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by uyt 5y ago
As a tech worker with little knowledge about china, the most interesting section for me starts at "A summer storm" where he talks about why/how the government is cracking down on big consumer tech.
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by uyt 5y ago
Seems like he didn't have time to finish Advent of Code this year. I was looking forward to seeing his code for some of the puzzles I struggled with! While there are plenty of other solutions and discussions in the megathreads for each
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by uyt 5y ago
Beware that many masters programs from top schools are degree mills and the undergrads who went there know this and actively loathe them (based on their experience sharing classes with them). At least for my particular school. I remember he
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by uyt 5y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...
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by uyt 5y ago
I think people who are graduating now will have a hard time replicating this. My cohort (now in our early 30s, cs majors from a top school) were incredibly lucky because we were in a permanent bull run so as long as we were invested in almo
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by uyt 5y ago
>renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio Ah that is a good outcome. I pessimistically thought this post was implying that OBS decided to "collaborate" by relenting to huge wads of money and giving up their name. Which would
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by uyt 5y ago
I recently read https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patien... because a random comment mentioned it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468831
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by uyt 5y ago
Since I don't use Find My Phone often enough, my Pixel 3 helpfully decided to remove location permissions from it. Would've been in for a surprise the next time I lose my phone had I not caught the notification.
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by uyt 5y ago
> Kernel developers obsess about speed and performance. The Linux kernel is built using -mregparm=3, which is sometimes called fastcall. I've never messed with calling convention for the sake of performance before so I found this bi
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by uyt 5y ago
> Regardless, we decided weeks ago we’re removing the clause during the next ToS refresh I've seen you reply about ToS issues before (specifically over caching of non-html assets): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by uyt 5y ago
If you're doing AoC you should join the subreddit /r/AdventOfCode: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode There's usually a lot of different solutions (including many in esoteric languages or code
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by uyt 5y ago
I think you can still see scores in search? Or is that only for old comments?
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by uyt 5y ago
I used to have the Acer B326HK (32 inch 4k) which is marketed as a monitor and it still had really bad burn in
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by uyt 5y ago
With 4k monitors you usually pay a larger premium for latency, refresh rate, gsync/freesync, etc. All of which gamers care a lot about but are irrelevant for TVs.
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by uyt 5y ago
Daily two part puzzles, for one star each, 50 stars total. Second part is usually related to the first (but unknown until you solve the first) which makes you refactor or learn to write your code generically the first time. Input is usually
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by uyt 5y ago
If you're the competitive type, http://codeforces.com is also very good. You get an elo rating and they use chess titles (candidate master, master, grandmasters, etc). The lower division generally has around 20k participant
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by uyt 5y ago
I wonder if there's an evolutionary reason for that preference or if this is just an edge case in our rewards system that never mattered until it became heavily exploited by other humans in the modern world.
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by uyt 5y ago
There's actually a current trend called "vtubing" where streamers use a virtual avatar, typically in anime style. Afaict, it's entirely dominated by women streamers (which is the opposite of the regular streaming, where
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by uyt 5y ago
> I do know of two cases of "fake programmers" (...) the person was able to sneak under the radar at Google for multiple years before someone realized that the person never actually wrote any code and tasks only got completed w
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by uyt 5y ago
Lisztomania was actually coined in 1844!
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by uyt 5y ago
I didn't realize this was an American thing until I visited another country (Hong Kong, which is very first world) and the truck actually sped up as I was about to cross instead of slowing down. It was like playing a game of chicken.
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by uyt 5y ago
callgrind/kcachegrind i think?
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by uyt 5y ago
I didn't even realize it was unsolved. I thought it was like flying, where the pilot is only there during take off and landing, and the rest is handled by computers.
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by uyt 5y ago
I even remember seeing her stuff linked to before in the other OnlyFans-related discussions on HN. It was this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fay6parYkrw (this post is way better though)
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by uyt 5y ago
TIL about "bog butter" and half a dozen other culinary terms that I've never heard of. Maybe for good reasons we don't make these food anymore? (banbidh, old curds, real curds, bainne clabair, sowens, flummery, etc)
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by uyt 5y ago
> nor will they ever endorse something like PyPy What's their beef with PyPy?
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by uyt 5y ago
Rentech?
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by uyt 5y ago
Insanely high or insanely low? I actually felt kind of weird that I make more as a software engineer than some of these legit celebrities (not the very top ones of course, but still more than many of the ones I follow or have heard of)
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by uyt 5y ago
If I wanted to know if a site is down for everyone or just me, I would check twitter/hn first before checking the down detector sites
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by uyt 5y ago
Not that I am questioning it, but how do you prove the authenticity of these sorts of videos? Could just hire an actor with a good accent and do some post processing.

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