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by virgilp 1y ago
> Big O notation also suffers from this - it's almost useless for real world problems. This is quite a bold claim. Yeah "in the real world" you often need to take into consideration the constant factors... but to go this f
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by virgilp 2y ago
> If you'd taken the cash and immediately invested all of it in NFLX, you'd have $400,000. But you can take the cash and immediately invest it all in NFLX options. That should be the baseline for comparison, when answering &quo
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by virgilp 2y ago
Parser combinators will eventually generate a push-down automaton. Regex would eventually generate a deterministic finite-state automaton. There's no contest, CPU-wise the DFA will parse the string faster (just have to do one transitio
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by virgilp 2y ago
Good managers will recognize that and know what those kinds of engineers are doing. Every company should have at least some good managers - seek them out, it's worth it. If you can't find one in current company, try to switch comp
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by virgilp 2y ago
> still a very young country Oh come on. The amerindian/indigenous culture has (almost) _nothing_ to do with US culture, which is very much a thing. In fact, it's so much a thing that US almost had a "cultural victory&quot
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by virgilp 2y ago
There's a subtle but very important difference between making sure nobody is a "single point of failure" or bottleneck (heck, most great engineers will actively work with management to make sure they're not single points
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by virgilp 2y ago
> Yes. I would be curious to hear what formed your impression that it is now considered an offensive bad thing. I don't know, TBH. I think friends from US told me to be careful, that it's now politically incorrect to mention it
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by virgilp 2y ago
> Dark Liberals agree that democratic institutions, free speech, a free press, human rights, tolerance for differences, and a cultural melting pot are all essential parts of maintaining a free society Honest question - is the "cultu
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by virgilp 2y ago
Trump told you, I don't know why you still wonder what's the plan: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they...
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by virgilp 2y ago
Does it follow that Yuan would replace USD? Could it be the EUR instead?
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by virgilp 2y ago
Oh, I'm not claiming that to be "evidence" - merely saying that there are hints that alternative explanations are worth exploring/investigating. "There's no smoke without fire" thing - sometimes there abso
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by virgilp 2y ago
123456 edit: What now?
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by virgilp 2y ago
That's not how things work when you talk about "cause". There's all sorts of examples even in scientific studies - lots of negative effects were assigned to coffee that were not really related. Until someone was about to
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by virgilp 2y ago
There's no mention of "cheap" or "cheaper" in that article. None. I tend to agree that's what they meant, but I for one resent that it's not spelled out/ it's implied. The _cause_ is lower price,
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by virgilp 2y ago
Your thesis implies that before using my data I am compelled by law to know very well the terms of use; I think the opposite has happened in practice, especially in Europe the trend is to say that lengthy TOS don't mean that companies
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by virgilp 2y ago
No, parent comment is absolutely correct. This article is crap. > (Question in title:) Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados > (Answer in article:) And the reason avocados have exploded in the U.S. is that most of them are n
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by virgilp 2y ago
I would say it's a gray area at best/worst. I think the goal of the law is that you shouldn't e.g. take a screenshot of a message someone sent you in confidence/in private, and use it to make fun of, or shame them on a p
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by virgilp 2y ago
How would this stand up to the "I didn't do it, I probably got hacked!" defense? It's one thing to publish personal conversation, and another to have your conversations aggregated by some LLM (and if they leak plain-text
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by virgilp 2y ago
I agree; but I _think_ chronologically Node & server-side-JS came first? The driver is the same though: "larger codebases, running on top of Javascript" - and indeed nowadays probably the browsers are the things that run the l
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by virgilp 2y ago
I forgot about Unity. Yes you're absolutely right.
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by virgilp 2y ago
This is not playing devil's advocate - this is a _VERY_ legitimate question. I'll go further and say that without a "killer app" (and/or strong corporate backer), a language doesn't typically take off nowadays,
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by virgilp 2y ago
What do you mean? You can chose the LLM in Cursor. (I don't like VSCode either, but unfortunately Cursor is best for the rest of the UX; I find myself using Cursor for the prompt-based part of the work, and then move to IntelliJ to do
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by virgilp 2y ago
You do not need how compiler handles UB parts of the standard; in fact you should NEVER rely on it, as it can change without warning. That's effectively "incorrect code", by definition.
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by virgilp 2y ago
You're not wrong - in that ALL optimizations are inter-dependent. But, for reasons that I think are rather obvious, it's really hard to do them optimally, all at once. So typically you'd do things like "register-pressure
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by virgilp 2y ago
Is this true though? Last time I worked on a compiler (admittedly quite a few years ago) Briggs was the bare minimum; our compiler in particular used an improvement over Callahan's hierarchical register allocation (the basic idea of wh
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by virgilp 2y ago
I think the goal here was to convince the AI to actually read chars ("OCR") rather than speculate what might be written on paper/in the image. Hence why the ground truth is explicitly removing the letters & word parts tha
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by virgilp 2y ago
I don't think battery life is close. It was the number 1 criterion on my list.
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by virgilp 2y ago
This was not meant to transform into "windows vs mac, which is better". But I happen to have used both, recently, and can tell: no, Windows got closer but is not quite there on the "having a shell" chapter. It still has
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by virgilp 2y ago
Read all of it. Go beyond just the title, and it should tell you that Paul Graham was more right than wrong with this one. - Google was, for a while, the "gorilla in the room" - their decline is recent. But Paul Graham got it righ
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by virgilp 2y ago
Well we're getting into political territory, but recently that "subsidized" seems to have swiftly changed to "threatened", so, I don't know. What you say used to be true in the past, but it's not so clear

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