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by tlb 5y ago
Git works great for binary files. However, it struggles with large repositories (beyond 5 GB). So large files are a problem, and binary files are often large. But the binariness itself is no problem. (5 GB is github's "recommended
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by tlb 5y ago
Raising money at demo day is somewhat correlated with success, but many companies that had trouble raising seed funding go on to become huge, and many companies that were hot at demo day fizzle out. Early-stage fundraising success is a func
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by tlb 5y ago
Shannon's book, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, is approachable with the mathematical background of first-year college calculus. I don't think it requires any more math than is essential to understand the topic.
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by tlb 5y ago
Density is partly a function of the type of circuit. Memory is denser than random logic, for instance. Interconnect eats a lot of area and reduces density. This chip is largely memory and multipliers, both of which are pretty dense. Fab pro
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by tlb 5y ago
First-order strategy (do something that works as long as the other side hasn't also thought of it) only works until the other side thinks of it. My guess is that the intelligence complex (CIA +) thought of this around 1995, and the dom
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by tlb 5y ago
I wish we had 2 phrases, one for "you have overlooked this obvious thing, you idiot!" and one for "could someone explain what's wrong with the naive solution?"
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by tlb 5y ago
It's appropriate when the cost of false-positive and false-negative errors are the same. Which isn't common in the real world.
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by tlb 5y ago
It's important to exclude infinite books, which could just contain a lookup table for every possible situation rather than any general rules. And also finite but exponentially large books, which could contain a lookup table for every p
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by tlb 5y ago
An interesting category of problems are like Bongard problems in that you have to deduce the rule from examples, but the examples are presented one at a time at random long intervals so you have to work from memory. Most real-world learning
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by tlb 5y ago
To extract 1 kg from 0.2 ppm seawater, you need to process 5e6 kg of water. $5 of electricity at $0.09/kWh is 200 MJ, which is enough to pump that much water 40 m high, or push it through a membrane with 4 bar pressure drop. So you can
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by tlb 5y ago
My bank (a Bank of America subsidiary). Takes about 12 seconds to log in, 5 - 6 seconds to load each page in their site. My typical session (check that a transaction went through, or read a message through their secure portal) takes a minut
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by tlb 5y ago
The system should have separate mechanisms for the 2 things: letting you update, and executing after you're dead. Executing after you're dead only happens once, so it can be heavyweight. Updating should be as lightweight as possib
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by tlb 5y ago
Local law firms do this for most people. The state courts will resolve any disagreements, and reassign administration of the will if, say, a giant meteor wipes out the entire law firm. There are also rules for if I'm incapacitated but
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by tlb 5y ago
Miele makes a large, deluxe unit with 2 dials. I like it. https://www.mieleusa.com/e/built-in-microwave-oven-m-6040-sc...
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by tlb 5y ago
The idea that a field can be reformed by making it worse until it suddenly faces a reckoning and emerges much better is ... I don't know where people keep getting the idea that this might work. It has never worked in any field ever in
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by tlb 5y ago
Bikes with loud exhaust all have the exhaust pointing out the back. If you want to be heard coming instead of going, you should add a U-bend just behind the muffler so the exhaust sound is projected forward.
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by tlb 5y ago
It's actually 1.75x monthly. 1.75^14 == 2500.
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by tlb 5y ago
In the future, it'll be exclusive to the CBMF Streaming Network ($7.99/month). I'm grateful that music didn't end up fragmented into a multitude of walled gardens like video. You can listen to almost all popular music wi
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by tlb 5y ago
I'll concur, based on the experience of colleagues that both running HN and participating don't mix well. People running or moderating a site have a responsibility to be impartial. And no matter how impartial they actually are, th
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by tlb 5y ago
No, but there's often a trade-off between making a decent living as a cog in a machine, or living on ramen and working on what you want to work on. I've chosen both at various phases of life.
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by tlb 5y ago
I'm interested in doing something like this too, with a research focus on robotics, simulation, and programming languages. The big dichotomy in research orgs is whether you need resources beyond researcher stipends. Robotics usually do
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by tlb 5y ago
Sometimes this works. It was pretty easy to explain what can go wrong with nuclear weapons so the public can understand. Sometimes it doesn't. People have, for decades, expressed concerns about the risks of gain-of-function research on
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by tlb 5y ago
People frequently cause harm by using language. Being cautious about something that could potentially generate orders of magnitude more targeted harmful language seems reasonable. In general, when people working full-time on a technology th
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by tlb 5y ago
He's using a technical definition of irreducibility [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducibility ] for which the claim is true. It doesn't mean "cannot be expressed more concisely at all".
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by tlb 5y ago
Other immediate-mode GUIs, like Dear ImGui, don't use and wouldn't benefit from inheritance.
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Yes, it offends my aesthetic sense when the asymptotically fastest algorithms for simple problems are complex monsters. It didn't used to be like that: early fast algorithms (like heapsort and FFT) are only very slightly more complex t
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by tlb 5y ago
Also likely is that part of the genome that produces toxins in one part of the plant that isn't normally eaten gets turned on in edible part. For example: asparagus berries are toxic, but the toxin doesn't appear in the stalk. The
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by tlb 5y ago
Why does the pop at the end of: push sp mov sp, myPrivateSP ... pop sp work? Isn't it popping from the private stack, while it was pushed on the regular stack?
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It never works to start a business with the goal of employing a certain kind of people. Better to start with a product or service you will deliver, and then figure out what people you need to make it happen. It can include large numbers of
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by tlb 5y ago
I find the best way is walking in the woods, with no people around. I do that 3-4 times a week for 40-90 minutes. Usually with the dog. It helps to have a long retractable leash attached to my waist, so I don't have to hold it or negot

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