ahh

10 ms·

1.
by ahh 3y ago
Psychosomatic illnesses are in fact quite serious, but they require psychological treatment, not lockdowns of society.
2.
by ahh 4y ago
God, do I love working in the finance industry some times.
3.
by ahh 4y ago
Interestingly, Matt has invented a variant on the retpoline [1] which _intentionally_ missteers the branch predictor to prevent various speculative attacks. (Invented by my former Google manager.). It's pretty cool how much simpler a
4.
by ahh 4y ago
> Do they have special interview channels for 'regular devs' and another for people who can write dynamo ? Not special interviews, but certainly different pieces of headcount. There are Googlers and there are Googlers . Bein
5.
by ahh 4y ago
The supersonic speed was the question, not the contrarotation.
6.
by ahh 4y ago
What about the Tu-95? It's famously loud due to (says Wikipedia) supersonic propeller tips. Do you know why they're still effective?
7.
by ahh 4y ago
It's the transition that kills you. Are you doing this full time?
8.
by ahh 4y ago
I don't know anyone whose house has burned down. Should I cancel my home insurance?
9.
by ahh 4y ago
> As far as fining motorists for horn usage, if it works like everywhere else in the US there is no way they could ever actually make good on the fines. Confiscate their cars, problem solved.
10.
by ahh 4y ago
> In 2021, New Yorkers filed the most complaints about engine idling since 2018: 13,489 complaints. The police issued 75 summons in response to complaints, data shows. > Specifically, police issued 14 summonses for excessive vehicle n
11.
by ahh 4y ago
https://research.google/pubs/pub50370/ gives more up to date information, as does the slide deck here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1taP_gqeRE1XGB2td7f32... (We get down to 4%
12.
by ahh 5y ago
You are welcome to advocate for pleasant, humane prisons. Run whatever antirecidivism campaigns you wish there. If they work, that's great. In either case: send people who commit crime to those prisons. If they do it again, send them b
13.
by ahh 5y ago
No, the issue is that we don't have the political will to arrest, prosecute, and imprison criminals, until our societies consist of people who don't commit crime.
14.
by ahh 5y ago
I think you're misinterpreting GP: even though it is true that possession-like crimes are badly handled by the US, you can erase them entirely and the US _still_ has a larger prison population. Our population commits more real crimes t
15.
by ahh 5y ago
That's nice. Feel free to fix the prison system at any time; if the people who come out don't commit more crimes, I'll be happy. In the meantime, imprison the people who do commit crimes, and if they do so again after they&#
16.
by ahh 5y ago
If they spend time in jail after the first time, maybe they won't become a habitual thief.
17.
by ahh 5y ago
Because it's fun, easy, and beats working. Unless we arrest, prosecute, and imprison them. Or punish them other ways; how about flogging? It's arguably both a better deterrent and more humane than prison. Saying "Sure, go a
18.
by ahh 5y ago
If only 1/5th of those prisoners are there for drug-crime (and I assume you believe as I do that much drug-related crime isn't worth the arrest?) then isn't that in fact evidence that our population commits substantially more
19.
Temeraire – Google's hugepage-aware memory allocator(research.google)
4 points by ahh 5y ago|0 comments
20.
by ahh 5y ago
Yeah, but you know what also works? Running perf and running that through normal pprof...
21.
by ahh 5y ago
The causation is backwards! I'm not an alcoholic but I am an anxious wreck. Single best way to make me stop freaking out at a party? Two old fashioneds. I'd prefer to be gregarious and unworried sober, but that's not an optio
22.
by ahh 6y ago
I can confirm we came up with this optimization inside tcmalloc, and our compiler experts nacked it as unsafe, even only calling tightly controlled code. A pity, as it is really beautiful to see the improved clobbering (and even, in some ca
23.
by ahh 6y ago
For string interpolation, check out: https://github.com/janestreet/ppx_string I was just remarking to a coworker Friday how happy this made me; you get to write nice, obvious, readable string expressions with the right
24.
by ahh 6y ago
I'm rather proud of Abseil's implementation: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/887d0eee6bab358472... As I recall another colleague wrote the original version (I do not remember who.) I bitba
25.
by ahh 6y ago
Mostly market driven (I expect there are some regulatory concerns too but I don't know any offhand.) What this means is that there are very few holders of TSLA stock who are willing to lend it compared to the number of people who&#x27
26.
by ahh 6y ago
Is your garage actively ventilated? Mine (in my previous house, I live in an apartment now) was a closed room with a pulldown door (always closed) and a window that didn't open. It's not hermetically sealed, but how confident ar
27.
by ahh 6y ago
Don't get me wrong, I have internet friends. It's just hard to treat them as first-class people compared to those I know in person. It was way easier as a teenager--I didn't have in-real-life friends! Sigh. If you were goi
28.
by ahh 6y ago
Consider the hypothesis you have an anxiety disorder, not introversion. I said I was an introvert for years until repeated evidence (and everyone I know pointing out to me) convinced me that I am just happier, healthier, and have more ener
29.
by ahh 6y ago
Humans don't have emotional object permanence. My ex-girlfriend described herself this way to me once and I thought it was funny, but it's in fact true of people in general: if you're not physically present near them, they wi
30.
by ahh 6y ago
I feel so attacked right now.

More ›