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by akdas 9mo ago
One thing that I've seen implemented to prevent that is to have the pay bands for level N and N+1 overlap. So in the time that you're doing "next level" work, you're expecting to be at the top of your current pay ba
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by akdas 10mo ago
Shameless plug, but I wrote some blog posts because I had a lot of the same questions. In my case, I wanted to learn the WebGL APIs, so I wrote two posts: * https://avikdas.com/2020/07/08/barebones-webgl-in-75
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by akdas 1y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Usually, you'd want to write the new code to a page that you mark as read and write, then switch that page to read and execute. This becomes tricky if the code that's doing the modifying is in the sa
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LLMs are like compilers, sort of(avikdas.com)
1 points by akdas 1y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 2y ago
To expand on this: the "unit" here represents the number of possible values that can be returned. The confusion is probably because "empty" can mean two things: - What's inside the returned value. That may be why
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by akdas 2y ago
The Birth and Death of Javascript. One of my favorites! https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by akdas 2y ago
I recommend reading the previous 3 parts too, plus I'm looking forward to the next parts. I love that it goes into details and very clearly explains the problems and solutions, at least if you're familiar with C and know some thin
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Reflecting on ten years of my personal project(avikdas.com)
1 points by akdas 2y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 2y ago
A while ago, I created an interactive explanation of the different parts of a minimal ELF file: https://scratchpad.avikdas.com/elf-explanation/elf-explanati... I wrote this page for my own compiler that I'm workin
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by akdas 2y ago
I started on two resources on different topics. One day, I want you invest a good amount of time into building them out. https://cstheory.avikdas.com/ https://nesdev.avikdas.com/
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by akdas 3y ago
Thank you! My passion is teaching, and I created interactive visualizations for a CS theory class I taught: https://cstheory.avikdas.com/ If you're interested in collaborating for your classes, reach out to avik at avi
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by akdas 3y ago
Thank you! That means a lot to me
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by akdas 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I replied in a sibling comment about how I made it. For the bug, feel free to email me at avik at avikdas dot com if you'd like. The behavior I verified just now (for me) is that if you click one byte to highli
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by akdas 3y ago
I wrote it all by hand :) Lately, I've been using Svelte for interactive visualizations (see my post on using a tool called Astro with Svelte: https://avikdas.com/2023/12/30/interactive-demos-using-astro.
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by akdas 3y ago
Writing an ELF file by hand is something I did recently: https://github.com/avik-das/garlic/blob/master/recursive/elf... To explain the format to myself and others, I also created an interactive vis
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by akdas 3y ago
All things considered, the GBA is a pretty powerful machine. Running an ARM processor is helpful too, as high-level language compilers that output high-quality ARM code are common. It's for this reason the GBA is one of my favorite mac
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by akdas 3y ago
I absolutely love the "What's In A GIF" series. It's what inspired me to write my own GIF decoder while learning Erlang at the same time: https://github.com/avik-das/giferly The first time around, I
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My Two Semesters of Teaching(avikdas.com)
2 points by akdas 3y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 3y ago
https://avikdas.com A few of my posts on dynamic programming got a fair bit of traction here on HN. I haven't posted in a while, but after a busy few years, I have some posts lined up. I want to reflect on some teaching I d
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by akdas 4y ago
I haven't written in a while, but the first year I started blogging, I set a goal to write at least one article each month for a year. I reflected on it after the 12 months. The highlights: - I got to the front page of HN a few times.
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by akdas 4y ago
> This clearly solves the halting problem (we assumed the existence of halt as the first step of our proof by contradiction). Implementing the halting problem using addition does not assume the existence of halt. It assumes the existence
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Acing the System Design Interview(hiringfor.tech)
2 points by akdas 5y ago|0 comments
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by akdas 5y ago
Adding to this, if you imagine the audience is _you_, then you might feel motivated to write the article you _wished_ you had before embarking on your project. That audience falls under your second one ("another retro renderer enthusia
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by akdas 5y ago
This is a great example of intent vs. impact. Regardless of the intent, the impact was negative. Recognizing how their actions impact the candidate is a huge part of interviewing, and the interviewer should have seen the candidate get nervo
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by akdas 5y ago
What's so interesting about this experience it hits so many of the points I've been complaining about in my writing about hiring in the tech industry[0]: - Giving trick questions that have an "insight" moment, instead
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by akdas 5y ago
I'm defining feminism, as defined in literature such as _Feminism is for Everybody_. It's a pretty objective definition, as these are the grounding principles of the movement. > feminism as a movement isn't really for equa
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by akdas 5y ago
There are a lot of strawman arguments here. I've never heard feminists say any of these things because they are antithetical to the concept of equality for all. I'm a feminist, and asking for men's spaces is something I do. F
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by akdas 5y ago
In a world without gender roles, men (and women and non-binary folks) would be valued just for being human. That is, everyone has value, even if they don't provide "value" (which is subjective and changing anyway) to others.
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by akdas 5y ago
Yes! This was a central point in my previous article "Why men's health depends on feminism" ( https://avikdas.com/2020/11/01/why-mens-health-depends-on-fe... ). You might imagine the type of miso
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by akdas 5y ago
I wasn't sure what kind of response this article would get, so I didn't want to send traffic to MensLib without some further information. I posted the article there already, and I do think that's a great forum. Even then, bas

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