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Using the hint table has been pretty painful, in my experience. Two main difficulties I’ve seen: 1. The hint patterns are whitespace-sensitive. Accidentally put a tab instead of a …

Just an FYI in case you haven’t read this: Recursive Make Considered Harmful [1] [1] https://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

You can use a “Custom Study Session” [1] for this. I tried it recently and it was fairly decent. One possible way to get there on mobile: 1. Start reviewing a deck. 2. Click the ge…

Definitely. One of the primary benefits we get out of Spark is the ability to decouple storage and compute, and to very easily scale out the compute. Our main Spark workload is pre…

Post author here. Let me know if you have any questions!

Just responded to the parent comment as well - there's an additional mutable argument to the real `transform` method so it's unsafe to invoke it directly without first checking if …

Good question, the simplified example doesn't make this clear. The real implementation has a mutable `builder` argument used to gradually build the converted filter. If we perform …

Exclude constraint on a GiST index? https://stackoverflow.com/a/51247705

Cool, I’ll take a read. Just to clarify something in case it’s not obvious from my other comments. I’m not arguing for SRS as a replacement to all other forms of learning. You stil…

I’ve done some cloze deletions for math and related things, but I generally feel like having almost the whole proof in the prompt gives me too many cues. It often leaves me thinkin…

> it's a lot better to use those connections instead of drilling it in a decontextualized fragments via SRS. Or, you can use SRS for "spaced repetition" of making these connections…

I'm a big fan of the idea of using Spaced Repetition for this. The idea is that it allows you to both: - be able to keep your knowledge / understanding of an area around for the lo…

I’ve found it extremely useful to keep a detailed log of my thoughts and ideas as I’m working on a problem that requires focus. It’s like a thread dump or memory dump of my thinkin…

> the only distributed filesystem with distributed metadata (apart from Google Collosus - the hidden jewel in their crown). Isn't that the case for S3 as well? I haven't seen AWS m…

And throw an `inline` in there just to be more likely to end up with something macro-like.

Yeah, I'm one of the top 1% readers on Pocket according to their stats, and my reading list has probably hundreds of articles. Didn't scale too well for me :)

Meta-question: how do you keep track of these? Every now and then I come upon something and I think "Oh, I should definitely re-read this!". But then, eventually, I end up forgetti…

I've had this open in my browser for about two years now. I've read it maybe 1.5 times and I know I want to re-read it, but it's so long that I rarely actually get to it. If you en…

Your second assumption is only valid for people who conflate the two disciplines. If you don't recognize that competitive programming and software engineers have completely differe…

Eventually we should just store the AST in source control. Prevents inconsistencies when style changes and/or 50k lines diffs to change the indentation level.

On the other hand, if the performance benefits prove to be true, you might be able to test Scylla with much less machines than you have for Cassandra.

Reduce can perform reductions on locally on each machine before shuffling the data. This decreases the memory as well as the network overhead. If you need all the elements for a gi…