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Comment · 3 years ago
Are there any architectural blogs you recommend?
Comment · 3 years ago
To your point they also, like, wrote their own PHP interpreter. If you asked your Facebook interviewer about PHP you'd probably get an interesting answer!
Comment · 3 years ago
I think the example of video games and movies is instructive - there's always a ton of "cut content". In software, we can always change the requirements to meet a deadline :)
Comment · 3 years ago
No, the mysteries that "are deep, hard to understand, and not worth the effort" are why Scientific American is publishing this junk article. My lay theory is that SA hasn't been worth reading in decades and basically nobody can write well about quantum mechanics for a casual audience..
Comment · 4 years ago
The skill-based matchmaking that's popular today is optimized for setting up a fair game, ie. theres a roughly 50/50 chance of either side winning. It makes logical sense, but it turns out nobody actually wants a fair match!
Comment · 4 years ago
Rather the opposite - us-west-2 is big but not the biggest region, or the smallest, or the oldest or newest, it's not partitioned off like the China or GovCloud regions. Because us-west-2 is fairly typical it tends to be one of the last regions to get software updates, after they've been tested in prod elsewhere
Comment · 4 years ago
They're different doctors! Surgeons are a subset of doctors, and plastic surgeons are the ones who decided to chase money over glory
Comment · 4 years ago
It's hilarious that the replies in this thread are mostly people arguing bitterly about how to make pancakes
Comment · 7 years ago
It's probably been in a lot of movies, but I've always loved this scene in THE CORE where they land a space shuttle in the LA river:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1RwE_x6Vg
Comment · 8 years ago
Well, at least once, recently
Comment · 8 years ago
People here know offhand what they weigh in pounds, and the packaging on food lists macronutrient content in grams. The article could've listed g/kg as well, but for a US audience g/lb isn't particularly wacky.
Comment · 8 years ago
Only slightly pedantic: The United States has been at war for just over 16 years now.
Comment · 9 years ago
This isn't the first round of AI that's been useful for "large-scale profitable applications"
Comment · 9 years ago
Well; good?