tanx16

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by tanx16 9mo ago
Here's a fun older thread on a similar topic - SVG is Turing Complete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20980837
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by tanx16 1y ago
I run Wireguard in combination with Pi-Hole so I can VPN into my home network to configure anything I need. DuckDNS if you’re on a dynamic DNS provider. It’s also nice to have this since you can get the adblocking when away from home.
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by tanx16 2y ago
> We’re also bolstering our security team, and have hired a new senior security engineer. Is there a reason why you don’t have any security-specific positions open on your careers site?
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by tanx16 2y ago
Yes, I'm mostly making fun of the fact that this extremely wealthy investor is pointing at the elderly (who likely have a higher percentage of their retirement saved in bonds and less-volatile investments) and distracting everyone from
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by tanx16 2y ago
> "Another issue with all the 'BS' jobs in large corporations is that it takes profits away from shareholders who are most often the pensioners and retirement accounts of the rest of America," he said. "...they a
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by tanx16 3y ago
The growth of LA was also kickstarted by the 1906 SF earthquake, which burnt down ~80% of SF. If you look at the population graph of LA, it tripled between 1900 and 1910, probably due to the relocation of so many people from SF to LA. Here
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by tanx16 3y ago
Our team went with a similar approach when refactoring Protobuf debug APIs ( https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6405366705946624/fixing-d... ). People were relying on debug output and trying to parse it, so in the n
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by tanx16 3y ago
In defense of the companies that do this - making native apps is extremely expensive compared to just using Electron. If you want to have a native app for Mac and Windows and a website, that's 3 separate frontends that you have to prop
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by tanx16 3y ago
It also supports exactly 1 external display.
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by tanx16 3y ago
It's funny how the article entirely skips the possibility of traveling by train, which just shows how terrible the typical intercity transit option in Asia/Europe is entirely ignored due to the lack of infrastructure in the US. Am
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by tanx16 3y ago
In the particular project I was talking about (see https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs170/sp20/assets/project/sp... for a similar project) a solution is to reduce the problem to SAT and feed it into a SAT
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by tanx16 3y ago
This is… not true. CS170 specifically teaches about reducing NP problems to SAT (you can find this in the Algorithms textbook linked in the class syllabus). I recall solving one of the projects by using MiniSat after converting a problem to