sirclueless

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by sirclueless 1y ago
I don't think it's absurd at all. I think it is a practical principle that shows up all the time in collective action problems. For example, suppose hypothetically there were a bunch of business owners who operated under an author
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by sirclueless 3y ago
Like every other decision SBF would prefer you not examine: It fits because the ends justify the means. It's important for the business that the insurance fund is safe. If you look closely you will find that it is unsafe. But if people
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by sirclueless 3y ago
I don't really understand the analogy. Mechanical watches have created an industry of skilled practitioners trained to fix them because they often need diagnosis and repair. NASA has a room full of oncall personnel available for many h
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by sirclueless 3y ago
It's especially hard because the stdlib changes quite a lot still. Examples go out of date so adding documentation like this is not just one-time work. I am working my way through learning the language and it's not uncommon to fin
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by sirclueless 3y ago
> E.g. if A patents X and some large company B wants to use X and A refuses, then B cannot use X even if they offer millions. How does this situation improve in any way if X is a trade secret? Under what circumstance would company A be w
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by sirclueless 4y ago
That may be true but people here aren't talking about firing the bottom 10% of ICs, they're talking about firing "50% of Google".
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by sirclueless 5y ago
While that's true, I'd be very surprised if git delta-compressed the commit objects themselves. Changing a commit to point at a different tree wouldn't impact the delta-compressed packings of any file blobs, it would just cha
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by sirclueless 5y ago
I just follow a couple YouTubers who make videos about it. For example: William Lin - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKuDLsO0Wwef53qdHPjbU2Q Errichto - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBr_Fu6q9i
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by sirclueless 5y ago
These things really aren't so far apart. --> solve the problem / see a problem \ --> exploit the problem
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by sirclueless 5y ago
As someone who occasionally watches competitive programming for fun (and competitive programming is basically competitive whiteboard interviewing) it gives me quite a bit of perverse pleasure that even in languages with great first-class cl
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by sirclueless 5y ago
> Granted, the file that the commit touches would need to be not touched in other commits. That's not how git works. The commit contains the entire tree. You could prepare two separate repositories such that `git checkout deadbeef00
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by sirclueless 5y ago
Every commit references every file. If you change the content of an old commit you would only affect people who check out the old commit. So this is utterly pointless and not what someone would do. Instead what you would do is attempt to ma
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by sirclueless 5y ago
Commits aren't patches. They contain the whole tree. Retroactively changing a commit can't possibly introduce conflicts with other commits on top of it, the worst it can do is introduce big funny-looking diffs.
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by sirclueless 5y ago
The point isn't to authenticate control of an account, it's to tie the account to some kind of expensive-to-replicate real-world cost, ideally one that most potential customers are already paying for. Phone numbers are nice becaus
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by sirclueless 6y ago
The DMCA has a couple major parts. The part most people are familiar with deals with safe harbor provisions and "DMCA takedowns". The relevant part for this discussion makes it illegal to circumvent digital access-control technolo
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by sirclueless 6y ago
Usually complaints like this have more to do with the social processes around coding than the actual task of storing and versioning source code (which as you say is portable and standard). "I want to make a change to a shared library.
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by sirclueless 7y ago
I haven't figured out whether the C I learned was poison. I often wish I could intuit Haskell without translating everything to imperative in my head, because of how cleanly many complex things can be expressed. On the other hand, pret
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by sirclueless 7y ago
Authorization has a common English definition too. If, for example, an employee's credentials were compromised, anyone who wasn't that employee who accessed the database would be considered "without authorization". And c
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by sirclueless 8y ago
Pretty incredible that it's survived decades and multiple iterations of the game, and you can still pick it up and buy your trusty AK or M4 and play essentially the same game from decades ago.
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by sirclueless 8y ago
Yeah, for sure. The flood is one of my most vivid memories in gaming (and I didn't even play the game until years after it had come out, around Halo 3 days I think). Many games since (including Destiny) have tried to recreate that feel
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by sirclueless 8y ago
There's a related corollary to this question though, which is whether systems that require less human memory enable you to remember other things better. For example, your phone can dial dozens or hundreds of your friend's phones w
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by sirclueless 8y ago
I think people who say other languages "just don't get it right" are living in a fantasy world. At the end of the day, Smalltalk is a pretty extreme language. The insistence that, e.g., every integer value is an object that c
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by sirclueless 8y ago
The basics are easy. A rudimentary normal mode with HJKL for movement is not hard. Block-select, sensible paragraph hops, copy/paste registers, repeatable macros, etc. is much harder to get right, and rough corners there can be a deal-
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by sirclueless 8y ago
Inadequate clothing is not a protected class under the Civil Rights Act. Hence there are major legal differences between refusing to serve a person because they are black, and refusing to serve a person because they are shirtless.
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by sirclueless 8y ago
The reporter doesn't make any claims like that. The word "prove" or "proof" don't appear at all. Instead they say, "The findings do not support the learning styles concept," and "Student grade pe
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by sirclueless 8y ago
This is why your choice of threshold matters. Your strategy should be to choose a threshold randomly from any distribution that is non-zero everywhere (such as a normal distribution), then choose a hand uniformly at random. Choosing zero as
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by sirclueless 8y ago
You can do better than that. You can guarantee there is > 50% chance you win on the first guess.
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by sirclueless 8y ago
You're exclusively borrowing res_a, res_b and res_c for the lifetime of the scheduler. Which works fine since res_a, res_b and res_c are hard-coded variables with separate lifetimes. What rust doesn't know how to do is borrow muta
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by sirclueless 8y ago
The problem is that schedule() needs to mutate result asynchronously at some point in the future. It can't do this if result is a mutable reference, since it needs to return immediately so borrowing a reference doesn't work. It al
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by sirclueless 8y ago
I don't think this is just about being more or less verbose. It's about the awkward ways it contorts the ways you write programs. For example, in C++ you might write an asynchronous job scheduler with an API like the following: vo

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