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I see several people sharing the Stanford bithacks link, so I'll throw in a slightly-less well-known resource that I found particularly instructive. Basically, a collection of the …

That may be a fair criticism in some cases. For my toy example I don't think it is because it's generally easy (in the languages I work in) to overload arithmetic operators on type…

Readability. In particular, an increase in the rate at which long, verbose names which are mostly the same are confused with one another.

I have. I prefer statically typed languages.

> Long verbose names don't cost anything They absolutely do have a cost. The question is whether the benefit they bring in implicit documentation is worth their cost. > Even beyond…

> the semantics it learns sometimes have significant artifacts resulting from associations that are common in news coverage I think this is largely the point. The game is significa…

| It tests my anxiety levels at least 5x more than my skillset. I'm not so convinced that these are two distinct things. I want coworkers who can maintain their level of skill unde…

Would you have been willing to hire this person without them graduating?

First, I claim there exist disasters that are not simple to mitigate against collectively. Civil unrest (the full spectrum, from vigorous protest to outright governmental collapse)…

Exactly one of the characters in that story can weather disasters.

IME, when people say this, they mean that the difference between two quantities varies exponentially with time.

> Yeah, there are reasons to use dynamic linking, but I'm still not sure why dynamic linking gives you better profiling and tracing. It's not so much that the tracing becomes bette…

Thanks! Since this was not obvious to me (and maybe isn't to others) here's a summary that cleared things up for me: https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/citizenscientist/oxygen-in-t...…

Suppose all of those mitigations in your second paragraph are true. If phytoplankton die off in meaningful amounts, where will we get our oxygen?

Landau's "Foundations of Analysis"

Agreed. I remember reading Hinterlands as a high school student and being depressed for the following decade.

Consider a meeting in which you are attempting to read the body language of an adversary. Video chat may not be sufficient. For a concrete example, consider poker. Note that I am t…

What does OpenMP (the shared memory parallel runtime) have to do with optimizing away less-used branches? Am I missing something here or did you mean something else instead of Open…

> I'm sorry addition isn't commutative... My understanding is that in IEEE 754 compliant implementations of floating-point arithmetic, commutativity over "+" holds but not associat…

If you're interested in schools of thought that argue on the side of "better off not having been born at all", take a look at negative utilitarianism.

I suspect that tattoo/piercing artists are simply an affordable set of professionals with the right experience for implanting various body mods.

I certainly understand that it's not legal to turn your house, nor your lunch, into a deathtrap. Nor at any point did I claim that any particular kind of action was legal. I said t…

Maybe it is "always wrong" given a particularly rigid and simplistic code of ethics, but in American society at least we are very comfortable with the notion of causing deserved ha…

I don't think the author gains anything. On the contrary, as a reader I gain something from this statement. It's not "now would be an excellent time to leave and you should feel ba…

Elite track cyclists--i.e., the ones who ride at 40+ kmph on velodromes--definitely do squat. I wouldn't be surprised if they also incorporated power cleans and deadlifts. Example:…