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It's not worth feeling shocked over. When you are approaching fundamentals, it doesn't matter what method you use. The education system failed you. From my experience teaching kids with math anxiety, I learned it's impossible for people to accurately judge where their weakness at the core. But a pattern I found was that they were scared of doing basic things the "wrong" way. Short-sighted teachers worry about the "wrong" way because they feel like it will slow kids. The proper approach is to let kids use whatever way is fastest for them, and they'll learn other methods on their own as they continue practicing problems. Teachers who force a specific method for arithmetic make the problem worse because the kids end up more worried about doing it the right way rather than worrying about getting the answer right.

We live in an age with calculators, no one cares if you use your fingers to count. I have ADHD and feel limited by my working memory often, using fingers or repeating a number I want to remember over and over feels like having extra RAM. Even the way kids are taught to count is different depending on where you live. Studies show that kids who use fingers are stronger in quantitative reasoning. But growing up, I knew teachers who made fun of students for using fingers to count.

Imagining numbers as dots and counting or breaking a number into smaller numbers to add is not a "trick" it's an algorithm that is as valid as any other. It's counterproductive to associate the word "trick" with "wrong".

For a while I wrote my own system of dots to correspond with numbers, 1, 2, 3 I focus on the end points, 4 (I wrote it open) makes a square with four corners if you ignore the extensions, 5 I count when I change directions and the end points, 6 I imagine dots of a domino tile, 7 is basically two layers a four and then the end points of the character, 8 is similar to six but I count the two circle, and 9 is similar to six but I count circle and then both sides of the bottom curve (a 3x3) grid.

Even if my brain gets tired or distracted, I know I can still add by dots because it's so procedural and I don't need to "think", I just remember the starting digit and then count up as I follow the dots. I use saying the word out like as a form of RAM to this day. Repeating a word, to me, uses a completely different part of my mind, so I free up 100% of working memory and cognition. I have "forgotten" numbers while doing mental math and have reminded myself from hearing myself say it. Describing these techniques, I recognize I sound like a literal computer and almost not human, but it's struggle I learned to work past. It works, I can do relatively more advanced mental arithmetic compared to peer even.

For multiplication, I would recommend Anki. This kind of memorizing is what that entire system excels in.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jun/26/count-f...
Everything loads instantly. Plays almost instantly. And it really seems to find very similar style/beat/music. Interface is clean.

I am not sure if intentional, but the loading animation on the play buttons feels like it is in sync with when the music starts playing. Makes for a responsive feedback.
Thing is, with regular old Diablo II, I don't even care, because I can _ALWAYS_ play it offline.

But the new product, I don't know what will happen when they shut down the servers.. I actually really like the new graphics.. I always thought the original game was absolutely beautiful, and yet, I find myself liking the new graphics even more.. So I want to be able to play that forever.
You can’t really feel sorry for them, they could turn this around in a heartbeat by being more customer focused.
Hmmm. I would have thought that Apple would detect and block you if you try to download their entire catalog without some kind of permission. If they're the same size as the files in my Apple Music it would take in the order of a petabyte to store (compression would obviously reduce that).

120M songs would take approximately 1000 years to listen to in normal time and is way beyond normal usage.
Names can be so much more
Actually, on thinking about it a bit more, it has a lot of similarities to a whole bunch of coordination problems that I worked on many years ago in the mobile phone industry. There was a problem was coordinating resource usage between a set of mobile phone base stations.

In the OP, you talked about a payoff curve for an individual server taking on a job based on its current loading. This is effectively a metric for the desirability of that server taking on another job, and that in turn would allow the supervisor to auction off jobs, assigning each job to the server which will benefit most from taking it.

You could even go one step further and implement a genetic algorithm classifier system. Each server would have a rule set for bidding for jobs coded it into the GA genotype. Every once in awhile a lower priority coordination process runs a generation of the GA, replacing the rule set on some of the less efficiently running servers with the offspring of the other more efficiently running servers. In this way the population of surfers evolves towards rulesets for bidding for jobs the drive the efficient use of your server resources.
When Perl was popular (late 90s/early 2000s) it had the best performance of any interpreted language especially with regular expressions and mod_perl. If you're comparing Perl with Java or C++ that's apples to oranges.
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I do not question for a second that Carmack is a computing genius, but “murky” is an understatement. There is nothing of technical, scientific or business value in this interview. It’s just generic words strung together.
> Crooked H destroyed phones w/ hammer, 'bleached' emails, & had husband meet w/AG days before she was cleared- & they talk about obstruction?

that’s the tweet. I don’t think there’s a significant difference between “hillary smashed her phones with a hammer” and “hillary had someone smash her phone with a hammer”, especially when a 128 character limit is a factor.

