ajbonkoski

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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
Did the N64 have an MMU? I guess so, COP0. I wouldn't have guessed that.
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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
Yes to this a thousand times. I firmly believe the framers of the constitution would be horrified by this law. This should have been killed a long time ago.
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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
I've used i3 for years. It's an absolute love affair. I used Xmonad and awesomewm before. I don't understand enough Haskell to configure Xmonad and awesomewm is a giant dependency mess (the irony being that it's a fork o
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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
Bad reporting, just go read the paper directly. They busted the coin example. I was super confused by it because it suffers from classic AM-GM inequality mistake. I doubted that Peters would make such a trivial mistake (he didn't). He
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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
This. Value investing is characterized by "long-term performance". Looking at a single month to make this argument is kinda silly.
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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
Stopped reading at: "In the past week or so, fortunes have reversed. Technology stocks have sold off. Value stocks have rallied, as prospects for a coronavirus vaccine raise hopes of a quick return to a normal economy. This might be th
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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
This gets at the heart of one of my big gripes about how we talk about engineering and technology. Often a fancy new thing is introduced with a very long list of pros: "fast, scalable, flexible, safe". Rarely, is a list of cons in
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by ajbonkoski 6y ago
Rookie mistake: It's not just about the FLOPS, the interconnect matters too. There is a reason why everyone builds super computers in a large local cluster. It's so they can have a high-bandwidth low-latency interconnect between a
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by ajbonkoski 7y ago
I would define simplicity as "the approach that minimizes cognitive load while meeting all other objectives" I would hope that people with the same objectives would agree on simplicity for that domain. Examples: Need a lot of mach
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by ajbonkoski 7y ago
(sigh) They're comparing averages, so the whole theory is suspect. Averages are a terrible way to do a comparison. Averages aren't terribly useful unless you know that your data is Gaussian (or a sum of IID Random Variable => s
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by ajbonkoski 7y ago
This a load of nonsense FUD. It's all sensationalism in response to the current political climate. He'd be singing a completely different song at the height of Obama's presidency. Even the language and word choices are FUD: &
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by ajbonkoski 8y ago
You believe or you know? Nothing I've read suggests that. Please don't advance ideas like that without giving proper justification; this is exactly how myths start.
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by ajbonkoski 8y ago
Reading the mailing list end-to-end actually shows how much research Tim did before designing it. To suggest that the "academics" had no clue is extremely disingenuous. Worse, it misleads the next generation of great would-be algo
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by ajbonkoski 9y ago
I don't get articles like this.. they seem to miss the bigger point. Typically there are two modes in my computing: (1) Scripting / Command-line get stuff done and throw-away, and (2) Serious applications that are heavily used, ne
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by ajbonkoski 10y ago
Page 4 summarizes all that really needs to be said here: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf Knight didn't have a proper risk system. A correct risk system is a dead-man switch. There i
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by ajbonkoski 11y ago
"The tradeoff for the bad hours/pay is that you'll get more autonomy in your work and the ability to really influence the product. To me, this is why you should work for a startup." I'm beginning to really hate hear
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by ajbonkoski 11y ago
"we have a particular use-case where we have a large contiguous array with, say, 100,000 lines and 1000 columns" This is where they lost me. This is NOT a lot of data. Should we be surprised that memory-mapping works well here? Be
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by ajbonkoski 11y ago
This is so broken. The author describes front-running and then goes on to conflate that with arbitrage. Those aren't the same thing! The only thing the author gets right is that neither are a consequence of HFT, they can happen at any
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by ajbonkoski 11y ago
Argh, I really dislike this article. It spreads a LOT of misinformation: 1) His friend did NOT write a bytecode interpretor, he wrote a bytecode compiler: there is a HUGE difference between those two. 2) No, it wasn't faster tha
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by ajbonkoski 12y ago
Well, I'm always a little baffled when I see such great techniques for rejecting potentially awesome candidates. Why overthink a toy example? The only purpose served by fizzbuzz is to weed out people who can't write any code. If
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Are buffer-overflows solved yet? A historical tale.(jabsoft.io)
3 points by ajbonkoski 13y ago|0 comments
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Why C still matters in 2013: a simple example(jabsoft.io)
8 points by ajbonkoski 13y ago|0 comments