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atn34

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    Comment #48995278

    One of my professors used an example like this to encourage you to pause if you ever find yourself doing something like "maybe if I just flip this the tests will pass". The space o…

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    Comment #48872563

    Then you run the risk of overfitting to whatever seed you picked. I think fixing a seed is probably a good idea most of the time but it’s worth considering

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    Comment #48550094

    I've got a gitea instance and a systemd timer polling for issues assigned to my bot. The systemd timer clones the repo etc and spawns the agent in a restricted environment where it…

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    Comment #46193647

    The original developers (before Apple bought the company) used Visual Studio on Windows

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    Comment #46079958

    > If you wrote a function that takes a PRNG and generates a random object, you already have a function capable of enumerating all objects. Something often forgotten here: if your P…

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    Comment #45859103

    I actually started a collection of annoying bugs I’ve seen in the wild. I give the llm the buggy implementation and ask it to write a test that catches it. So far not even a fronti…

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    Comment #44415756

    I want to make a Birds Aren't Real[0] style t-shirt that says "Floats Aren't Real" [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real

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    Comment #41991740

    The natural recursive implementation is exponential, and the memoized version is O(n)

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    Comment #40447037

    > provided you understand the semantics of your target architecture Unless you're writing inline assembly or intrinsics or something like that, the semantics of your target archite…