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by yalok 5y ago
Sparse operations still don’t have good support in any of the generic SIMD instructions (avx2/512, Neon), or in GPU… And memory access/cache should also be optimized for them to have even more power saving and better speed. For AS
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by yalok 5y ago
I had scleroplasty done on my eyes at the age of 13, at 8.5D, to stop progression, and it did help - I only progressed to 9.25D in 30 years since… Doesn’t seem like done in any other countries other than Russia - https://www.natu
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by yalok 5y ago
Lunar worked great for me on MacBook Pro 2020 (2 monitors, one connected over USB-C to USB-C cable, another one over USB-C to DisplayPort), but doesn’t work on for the same monitors connected to MacPro via 2 HDMI cables… Any idea why?
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by yalok 5y ago
A friend of mine is a violin teacher, and he has been asking if it’s possible to build an app that would recognize the notes being played from a microphone, in realtime, and overlay it over the expected music sheet, to help kids see where m
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by yalok 5y ago
My observation is that it all depends on scale. Huge projects (such as Linux code base) can’t survive with simple solutions (e.g. non-distributed VCS). Loving complexity for the sake of complexity or sake of job-security or competitive adva
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by yalok 5y ago
I had a very similar reverse experience- coming from git, Mercurial felt very confusing and limited…
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by yalok 5y ago
Orcas are mostly silent, especially when hunting, iirc.
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by yalok 5y ago
I wonder what it takes to add output to Rust, or if that’s even possible…
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by yalok 5y ago
Reindexing array accesses by +1 in Lua would be interesting…
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by yalok 5y ago
is there a video of their talk, or slides? Seems to be behind a paywall on OSSNA site...
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by yalok 5y ago
The Bootcamp training at FB explicitly mentions that such things are not a fire-able offense - the attitude is around learning - if you managed to bring everything down, let’s learn together how you managed to do this… :)
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by yalok 5y ago
how did they get access to your mail?
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by yalok 5y ago
did they really promise that with Instagram? and as for WhatsApp - they do keep that promise, user data is separate.
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by yalok 5y ago
"The SEC Market Abuse Unit's Analysis and Detection Center uncovered the trading ring by using data analysis tools to identify the traders' improbably successful trading over time." Fascinating tool! I remember a video w
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by yalok 5y ago
were those promises made to FTC specifically?
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by yalok 5y ago
I had a very similar problems with MiniHack app on my older iPhone, that it stopped working after iOS 14.5 upgrade, but which still worked on a newer iPhone 11 that also runs 14.5. Came to these comments specifically to find a reason for th
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by yalok 5y ago
Thank you, this saved my day!!! I had very similar problems with MiniHack app on my older iPhone, that it stopped working after iOS 14.5 upgrade, but which still worked on a newer iPhone. Offloading and reinstalling the app fixed the probl
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by yalok 5y ago
True story: long time ago, I was once interviewing a guy, and wanted to check his coding skills. Asked him to write some simple C function, doing some simple algorithm. Let the guy use my PC as I watched him (did I say it was very long tim
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by yalok 5y ago
Totally. Plus FFmpeg…
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by yalok 5y ago
e.g., transcription of live streaming events?
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by yalok 5y ago
I observe pressure to pay attention to such stuff.
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by yalok 5y ago
For the future, get PO Box address that works as a regular address (UPS offers this for example), and use it with all the banks and literally everywhere - anyone may get hacked and leak your address...
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by yalok 6y ago
Been acquired by MSFT previously. Pay - expect to be mapped to their levels, and your pay related to that level. Not much flexibility unless you are promoted to the next level after performance review. So make sure mapping is done fairly. T
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by yalok 6y ago
It’s not only about boot time - it’s more about preserving the state of things - which apps are open, where documents are positioned...
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by yalok 6y ago
They are slowly spreading their reach from SF area down south, so will take them quite a few years to be at South Bay unfortunately
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by yalok 6y ago
Just depends on the size of the company and amount of developers. With monorepo approach, all of the projects are in one repo, all kids of technologies/languages, forks of various open source projects, sources of tools/utilities..
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by yalok 6y ago
Could be a compound effect - myopia plus this drug - not a good combination. I have pretty severe myopia, and had laser treatment for tears in it earlier, so have to be very careful about these drugs I guess...
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by yalok 6y ago
I wish they would do the same for some of the recent whistle blowers like Vindman.
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by yalok 6y ago
Totally. And kind of explains why some electrophoresis therapies may be working.
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by yalok 6y ago
Worse than this, and to the point of this post - you can’t offer comms service in China unless it has a way to be snooped by government. So some comm services like Skype have to offer a separate app, just for China, which affects all messag

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