plesner

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by plesner 2y ago
This post was actually partly inspired by a HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426666 .
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by plesner 2y ago
Their model of scripts and mindlessness is only one of many possible explanations of the behavior they're seeing. And I don't even know where to start with the sending letters to random doctors thing. Is this actually a thing that
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by plesner 2y ago
If someone on my team or in my company proposed to break most of our python code for no substantial reason, unless they were pretty junior I would count that as a real red flag against their judgement. How do people land on the python steer
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by plesner 2y ago
I'm very ready to believe your description of the state of python is true but I've been out of the loop on python for a while. I'm interested in more details. Can you expand or point to any articles that give more details?
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by plesner 2y ago
It's a diphthong though. Same as the difference between George (roughly dzo:rdz) and Geörge (roughly dze:ordz).
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by plesner 2y ago
> I think blaming DEI hires for problems is mostly people who don't like the idea of hiring based on race/gender/etc. and who also realize that if you do that hard enough, you're bound to get inferior people because y
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by plesner 2y ago
There seemed to me to be a clear shift in focus from CrowdStrike to Microsoft somewhere along the way, maybe a little while after George Kurz' message. I was wondering if it was either spin or the media collectively deciding that peopl
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by plesner 2y ago
How much of a politician's time is taken up by making public statements of the type this kind of legislation covers? At least for someone in power, surely only a small part. If we can't trust politicians to tell the truth in publi
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by plesner 2y ago
It makes a lot of sense to not care about a slight amount of drift. But that already exists: that's what TAI is. Why make UTC into another TAI just slightly offset? Why not just switch to TAI? Or, if the 37 second difference between UT
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by plesner 2y ago
I implemented a slight variation of this a while back which worked as described up to 11110xxx but then a prefix byte of 11111xxx meant a payload of 64*2^xxx bits. So 11111000 is followed by a 64-bit value, 11111001 by a 128-bit, up to 1111
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by plesner 2y ago
This is a fine introduction to automata-based regexps but the framing of comparing "good" automata with "bad" perl-style is misguided. Automata and perl-style regexps are different beasts and solve different problems. Th
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by plesner 3y ago
Future + Germany = Hitler Plant + Germany = Beer Flower + Germany = Hitler (Harsh!)
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by plesner 3y ago
Some interesting finds. Future + Time = Present (with a gift icon) Present + Present = Gift (So it's using the words not the concepts) Paradox + Snowman = Yeti (Makes sense) Arnold Schwarzenegger + Narwhal = Shwarzenwhaler (Shwarzenwha
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12 Days of Curtsmas(youtube.com)
1 points by plesner 3y ago|0 comments
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Denmark's biggest union joins strike against Tesla(dr.dk)
8 points by plesner 3y ago|3 comments
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by plesner 3y ago
Babbage's analytical engine used a form of microcode ~100 years earlier. Complex operations such as multiplication and division were implemented by lower-level instructions encoded as a series of pegs on a rotating barrel. Each micro-i
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by plesner 3y ago
This is an intricate API that is likely to require an intricate implementation just to be correct. But correctness won't be enough, the JEP requires the JIT to implement some complex optimizations. I could use some reflections around:
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by plesner 4y ago
Author her. I didn't run benchmarks. I'm suspicious of micro-benchmarks and I don't have a context where I can try it against realistic data. Also, I just enjoy the maths of it even if it turns out not to make a huge performa
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by plesner 5y ago
I came across iranian classical music by accident years ago and keep coming back to it in a way I don't even with western classical music (I'm european). It's beautiful, highly skilled, passionate, and very much its own thing
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by plesner 6y ago
Could you not just do sum(byteVals) + sum(intVals) + 128 * len(intVals)?
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by plesner 7y ago
It's possible to be both unfairly targeted by a superpower and commit sexual assault, one doesn't cancel out the other. I'm not saying he did, I don't know how any of us could know. You seem quite confident he didn'
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by plesner 7y ago
They're not ridiculous taxes, they more or less match the immediate cost to society of private car ownership: maintaining the road networks, health care for people involved in accidents or sick because of pollution, etc. If car owners
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by plesner 7y ago
Implied sarcasm and irony is a troll's game. Not to imply that the poster is a troll, I have no reason to think that, but that's why I never assume sarcasm if it's not explicitly stated.
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by plesner 7y ago
No he doesn't, that is not what fiduciary responsibility means. See https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...
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by plesner 8y ago
I conducted many interviews while I worked at google and I wouldn't trust anyone who tells you the interview situation as one particular, well-defined, thing. Individual interviewers have their own style, approach, goals. Even if peopl
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by plesner 8y ago
Can you expand on this? What makes you sure these predictions won't come true?
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Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C [pdf](nature.com)
14 points by plesner 8y ago|15 comments
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by plesner 8y ago
Babbage's notes describe what we would call branch-if-zero and branch-if-negative instructions which you could use to implement repetition. Control flow was the least well developed part of the instruction set though, presumably becaus
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by plesner 8y ago
Will agriculture go on easily though? If you look at just two effects, increased variability of the weather and loss of arable land because of rising sea levels, how do those alone not lead to lower output and greater insecurity?
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Daniel Day-Lewis is not a man, but a work of art(theguardian.com)
2 points by plesner 8y ago|0 comments

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