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2 years agodiscuss

Why is makeup considered cheating but surgery not?

2 years agodiscuss

This is not really the point though. Why is "uses Chomskian language" the criteria for whether it not it's okay to to change and slaughter a living being?

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2 years agodiscuss

So the image needs to be regenerated every time the post is read? Sounds wasteful to me.

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2 years agodiscuss

If I remember correctly, at Google we would run a sampling profiler on some processes in prod to create these profiles, with some mechanism for additional manual overrides

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2 years agodiscuss

On the blackboard he and his students wrote "Godel's Proof -- too important to be left to the mathematicians."

As a mathematician, I'd love if anyone here knew the context

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2 years agodiscuss

And the not asked often enough corollary: just because there exists a technical solution to a problem, does that mean it's the right solution?

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2 years agodiscuss

I mean I'm general, I'd rather buy fewer of the same things no matter if it's cheap or expensive if I didn't have to, and it would use less resources. Juicing someone's quarterly sales report is no good reason for me to buy a refrigerator, yet here we are.

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2 years agodiscuss

And not necessarily the long term result anybody wants

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2 years agodiscuss

Erdos-Bacon number is a join and sum ;)

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2 years agodiscuss

Yes I meant specifically for Kevin Bacon. There are other all pairs shortest paths algorithms besides running Dijkstra N times

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2 years agodiscuss

They call the dijkstra implementation slow but that's because they aren't using the full information it presents. Dijkstra gives shortest paths from one node to every other node in the graph, so you run it once and materialize it and now you have a full Kevin Bacon database

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2 years agodiscuss

I don't understand why constexpr allocated memory can't be freed at runtime. It's not so different from statically allocated memory being freed at runtime. Maybe it requires hooks into malloc so the compile time allocations can be known at the start of the run?

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2 years agodiscuss

Travel by bus in London and your opinion may change

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2 years agodiscuss

Drive by appreciation of this micro bit of prose.

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2 years agodiscuss

Most browsers will accept a mouse click or screen tap as user action which allows audio playback. I've used overlays to solve this problem, for example on https://cafegoblin.com (shameless plug for my friend's zine)

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2 years agodiscuss

Or you just use the app store version and it all works fine?

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2 years agodiscuss

I'm sure that helps them pay their rent and put food on the table.

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5 years agodiscuss

I should say I meant I found sexism outside of Google in the c++ community at large. Within Google everyone is very respectful

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5 years agodiscuss

They were around. I remember that Izzy was a part of the conversation around modules for example.

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5 years agodiscuss

I met Izzy a few times at cppcon and always came away impressed. I have basically the same thoughts about the c++ community -- it burns people out and it's filled with a ton of negativity and ego and it's very hard to get anything done. While I was at Google I spent some time trying to push for some sort of codes of conduct after a colleague of mine had a reasonable proposal ripped to shreds in email groups with all sorts of inappropriate sexist and personal attacks. I got absolutely nowhere.

Don't get me wrong, there are many good people there pushing for positive change but the amount of inertia in that scene is just staggering.

I'm glad you got out and decided to do something more meaningful with your talent, Izzy

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