tomerv

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by tomerv 4y ago
Something like this? http://tom7.org/zelda/
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by tomerv 4y ago
I think that's a common misunderstanding about who owns what in a marriage. I'll quote Matt Levine on this: One thing that I find a little weird about the Bezos divorce is that there are a lot of claims that it will make MacKenzie
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by tomerv 4y ago
The incentive to do what exactly? Break up a good marriage to get half of the common assets (minus many many expenses)? How is that better in any way?
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by tomerv 4y ago
In Haifa (Israel) there was a staircase race a few years ago, from sea level to the top of the city going up more than 1000 stairs. One version of this was doing it over and over so that the total is the height of the Everest. I'm pret
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by tomerv 4y ago
All the other answers in the thread focus on maximizing head-to-head score. I'll try to answer the question for the goal of greedily maximizing your own score. Using the same definitions from the article, we now have (for a 2 person ga
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by tomerv 4y ago
The path with that label is blocked unless the condition is fulfilled. I don't think it relies on any prior knowledge (at least nothing specific I can think of)
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by tomerv 4y ago
On the contrary, it should be on by default for every build configuration! If you move to a newer compiler version and the compilation breaks, then you just saved yourself valuable debugging time. The alternative is that the new compiler ha
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by tomerv 4y ago
That really depends on the local culture. Don't Assume all cultures are like yours.
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by tomerv 4y ago
GP had a typo, it's 109 houses.
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by tomerv 4y ago
> Musk signed a contract with an exit clause. There are some exit clauses (like Musk not getting financing from his banks) but they don't apply here. Specifically, there's no exit clause for the bot percentage. > If it was a
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by tomerv 4y ago
The music is top-notch, especially the timing of the drums with the presentation!
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by tomerv 4y ago
> Breastfed children tend to have less stomachaches. Maybe on average, but specific cases can vary wildly. Some foods that the breastfeeding mother consumes can cause issues. Milk, soy, and caffeine are known troublemakers - but good luc
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by tomerv 4y ago
It's already in the article.
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by tomerv 4y ago
Follow-up question: what if other countries follow suit, especially ones that don't use a Latin-based alphabet? Egypt is formally called "جمهورية مصر العربية" in its native language - should that be recorded as the ISO Full n
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by tomerv 4y ago
Turkey -> Türkiye
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by tomerv 4y ago
http://regex.inginf.units.it/extract/
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by tomerv 4y ago
Same here. In fact I lost my 1000+ day streak 2 months ago (a newborn will do that to you) and haven't done a single Duolingo lesson since then. However, I did replace it with another app called DuoCards (no relation to Duolingo, AFAIC
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by tomerv 4y ago
> If you are OK with Texas leaving the union, then you are entitled to support Taiwan independence. That just doesn't make any sense.
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by tomerv 4y ago
Now I'm curious to know what's the state of the art for open addressing implementations in C++.
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by tomerv 4y ago
There's a link in the article to a paper (N2023) proving this is not constant time. The issue is that as you delete elements, and the hash table becomes sparse, finding the next nonempty bucket is not so fast. However, I believe that t
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by tomerv 4y ago
This can happen anywhere, not only on software. I once bought a set of 10 or so entries to a climbing wall. Some time later I wanted to use it and was told that it was no longer valid. There was no "valid by" date on the card, but
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by tomerv 4y ago
+1 > skipping all the chimneys, vents and fans needed to remove the smoke from the kitchens. Every kitchen needs ventilation, even if it's fully electric. And if a restaurant is doing a lot of frying this ventilation needs to go som
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by tomerv 4y ago
> it has been trained to produce high-quality outputs, not to ensure the validity of mappings. Just nitpicking here a bit. It has been trained to ensure the validity of mappings, but only for mappings of valid prompts, where "valid&
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by tomerv 4y ago
I hate it, it has a terrible aftertaste for me.
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by tomerv 4y ago
This describes the issue with PRNGs based on a Linear Congruential Generator. The issues are resolved by using a Mersenne Twister instead, which is the standard PRNG used today basically everywhere.
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by tomerv 4y ago
I had to stop in the middle of the article due to all the annoying animations. But something that stood out to me is this: > For consequences, I came up with a three strikes and you are out rule. and then > I wasn’t ready to inform th
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by tomerv 4y ago
Is it really a compiler bug if the root cause is in library code?
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by tomerv 4y ago
I use Firefox Focus on my phone (opens links from apps in a private session - generally a great idea!) and always get this 5 second delay (which is often actually 10 or more seconds). I never considered that it's a Firefox-only thing!
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by tomerv 4y ago
When will you open the option to order to Israel? We haven’t opened ordering in your region yet, but we’re looking forward to getting there! We can notify you when ordering opens:
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by tomerv 4y ago
That's exactly the kind of thing that would cause everyone to lose confidence in a coin.

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