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In Google's heyday, around 2014, I was talking with Uszkoreit about a possible role on his then NLP team.

I asked "What would you do if you had an unlimited budget?"

He simply said, "I do"

My favorite example that I see pretty often is "In posix grep, what's a regex that matches lines that don't contain the word `test`?"

The X answer is a lecture on language theory including the construction and inversion of finite state automata. Absolutely interesting, but a long and dense chapter in a CS textbook with no practical applications.

The Y answer is `grep -v test`

I know I keep posting this, but my favorite (half-joking) programming advice was from a Google dev infra engineer who said "Any Python script over 100 lines should be rewritten in Bash, because at least that way you're not fooling yourself into thinking it's production quality"

> Surely they could ask an artist to volunteer their time just as they volunteered theirs?

Unfortunately "I spent a lot of time on this thing you have no interest in or relation to" is not a very convincing argument in the FOSS world.

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Do you have the same view of other compiler optimizations? Would you prefer if the compiler never unrolled a loop so that you can write it out manually when you need it?

TIL that the Go compiler still does not have autovectorization.

I don't know, but I imagine accelerometers work ok for cars on roads, but less so for meandering pedestrians in alleys and semi-enclosed shopping plazas.

Presumably this is a general comment, since this release does not (and wasn't intended to) include any of the Quake II models, levels, graphical assets, sound effects, or music. It's purely engine source code.

The article makes a mere side note of the fact they also count revolving debt, i.e. what happens if you pay for groceries on a credit card and then pay off the amount in full every month.

This is already the case according to The Guardian. Imagine solar panels that generate 200W/m2 at night when it rains.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/13/rain-or-...

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The interesting thing about this is not the case itself, but that we're starting to see novel benefits from having open, modular laptop hardware.

Ransomware groups come to mind.

> I will not compromise on this.

Will you collaborate on this? Help ban heavier vehicles for everyone?

I heard from one large tech company that was pressured by the city to bring people back in order to prop up the city's downtown service sector.

The company caved because they depended on city approval for some licenses.

The person who told me this was an analyst tasked with cherry picking data to justify the decision that had already been made on political grounds.

(This was after a few drinks and has not been independently verified)

> constantly push listeners to download an app to 'listen anywhere.'

I remember wondering how on earth iHeartRadio managed to integrate with so many small, local radio stations. As an IT consultant it was a struggle to get a small shop to keep as much as an API up.

Turned out they simply bought up all the stations.

I used to round up back in Europe, but after living in the US for a while I never tip anywhere else. I don't want this cancer to spread.

> it's never a compiler bug

I wish this was true. It would have made my job of writing compilers so much easier.

>seem

That's the problem with USB cables. They all seem to work when you don't look too closely.

My least favorite thing about "falsehoods X believe about Y" articles is that they make a point out of not backing up or demonstrating any of their claims.

HN is the only useful escalation mechanism at this point, so have an upvote.

Most of the VR software I've tried have anti-nausea features like teleportation and unmoving frames of reference, so I'm not sure it's fair to say that no one's talking about it.

I think the hope was that some combination of hardware and software would solve the problem.

Really? This SO question says it's stored in /var/db/oah/

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/427695/how-can-i-l...

Performance also translates into better battery life and cheaper datacenters.

> jigsaw puzzles

Wait, how do they check these over? Do they solve them to make sure that a quarter of the pieces aren't missing. Do they count the pieces in a 5000pc puzzle?

HN is very US centric. Get yourself some UK advice. Here's what appears to be a free helpline for employee rights issues:

https://www.gov.uk/pay-and-work-rights

> It's called Windows Platform Binary Table

When I was in college it was called a hardware rootkit

> Single core CPUs are few and far between those days.

I would not be surprised if it's more common to run on a single CPU machine today than 10 years ago due to cloud VM instances.