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mathisonturing··on From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin
that's not final though, like val in Kotlin
mathisonturing··on Use one big server
> batching multiple transactions into IO blocks where feasible. If your average transaction is substantially smaller than the IO block size, then you are probably leaving a lot of throughput on the table.

Could you expand on this? A quick Google search didn't help. Link to an article or a brief explanation would be nice!

mathisonturing··on Apple previews Lockdown Mode
Android has app system level options in the settings to disable WiFi/mobile data.

I tend to use that, and use Netguard as a fallback because the latter has an off by default config incase I forget to disable it for new apps.

Netguard on its own is insufficient because sometimes you'd need to use an actual VPN (which turns off Netguard)

mathisonturing··on Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance
> everyone has spent the last twenty years getting really upset about it

Could you expand on this?

mathisonturing··on Don't let dicts spoil your code (2020)
Forget about DataClasses, TypedDict etc. Can't you achieve the same in python with a class and a dict? Is there a difference, other than perhaps being overloaded with options?
mathisonturing··on Norway Chess cancels Alexander Grischuk
Please share for those uninitiated like me
mathisonturing··on SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch
How does this stack up against Intro to Database Systems from CMU?
mathisonturing··on Differences with other Lisps
Curious - why is running on JVM bad?
mathisonturing··on Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?
Elaborate? Out of the loop
mathisonturing··on Mars sucks
Or 37 extra minutes of work
mathisonturing··on India’s second wave
The article says, "number of people being cremated at special Covid sites"
mathisonturing··on Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
> Or adding an artificial 2 second wait to non-AMP ads

A quick search came up empty. Could you share a source?

mathisonturing··on Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
AFAIK, it hasn't been yet

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/8/22319136/whatsapp-cloud-ba...

mathisonturing··on My simple GitHub project went viral
Is this still active? The current issue example links an issue from 2019
mathisonturing··on Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia
Slightly off topic, but how do you go about surveying the literature on a particular topic, say myopia or acne.?
mathisonturing··on Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa program requiring higher pay
Not from there nor do I know the place by any means, but didn't Bill Gates call Silicon Valley (the series) pretty close to the truth?

I'm just genuinely curious

mathisonturing··on Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA if you're already logged in
If you're talking about importing/exporting your list of 2FA codes, I think they've added it
mathisonturing··on Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify
You can also reject a recommendation. Click on the Options button for that video (three vertical dots), select "Not interested"
mathisonturing··on Face ID and Touch ID for the Web
It's funny how much bashing Google gets for monopoly with Android, pushing users to use Chrome, Play Store and whatnot. While all of that is relevant, Apple's stranglehold seems much more and worse.
mathisonturing··on Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve TikTok rating
and Jitsi
mathisonturing··on AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
Could you expand on this?

I'm looking to gift a laptop that's good for ML stuff. What features should I be looking at?

Any specific recommendations?

mathisonturing··on Senate Stock Watcher
Why do you think a position as an NGO executive selects for that? Executives in general, yes. NGOs too?
mathisonturing··on Ask HN: What are you learning?
What resource are you using for bonds and what did you use for learning options?

I've become interested in stocks/trading recently and have been wanting to understand it well enough before losing all my money. I started Financial Markets [0]. Just finished Week 1 and it seems a little too broad/dry so far. Any recommendations are welcome.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/financial-markets-global

mathisonturing··on Performance Testing HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 and Server Push for REST APIs
HTTP/1.1 is constantly ahead when I run it on mobile connected to my Home WiFi.

Edit: /2 is faster when on first load. When I refresh, /1.1 is almost always faster.

mathisonturing··on Ask HN: Full-on machine learning for 2020, what are the best resources?
and Andrew Ng's ML course?
mathisonturing··on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)
Is that a prediction for the simple @ validation that was suggested? If so, I'm curious about possible cases
mathisonturing··on Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access
You have to "install an application from an untrusted source, attackers can take advantage of that. Attackers can also take advantage of the bug if they pair it with vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser to render content."

I guess it informs us what not to do at the very least. Given the track record, I'm not very optimistic of the vendors pushing a patch very soon (if ever). This keeps us informed at least.

mathisonturing··on The U1 chip in the iPhone 11 is the beginning of an Ultra Wideband revolution?
Are you saying that if I turn on my phone's radio and set it between 91.1 and 93.3, I'd be able to hear what other people are listening to? Could you elaborate?