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I'm in an online degree program in mathematics in my forties and this temptation is very real. The LLMs have memorized every textbook and every exercise so it's easy to have the ki…

We called them "bibles" in undergrad and they were collections of homework and tests from previous terms.

Yes, the newsroom is linked to at the bottom of paypal.com.

I remember SML fondly, best of luck.

ratatui in particular seems like a fine piece of work (I'm currently at a Rust shop and expect to use it a bit going forward).

> Pipelining, cache misses, branch prediction, multiple cores, even virtual memory are all completely invisible to C programs. Are there languages where these are visible? Any time…

Live trading systems are in C++ or Java, but like others have said Python is used for day-to-day research, sometimes R if the particular quant likes it. I never saw any Fortran in …

Thanks for your insights! Haven't had to think about these issues as an individual dev.

Are there other popular tools you'd recommend/not recommend given cost/compliance concerns?

It looks better in desktop mode. There's a slideshow showing the lenses and the patient wearing them.

This list was posted a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32305997

Senior House was an undergrad dorm that the admins put on probation and then shut down and converted to grad housing. https://thetech.com/tags/senior-house

As an alum who lives in Kendall, I think I'm most annoyed that I can no longer walk the basement level from 77 Mass Ave to the med center.

Huh, I grew up in Cherry Hill and graduated HS in 2000, guess we missed it because I didn't learn about the term until years later.

On top of the support staff, they stressed the importance of customer service for all employees. I remember being told that even as a random engineer, if terminal users were to ask…

I was a SWE at Bloomberg for a few years. I don't think people appreciate the breadth of the platform; they employ something like six thousand engineers.

I do applicant interviews for my alma mater (MIT). The number of students applying has skyrocketed, and it sounds like it's the same for peer schools. https://thetech.com/2021/03/1…

It looks like it's the major bebop scale, yes.

Jazz guitarist here, and yes. One of the nice things about the instrument is that a relatively small number of forms for chords and scales are transposable up and down the fretboar…

Beat me to it. If this gets bad there's going to be a global recession and associated political unrest on top of the actual toll of the pandemic.

It's a factor in the insane cost of real estate in tech hub cities where many of us are attempting to live and work.

Seconded, a minimal full-stack system like a messaging service could go in many directions depending on your interests.

I've come to avoid having dates or catching up with friends at certain coffee shop-style places after a couple experiences where we were literally surrounded by people silently on …

Back in the 90s I learned a lot from the Prodigy QBasic community. There were some really cool games that people contributed, they have to be out there on the web somewhere.