I could say “I fixed my iPhone’s screen last weekend” when I really just got it replaced at an Apple store. The fact that I personally didn’t replace the screen doesn’t matter.

If the debate was “is hillary clinton strong enough to smash things with hammers” and this was used as evidence, it’d be misleading. The debate was “is hillary clinton suspicious”, and having her phones smashed with hammers is suspicious regardless of whether she did it herself or had someone else do it for her.
...or, companies just think it's enough to be putting ads infront of people and paying for that privilege ?
> This last position loops back to ...

This is an interesting line of argument.

The twist here is that a fetus is "default alive" provided resources are expended to keep it that way.

Consider:

> The earliest that a child has survived being born prematurely. (22 weeks currently, I think.)

as a point at which a host might say "I don't wish to support this parasite that I have no interest in any longer" and transfers a fetus to an artifical womb.

Murder? That seems unlikely.

But is the fetus truly "default alive"?

If the power goes out will it survive? Surely it requires external support much as various patients require life support but are otherwise not viable.

Things are rarely clearcut and this point at least is still within the grey of a Sorites paradox.
> How did you determine they are solvent?

That they keep paying out billions each year in dollars to those who request it?
... but certainly not ALL songs? I would think they notice if you download more then one minute of audio per minute over a long time.
I basically just search Reddit now, using Google.
I like this guy. I think the best videos he made where the ones on Faraday's Candle lectures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrHnLXMTOWM&list=PL0INsTTU1k...
Sure, someone can do it. But Alice had spent several months becoming an expert on that particular part of the software. She knew the domain, had good contacts with the micro-service owners, knew the API off by heart and of course she wrote the code. All of that can be learnt again but it will take another few months. Now the feature that would have taken a weak takes seven weeks. Would it have been cost effective to have two engineers becoming experts at the same time in case Alice left? No. Will he carefully written docs she left help? Maybe, but until we have another expert on that feature, every modification will take much longer.
That should be completely wrong. PayPal goods and services through invoice protects both the seller and buyer, one of the parties would have to dispute the claim, or perhaps the automated system suspected something. Either way I've usually found PayPal support helpful with that.
Plastic waste is a huge problem, and it could grow worse by 2040
I've been a fan of macross for a long time but the mecha games always suck. The main problem is that the movement isn't as fluid as the anime.

I've only seen one good game capture the essence of the animes while being a fair and good game. It's an old game called virtual on. It's a fast paced mecha game with rocket boosted dashing along lines of commitment. That line of commitment means that when you dash with your mecha it forces the mecha into a single permanent dash in a single direction for about 3 seconds. This restriction actually makes you feel like you're pulling off incredible dodges of anime homing missiles. The graphics are old but it's the only game I've ever seen pull off the same feeling as an anime.

See video:

https://youtu.be/SoUGqhPQFI0?t=279

It's old, but for it's time it was incredible. Also the controls involve dual joysticks at the arcade to really get the feeling that you're controlling a vehicle.
>And one of the things that I trained myself to do a few decades ago is pulling ideas out and pursuing them in a way where I’m excited about them, knowing that most of them don’t pan out in the end. Much earlier in my career, when I’d have a really bright idea that didn’t work out, I was crushed afterwards. But eventually I got to the point where I’m really good at just shoveling ideas through my processing and shooting them down, almost making it a game to say, ‘How quickly can I bust my own idea, rather than protecting it as a pet idea?’

Cool life lesson there
I'm pretty sure that Putin literally believes all that tripe about "triune people", and I don't think he needed any excuses beyond that. Well, there's also the part where I think he really wants to end up in the history textbooks with the same standing as Ivan III and other famous "gatherers of the land".

So, in a sense, he is also fighting for his country and its nation - it just happens to be an imaginary one: "Greater Russia".
Well done!

A comment: for classical music, it would be necessary to see the name of the composer. Currently, it's only the performing artist that's displayed in the interface.
> So, about four years ago, I went on one of my week-long retreats, where I just take a computer and a stack of reference materials and I spend a week kind of reimplementing the fundamentals of the industry. And getting to the point where it’s like, ‘All right, I understand this well enough to have a serious conversation with a researcher about it.’ And I was pretty excited about getting to that level of understanding.

