SnowProblem

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by SnowProblem 8mo ago
I love this because it gets to the heart of information theory. Shannon's foundational insight was that information is surprise. A random sequence is incompressible by definition. But what counts as surprise depends on context, and for
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by SnowProblem 1y ago
Yeah, the author wants a story saying there wasn't enough continuity between scenarios or motivation to continue, but that was a non-issue for me personally. It's been many, many years, but my memory is that while RCT didn't
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by SnowProblem 1y ago
All I want today is Chrome-style profiles in Firefox. None of this about:profiles nonsense.
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by SnowProblem 1y ago
There's a pretty large market for people who mostly like Trump but side with Musk on balancing the budget and don't trust Repubs to get there.
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by SnowProblem 2y ago
I wonder what red tape we're talking about. SEC regulates disclosures, but pretty sure NYSE and Nasdaq decide when to allow trading, halt trading, APIs, what gets listed, and more, and after you spend time in crypto on-chain trading, i
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Fun read! Along the way I was trying to guess the cause and my best guess was TTL-related. However I don’t quite understand the actual cause! If the connection timeout is 3ms in practice, shouldn’t that be for a packet round-trip? So ~250 m
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
The issue isn't the possible noise in non-covid deaths. It's this rather bold statement: "None of these deaths were considered related to BNT162b2 by investigators" How would they know? What investigators and what criter
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Yep, you'd find huge stacks of their CDs everywhere. I remember always getting a free "frisbee" every time we'd go to Blockbuster. Also, AOL keywords.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
AOL lumbered on but what finally killed it was broadband and cable. They just didn't have the pipes and the luster was gone by then anyway. DSL gave it some life support but by 2002 or so everyone I knew had switched to cable. AIM use
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Very similar story here. I was in middle school when the follow-up Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus came out [0]. I read it cover to cover and proceeded to buy as many Premier Press books I could get using money I'd save fr
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Thanks. That makes more sense.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
What's the real story here? Why did Trump say the $10B would not be spent if he was not re-elected? What "changing global market conditions" is Foxconn referring to? Edit: I found this interview here with a former Foxconn exe
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Structurizr looks popular but I don't love needing to learn yet another DSL. Does there exist a way to describe things in an existing language with a library? To use the example on their website, I would like something like this in JS:
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
If C4 is new to you too, I recommend their intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-rSnhpw0g . It feels like a very light ruleset over what we would do naturally when explaining a system to another engineer. That&#x27
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Ray Kurzweil makes an appearance in Episode 17 talking about AI: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/f3fc8a5ce91dfb847a4f91eed7ddb184
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Secret History of Silicon Valley (2008) [video](youtube.com)
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Sure features are transitive. A crate’s features at build are the superset of what every package defines. If I define “fast_compile” (opt-in) or “no_binaries” (opt-out) it’ll get applied across the board, will it not?
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
I don't understand why this is so complex? Just make it a feature you put in Cargo.toml: serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["serde_derive", "fast_compile"] } Either opt-in or opt-out is fine. It's
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Anyone know what are the main drivers for USA falling in economic complexity from #6 to #14 over the past 20 years?
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
For more on TSMC's history, Acquired podcast's episode is incredible: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Exactly. Here's Gamespot's homepage in 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070228162159/http://www.gamesp... Very similar. So much more personality than Gamespot today: https://www.g
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
True, and C10M is the new C10K. I was just surprised it works well using that many OS threads rather than needing green threads or async.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Async is a bit trendy right now and in my experience has a way of infecting a codebase. That said, I like the way it reads for server code. In a project I'm working on, we use both: explicit threads and channels the CPU-bound work and
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
I enjoyed the async part where the author built up Future and a runtime from first principles. If the topic interests you, these two videos are good follow-ups into Rust async [1] [2]. Rust's model is a little different and more powerf
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
Alternatively come in early or stay late. Joel did get it right. Open spaces are fine for light tasks but a huge drain on deep thinking.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
What companies today give software engineers offices? Microsoft's used to be fantastic in 00s and early 10s but they also were moving to open spaces when I left so not sure the state today.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
It surprised me to see people changing into what looks like ice skates and another holding what looks like a hockey stick hitting a puck in the 1500s. https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/ice-skat...
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
A million times better. Looks like this comes from the Wasmer team.
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
None of this is excusable. Tell me what your project does in clear English. "WASI is a standard for 50 functions you can call to do systems-level things from your WASM code. Here they are." Done. I don't care about wit/w
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by SnowProblem 3y ago
I've never seen a worse-described project than WASI. "Component model interfaces always support link-time interposition." Like WTF does this mean? The repo tells me nothing and I've still yet to see a clear write-up ab

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