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Advantage play in Black Jack boils down to: 1. Placing minimum bets when odds are in the casino's favor. 2. Placing large bets when odds are in the player's favor. This makes the b…

I'm curious, did they give you details about the way it was graded?

Not sure if still the case, but remember watching a talk (around 2021) where they mentioned they were using different providers. Among them AWS for some regions.

> while people are still in consideration, we have an obligation (we don't always meet) to be responsive, because people are pending their career decisions on our own decisions. I …

I think it's a mix of several things at play: 1. Fast growing organizations struggle to keep up with the communication overhead when rapidly onboarding new engineers. Most common o…

I once had an employer that would ask us to perform monthly myers briggs and big 5 tests. I was in a tough financial spot and needed that job. Did my best to roll with it. One day …

> 1) If you update the bottom branch, you need to manually rebase each branch above it. That becomes brutal if your stack is >3 branches. I do this relatively easily with `--rebase…

I am starting to teach at my local University and this was just the thing I needed to read. Thanks a lot Sam.

My bad, for some reason assumed you were talking about bet sizes. Starting stack sizes were static, but I don't think it's something important. They varied during the course of pla…

I read the 2019 paper[0] where they beat 5 pros in a 6-max table. It did not assume fixed stack sizes, it uses a technique they call "action abstraction" where they train on some n…

I got very deep into the Poker rabbit hole from another hacker news article a couple months back. This is the journey I would suggest for someone starting out: 1. Johns Hopkins Pok…

The story goes that Hyrum tried to call this "The Law of Implicit Interfaces", but within Google everyone started calling it Hyrum's law and that's what's caught on.

Producers Framework is awesome. Took me a while to wrap my head around writing code that way. Is there anything open source that is similar to it?

> In the HN bubble lots of people have migrated to Signal with all of their contacts but outside of that bubble nothing much seems to be happening. I live in Mexico, most things ha…

> It would be a truly herculean task to bring another framework up to the same level of support and integration of Angular inside Google. I left on 2018, and I remember there were …

Very interesting read. I can understand the frustrations of both Pali and the maintainers. A lot of projects that are core to the Linux desktop are in a similar state. Last I heard…

I just realized why I have a lot of christmas memories of me sitting around with family while reading hacker news comments in a thread about a ruby release. Never noticed it's alwa…

John Nagle commenting on Nagle's algorithm: To avoid network congestion, the TCP stack implements a mechanism that waits for the data up to 0.2 seconds so it won’t send a packet th…

Chromium actually uses GN, not bazel. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15Zwb53JcncHfEwHpnG_P...

Steve Yegge's blog[0] on the matter made me convinced to learn to touch type. Went from ~60wpm to ~90wpm over a few years of practicing every once in a while. http://steve-yegge.bl…

The answer could be 2x. Let's say you're in a 64 bit platform. Your linked list nodes consist of a next pointer and a 64 bit integer. If your linked list nodes are all allocated se…

The thing that made git click for me was to understand the data structures that make git work. There's beauty and elegance in the implementation details of git. You can do and undo…

I'm also on the same path, glad to see I'm not the only one. Joined a FAANG after college, the good salary allowed me to start taking up Gestalt Therapy training on the side. This …

He still gets street cred by saying he quit a 6 or 7 figure job to pursue his dreams.