As much as I respect Carmack as a computer graphics expert, I really doubt his competence in machine learning. He doesn't have a single notable paper published. If he really thought that implementing gradient descent and basic stuff in a week long retreat gave him the chops to have serious conversations with AI researchers, he is really deluded.

Unless he can produce something that outdoes stable diffusion, chatgpt, alphago etc he should just hand over technical leadership of his start up to a leading AI researcher. Even Yann Le Cun at Meta is struggling to make any progress and is keeping himself busy by calling every other research labs output pedestrian. We cannot take any of Carmacks AGI predictions seriously, he simply lacks any expertise in the field.
So, you don't remember "es_", hmmm ? Tss, tss.
Going to be absolutely hilarious when the recession that all these cuts are supposed to be in preparation for doesn't happen or is a lot less severe then predicted and suddenly Wall Street starts screaming about how all these firms are understaffed and can't launch new products.
I ordered some sports equipment from a store together with some friends so the sum was pretty high. The money was sent and the items were supposed to be delivered. The store owner was away over the weekend so didn't send the items yet. We were in contact with them personally just before they left. When they came to work on monday they were slightly confused because they got a mail from Paypal that we had disputed the invoice or some such and Paypal had refunded us the whole sum. If they wouldn't have had that vacation, they would have sent the items already and we would have gotten the products and the money back a couple of days later. This was about 8 years ago now I believe, so it's still happening. I would never use Paypal to sell anything, there is no guarantee you get to keep the money. Better keep the account empty if you do use paypal.
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I envy people's efforts to speak so knowingly about layoffs.
> This is expected. Tether is pegged to $1, BTC is not. In short, higher crypto prices means more tether.

What? Tether is supposedly minted in response to fiat deposits. They accept real dollars and give Tether IOUs in return.

The concern is that Tether minting seems to generate BTC price spikes. The story goes that investors are giving their money to Tether, which gives them Tethers, and then they take the Tethers and buy BTC. Nobody can seem to explain why these people aren’t just giving their money to exchanges and buying BTC without the extra steps, though.
The point being made is that no one can profit by shorting USDT to the point where they would be shown not to have anywhere close to the reserves they claim. So the argument "no one has successfully shorted USDT, so Tether must actually hold the needed reserves" is false.

This of course doesn't prove that they don't the reserves, it's just that this is a bad argument.
for revenue to drop because of that, people have to massively have moved to some other way to search for things. What would that currently be?
More layoffs coming down the line in Google so!
Thanks for the detailed reply! Is hydrogen being used as the heat source and the reducing agent, or is it exclusively for reduction?
Maybe the title should be "thieves are stealing from the thieves".

Gangs are now stealing directly from the pipelines in a semi-professional manner in addition of the continued violence as there has been for such a long time.
Entire model is hostile to those advertising. At least in these cases. You need to advertise your company name in searches so that your competitors advertising on your name don't beat you.

This can only last as long as there is competitors willing to pay for those adds. Which might be getting tighter.
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The bytes.Clone() uses non-trivial trick under the hood - `append([]byte{}, b...)`. Compare it to a trivial loop behind maps.Clone().

The strings.Split() implementation is non-trivial because of performance optimizations.

The bytes.Equal() is actually written in highly tuned and optimized assembly in order to achieve high performance for inputs of various lengths.

Now compare this to trivial implementations behind generic-based functions for maps. And do not forget that these implementations may hurt performance because of excess memory allocations in Keys() and Values() functions or because the compiler may fail inlining the callback passed to DeleteFunc().
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How? Back before I used an adblocker it is not like most ads were anything I really wanted or in some cases even could buy. Very few ads are a direct call to sales and they were often irrelevant.
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DEXs don't trade money, they trade crypto. So, if you believe that USDT crashing will bring down the value of all other crypto near 0, DEXs are just as bad a place to short Tether as any other part of the ecosystem.
Who is stopping you from doing that? Use whichever pronouns you want. Unless of course by ”I prefer” you mean “everyone should,” which is a different matter.
MITx had a profound impact on my life when the platform launched in 2011. Ditto edX.org in 2012.

At the time, I was a college dropout. My job history looked like: self-employed, Starbucks, and a bunch of catering per diem gigs. I didn't know what a "software engineer" did, although I had a vague desire to make video games (but no idea how).

I was technical enough to install WordPress with Cpanel and resell hosting to mom/pop businesses, but I couldn't really code beyond copy/pasting PHP snippets.

