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by tomtung 4y ago
Ah I have "fond" memories about once spending a good week debugging this, because I was also spawning threads/sub-processes in the loop, making this a Heisenbug that caused the program to crash every hour or so...
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by tomtung 4y ago
FWIW, some religious/cult people do donate their kidneys: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kidney-cult-en...
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by tomtung 4y ago
So true. This is one reason why I really miss my Pebble watch with its physical buttons, which allowed me to perform a lot of operations by touch without looking (e.g., play/pause/forward/rewind for media control). In compari
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by tomtung 4y ago
That would probably be a popular book given how well A.G. Martinez's Chaos Monkeys has sold.
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by tomtung 4y ago
My previous employer used something very similar: either adding small features or fixing known bugs of a past build of some open source software in 1-1.5hrs. We prepared one such interview question for each supported language (C++, Python,
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by tomtung 4y ago
Agree. Not sure how much could be blamed on the poorly written dialogs. In contrast, for example, Witcher 3 was so engagingly written that I never minded the procedurally animated dialog scenes.
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by tomtung 4y ago
L.A. Noire from 2011(!)
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Alan Kay: What paradigm is the successor to OOP?(declarative.quora.com)
2 points by tomtung 4y ago|0 comments
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by tomtung 4y ago
The rules are more clearly depicted on page 4, with different variations depicted on the pages following that. Looks fairly straightforward to implement. Until this is more widely available "officially", I'll probably just ha
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SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure (even for milder cases)(nature.com)
20 points by tomtung 5y ago|8 comments
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by tomtung 5y ago
The article didn't shy away from the potential conflict of interest: > Adding fuel to the mistrust, though, is the role of the EcoHealth Alliance’s Daszak. His close ties with Shi’s lab and his role as a member of the WHO mission’s
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Story behind the book cover design of Introduction to Algorithms(quora.com)
5 points by tomtung 5y ago|0 comments
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Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy(technologyreview.com)
9 points by tomtung 5y ago|5 comments
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by tomtung 5y ago
One method I've seen used to motivate people to move away from deprecated API is: after deprecation is announced, in addition to print a length warning message, also add a thread-sleep call, with the sleep length gradually increasing o
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Quora Programming Challenge 2022(quora.com)
2 points by tomtung 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomtung 5y ago
Totally agree. There's an inherent tension between protecting the freedom of speech and the potential harm that speech might cause. The current incentive structure motivates people to say the most click-baity outlandish things without
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by tomtung 5y ago
> the one thing I appreciated about FB/Meta's recruiters is that they were always honest about the process and what was expected - 2-3 Leetcode mediums/hards in 45 minutes and they only care about optimal solutions A count
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by tomtung 5y ago
> China also don't care to understand the west one bit. China has zero cultural understand about anything beyond its borders Well, consider how many people in China have learned English, can read articles / online discussions i
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by tomtung 5y ago
I really hope they also do gaming laptops with Nvidia GPUs. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
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by tomtung 5y ago
> What's his endgame? Buy time until the the pandemic burns out (if it does)? Yep that's my understanding. Or if enough time has passed since vaccination to convince them that the vaccines are safe.
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by tomtung 5y ago
Anecdotally, my unvaccinated roommate is Chinese, holds a PhD degree in a very difficult field, and works as a researcher in a FAANG company. I was very surprised to learn that they were unwilling to get vaccinated. They are actually very w
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New Quora Subscription Products(quorablog.quora.com)
1 points by tomtung 5y ago|0 comments
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How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?(quora.com)
286 points by tomtung 5y ago|198 comments
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WHO scientists: NYT misquoted us to fit a prescribed narrative(twitter.com)
79 points by tomtung 6y ago|69 comments
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A Fearful Asymmetry: Covid-19 and America’s Information Deficit with China(apjjf.org)
5 points by tomtung 6y ago|0 comments
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SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019(doi.org)
541 points by tomtung 6y ago|449 comments
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by tomtung 7y ago
The link I provided (their documentation page) is the demo page. The source code is at https://github.com/docsifyjs/docsify/tree/master/docs which is a single static index.html that renders a bunch of ma
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by tomtung 7y ago
I've been enjoying using a similar tool called docsify[1], which is a static page that renders markdown files in browser. Basically as self-contained as Markdeep / TeXMe but more flexible. [1] https://docsify.js.org&#x2
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by tomtung 7y ago
Also not the author, but if you want minimum hassle and don't care most of the blog-like features, you can: - Write in Markdown using your favorite editor (I like Typora[1]; StackEdit[2] is also great) - Render them in-browser with Doc
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Andrew Yang answers policy questions in Quora session(yang2020.live)
2 points by tomtung 7y ago|1 comments

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