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space filling curves can also be used under the hood in data structures that support efficient spatial queries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_R-tree

> To target a space-based laser for the Strategic Defense Iniative (commonly known as the "Star Wars" program) I'm guessing this application would be selecting an ordering to engag…

DoD may be a good idea for a business context where one of your main priorities is getting the most efficient use out of memory bandwidth & cache. E.g. if your job is writing game …

> I haven’t seen those thoughts about community when I have read about patterns in SWE Maybe a bit of a tangent to your point: one major difference that jumped out at me about Alex…

A related concept is liability. Suppose you're a service provider - a contractor who performs maintenance services. You sign a contract with your client, BigCo, where you will serv…

Am I right to guess that neither your dev nor prod machines ran IA-64? If so that's not ideal, but beggars can't be choosers & a spare box from the infra team available right now i…

It depends wildly on the type of game. e.g. if you're playing a single player turn-based strategy game, you might be taking a few seconds between each decision & UI interaction. So…

Couple of guesses: your usage patterns may have been similar to usage patterns of other customers that are often problematic, so some automated anti-abuse system made some statisti…

I'm not a potential customer for this, but i have worked on a few commercial projects involving combinatorial optimisation. Misc thoughts: - I'm not familiar with the LABS problem,…

> there are no plans at all to improve the last mile infrastructure The economics of laying fiber to the premises are heavily driven by density of potential customers * probability…

> things like employer matches in retirement accounts seems completely reasonable to model this as income. > health insurance contributions If your employer provides a health insur…

When thinking about years of work until financial independence, its worth understanding the impact that savings rate has - the fraction of post-tax income remaining to invest in gr…

If the client has an extensive suite of automated tests assessing if the software is meeting its requirements, it should be possible for them to flush out most regressions within m…

The paper could be improved by including a strong classical non-Ising-machine solution approach as one of the methods benchmarked against. E.g. take the same 8-core Ryzen machine t…

In some cases it could be driven by the shape of the work & where the funding is allocated: If there isn't enough guaranteed recurring work, it might not make sense to have a full …

when i worked for an australian bank, one co-worker in a nearby team had been working on the the banks systems as a sysadmin for over a decade. the bank would go through cycles of …

Like you say, there's a fair bit of nuance. Data representations that prevent invalid states being represented are extremely helpful in many domains. I'd strongly recommend making …

I conducted a few hundred software engineering interviews while working for a non-tech corp. Aside from technical problem solving & programming interviews we'd also ask a few behav…

Doubt it. No linux-native application would be designed to use a Windows API.

> I am a fan of the HARD FAIL. It reads as if the change was made to some library code that was depended upon by someone else's program that would "yay, done", which was in turn de…

creating isolated staging & prod environments -- good idea allowing an AI agent to get hold of creds that let it execute destructive changes against production -- not a great idea …

Are the patient emails real patients or could they be test accounts?

Hindenburg Research is great. They also did the Nikola expose (that bunch of shysters who claimed to have electric truck technology where their truck couldn't even move under its o…

Josh Haberman has a good 2013 blog post discussing LL & LR parsers, theory vs practice, context-free grammars & Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs): https://blog.reverberate.org/201…

it could be better than a nudge -- if you could get a mandatory `go fix` call into internal teams' CI pipelines that either fixes in place (perhaps risky) or fails the build if cod…