Going with the default, we were already using other services from them.
So you still have other stuff with AWS?
Readit Newsnp_tedious commented on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/jamesblonde
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You... you must have been quite some 5 year old.
Lol. Def not for 5 year olds but it's about exactly what I needed
How about this:
Take a lot of pictures of a scene from different angles, do some crazy math, and then you can later pretend to zoom and pan the camera around however you want
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Not to be confused with Old Farmer's Almanac (est. 1792) and yet sad to see a 200 years old periodical closing up shop.
https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-233-years-and-st...
They appear experienced at navigating this confusion
np_tedious commented on Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) stevehanov.ca/blog/index.... · Posted by u/Kerrick
> If so, this is not terribly important
It is not uniformly random, which is the whole point.
> That article is mostly about speed
The article is about how to actually achieve uniform random at high speed. Just doing mod is faster but does not satisfy the uniform random requirement.
If your number of AB testing combos cohorts is fewer then 100 then yeah this passes for being uniform
np_tedious commented on Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from? grossack.site/2025/01/16/... · Posted by u/mathgenius
Well I was curious, but there's a lot there I didn't understand. Apparently I'm good enough at math to do the proofs, but not to write the exercises.
Exercise left to the reader:
Prove 7*n^3 + n is divisible by 2
np_tedious commented on Five years of React Native at Shopify shopify.engineering/five-... · Posted by u/onnnon
I would read the <500ms screen loads as follows:
When the user clicks a button, we start a server round-trip and fetch the data and do client-side parsing, layout, formatting and rendering and then less than 500ms later, the user can see the result on his/her screen.
With a worst-case ping of 200ms for a round-trip, that leaves about 200ms for DB queries and then 100ms for the GUI rendering, which is roughly what you'd expect.
What does "DB queries" mean here? The on-device sqlite stuff?
np_tedious commented on Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) stevehanov.ca/blog/index.... · Posted by u/Kerrick
If you mod by anything other than a power of two, it won't be. https://lemire.me/blog/2019/06/06/nearly-divisionless-random...
That article is mostly about speed. The following seems like the one thing that might be relevant:
> Naively, you could take the random integer and compute the remainder of the division by the size of the interval. It works because the remainder of the division by D is always smaller than D. Yet it introduces a statistical bias
That's all it says. Is the point here just that 2^31 % 17 is not zero, so 1,2,3 are potentially happening slightly more than 15,16? If so, this is not terribly important
np_tedious commented on Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) stevehanov.ca/blog/index.... · Posted by u/Kerrick
careful when doing that though!
i've seen some big eyes when people assumed IDs to be uniform randomly distributed and suddenly their "test group" was 15% instead of the intended 1%.
better generate a truely random value using your languages favorite crypto functions and be able to work with it without fear of busting production
The user ID is non uniform after hash and mod? How?
np_tedious commented on Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/n1b0m
> Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male.
There were definitely Chinese and Indian males too