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What if the original page is untrustworthy and adds JS?

Is there actually video of the talk?

They'll put up thousands more starlinks and track every mobile device on the planet simultaneously, might as well have a homing beacon in your pocket.

We thought this was so punk back in the day.

Orbits do not work that way

I'd be curious to hear more about how you do the 2 -> 3 embedding there. In S2 it uses cartesian three space, but points are constrained to be unit magnitude. This has advantage an…

I'd like to hear more about the synthetic part of these three spaces, because S2 works exactly as you say, embedding the 2-sphere in three (cartesian) dimensions. S2 points are alw…

You can do this with [S2]( https://s2geometry.io/ ) as well which has the very nice property that parent cells do indeed always contain their children, and sorting the cell ids put…

Mars which is literally covered in poisonous perchlorate soil

emacs!

The Box is very frustrating, especially when there's no one handling the other things, yet you're still not allowed to do them because it'd make the wrong people look bad.

Managers can be lazy just like anyone.

At big tech you have to quantify your value like this regularly, so yeah everyone keeps track of the minutiae.

This person admits he drove people to quit with his behavior, that goes wayyyyyy beyond trying to get the full details. I've worked with this type before and I can envision the col…

I've worked with this particular kind of toxic personality, they think until they've personally internalized all the details, that its not "right", and will exhaust everyone doing …

One of those that thinks everyone owes them explaining everything to them in every detail or its not "right".

They were also loose powder hand loaded weapons, you could fire three rounds a _minute_ if you were really skilled. Everyone in town had to store their powder in a (secure) communa…

Everyone's decided that writing regular software to run locally on a computer is the weird case and so it has to be called "local first".

Let's just start shifting the overton window: let's make all paid advertisement illegal y'all.

No wonder software is so slow today when we're this profligate. "let's run four AIs and ignore 3/4 of them!" ugh.

They usually have dedicated acceleration hardware, yes: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/sprabb6b/sprabb6b.pdf?ts=174057874...

Mandatory CR is mostly a way for mediocre programmers to feel like they're contributing IMHO.

Impossible, HN has assured me that Microsoft has changed.

A thunk is just a function with no arguments representing a computation. In C++: int a=1, b=2; auto thunk = [=]() { return a+b; }

FFTW will definitely query cpuid at runtime too, since it's piecing together kernels anyways it's not much more work for it to choose to ignore AVX, etc. If you use the [guru inter…