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by vitus 5y ago
That's definitely a fair assessment. It reads like a lot of self-contained chunks (~15-20 pages per chapter, for most chapters), but right around the halfway mark, there's 100 pages on testing philosophy, which is a slog. Don&#x27
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by vitus 5y ago
Since you mention the Google SRE book, I'm curious if you've read the Google SWE book (and if so, what your thoughts are). https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book has a link to a PDF copy. I've read through
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by vitus 5y ago
> I still don't quite understand how that was meant to improve performance over a lossy link. It does! First, consider the case that HTTP pipelining addresses: lots of small independent requests. By packing multiple requests into th
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by vitus 5y ago
> HTTP 2 and 3 are spec monstrosities A valid concern. > which currently, effectively don't work. Citation needed. > HTTP 2 is for example slower than HTTP 1.1 over modern TLS even on near perfect connections. H2 attempts to s
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by vitus 5y ago
The backdoor Roth didn't exist until 2010; Thiel's initial contributions were in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Increase_Prevention_and_Re...
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by vitus 5y ago
It sounds like you're referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanson%27s_method and the related Baldwin's method, which, while being Condorcet methods, both fail monotonicity.
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by vitus 5y ago
Oh, I agree that in the US, RCV is (unfortunately) often conflated with IRV. > I've wondered if IRV couldn't be substantially improved by using ... rather than eliminating the candidate with the least first-choice options. This
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by vitus 5y ago
One important distinction to make is that RCV isn't the same as Instant Runoff Voting (IRV); rather, IRV is a specific (the most commonly championed, as far as I can tell) implementation of RCV, likely because it's the easiest to
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by vitus 5y ago
> the definition of market in a digital economy is global. I strongly disagree. If you're a large tech conglomerate, and your center of mass is in the US, then the timezone difference (California -> New Delhi is 12.5hr) largely e
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by vitus 5y ago
I'm admittedly not impressed by the pcap processing. It identifies a bunch of fragments of HTTP headers as "YouTube Video ID". Meanwhile, I can get the same info and more by running $ strings FollowTheLeader.pcap *]
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by vitus 5y ago
Additionally: while 32 might set a new record, it's not by _that_ much -- Collier became chairman at 34 in 1976.
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by vitus 5y ago
Not quite -- 754 is "unexpected ;", while 759 is "unexpected ::". (semicolon vs colons)
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by vitus 5y ago
Walmart is close to that $600B sales number (~$560B revenue in 2020), but not quite there. Their website claims 100M MAUs, though, so they'd be covered [0]. Comcast likely does meet that 50M number, depending on how you look at things.
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by vitus 5y ago
> Or is it because rent growth outpaces wages? I think this is incomplete by itself. Taking a couple of points from the article: - Women are less likely than men to live at home with their parents. - The increase in men living at home wi
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by vitus 5y ago
That's a different form! https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/legal-removal-reques...
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by vitus 5y ago
I think you might be off by one for the "correct" result (i.e. 2^-55), which is what fsum arrives at. >>> 0.3 - 0.2 - 0.1 -2.7755575615628914e-17 >>> (0.3 - 0.2 - 0.1) / 3 -9.25185853854297
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by vitus 5y ago
> Note that in python there is a math.fsum function which return a perfectly rounded summation of floats. Quirks of the underlying data can yield surprising results. I was playing around with the "well-known" floating point err
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by vitus 5y ago
You're perfectly welcome to dislike hard pretzels. But that's no reason to dismiss the rest of the pretzels from the state (or country) -- in fact, the article explicitly calls out soft pretzels from PA (which similarly derive fro
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by vitus 5y ago
They came over with the Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e. Deutsch -> German) immigrants. Most popular brands of pretzels in the US? Rold Gold (founded in Philly), Snyder's of Hanover (PA), Utz (Hanover, PA again). edit: of course all of thos
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by vitus 5y ago
> as opposed to them being the owner/developer of both sites? If they're not owned by the same entity, then this blog post is rather odd: https://html-online.com/articles/scoreboard/ (To be fair, that
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by vitus 5y ago
> Australia needs more global connectivity. IIRC, data transiting outside of AU is relatively expensive. > China needs more connectivity, especially with the US for e-commerce (AliExpress is very slow). To both of these points, yes an
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by vitus 5y ago
Incidentally, ASAN / MSAN / TSAN are part of Clang and GCC, not C++ itself, so they're available for other languages, e.g. Rust ( https://github.com/japaric/rust-san describes how to use them) and Golang
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by vitus 5y ago
After some amount of poking around, I've found exactly one case where that happened ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit in connection with Snowden). Law enforcement might subpoena, say, search result records in
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by vitus 5y ago
Ah, good catch! The wiki quote that I cited does reference uniform continuity, so the rest still holds. (left for posterity so your comment makes sense)
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by vitus 5y ago
I mean e2e as far as the connection is concerned, whether it's a server talking to end-users via HTTPS, or a server in a datacenter in Singapore talking to a server in a datacenter in Atlanta using GPG or TLS or whichever proprietary e
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by vitus 5y ago
> The Holder continuity condition looks sorta like the limit definition of a derivative with an exponent on the denominator. This is actually stronger than the epsilon-delta definition of continuity, as noted in the wiki article -- &quot
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by vitus 5y ago
I'd be surprised if there are any large players who don't encrypt everything e2e these days. (By e2e, I mean while data is in transit between datacenters.) That's at least been the case at Google for something like a decade s
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by vitus 5y ago
> I don't agree with this. Companies like Comcast are deemed monopolies because their customers don't have a choice. Just as you stated, Comcast gives me high speed broadband. But my choice is limited to Comcast, and the only c
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by vitus 5y ago
Yeah. China has one comparable line (Xinjiang-Anhui / Zhundong–Wannan) which is 3300km running at 1100kV. I can't find any concrete numbers on line loss there, but I would expect if the voltage is 40-50% higher, keeping all else e
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by vitus 5y ago
I was surprised to hear that's economical. Singapore to Darwin is about 2000 miles. For reference, that's comparable to Chicago to LA. That's at least an order of magnitude larger than what I'm used to thinking about for

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