The Only Game Worth Playingnewsletter.calvinrosser.com7 points·by sillywabbit·3 bulan yang lalu·2 comments
Security vendor slams supplier for delayed notice after staff data exposedtheregister.com2 points·by sillywabbit·4 bulan yang lalu·0 comments
sillywabbit·2 bulan yang lalu·discussMaximizing shareholder value seems like a weird thing to hold as a moral imperative.
sillywabbit·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselvesThen why are the extroverts trying to replace engineers with AI?
sillywabbit·2 bulan yang lalu·discussInternet Doomsday Evangelist seems to be a role with infinite chairs.
sillywabbit·2 bulan yang lalu·discussWhat? Eddie and Alexei were the heroes of that story, and they got screwed.
sillywabbit·3 bulan yang lalu·discussAssuming that everyone you meet is conspiring against you seems to be a pre-requisite to these. The feasibility of that is questionable.
sillywabbit·3 bulan yang lalu·discussBack in the day, being a teenager and hanging out on freelancing forums was enough.
sillywabbit·4 bulan yang lalu·discussI used to value this sort of communication. Sometimes I still do. Some feedback I got once that seems relevant to anyone who prefers this style:----Key takeways:1. People are more important than code.2. People have a right to work in an environment free of perceived hostility.3. There is a legitimate reason for the perception and hard work may be necessary to understand why this is.Ask yourself these questions periodically during a conversation:1. Am I listening to the other person?2. Is there an equal amount of give and take or is my primary objective to make someone understand my point of view?3. Does the person want to understand what I am saying?
sillywabbit·4 bulan yang lalu·discussLike the other poster said, the rabbit hole continues with suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_array#Space_efficiency), then compressed suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_suffix_array).Also explained by the creator of this: https://www.abahgat.com/project/suffix-tree/> the human genome can be encoded as a 3GB string constructed out of an alphabet of four characters> As of 2019, a suffix tree indexing the human genome using state of the art algorithms can easily occupy tens of gigabytes.
sillywabbit·4 bulan yang lalu·discussIn the event someone is encountering suffix trees for the first time and thinking of using one: the amount of RAM required for suffix trees is obscene.
sillywabbit·4 bulan yang lalu·discussRushing prematurely into precipitate does sound pretty dangerous.
sillywabbit·4 bulan yang lalu·discussWhat game-changing insights did the philosophy and political science classes leave out? I'm all ears.