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by za_creature 4mo ago
I made no mention of anyone being politically sympathetic or otherwise. A private investor is _private_ and thus not subject to a government bailout. The argument for government bailouts used to be that "grandpa would lose his pensio
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by za_creature 4mo ago
And these equity-investors, do they use their own money to buy the (presumably non-voting) stocks? Cause if that's the case, I see no reason for a government bailout should things go south. Nobody's pension would be affected by so
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by za_creature 4mo ago
They're not profitable either, so the money has to come from somewhere, no?
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by za_creature 4mo ago
Most bank runs tend to be driven by vibes, not numbers though. The good news is that these folks seem to be in possession of a vibe-rator.
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by za_creature 4mo ago
I'm not a systems guy, but you're probably right. A mutex requires an atomic variable which triggers the same cache coherency mechanism under contention. What Justine probably meant was an apples to oranges comparison: in userspac
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by za_creature 4mo ago
Introducing the new iFerrari XS It's 140% better than the previous Ferrari Enzo And 20% thinner With a brand new Magnesium case It's the fastest Ferrari we've ever built.
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by za_creature 5mo ago
> There is a theorem that (...) multiplication requires unbounded memory What theorem is that? The multiplication of any two integers below a certain size (called "words") fits in a "double word" and the naive multipl
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by za_creature 5mo ago
The size difference between the local LLM and all of the above is about... the size of the local LLM.
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by za_creature 6mo ago
> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change... ... the answer would depend on which street corner you asked. > people seem so unaware of how idiosyncratic their preferences are Yes, they are. Th
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by za_creature 6mo ago
The video is about a 2x1 link, which the author hopes to eventually scale up to 3x4 using 40 gig transceivers. I'd say thunderbolt is probably safe in the near future.
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by za_creature 6mo ago
Just to put some context into what _never_ means here: If a website offers me the choice between "accept cookies" and "more options", I'll manually edit the DOM to remove the popup from the offending website. Some s
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by za_creature 8mo ago
Github: https://github.com/luckyPipewrench > Pipe-layin' mastermind, code slayer supreme. Typin' fire across the screen, layin' pipe through the night. Bustin' blockages and bugs with no mercy. HN: &g
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by za_creature 1y ago
Ah, I meant that for a classic heap, it's convenient to assign h[0] to the limit of your goal function (e.g. -inf for a min heap) cause that way you can skip the while i>0 check and just do while h[i>>1] > min(h[i], h[i+1])
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by za_creature 1y ago
That's a nice niche you found (spoken from one heap fan to another) but I have to say I strongly disagree with your use of *roughly* twice as much At best you were off by one but in the context of performance, you'd want to assign
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by za_creature 1y ago
> When you know what you are doing with C pointers, the compiler just doesn't get in the way. Tell me you use -fno-strict-aliasing without telling me. Fwiw, I agree with you and we're in good[citation needed] company: https:&#
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by za_creature 3y ago
Same idea, as a shareable static html page. It never made it to the front page though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365892
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by za_creature 3y ago
Thank you for the impromtpu audit. I agree that localStorage is overkill for the discord use-case, but wanted a bit more leeway for async forum posts. I might tweak the UI to let users explicitly opt into no-storage operation, though now I
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by za_creature 3y ago
funny you should mention that I initially wanted to go with inplainsight dot net cause that felt more fitting, but that's parked and the owner won't let it go for less than the low 4 figures, which was outside my budget for a hobb
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by za_creature 3y ago
> Did you learn anything while building this? My main takeaway is that, for all of its footguns, React has solved a lot more problems than it created: Even for this rather simple app, the number of invariants that need to be preserved
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Show HN: Send private messages over a public channel(plaintext.world)
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by za_creature 3y ago
With no opinion on whether this is a good thing or not, the blockchain as described by the original author(s) does allow (as long as the hash function holds up and there's financial incentive to crunch the numbers) proof of public deli
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by za_creature 3y ago
> there is no such thing as good code. nor is there such a thing as a good love letter
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by za_creature 9y ago
The one thing you can expect to receive in exchange for said significant donation of your time is recognition for your work. If your work consists of half-finished code that you then attempt to pass off as a usable product, the expected r
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by za_creature 10y ago
If they're renting them, I think Romania has a higher need at the moment :)
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by za_creature 10y ago
The thing is, tail calls aren't _just_ about emulating iteration via recursion: def foo(): raise ValueError def bar(): return foo() bar() With TCO, the stack trace would contain `main` and `foo`, as `bar`'
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by za_creature 10y ago
Awesome idea and the website looks great too! Congratulations for bootstrapping a 30 man team! Does Pavlok have any other automated detection capacities other than wrist to mouth? You might consider making a video on how that works and how
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by za_creature 10y ago
Wouldn't the presence of those legal deterrents allow a company to transfer resources away from tech and into legal to mitigate the problem?
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by za_creature 10y ago
> Bitcoin will thrive whenever the shit hits the fan somewhere Not if "somewhere" is nearby elliptic curves
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by za_creature 10y ago
> So yes I think many engineers don't know these things. Maybe civil engineers. Definitely not IT engineers because, well, it's in the name
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by za_creature 10y ago
Not disappointing at all; solving the system in a least-squares sense is O(n^3) and choosing the optimal setup is NP-complete (didn't prove it, but I'm _pretty_ sure it involves backtracking, especially when you consider stuff lik

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