Sam Hughes

programmer, RethinkDB quasi-maintainer, rentoid

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@rossium The first time I tried to solve this (a friend had it for homework in undergrad) I reasoned that starting from point n you have 100% probability of reaching 0 or 2n, each equally likely. Thus a 1/2 + 1/4 + ... + 1/2^n chance of touching zero before 2^n.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@JAWA6972 @RCMaxw3ll If his chosen field is UX, I'd guess a more certain problem is that there aren't jobs in it and it doesn't really require 6 years of training. Say you wanted to make a phone app or web app. You wouldn't worry about being outcompeted in UX by guys with a master's in HCI.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@JAWA6972 @RCMaxw3ll A large fraction of people with a bachelor's in CS -- I would guess at least a third of those of the safety school I went to -- can't really code and won't work as programmers. So companies have interviews that test if they can really code.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@JAWA6972 @RCMaxw3ll So, many smart people, who can code, get a BA in Comp Sci. Almost none get a master's in HCI.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@_its_not_real_ @generativist Maybe constant bit rate is enough; was asking because I read blog posts a decade ago. Not surprised Signal mentions CBR (and seems to imply that suffices). https://t.co/p74uFCZSsW

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@_its_not_real_ @generativist What I meant was, can traffic analysis reconstruct phonemes and conversations through packet sizes.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@_its_not_real_ @generativist Random question: is it using variable bit rate audio compression?

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@mxllysworld @captgouda24 Did you look at their explanations?

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@nikutaberuru A gap wedge

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@richard_normal Watch on TV

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

If you're pro-abortion for eugenic reasons, you still shouldn't kill the Down's babies, because they have 0 TFR and thus don't pollute the gene pool.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

One of my hobbies is checking to see if this book got sold. So far (at least) one copy has.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@abdimoalim_ Real analysis actually just makes sense and you should feel increasingly comfortable as the hand-wavey calculus mumbo-jumbo you learned before gets rigorized.

If this is your first proof-based math textbook then that might be the issue.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@abdimoalim_ You have that backwards.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@Jeyffre Wait until you find out what they did to the word "crypto".

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@GovKathyHochul i loled

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@_JeanLeon @gbrew24 Your negotiating position is better if you're believably willing to walk.

[Sam Hughes @samuhyu]

@MorlockP San Diego has potholes galore