ww520

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by ww520 7d ago
I still write code myself but I do use LLM. I use them for exploring ideas, explaining things, look up syntax, look up API/reference, look up algorithms, write tests, write duplicate code, write small functions that can be reviewed eas
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by ww520 19d ago
Unless the keys are completely random, compressed keys shorten the tree height and cause fewer pointer jumps. Hostnames are highly compressible. Plus the root and the upper levels of the tree are always hot, most likely in L1/L2/L
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by ww520 20d ago
Not sure what they use to hold the cache key and entry. If a hashmap is used, then a radix tree (adaptive radix tree) would be better in saving memory space. Most of content of the qname field of the CacheKey is hostname, like www.site.com.
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by ww520 21d ago
There’re good agents and there’re bad agents. It won’t be far that there will be agents hunting down agents.
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by ww520 24d ago
Talk to the customers. Sit along with the sales team when presenting to the customers. Join sales calls. Ask them about their problems, their pain points, and their current solutions.
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by ww520 28d ago
mRNA is a general technique for targeted cancer therapy. It's the message RNA containing the instructions from a gene to create a specific protein. It's much easier to work with, reprogrammed, manufactured, and delivered. There&#x
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by ww520 1mo ago
Whoever claims "your deposits are FDIC insured" needs to be prosecuted as fraud and scam artists. “Your” the company’s deposits in the bank is FDIC insured. My deposit with you the company is not. When the bank goes belly up, your
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by ww520 1mo ago
Human can have periods of heightened mental capacity. Sometimes I looked back at some of my work days or weeks later and amazed how I could have done it. When you're in the flow, have enough sleep, and have long period of non-interrupt
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by ww520 1mo ago
Succinct data structures. Finished the indexable bit vector, with nanosecond rank/select operations. Working on the range min max tree based balanced parentheses succinct tree structure, with support for the usual tree navigation and o
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by ww520 2mo ago
Speaking of AI stock, what has happened to NOK?
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by ww520 2mo ago
Charged is not convicted. Anyone can be charged with anything if the prosecution is vindictive.
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by ww520 2mo ago
As a speech.
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by ww520 2mo ago
You missed the lawsuits by everyone else.
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by ww520 2mo ago
You still need to build the power infrastructure to the rural areas. Build the infrastructure for the people, like roads, sewage, water, buildings, etc. Navigate the regulation and permit processes.
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by ww520 2mo ago
Space DC make sense when local governments and communities don't want DC built on Earth. Space DC is an engineering and finance problem, not a problem in legal/permission, real estate, power generation, grid delivery, environmenta
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by ww520 2mo ago
For small arrays that can fit in L1 cache, it's ok to do more loops. For bigger arrays, cache miss could remove all the gains.
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by ww520 2mo ago
When I bought my car, it had no Car Play or Android Auto. Upon some investigation I found out that both of them were installed on all the current models. It’s just disabled on the cars sold without the option. Some open source software for
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by ww520 2mo ago
One use of focused RF detectors is locating hidden cameras via scanning their WiFi or Bluetooth RF signals.
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by ww520 2mo ago
I have a heat pump based water heater installed in the garage. One side benefit is the garage got cooled down. It used to be that the garage got very hot during hot days. Now it’s cool.
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by ww520 2mo ago
What does it take to add support for a router? Support for tp-link ax5400 seems missing for a long time.
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by ww520 3mo ago
How's Alpine? Most of the containers seem to pick Alpine as the basis OS.
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by ww520 3mo ago
It's straight corruption, no matter of big or small business. It should have been randomized blind selection of business who have existed for more than a year, and the granted money pays for new employees' taxes. Blind selection t
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by ww520 3mo ago
This is an interesting read. You can solve the same problem with Range Min Query Tree. The query for balanced or unbalanced parentheses is O(log N). A two or three level RMQTree can represent billions of parentheses already (a two-level tre
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by ww520 3mo ago
I think he didn't know cellular well enough and thought a wireless phone was unlocatable because it was mobile and not tied down to a landline. As a physicist, Shimomura would have known all about radio and signal. He just used old WW2
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by ww520 3mo ago
Oddly, since the Covid time, I haven't caught a cold or flu once. I'm not sure it's the vaccines, the flu shots, or the less physical contacts on things overall. I still go to crowded places from time to time, like plane or t
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by ww520 3mo ago
I read the book by Tsutomu Shimomura, who caught Mitnick's hacking and tracked him down. It's a fascinating read. He was able to locate Mitnick in physical world based on his online activities and his cellular phone usage. In thos
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by ww520 3mo ago
That's because they've reclassified unemployment status. Anyone working 1 hour out of N months is not considered unemployed.
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by ww520 3mo ago
"Is anyone still using emacs?" Of course. Emacs has been my stable editor over many years, handling many languages that came along, surviving many other IDEs that came and gone (the latest being the Cursor sold out). There're
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by ww520 3mo ago
Up to 40% unemployment or very low employment.
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by ww520 3mo ago
Plus electricity, labor, and maintenance?

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