shit on each other for fu
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by throw149102 5y ago
It's strange - considering what I've heard about lottery winners, that 137 million will probably ruin that guys life. Most people can't survive something like that.
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by throw149102 5y ago
I think what you esssentially want is a language with a powerful effect system and substructural typing, along with regions for memory management. This is like what Rust does with ownership semantics and the borrow checker, where normal t
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by throw149102 5y ago
Honestly, this seems like a plus for humanity. I don't think Twitter has really improved the world in any significant way, and maybe made it worse. Anything that prevents the twitter universe from seeping into mine is a good change.
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by throw149102 5y ago
I hate to be "that guy", but you should try Rust. It also has amazing tooling, and is probably more comparable to C/C++, considering you don't have to use a garbage collector in Rust.
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by throw149102 5y ago
I spent a few minutes looking at this "BEE-Steward" and it's corresponding models, BEEHAVE and BEESCOUT, and the underlying NetLogo language that is used to model these things. I guess I immediately have a few questions - How
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by throw149102 5y ago
I'm definitely very confused about point 4. Perhaps it's a UK thing, but taking a 2/3 paycut should not ruin your chances of retiring early, if you're living in a city as expensive as London. If you consider the cost of
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by throw149102 5y ago
What you're looking for is "Arrays of Structs of Arrays". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AoS_and_SoA Jonathan Blow has a good talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGTZr
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by throw149102 5y ago
Thanks! I appreciate that you read any part of that gigantic wall of a comment. I actually have a blog, but I don't have anything on it yet. Maybe I'll write something longform on that instead. I think your criticism is good - I t
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by throw149102 5y ago
There are people who are impostors who don't get impostor syndrome, impostors who do get impostor syndrome, non-impostors who get impostor syndrome, and non-impostors who don't get impostor syndrome. The first category is often fu
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by throw149102 5y ago
You might have more success looking for a HN of cryptography, rather than cryptocurrency. That is, if you want an understanding of the mathematics and solid discussions about the technology. If you look for discussions on the economics&#x2F
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by throw149102 5y ago
As a new grad, onboarding during covid sucked so extremely hard. It started off with a lack of productivity, a lack of understanding, and an extreme amount of anxiety from being unable to tell what is expected of me and how to achieve that.
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by throw149102 5y ago
That's a good question, and I'm born and raised in the US! Perhaps it's due to the difference between CoL and working wages in a given city. Even if someone who is homeless does start working, that doesn't mean they can
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by throw149102 5y ago
This is definitely the best argument for dynamically typed languages I've seen yet, but I think I have an answer. I've been reading a book on Idris called "Type-Driven Development", and I think that Idris has this exact
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by throw149102 5y ago
This math is far above me, but I get a feeling like there's some relationship between the Fisher Information Metric and Kalman Filters. I think I'll take another look later tonight
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by throw149102 5y ago
That's exactly it, thanks. Once I opened in an incognito window it showed up fully. I don't think Yost has any chance of successfully arguing that Google is a public utility, but it would be interesting if there was a public uti
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by throw149102 5y ago
As an aside, I'm really beginning to dislike titles for articles that have that dismissive tone of "This is my fact and I'm going to tell it to you". I know the reason they have to do this is that having a reasonable tit
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by throw149102 5y ago
They've factored 15 into 5 by 3. It's a real computer, even if it's too small to do anything useful. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112176
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by throw149102 5y ago
One fun fact is that Sudoku (on a n by n grid) is NP-complete. It's in NP because given a sudoku problem instance (a n by n grid with only some clues filled in) and a proposed solution (a n by n grid with all the squares filled in) you
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by throw149102 5y ago
Y'kno, I agree with the point, with Steven, with Casey, and with other people who are saying "We can have awesome performance without having horribly complicated code", but I find that people who espouse these kind of views a

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