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Impacted impacted impacted impacted impacted. You've all been impacted.

Interesting approach, thanks. Yeah, I don't mind a question and conversation like that to start things off. But I do think getting into something a little deeper (which you also me…

The overflow thing would be about computing the median of some sub-range of a sorted array. It is an often-quizzed thing that comes up as an edge case in binary search of a large a…

Huh, feels overly simple to me. How about something like the beginnings of a spreadsheet engine? Or.. count the number of distinctly shaped black regions in a bitmap image.

Reminds me of some enum at my current employer, where all the US states have 2 letter codes, except Idaho is spelled out fully.

Same. I think it's probably easier on a touch screen than with mouse, but I'm stuck on level 10 for now. Maybe it's intentionally frustrating. Need to finish this level to unlock t…

Wouldn't you also need to keep track of the stack's size, to know if there are leading zeros?

Hmm, can someone educate me here? Why don't bit flips ever seem to impact the results of calculations in settings like big-data analytics on AWS? Is it a difference between server …

Why is it called a C Compiler if it's a subset of C?

I'm aware of this to an extent. Do you know of any list of what degree of parallelization to expect out of various components? I know this whole napkin-math thing is mostly futile …

https://www.gs1.org/services/gdsn/global-data-model As someone who has worked in e-retail, this catalog seems to have a lot of momentum.

Senior management doesn't like it, in my experience. But I agree it makes sense for many interactions.

What happens when something is put on the scale while it's sampling? Does the curve depend on properties of the scale, or just properties of the object and the manner in which it w…

I guess everyone has their own preferences, I just find this opinion surprising given the wealth of other hikes in the country. As someone who grew up hiking in the White Mountains…

It's higher than average/median in the US, but certainly not exceptional. Pretty normal for certain groups of people. There's a huge gap in miles driven between urban and rural are…

People (non-tech) don't tend to refer to "go to page 106" as using an index. The pages at the back of the book providing the word->page numbers lookup are commonly known as the boo…

I've sometimes been confused by the term "inverted index". The example in this post feels like what I would just call an "index"... i.e documents indexed by the words they contain.…