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Someone seeking a job that you control can probably be said to be like a coworker for the purposes of analyzing power imbalances.

We have been inundated by posts like these lately as these creepy dudes have been outed. I have felt as you do on several of them. IMO, this one comes the closest to being a real a…

I wouldn't say perfectionism and sales-orientedness are on the same dimension. However, I have noticed that being given the hard-sell is more often than not associated with the pro…

If not fines, then imprisonment for contempt of court is a remedy judges have at their disposal. I'm sure it would not take very long for Kholsa to get the point.

The purpose of sanctions in a situation like this is to compel the recipient of those sanctions to do the court's bidding. They should just ratchet the sanctions up until he does w…

> Actually, such behavior has gotten people killed in those contexts. Nobody is going to die if you can't date someone. Again, I advocate a conservative approach to getting a date …

- Reparations to all he harmed directly. - Further reparations to groups representing those similarly situated. - Meaningful engagement with mental health professionals to attempt …

You think that the women you've worked with have been promoted . . . because you were fantasizing about them instead of engaging with them? Not, for e.g., maybe because they were m…

Normally people have to do some penance before forgiveness, especially as the crimes grow more heinous. Continuing to live the rich and privileged life you were leading before, mor…

> Disclosure, this comes to mind because of something that happened between me and a colleague of equal rank in a volunteer organization who went directly from "I don't think I can…

I dunno. A 30% code size win is non-trivial. I'm all for filing an issue first and seeing how likely it is that there is uptake from the dev team and desire to fix the problem. How…

Yes, yes. Or governments can enforce a more equitable split through taxes. But you still have to give some benefit to those who save, else there will be no reason to do aught but c…

On some level, this is basically "capitalism 101." If I don't need my resources now, I can put them to work so that I can later benefit from them. This leads to me having productiv…

Construction and rent also vary with fanciness. Rent because rent is more expensive in the fancy parts of town. Construction because the quality of finishes is a significant factor…

What it costs to open a fancy restaurant with top quality finishes including walls dripped with rose gold resin .

But . . . substantial effort is already being put in globally. Not enough by far, but much more than zero. This would seem to put the lie to your claim that nothing will be done un…

She's also a socialist, for what it's worth, and involved in lobbying for quality affordable housing. That doesn't make her immune from attacks of classism, but it might affect how…

Yours seems like a flippant response, but I don't think that it is. We have to be wary of confirmation bias here on HN. Would someone even think to publish a study where no effect …

To be clear, I don't think this is the only thing that makes python slow. It's probably one of the top five or ten things preventing it from being fast, though.

Well of course. :) If you don't write perf sensitive code, don't worry about perf. But if you do, in many cases avoiding hash tables can become important.

There's also FarmHash, whose 32-bit version is 2x as fast as xxHash on little endian machines (at least according to this benchmark suite https://github.com/rurban/smhasher ).

In fact, what performance oriented devs need to be taught about these days is how to not use hash tables, or, more generally, dictionaries. They are a super-easy data structure to …

I think you might be a little confused. Even in hash tables with chaining, one does not tend to spend much time traversing linked lists, because the typical bucket will have only o…

> You can implement the sorted vector of keys with a hash function instead of a coindexed vector of values So you're saying you're going to hash the keys, then sort them according …

> sorted vector of keys . . . reserve necessary memory and sort it . . . unsorted coindexed arrays . . . Most of the things you mentioned are not hash tables, but members of a pare…