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by adchari 3y ago
I've done this for a while, increasing the threshold and collecting every time I tab away from an emacs window (setq gc-cons-threshold 100000000) (add-function :after after-focus-change-function 'garbage-collect)
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by adchari 3y ago
I'm unsure if this is true anymore? The ingredient list and information from their website seems to indicate that this is no longer an ingredient (although some of their products do use lanolin/beeswax)
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by adchari 4y ago
Jane Street?
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by adchari 4y ago
They don’t really have to be losing in the long term, being short deep out-of-the-money puts nets you an option premium if the underlying never crashes, and once you delta-hedge that position, you can remove the tail risk from your portfoli
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by adchari 4y ago
To be fair, this book definitely doesn’t start from first principles since UIUC requires several classes before 374 (the class which uses this book). UIUC splits the data structures material into another hands-on class, and introduces discr
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by adchari 4y ago
Compiler Explorer was used to teach some basics of compiler optimization in my computer architecture class a couple of years ago, but the About Me page was the first time I had heard about SWEs working in quantitative finance. I'm star
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by adchari 5y ago
Is this just a threshold secret sharing implementation? Definitely a cool implementation, fun name
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by adchari 5y ago
Enforcing the law becomes a lot harder when a community lacks trust in you, and kids who don't trust police officers turn into adults who don't trust police officers, and teach their children the same thing.
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by adchari 5y ago
How does it actually feel to ride? I feel like the self-balancer may pull away from you more than normal
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by adchari 6y ago
I’m going to chime in despite being a broke college student. I’ve been using ledger for about 2 years now, and daily reconciliation of what I actually spent is more helpful to me than having a budget, or anything else, it forces me to ackno
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by adchari 6y ago
The issue isn’t really the paper (although one can argue that any single use item isn’t ideal), paper coffee cups contain a thin layer of plastic on the inside to prevent leaking, which prevents them from being easily recycled or biodegradi
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by adchari 6y ago
Maybe I can offer an interesting perspective. Compared to most readers on this site, I’m likely on the younger side, I’m 20, at a university, and I’ve been programming since I was ~14. I used VS Code for the majority of my freshman year ass
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by adchari 6y ago
Garbage collection is also limited, you can still effectively create “memory leaks” if you hold a reference to something you’re not longer using.
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by adchari 6y ago
It’s not that the language is different, it’s that the default is stupid. It’s much more likely that if I’m trying to concatenate a string and a function, I’ve mistyped something, not that I want the source code of the function. You can alw
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by adchari 6y ago
Emacs absolutely overuses it, every time you scroll to the end or beginning of a file it beeps.
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by adchari 6y ago
For reference, the University of Illinois CS department, which has a significant number of international students, is having synchronous online lectures for 95% of the courses offered this semester. If you were in India/China, you woul
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by adchari 6y ago
US schools can't exactly support all those American students without income, and international students are that source of income. My university (UIUC) heavily relies on international student tuition to provide facilities, pay teachers
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by adchari 6y ago
Thinkpad, or XPS 13/15 have good Linux support. I run Manjaro on my X1 Yoga, and I’ve heard the T line is really sturdy
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by adchari 6y ago
Even as a college student, same. My quality of learning has seriously gone down the hill without the same access to my peers for homework and projects
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by adchari 6y ago
I fully support this, Harvard has definitely committed some questionable acts recently. However, Ivy League schools in general are well known for their prestige, and they usually have a rather high quality of education in most subjects. Why
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by adchari 6y ago
But they're a lot easier to group together than any other races. Like most other races, they have similar cultural values (parents/family is the most important thing, education is a close second), they have some shared experience
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by adchari 6y ago
The top performer attributes are also interesting, the majority of Asian immigrants come to the US with a technical job, resulting in children who tend to succeed in similar subjects and overall, as their parents are an easy role model, and
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by adchari 6y ago
While self learning tools is obviously a useful skill, it's also nice to have someone experienced give you a full overview of how things work. For example, I learned how to use a shell on my own, but learned a lot of features I didn&#x
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by adchari 6y ago
There are lotss of responses here advising Ubuntu to teach Linux skills. I'd like to put in a vote for Manjaro instead: The automatic driver detection when you install it can be handy, the Arch repositories are easier to use and includ
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by adchari 6y ago
This might be due to a potential looming recession from the pandemic.
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by adchari 6y ago
The University of Illinois requires TOEFL and in person English language interviews before a TA or professor from a foreign country is allowed to teach any section. Students still face similar issues, due to accents and the fact that fluenc
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by adchari 6y ago
Cost for tests can be waived using exam vouchers, even for the subject tests. I think the actual factor would be preparation time/cost of other resources, which can be either really small or thousands of dollars for a test prep course.
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by adchari 7y ago
Honestly, I haven't found a need for it yet. I am a student studying CS, and none of my coursework really requires heavy memorization for exams or assignments. For the most part, even if I need to remember some algorithm, it is simple
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by adchari 7y ago
University of Illinois also runs an online MCS program, similar to the Georgia Tech one. The curriculum is very comparable to the on-campus degree, and is supposed to take 2 years or less, I believe
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by adchari 7y ago
Are these online Master's programs with a thesis or solely based on coursework?

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