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Re:Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:13PM (#40694418)
I'd be curious what role "global approvers" at Google/Google's scale typically have/how many are there/what's the process?
Senior year AP scores aren't available for seniors until way after the application process. I think I ended up having 7/11 of my tests during senior year.

Imo the main advantage APs brings is GPA weighting/more impressive looking transcripts.

I think scores often aren't even considered by admissions -- purely used for college credit.

Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom on Sunday July 11, 2021 @10:48PM (#27806413)
These are the most predictable HN comments
Re:Aurora on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:10PM (#27521555)
Lol don't worry, HN spends a lot more time complaining about web.dev than praising it.
Re:The NSA Instruction (2019) on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:44AM (#27471987)
Yep my bad! I think flipping the order should work still though.

The two links in the article:

https://lemire.me/blog/2016/05/23/the-surprising-cleverness-...

And the LLVM source indicate to me it only picks up on x&(x-1) pattern, which would miss the popcount optimization on code like mine.

Re:The NSA Instruction (2019) on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:16AM (#27471755)
Here's a dumb question. If someone asked me to do it I'd probably write code like:

while(x != 0) { c += x&1; x >>= 1; }

Is this something that should be added to LLVM?

Edit: flip the order

Re:Gab Has Been Breached on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:17AM (#26339236)
Wow, it is actually shocking how disgusting the CEO's comments are.
Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:25AM (#26314119)
It wasn't clear to me, but I might have just missed it. Is there a backup strategy beyond just duplicate data?

Have they lost data during rebuild?I know he briefly talked about that risk with different HD sizes.

Re:Web Spectrogram using your Mic on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:03AM (#26061908)
Yes, I built a really bad version of it a while ago: https://braeden.dev/waterfall/

Click waterfall, and then click play when you have the audio on your computer playing outloud.

If you play the audio outloud, your mic should be able to pick up a barely recognizable version of the picture (try the heart first to calibrate the "row delay").

https://github.com/braeden/waterfall

Take a look at the example pictures on github ^, poor, but functional fully web version.

You can just press ctrl+D and bypass the warning without any sound. It's not a big deal at all.
Re:Chrome Is Bad on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:44PM (#25401535)
Agreed, about 25% of the content on HN seems to be Google hate.
Re:Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:28PM (#25367733)
What's up with the page faults in the timing details?
Really? That's a very cynical outlook.
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Sunday March 22, 2020 @02:12AM (#22653115)
https://braeden.xyz/favsnek

Snake in a Favicon (desktop only - arrow keys)

I know it's been done before, but I thought it was a fun project to throw together quickly.

That link doesn't work either
Re:Basic Electron Framework Exploitation on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:31PM (#20638651)
See this in regards to the new Slack application: https://slack.engineering/rebuilding-slack-on-the-desktop-30.... It's much faster now.

Also, I would be hard pressed to find a 5 sec increase in an electron app vs a native app.

This article is also worth a read, focusing on why Electron fills a necessary niche: https://medium.com/@felixrieseberg/defeating-electron-e1464d...,

Re:Basic Electron Framework Exploitation on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:06PM (#20637244)
What about the potential technical debt and additional manpower it requires to build out per-platform desktop applications.

Easy is a priority for many OSS projects and companies who want to ship something quick and reliable.

Re:Basic Electron Framework Exploitation on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:54PM (#20637116)
It makes cross-platform desktop development much easier.

VSCode, Discord, and (the new) Slack are written in Electron, and those absolutely excel, even at the cost of a bit extra memory usage.

There's a circlejerk of Electron hate, but there's a reason it's so popular, the ease of development outweighs its weighty memory drawbacks for many companies and individuals.

Edit: Not to mention that it uses Node.js, HTML, CSS, so moving from web-apps => desktop becomes a much simpler endeavor.

Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:32PM (#20628643)
Those both seem like implementation issues.
Re:Long time nuclear waste warning messages on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:25PM (#20620781)
The documentary mentioned at the bottom, "Into Eternity" is definitely worth a watch, it's fascinating.
So just use a directional light source pointing away from the craft...
Re:Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:56PM (#20482371)
Yep, you got it, checkout the top commment on this thread
Re:Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:52PM (#20480907)
This straight up crashes my scraper's browser, using puppeteer, extra-stealth ect.
Re:Raspberry Pi 4 not working with some chargers on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:57PM (#20363984)
USB C is fantastic. Standardization is way better than needing several different types of cables for all your devices.