The Intro to Computer Science series on MITx changed everything. I remember finishing a homework assignment (hangman game), then immediately looking for more things to code, even though the assignment took me 8+ hours.

I was hooked! Within a few months, I landed a gig at a video game studio ($15/hour dream job). My job was a mix of QA, systems admin, gameplay design, and tools programming.

A few years after that, I shook Ned Batchelder's hand after his Pycon 2015 talk. I was a software engineer at Red Hat by then, but still feeling like I'd snuck in through the back door. Knowing that I'd aced MIT coursework helped me push down my insecurities, even years later.

By my early 30s, I was millionaire - thanks entirely to my software engineering career. I quit my day job last year to take another swing at entrepreneurship, and it blows my mind to compare then/now.

Thanks to everyone who made MITx and Edx.org. Y'all changed my life!
It could've been all you wanted and more, but you decided to twist my words and quote something that literally was not there.

I don't really enjoy having my words twisted like you did, but since you are appearing to be more reasonable after the fact, I'll leave this comment for you

No, me saying "You should consider more than your own happiness" is not saying "The economy matters more than your own happiness", that is you completing the thought inside YOUR head, the thought that says 'YOUR HAPPINESS DOES NOT MATTER, GDP DOES'. Thinking even just a bit beyond your own 'happiness' and considering the impacts of your choices is far from saying 'reconsider your entire life'.

But none of that matters now. This thread is 2 days old, and I don't really care for your opinion since I fear that you will just discount mine even more, and argue with some strawman you built in your head instead.
How is the number the market was expecting different from an external forecast?
That would be a mistake :(
Correct me if I'm wrong:
In int main, "complex c3(c2)" creates a copy of c2 and thus passes c2 to copy constructor.

In copy constructor, "complex(complex c)" copy constructor takes c=c2.

So what's the issue with this?
I’ve oscillated between small companies and the largest companies my whole career. While I have enjoyed both, I’ve definitely been treated better at the large companies compared to startups and family shops.
I mostly agree with you, but would qualify that by saying that writing a specialized orchestrator is not that hard for a lot of cases. I have done so a couple of times.

Lots of decisions will likely end up similar to K8S - e.g. for one I ended up putting SkyDNS/CoreDNS for service discovery on top of Etcd and using a Nginx handler to route ingress - when we first upgraded our (many years old) system to doing that, K8S was not yet widely used and I was unaware K8S did the same.

But if you have a specific use case and understand it well, it can be worth it.

However, even if you have a situation like that where it's genuinely cost effective for you to write your own, a big reason why K8S might still be a better choice is that you can hire people who know K8S - if you build your own you need to worry about knowledge transfer for something very critical to your operation.

I think writing orchestrators is fun, yet I still think most people shouldn't do so for production (but write a toy one as a learning experience anyway)
> That's like saying ...

It's like releasing some software that cracks all encryption (or more accurately, authentication), before of which only elite members of society had access to.

It's not a physical weapon, it's an information-security weapon; I don't think the gun metaphor is appropriate.
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Nothing is stopping you from doing a manual check for overflow.

And nothing is stopping the compiler from leveraging flags, in architectures that have them (e.g. RISC-V does not).
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> But to me this is a feature, not a bug. I could see this or something like it opening my eyes to music I would never possibly have found on my own.

What makes it different from a big "play me a random song" button then?
> I was laid off from Google. I keep seeing posts from people who, I have to assume, just figured out how the world works and want to teach us. Guys, seriously, who didn't already know this?

Hard agree on this. Did this employee expect Sergey Brin to call over to his desk with flowers and a hamper of fancy goods, and lament their loss?

A few friends of mine were let go last month in a tech company in Portland, and similar thing, automated email followed by people openly weeping at desks. It's never a pleasant thing I know, but I suspect they bought too much into their company's "culture" declarations of being at one with the universe and loving everyone etc. etc.
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The first line of the (also automated) email I got from Google notifying that I was laid off was

> We have some difficult news to share. We are reducing our workforce and are very sorry to tell you that your role is impacted and we no longer have a job for you at Google.
I meant more ancillary things like custom source control, custom testing frameworks, custom database, custom build tool, hand configured servers that only Alice knows how to provision, maybe even a home-grown programming language.

Edit: Since the original article is about Google, I should perhaps clarify that Google is big enough that it can do get away with having all or some of the above. But they are wise to open source most such things, so that they ensure their versions stay competitive rather than becoming a drag.