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by vmladenov 6y ago
Sure, in Mountain View, but otherwise the parent comment is correct. Charles Fishman’s book The Wal-Mart Effect[1] goes into great depth about how Wal-Mart suffocates smaller stores across America and turns around to arm-twist their supplie
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Don’t look at code, because it bakes in so many derived values and simplifications that it’s hard to recover the original ideas. If you can find the original math, and walk through the derivatives (seeing zeros crop up and get simplified aw
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On macOS a majority of UI text fields support readline bindings (^A, ^E, etc) which is really nice
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I had an incredibly difficult time understanding his linear algebra textbook until I watched his lecture videos.
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So does an equivalent increase in the share price of the underlying
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That is an argument for federalism, not vote tally inequality.
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Psychology by Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, and Roy is an approachable, comprehensive introduction.
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There are a lot of cool concepts in those books, but the sophon faster-than-light communication that props up a lot of the story was a bit too much for me.
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This doesn’t seem controversial. It’s how the operating systems class[1] was structured at University of Illinois, though the target was a VM instead of physical hardware. It was easier to reset things when your new scheduler module instant
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The GPUs are not underpowered. A Radeon Pro is simply not intended for video games. There are less powerful standard Radeons that have better game performance.