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by wavemode 4mo ago
I guess it could be? I interpreted what the parent commenter wrote like "the variables aren't actually correlated" (which definitely does happen sometimes) Whereas my point is moreso when, the variables really are correlated
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by wavemode 4mo ago
The 5th option is random chance. That often results from p-hacking. In a world of infinite variables, if you look hard enough you are guaranteed to eventually find two completely unrelated variables that correlate with each other over a sta
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by wavemode 4mo ago
yes that's the author, but he didn't submit this to HackerNews
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by wavemode 4mo ago
This reads more like a love letter than life advice. As a love letter it's very sweet - you clearly have found something special. As life advice - I mean, not everyone's ideal relationship is gonna look like this, and that's
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by wavemode 4mo ago
> No garbage collector > Slots are stable for the life of the process; the heap grows with distinct content only. So how is a program supposed to handle lots of unique content? Like a web server handling user requests?
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by wavemode 4mo ago
My rule of thumb has always been that, macros are great for general things but very bad for domain-specific things. A macro like (logged-fn) that defines a function which logs the arguments passed, is wonderful. But if you see a macro like
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by wavemode 4mo ago
That seems entirely unrelated?
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by wavemode 4mo ago
It's effectively a pause. In a project the size of CPython, and a subproject the complexity of a JIT, you can't continue work on a separate branch/repo without guaranteeing that there will be a massive amount of (both textual
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by wavemode 4mo ago
Not everyone in the world who compiles a C++ project is necessarily doing so for an "org"
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by wavemode 4mo ago
Deque is one of the easier ones. I echo the parent commenter - the STL has a massive negative impact on compile times. And for what? The STL is not even fast. The way the standards are written, std::unordered_map has to be implemented as a
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by wavemode 4mo ago
A fresh build of a large C++ project taking 1 hour does not sound strange at all. If that's an incremental build though (i.e. simply rebuilding after changing a few files), there's something very wrong.
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by wavemode 4mo ago
> Microsoft leverages its immensely powerful position as the supplier of the ubiquitous Windows PC operating system, as well as many productivity and other must-have apps, to push users towards its first-party browser, Edge, through tact
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by wavemode 4mo ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness
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by wavemode 4mo ago
Eventually, in moviemaking, generative AI is going to be seen the way CGI is. That is, how people complain about CGI when it's obvious/distracting/noticeable, but the best usages of it won't be noticeable.
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by wavemode 4mo ago
This was tested in Singapore 10 years ago and successfully reduced the spread of Dengue fever by 77% and has not negatively impacted the ecosystem. This isn't a project to eliminate all mosquitos. There are over 3600 species of mosquit
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by wavemode 4mo ago
on the concept of Wallpaper Groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group
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by wavemode 4mo ago
None of what pg writes here is factually wrong per se, but he is obviously making a bigger deal out of a lot of these things than they really are (that is, he was obviously writing this to convince more people to start and join startups - h
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by wavemode 4mo ago
> We are "naturally" meant to die at 21 Not really? Historical life expectancies were low because it was so common to die in infancy and childhood (thus dragging down the "average"). For people who made it to 20, it w
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by wavemode 4mo ago
Carry-on luggage is usually not weighed, there are simply safety margins in place for that sort of thing. (A human probably isn't capable of carrying a bag heavy enough to erode those margins.) And fuel burn is the least of the concern
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by wavemode 4mo ago
I disagree completely. Backwards compatibility has precisely nothing to do with why Windows is terrible nowadays. And that's also entirely orthogonal to hardware - the hardware battle between ARM Mac and ARM PC is really a battle betwe
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by wavemode 4mo ago
> That's... an incredibly narrow law, that only covers a class of games which are particularly stupid by design. (Continuous cost without continuous revenue.) Eh, it sounds unintuitive, but in practice it's extremely common. Al
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by wavemode 4mo ago
It baffles me that they do this. I have to disable push notifications from Lyft entirely, so instead they send me ride updates as text messages, which surely must cost them way more money. Why not just introduce a "ride updates only&qu
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by wavemode 4mo ago
I assume he's referring to: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3207.pdf
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by wavemode 4mo ago
That comment appears to be from 9 months ago, regarding an entirely different article. Also, you've cut out the part where he says he did use AI, but just to "resort" the article (by which I assume he means "reorganize&q
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by wavemode 4mo ago
No, dehydration is the common term when it's specifically water that's being removed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydration_reaction
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by wavemode 4mo ago
What an arrogant comment. You have no idea what kind of software the parent commenter is working on. If you think all software can be handled by AI then I'm afraid you're the one who doesn't know what they're doing.
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by wavemode 4mo ago
Eh, I definitely do think that it has become a mainstream take. Not necessarily that we want lower-quality code, but simply that humans shouldn't be reviewing AI code for quality at all - that is, that code quality doesn't reall
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by wavemode 5mo ago
Well, design isn't just about looking nice, nor even just about what people think about it. Something can look nice and fail as a design. That is to say - it's entirely possible to have a design that a layperson looks at and goes
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by wavemode 5mo ago
Really useful database, though the website could really use a filtering feature rather than just sorting.
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by wavemode 5mo ago
Is there any large-scale economic or political system which does not contain a group of elites possessing "a tremendous amount of power which allows them to bend the law to their will"? Not a theoretical one, but one existing in r

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