dvirsky

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by dvirsky 2y ago
You can set it to not be diagonal.
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by dvirsky 2y ago
I knew a guy who was selling his art online, he was making tongue-in-cheek, technically bad art but it was very deliberate as part of what he was trying to get at, he had a real artistic vision to his work. His work got picked by MOBA and w
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by dvirsky 2y ago
Dua Lipa has amazing arrangements for example. There is a great podcast called Switched on Pop, which delves into music theory behind pop hits and their songwriting and arrangements, and analyzes them to show what makes them great. It will
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by dvirsky 2y ago
> Antimemetics remains a top 10 all-time though. It's good, but didn't leave that big of an impression on me, maybe because I didn't know all the SCP stuff beforehand, I just liked qntm's other works so I read it.
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by dvirsky 2y ago
I actually think the ending of it really prevented it from being that (at least for me). It started good, then the second act was like "Whoah, this is the most amazing sci-fi I've ever read", then the third act was just all o
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by dvirsky 2y ago
That is the first programming environment I ever used. It was an amazing starting point.
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by dvirsky 2y ago
I know/knew a few, they usually balance things like teaching, magazine writing, maintaining social media accounts for brands, copywriting for ads, and tech jobs.
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by dvirsky 2y ago
IIRC Leonard Cohen started performing his poems as a singer to make a living.
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by dvirsky 2y ago
These are the same trees known as Cum Trees, right? My neighbors have a couple, I didn't know these before moving to the US, and the first time I smelled them was... something.
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by dvirsky 2y ago
I haven't used Linux as a desktop in over 2 years, and I really miss Gnome.
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by dvirsky 2y ago
How is it charging as fast as a charger 3 times more powerful?
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by dvirsky 3y ago
Same here, I actually started to buy some at $30 for the heck of it, but the process to buy then was so involved that I gave up and wanted to get back to it later, and never did.
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by dvirsky 3y ago
Bloom Filters are already lossy compression, so depending on how sparse they are I'm not sure you'll get too much benefit out of it, but maybe I'm just thinking of much, much smaller filters. BTW we ended up open sourcing tha
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by dvirsky 3y ago
One example: I personally used it to deduplicate recently viewed ads in an app, to avoid spamming users with the same ad too much. One interesting challenge there was that we needed to make sure that the client and server encode and decode
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by dvirsky 3y ago
What would happen if a 1g probe traveling at 10% of the speed of light hits an inhabited planet with an atmosphere? The kinetic energy is insane, but will it just burn out in the atmosphere or will it manage to hit the surface and go boom,
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by dvirsky 3y ago
This is pretty great, I used to love this game as a kid. I played it on a PC in the late 80s. Besides being a fun game, it was probably the first game I've played where you could design your own levels, which was awesome, we used to ch
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by dvirsky 3y ago
> It looks like Critque is a branch of Gerrit IIRC Gerrit is an open source re-implementation from scratch of Critique.
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by dvirsky 3y ago
Reminds me of a funny story - the first day at Google (2018) I got a chat from an SVP, I forgot who, saying "Hi!". At first I was blown, wow, what a company! SVPs greeting new engineers! A minute later they were like "oops, m
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by dvirsky 3y ago
This needs 2021 in the title, but it's actually really out of date and might as well have 2011 in the title. Redis has modules which can provide a bunch of extra capabilities that do allow querying, indexing, etc. [Full disclosure: I u
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by dvirsky 3y ago
* When RSS was a thing but in my country a lot of news/content websites hadn't adopted yet, I wrote a service to quickly define scrapers that turn those sites into RSS feeds. * In one of my former workplaces I wrote (alongside ano
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by dvirsky 4y ago
Probably, this conversation took place about 10-15 years ago but I'm guessing these myths persist for years so it might be a relic of the 90s.
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by dvirsky 4y ago
This is totally ridiculous, but a lot of time there is a grain of truth behind some of these myths, that is just diluted by retelling from non technical people. I had a serious musician once tell me that if I rip a recording from a DAT tape
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by dvirsky 4y ago
This has to be the most annoying thing in MacOS. My laptop, soundly sleeping in my backpack, takes over my bluetooth headphones all the time.
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by dvirsky 4y ago
Not using a water flosser as well. It always looked to me like some novelty shopping channel thing. Then I got one and OMG this thing cleans so well, way better than normal flossing (which I was usually to lazy to do anyway).
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by dvirsky 4y ago
Pretty sure the first monitor on my first PC (~1988) was amber, later replaced by black and white that did not "smear" as much so was better for games, and later replaced by a color one (that might have been on a newer PC).
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by dvirsky 4y ago
I feel the same way about a lot of non fiction, but not all. First, there's entertaining/pop non-fiction, like, say, Malcom Gladwell's stuff, which has a lot of fluff but at least you enjoy the reading. There are history book
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by dvirsky 4y ago
Waterpik water flosser! I can't believe I didn't get something like that earlier. It's so effective and useful. Best purchase of the year for sure.
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by dvirsky 4y ago
It's exclusive to Spotify, sadly (didn't use to be) https://open.spotify.com/show/5c26B28vZMN8PG0Nppmn5G
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by dvirsky 4y ago
I'm not following that whole universe so I guess I missed it, I started following him when it was this little podcast interviewing computer scientists about AI, and now it's this huge thing, and I never figured how it went from A
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by dvirsky 4y ago
I listen to a lot of his episodes, but it's always because of the guest. He has amazing guests, no doubt about it.

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