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scaredginger··on Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
This is great. Since SF is mostly a grid, I used to use the heuristic of only choosing paths that wouldn't take me further from my destination, avoiding going downhill but choosing the shallower uphill climb if a choice is given.

Other than knowing the direction of my destination, it only used local information

scaredginger··on How do you rewrite C/C++ projects to Rust?
They didn't need the disclaimer for this to be obvious AI slop
scaredginger··on Eat Real Food
Normalising by mass is a poor way to assess food's protein content since different foods have greatly different water contents. E.g. beef jerky has much higher protein per 100g than beef largely because it's dried (admittedly, probably also because they use leaner cuts)
scaredginger··on The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress
Bit of a nitpick, but I think his terminology is wrong. Like RL, pretraining is also a form of *un*supervised learning
scaredginger··on An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)
Looks like the impl uses a HashMap. I'd be curious about how a trie or some other specialized string data structure would compare here.
scaredginger··on New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden
There may be some cost to each resistance gained, reducing the fitness of the bacteria
scaredginger··on The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]
I think the AI bubble may have some interesting parallels with the dot com bubble ~25 years ago.

The internet was revolutionary and transformed the global economy. However, most of the internet companies at the time were garbage and were given money because people were blinded by the hype. At the end of the day, we were left with a handful of viable companies that went on to great things and a lot of embarrassed investors

scaredginger··on Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)
Yeah, no.

If I know what my data look like, I can choose an order of summation that reduces the error. I wouldn't want the compiler by default to assume associativity and introduce bugs. There's a reason this reordering is disabled by default

scaredginger··on What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)
That's not how I'd express it either. Insurance is a positive EV bet on a log-utility basis
scaredginger··on Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East
You don't make many friends being a moral relativist
scaredginger··on The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword
Maybe a nitpick, but virtual inheritance is a term used for something else entirely.

What you're talking about is dynamic dispatch

scaredginger··on Do Kwon and Terraform Labs found liable for $40B fraud
Also, Terraform Industries (natural gas company)
scaredginger··on Peter principle
And some won't, so they'll remain directors
scaredginger··on US farmers are turning to solar power as a buffer against volatile crop prices
https://archive.is/IzfVe
scaredginger··on A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)
Obtaining an uncontested lock absolutely doesn't require calling into the kernel
scaredginger··on "14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike
You might be interested in Odin. It's very focused on numerical computing and has certainly taken some design hints from Go
scaredginger··on GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video]
It was shielded
scaredginger··on Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate
Can you explain this 'common sense'? I was under the impression that Tether was in the business of taking USD (with the promise of returning it) and earning interest on that USD without paying any interest on it. If that's true, it sounds like a dream business to me
scaredginger··on 4B If Statements
I think this counts as a bottom-up DP solution
scaredginger··on Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)
I'm pretty sure you can perform tests and find defects without actually flying the rocket
scaredginger··on Cooperative C++ Evolution – Toward a TypeScript for C++
> Note that Carbon is not ready to use
scaredginger··on The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete
https://archive.md/eIXcA
scaredginger··on Google owes executive $1M after losing gender bias lawsuit
[citation needed]
scaredginger··on Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous
https://archive.is/ynX9Y
scaredginger··on Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
https://youtu.be/I25UeVXrEHQ
scaredginger··on Show HN: I built a Python web framework
Performance of a web server isn't just about latency, it's also about throughput and how many requests can be served concurrently
scaredginger··on The Carrot Problem
What percentage of readers here would you estimate have missed a chance of becoming a billionaire?
scaredginger··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
I'm sorry, this book is clearly a joke. Do you not get the humour?
scaredginger··on Bun v0.7.0
I find it strange to find that strange. Why wouldn't one leverage one language's strengths to address a shortcoming in another?
scaredginger··on 85% of AI Startups Will Be Out of Business in 3 Years, Major Investor Says
I mean, duh?
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