salamanderman

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by salamanderman 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickselect
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by salamanderman 2mo ago
I almost tanked an interview, and luckily turned it around, when the interviewer had never heard of QuickSelect and thought I was insane when I started writing it.
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by salamanderman 8mo ago
Hey fellow nerds, never forget that your inventions will be turned into a weapon. We must always consider how dangerous that weapon will be. And there you go, generative AI being used by an authoritarian government to slander and defame pol
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by salamanderman 8mo ago
Da iawn!
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by salamanderman 9mo ago
"A 100% Rust kernel is now upstream in Linux 7.4" paired with "Is it time to rewrite sudo in Zig?" is great.
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by salamanderman 10mo ago
Yes, after the ship was already screwed, they moved the ship to the far side of a small island where the winds would be slowed and the waves would be smaller. Unfortunately, their depth maps were inaccurate and the water wasn't deep en
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by salamanderman 10mo ago
I think the post gives an answer to this with "due to Zig's fairly minimalistic nature; it lacks a lot of features that one would otherwise use to solve problems. Of course, this is the appeal for many, but still". I have a
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by salamanderman 10mo ago
I assume you thought the "hurricane west wind" line from the song was exaggerated. The winds down the middle of the lake, in certain seasons, are 80mph.
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by salamanderman 11mo ago
I'm pretty certain I read of people doing this in cycling tournaments.
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by salamanderman 1y ago
I've heard parents say they "got a 504 and then had to pay a lawyer to enforce it" so many times. I just hate the idea of being forced into such an adversarial relationship with the school. In my life, any time we start talki
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by salamanderman 1y ago
Nice, I got my upside down penis fish past the filter! Although, once it was swimming it did look very much like a fancy guppy. I don't think anyone would recognize it, but I still feel smug about "beating" the machine.
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by salamanderman 1y ago
As hard as I tried to add fish characteristics, it knew what I was doing.
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by salamanderman 1y ago
Agreeing with you, and connecting it to the link, my parents talk about their childhood as basically being feral. You had multiple kids in the house who entertained/babysat each other (possibly by beating each other up, but whatever) a
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by salamanderman 1y ago
Breadth-first is a queue. Depth-first is a stack. A* is a priority queue.
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by salamanderman 1y ago
Bisection search the game, but honestly was fun to play with my partner multiple times.
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by salamanderman 1y ago
Moving preconditions up depends what the definition of precondition is. There's some open source code I've done a deep dive in (Open cascade) and at some point they had an algorithm that assumed the precondition that the input was
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by salamanderman 1y ago
UC Berkeley does this too. Nobody told us freshman, and in my very first class we were all dutifully early, wondering where the professor was, and at 8 minutes after the hour the whole lecture hall was wondering if we needed to bail. Then t
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by salamanderman 1y ago
If I were doing this, I would have the system generate the image, and then I would have it run a secondary estimate saying "probability that this is a picture of [list of characters that Disney has given us reference input for]".
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by salamanderman 2y ago
Well, the answers are simple. Congressmen and senators, and sometimes presidents (Orion was George W's baby), demand that NASA spend money on stupid shit that NASA doesn't actually want to spend money on, and also demands that NAS
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by salamanderman 2y ago
So, journaling, which is already known to be a healthy practice. It begs the question, though, why publish it if it's just for you? Just write it.
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by salamanderman 2y ago
I can't tell for sure if the "ironically" refers to it feeling ironic that Facebook didn't collude, or that Pixar did collude. If it's the latter, it's because Jobs was CEO and primary shareholder of Pixar and
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by salamanderman 2y ago
Peter Pauper Press is my go to notebook. They aren't elegant in their simplicity like a Moleskin but they are lovely and very functional.
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by salamanderman 2y ago
It really is mostly empirical, especially since any real system has limits on the amount of proportional, derivative, or integral control authority you can apply. Still, every controls student is taught Zeigler Nichols, and are simultaneous
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by salamanderman 3y ago
My recollection when trying to find a Google Reader alternative was that there was no free alternative. Everything at the time that I found had been a premium alternative to Reader before it shut down.
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by salamanderman 3y ago
The author should check out the 2013 Edgar Wright movie The World's End, pointing out the growing uniformity of local pubs. Also, it has awesome fight scenes.
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by salamanderman 3y ago
I had a frustrating number of job interviews in my early career where the interviewers didn't know what realtime actually was. That "and predictable delay" concept from the article frequently seemed to be lost on many folks,
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by salamanderman 3y ago
me too [EDIT: and I totally empathized]
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by salamanderman 3y ago
I'd guess SVG. It's not a complex integral. They can do a boolean intersection in SVG.
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by salamanderman 3y ago
This should be the top comment.
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by salamanderman 4y ago
Maybe at first it was a sane reason like this. When we were having a kid, though, we were definitely told by reputable sources (like an obgyn) not to feed the kid peanuts in any form until 3 years old. We decided that the bureaucracy of wha

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