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bool3max··on Red flags in the Threads privacy policy
There are so many more sophisticated, more accurate, and scarier ways to collect data about web activity, location and your body that you don't seem to be aware of.
bool3max··on Voicebox: Generative AI model for speech that generalizes across tasks
How "live" can translation ever really be? Properly translating anything from one language to another requires context.
bool3max··on Python Dict – An Explorable Explanation
In such an environment my implementation achieves a runtime of around 5.8s while Python3 manages 5.2s.

41% of the runtime of my impl. is spent on resizing (19 times) + finally freeing (once) the hashtable.

It's interesting that in your testing unordered_map managed a faster runtime than Python. I've attributed my implementation's defeat to the fact that it uses separate chaining while CPython uses open addressing (+ a bunch of other clever optimizations...), but seeing as unordered_map also uses separate chaining (as mandated by the C++ standard, apparently) and it managed a win in your testing, I'm interested to see how they do things.

bool3max··on Python Dict – An Explorable Explanation
What a fantastic post and explanation, big kudos to the author. I recently went from knowing next to nothing about hashtables, to implementing my own in C using simple separate chaining, and was surprised to find out that it's around twice as slow as an equivalent CPython `dict` benchmark, while also only being around 20% slower than an equivalent Golang `map` benchmark.
bool3max··on Tesla tries to get owners to give up ‘unlimited free Supercharging for life’
Android vs. a 3 ton vehicle?
bool3max··on The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
"Server-side rendering" is destined to rule the future purely because of control. In the future consumer devices will be simplified, much more streamlined, and completely locked down. They will be used for the single purpose of displaying streamed, pre-packaged, pre-layed-out content from servers.
bool3max··on AWS Purity Test
Plenty of people find them funny. Stop being senstive for no reason.
bool3max··on CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months
And nobody noticed because nobody reads CNN.
bool3max··on Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
Pipe down, it's just a joke.
bool3max··on England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
I mean what you are saying is true but how does it relate to mandated gigabit internet?
bool3max··on The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
That scenario could never have happened, by design.
bool3max··on Apk.sh is a Bash script that makes reverse engineering Android apps easier
Is it possible to even create such a script for iOS applications?
bool3max··on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Linux Support and Performance Review
"If I was fabulously wealthy, purchasing this overpriced item might be reasonable" .

Yeah OK

bool3max··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
HN is no different than any other place on the internet. People on here are still just as gullible and manipulatable as any other person you encounter online.
bool3max··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
"freedom indexes" - get a hold of yourself
bool3max··on Guide to FFmpeg
No, it was on a local harddrive.
bool3max··on Guide to FFmpeg
Slightly off-topic: Recently I needed a way to add chapter information to 200 or so local MP4 video files of varying codecs (though mostly H264). It wasn't hard to get the job done with FFmpeg, though I was very surprised that adding such simple metadata to an MP4 container, with `-codec copy`, takes a surprisingly long time (around 5 or so minutes for an ~8GB file). I don't know why that is, as I am unfamiliar with the MP4 container format's internals, though I do assume that no re-encoding/transcoding was done (again, due to -codec copy). And it most certainly wasn't a simply copy-paste of the video data into a new file either, as that would've been way quicker. Nevertheless I just let the script do its thing overnight.
bool3max··on U.S. banks processed roughly $1.2B in ransomware payments in 2021
Awful take
bool3max··on Nord – An Arctic, north-bluish color palette
So much bloat for a set of 16 RBG values tied to a name.
bool3max··on Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?
$20m/year? With such a terrible codebase too, huh. Wow. Anyway what's the first letter of the place you work at?
bool3max··on US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years
Governments and corporations.
bool3max··on Once again so many people are led to think Wikipedia is broke and must be saved
Wikipedia is a very effective medium for reinforcing the spread of false information and as such will never be "broke".
bool3max··on Color fonts on Google Fonts
Looks extremely unreadable and ugly. Guess that's what happens when you're tasked with creating a font based on the "rainbow flag".
bool3max··on Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
They operated a games storefront and library for a short period of time, but that died pretty quickly.
bool3max··on U.S. housing markets are at risk of 15%–20% home price declines
Risk?
bool3max··on A personal list of Rust grievances
IMO the module system is explained very well in the book. Read it carefully once or twice, experiment a little, and you're golden.
bool3max··on Queen Elizabeth II has died
I vomited a little after reading that.
bool3max··on Ask HN: Why is Reddit deleting NSFW Stable Diffussion subreddits?
If anything it's the opposite.
bool3max··on Ask HN: How to make a native GUI with a modern language?
The "minority" may be loud but their comments are usually heavily upvoted.
bool3max··on UN Deletes Article Titled ‘The Benefits of World Hunger.’ Was It Real or Satire?
The author confirms that it was not.
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