lang4d

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by lang4d 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709 one of the Connection Machines is in Jurassic Park. Really neat article!
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by lang4d 6mo ago
Kalshi currently has the chances at 13% for full republican control of congress
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by lang4d 8mo ago
clang-tidy has a check for this case
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by lang4d 10mo ago
I'd be surprised if some combination of ASAN and UBSAN wouldn't catch this and similar dangling references
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by lang4d 1y ago
My go to for formatting would be clang-format, and for testing gtest. For more extensive formatting (that involves the compiler) clang-tidy goes a long way
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by lang4d 2y ago
Do you save photos and messages somewhere?
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by lang4d 2y ago
Should this be 18446744073709551615.org? Is it common to use signed integers for timestamps?
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by lang4d 2y ago
Maybe just semantics, but I think I would call that prediction. Even if you have perfect perception (measuring the current state of the world perfectly), it's nontrivial to predict the future paths of other actors. The prediction probl
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by lang4d 2y ago
Waymo is also in competition with non AV ride sharing companies. They'll need to make it more cost effective and/or (continue to) deliver higher quality rides
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by lang4d 2y ago
That would be one way to silence an unused variable warning
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by lang4d 2y ago
`git bisect run ...` Has been really nice for me when trying to find which which commit broke long running commands. It'll run atomically using the return code for good/bad determination.
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by lang4d 2y ago
Why is it slower compared to a normal list?
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by lang4d 2y ago
The near vacuum on the moon would be tough to construct elsewhere
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by lang4d 2y ago
Hopefully they have a few local benches to iterate on for testing.
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by lang4d 3y ago
I’d imagine contracts with record companies are expensive or difficult to get at a large scale.
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by lang4d 3y ago
I love these sort of debugging stories! It sounds like that timeout would be based on the round trip travel time to the remote host rather than the one way distance, wouldn’t that make a 250 mile cutoff?
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by lang4d 3y ago
> The paper has not been peer-reviewed or published yet. But you can read a preprint version on arXiv, submitted on August 28. Is it common to see these sorts of review articles published before the actual paper is peer reviewed/pub
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by lang4d 3y ago
The main content of the paper is trying to minimize the number of “russian peasant” multiplications that need to be performed. I would say those are the interesting parts. Section 2.3 claims dropping the number of additions by a factor of 6
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by lang4d 3y ago
There are a few companies around the world working on that sort of solution to the public transit problem (called autonomous Personal Rapid Transit), and one or two systems similar to what you’re describing that have been built. Open road a
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by lang4d 3y ago
From Part 3, does malloc(PAGE_SIZE) actually guarantee a single full page is allocated or would the allocation be positioned arbitrarily and stretch across two pages?