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IIRC it was overflow when you do (a + b) / 2 for the midpoint. It took so long to find because you need a >billion item array to overflow the 32-bit integer, and that much RAM wasn…

Is there anything -- any possible scrap of evidence whatsoever -- that would convince you that this is not merely a marketing scheme? This is becoming an idée fixe among the HN cro…

I hope theft deters people from wearing these perv glasses. They're easier to nick than phones since owner isn't gripping them at all. I'd tolerate a fair amount of crime and publi…

>It's a medium to pack the idea into "something" that represents the idea. It was never about a finished and polished product. It's the sign language for deaf people - a way to sho…

We still speak today of Charlemagne, Muhammed, Caesar, Alexander. Napoleon and Columbus have secured for themselves their seats in the pantheon of history and it will take longer t…

That "weapon" quip from TFA really pisses me off. It implies actual malice on the part of the person copypasting GPT. But people aren't being malicious, they're mostly just clueles…

States got strong and organized enough that they could consistently defeat the raiders. Castles, feudalism, better lines of communication, bigger and more professional armies.

Makes sense. Hope you get better sleep!

This is cool don't get me wrong, but surely overcomplicated? Why not just record audio to disk the whole night then eyeball the waveform for loudness spikes? If you just don't conn…

As you add more code between the "open" and the "close", you introduce more opportunities for control flow to accidentally skip the "close" (leak), or call it more than once (doubl…

Okay fine, I'll voice my concern: I'm concerned.

I have a lot of issues with this one: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/premature-optimiz... It leaves out this part from Knuth: >The improvement in speed from Example 2 t…

(I work at Antithesis) Yes, this is (more or less) how we regenerate the system state, when necessary. But keep in mind that the fuzzing target is a network of containers, plus a w…

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VBA, PowerQuery, structured references, the newer formulae like XLOOKUP, dynamic array-spill formulae, map/filter/reduce/lambda, various obscure financial stuff. Sheets and Calc do…

>The only worthwhile change in desktop environments since the early 2000s has been search as you type launchers. Add to that: unicode handling, support for bigger displays, mixed-D…

Yeah it seems like we're still in the "XYZ ... but on a computer!" stage of AI.

Oh wow, I've never seen that "list of iterators" trick before. I always thought you needed an explicit queue for breadth-first. Thanks!

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The existence of countries other than the US is not a "technicality". But it doesn't matter because the whole article is AI generated.

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>Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Nevermind Claude,…

The implication is that they got divorced.