whywhywhydude

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by whywhywhydude 2y ago
How does this discount efficient market hypothesis? You can find plenty of examples of people buying 2$ lottery tickets and becoming millionaires.
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by whywhywhydude 2y ago
Because it’s one of the biggest tech companies and its results foreshadow earnings for other tech companies. Just look at the after hours price movements of most of the tech stocks.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Perhaps you are using the wrong language. You should probably just stick with python or javascript where they just have simple lists and maps and pretty much nothing else.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Unfortunately, python garbage collector messes up copy on write. Here’s a blog from instagram on how they fixed it - https://instagram-engineering.com/copy-on-write-friendly-pyt...
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
If you have a non trivial application, multiprocessing just takes a lot of memory. Every child process that you create duplicates the parent memory. There are some interesting hacks like gc.freeze that exploits the copy on write feature of
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Blind is even worse than Glassdoor. Last I checked, it had some kind of weird restriction about if you are not in a big tech or a well known startup, you can’t see any reviews.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
I know there are already guns that have fingerprint unlock feature. I wonder if the US constitution allows states to require such fingerprint unlock on all new guns.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
It’s certainly possible. Wikipedia is free. It won’t be too hard to replicate wikipedia’s model to create a Reddit replica.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Going a step further, I think google should stop crawling websites that are paywalled. When I search for something, I want to see results that I can click on. Not some snippets from NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg and others which are heavily paywalled
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
I wonder why Canadians always look at housing from the demand perspective. What about supply? Canada is big. Unless everyone is trying to live in Vancouver and Toronto, there is more than enough space to build houses. Do you not have enough
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
If you have travelled through the NJ portion of I-95, and stopped at any service stations, you quickly realize how stupid this law is. A single attendant trying to fill gas for 10 cars. Drivers just waiting in line for 20 minutes to fill th
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
MSFT stock stagnated for more than a decade and jumped once they fired Ballmer and got rid of his stack ranking system. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/sto...
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Isn’t customer obsession Amazon’s first leadership principal? I wonder how they justified such dark patterns?
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
If this massively increases the cost of online deliveries, won’t it reduce demand significantly? Unless they limit or freeze who can do online deliveries (like they do for uber and lyft), I am not sure if the workers will really be better o
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
It is astounding how something as well as studied as sorting still has opportunities for further improvements!
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Won’t things like blanket student loan forgiveness or very cheap student loans make such moral hazards even worse? Publishers, college administrators, football coaches, etc. will try to extract as much as possible from the free student loan
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Tesla’s insistence on using vision alone is pretty dumb. Elon and Andrej Karpathy argued that since humans can drive using just vision, that’s how we should do it in self driving cars, but I think that’s a flawed argument. The proper questi
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Writing correct distributed CRUD is hard. I have interviewed quite a few people who didn’t have a clue about how to insert into a table without creating data races.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
That’s assuming that companies have high margins and just have wads of cash to throw at employees. That’s probably not true for majority of the small companies - startups, restaurants and small moms and pops shops.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
I can see them mandating another GDPR like popup saying that the content is AI created. Europeans have the right to know if they are being bamboozled by AI created content.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Weren’t those laws made and selectively enforced to prevent immigrants and black people from being able to afford a house? The racist past still haunting American towns.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
The difference here is Russia deliberately converted it into a aerosol form that can be absorbed by the lungs. It’s not the same as carfentanil dust (or vapor) as a result of bad storage.
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by whywhywhydude 3y ago
Exciting time for AI. A little competition from OpenAI is finally forcing google AI researchers to actually focus on real world applications instead of just publishing papers and patting themselves on the back.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
I wish they changed the name to something better. Would probably increase adoption greatly if they can come up with a name that doesn’t sound like a porn site specializing in bondage.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
It increases efficacy, but most of the efficiency gains probably goes to the landlords, property owners and a few lucky percentage who win the subsidized housing lotteries.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Looks like the only way to identify a genius human vs GPT-4 is to use leetcode hard problems.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
It’s insane how these articles somehow conjure up some kind of nonsensical bad for environment arguments. Putting solar panels in the desert is good for the environment. It reduces the ground temperatures and lets more plants and animals su
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Europe’s modus operandi when it comes to tech- we can’t innovate, lets regulate and extract a few billion here and there.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Why would you use a niche programming that you can’t find any developers for? I would just use Go.
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by whywhywhydude 4y ago
Unless you are doing Machine learning or using numpy, I do not recommend anyone use python for anything performance sensitive. The problem is not just GIL. Because multithreading is not so common in python, it’s really hard to know if some

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