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Comment · 4 years 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.
Comment · 4 years 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 day: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/wiki/solution_megathre...
It is mostly dominated by competitive programmers who value speed over readability. When it comes to presenting a solution, Peter Norvig's style, clarity and craftsmanship is unmatched.
Comment · 4 years 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 helping out with resume screening at a job fair and we would sort everyone who went to that masters program to the bottom of the pile. A handful of them turned out to be good candidates on second pass, but it sucks that they probably would've had a better chance just leaving off their masters.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years 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 almost any tech stock, we did well. Almost all of us hit one million mark before early 2020 and that became 2 million at the end of 2021.
I would love for this to continue forever but can it really? For example the author (and my friends) are in similar situation where their compensation are now in the ~500k range but that number is based on the stock value at the time of offer. It is now essentially double that. So we're in a situation where your everyday senior FAANG engineers are locked in a golden handcuff unless they are offered million dollar packages to jump ship.
We're in weird times.
Comment · 4 years 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've been a huge shame to open source software. Glad stuff worked out.
Comment · 4 years 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
Comment · 4 years 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.
Comment · 4 years 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 bit interesting. I found more info about it at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#Borlan...
Does anyone have benchmarks? Assuming I don't care about ABI stability, what's the fastest calling convention?
Comment · 4 years 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?id=20791605
You verbally allowed it in that thread but have you considered officially adding that into the next revision of your ToS too?
Comment · 4 years 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 golfed) along with screencasts and visualizations to explain how they got there. I find that even when the puzzles are easy I still learn a lot from the community by seeing all the different ways to skin a cat!
Comment · 5 years ago
I think you can still see scores in search? Or is that only for old comments?
Comment · 5 years 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
Comment · 5 years 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.