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by vitus 11mo ago
Not by $$$, which is the main focus of the article. In the second table, LoL esports is explicitly highlighted as a success by mindshare, but not profitability. And below that: > LoL Esports: loses hundreds of millions of dollars annuall
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by vitus 11mo ago
> "valid, but unspecified" Annoyingly, it depends on the type, sometimes with unintuitive consequences. Move a unique_ptr? Guaranteed that the moved-from object is now null (fine). Move a std::optional? It remains engaged, but
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by vitus 11mo ago
I envy your intuition about high-dimensional spaces, as I have none (other than "here lies dragons"). (I think your intuition is broadly correct, seeing as billions of collision tests feels quite inadequate given the size of the s
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by vitus 1y ago
> Are you saying I am being unnecessarily cautious? Yes. If a game is marked with Linux, that means it has a native Linux port. However, Proton has gotten so good in recent years that some of the native Linux ports actually perform _wors
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by vitus 1y ago
Canada is the second-largest country in the world, so if you know that it's in the north and, um, not Russia, you stand a pretty good chance at picking it out. (Doubly so if you just know it's in the Americas.) Now, if you asked t
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by vitus 1y ago
And if you look at the people behind those names, you'll find that most of them were either born in the Russian Empire or moved there at a young age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tol...
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by vitus 1y ago
For various reasons, I believe the CFR defines flour as a food, not a food additive, but it may have additives that qualify. (I can't find any text that explicitly states that foods are not food additives, but either way, no form of wh
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by vitus 1y ago
> The bill itself calls out using USDA databases for various ingredients and various sections of federal regulations, so I can't comment too much about how they'd feel about xanthum gum without diving deep. For reference: xanth
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by vitus 1y ago
> I may use a third party std::function that doesn't have the weird copy semantics though Note that C++23 brings std::move_only_function if you're storing a callback for later use, as well as std::function_ref if you don't
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by vitus 1y ago
> google.com, youtube, chrome, android, gmail, google map etc Of those, it's 50/50. The acquisitions were YT, Android, Maps. Search was obviously Google's original product, Chrome was an in-house effort to rejuvenate the w
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by vitus 1y ago
> given that we don't have access to that data? Actually, we do have some of that data. You can just look at the H-1B employer datahub, filter by Google (or whichever other employer you want to scrutinize), and then look at the cros
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by vitus 1y ago
Yeah, that was what I tried with row-Hamming / col-Hamming (namely: treat entire rows / cols as matches or not). I then used the min of the two to address those issues. Either way, I guess my implementation had a bug -- A* does yi
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by vitus 1y ago
I tried implementing A* using pointwise Hamming distance, found that it was inadmissible (since it yielded a suboptimal result on par with my manual attempt), then tried again with row-wise Hamming distance but was pretty sure that's i
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by vitus 1y ago
> The GPU implementation's logarithmic scaling becomes evident at longer sequence lengths. I don't see logarithmic scaling, actually. From the table for GRU performance, going from 16384 -> 65536 (namely: increasing the inpu
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by vitus 1y ago
> San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Austin, and Phoenix are ~10% of US population. Surely you're describing metro areas? There's no way those five cities add up to 34 million people within city limits, given that none of th
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by vitus 1y ago
> if an argument fits into the size of a register, it's better to pass by value to avoid the extra indirection. Whether an argument is passed in a register or not is unfortunately much more nuanced than this: it depends on the ABI c
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by vitus 1y ago
I'm curious why anyone would pay $19.99/month for Alexa+ rather than just buy a Prime membership (which is $14.99/month). Unless of course this is going to be met with a price hike for Prime...
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by vitus 1y ago
> • The curved sides of the projection suggest the spherical form of Earth. > • Straight parallels that make it easier to compare how far north or south places are from the equator. Okay, we've now added a constra
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by vitus 1y ago
nit: document.applets is not the same as the <applet> tag. Note: Support for the <applet> element has been removed by all browsers. Therefore, calling document.applets always returns an empty collection. https:/&#
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by vitus 1y ago
You're mixing your units -- 0.05% of 6L is 3mL. In order for that to weigh 3g, atmospheric CO2 would have to be as dense as water. Most figures I see peg 1mL of CO2 at closer to 2mg (it's about 50% heavier than the equivalent atmo
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by vitus 1y ago
Sure, then set one to 2^62 and the other to -2^62 (namely: 0b1100..00). It's overflow as far as unsigned arithmetic is concerned, but not in the case of signed arithmetic. That said, when you're dealing with 256-bit integers, you&
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by vitus 1y ago
> It might be more interesting to discuss the median hours worked (or any of a number of other percentiles), but it's not obvious those figures are public. Okay. It seems that the cited numbers are from https://en.wikiped
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by vitus 1y ago
Right. I thought about part-timers or people working reduced schedules bringing the average (mean) down; I just wasn't sure if I was missing something systemic or not. It might be more interesting to discuss the median hours worked (or
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by vitus 1y ago
> Dolly Parton's feminist anthem "9 to 5" always mystified me: that's already 40 hours! Don't you stop to eat lunch? But that is the standard idiom for a "normal [office] job" in the States. I have seen
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by vitus 1y ago
> 1371 hours Out of curiosity, what drove that shift? Shorter workweek, fewer hours per day, drastically more vacation, or some combination of the above? Based on a 40-hour workweek, this would be 34 workweeks. Adding on 2-3 weeks worth
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by vitus 1y ago
Why not? Amazon owns Whole Foods, and Amazon Fresh has existed for almost 20 years now. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GBM7TZJ seems like a totally normal price to pay for eggs these days, although you probably wouldn&#x
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by vitus 1y ago
The $21 million figure was based on a 2007 sale, which would have been closer to holding it for 59 years -- almost 26% interest compounded annually. If that rate of growth held for another 18 years, we'd be looking at $60 million toda
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by vitus 1y ago
And, I personally hate macros that pretend to be functions but provide no visual indicator that they're not actually functions. For instance, `#define min(x, y) (x < y ? x : y)` evaluates its args multiple times. It's a little
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by vitus 1y ago
I don't think we actually need `->void` -- shouldn't the compiler be able to infer the return type (or rather, absence thereof)? My experience is that the compiler only struggles when the return value needs to be implicitly con
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by vitus 1y ago
It's fascinating that "long" is the biggest tip-off you have, given that Mandarin Chinese (based on the mention of "a noticeably strong Chinese accent") does have words that have the same IPA pronunciation (if you s

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