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by toby 6y ago
Rust?
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by toby 6y ago
n^0 is also an exponent. Do you consider constant time to be exponential growth?
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by toby 6y ago
I thought it was pretty fascinating to read the story of how obsessed scientists enlisted sailors to find smaller and smaller elvers to figure this out. The actual location isn't the interesting part. I also had no idea that no one has
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by toby 6y ago
Apologies, I was unable to delete my comment after I realized it wasn't appropriate here.
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by toby 6y ago
Quick plug, my company released a lot of Rust code on Wednesday: https://github.com/mobilecoinofficial/mobilecoin The SGX and no_std support might be of particular interest to some of you.
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by toby 6y ago
This is great! My company has been getting musicians in our morning meetings on Zoom, it's really an awesome way to start the day. Recommend checking out https://www.spresence.com/ if you're looking for talent (I
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MobileCoin Code Release(medium.com)
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by toby 7y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted on this, the range they choose is super weird. The actual report says that people under 19 comprise 2% of hospitalizations -- I doubt it suddenly jumps to 38% for the next 5 years. It also
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by toby 7y ago
"We are not aware of any reports at this time of human illnesses that suggest COVID-19 can be transmitted by food or food packaging." https://www.usda.gov/coronavirus
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by toby 7y ago
Oh wow, thank you for the memories :) I grew up in New Zealand when everything was pulse dialing and had an American modem that my father got us, so in order to dial any phone number I had to rewrite it by subtracting every digit from 10.
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by toby 7y ago
Galois is a very interesting historical prodigy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois Discovered group theory and died in a duel at 20. His work is very important to modern cryptography.
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by toby 7y ago
Can you explain this further? I've noticed that compiling a large project on a Mac is significantly slower than on a similarly-spec'ed Linux machine.
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by toby 7y ago
OOP design is usually part of a CS curriculum (at MIT it was, at least) since it has some theoretical framing and applies to a wide variety of practical problems. I don't think I've ever heard of a class in crypto scams or Agile.
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by toby 7y ago
Rolling a stop sign (slowly, if there's no one at the intersection) is safer on a bike than stopping. In SF the Board of Supervisors voted to make it legal, but the mayor vetoed it.
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by toby 8y ago
It switches between Sprint and T-Mobile, not sure if that makes a difference, I guess it depends where you are
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by toby 8y ago
Any reason you didn't consider Google Fi? I've been pretty happy with it.
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by toby 8y ago
Fantastic comment, this is to me the crux of what makes privacy so important. "How could people have decided that marijuana should be legal, if nobody had ever used it? How could states decide that same sex marriage should be permitted
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by toby 8y ago
Yep, which actually makes it better than most of the Ivy League :)
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by toby 8y ago
A vacancy tax is so obvious that there must be some political reason that it's not being discussed in SF. I'm not sure I'd restrict it to foreign owners, holding empty property is a negative externality no matter where the ow
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by toby 8y ago
You're right, it's not a brand, the correct term is appellation.
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by toby 8y ago
Vancouver has a vacancy tax, which strikes me as a really good idea to avoid these problems. Does anyone know why these aren't more popular?
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by toby 10y ago
This is all true of course, but it's not what I said. While it might be more economically rational for newer homebuyers to be the ones fighting development, it hasn't been my observation that they are. Obviously I could be wrong,
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by toby 10y ago
I think you'll find (in general) that the people most opposed to new housing (long time residents) are the ones paying the lowest property taxes, due to Prop 13. Newer homebuyers who are paying taxes on the actual market-value of their
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by toby 10y ago
By "advertiser guy we hate" you mean the publisher? The one who built the page you went to?
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by toby 10y ago
Any youth who can hit a small object 400ft away moving 50mph has far more lucrative options than drone theft.
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by toby 10y ago
I know :) But it seemed like a fun place to bring it up.
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by toby 10y ago
It's rare, but I know at least one person who has a San Francisco King (7x7, just like the city). http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/hotstuff/article/S-F-7-b...
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by toby 10y ago
The Google C++ style [1] guide bans exceptions entirely and strongly advises against RTTI. [1] https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
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by toby 10y ago
Scott Wiener, the Supervisor who introduced the bill, also is far more in favor of density than many of the other supes. It's a harder sell here.
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by toby 11y ago
Appreciate the recommendation (I wrote that)! Honestly the book is very old at this point, it may still be an approachable way to understand what's behind the algorithms but there are much better ways to write the code now.

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