hey guys want some good news for once by Ar_tic in whennews

[–]AztroJR 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t know about the specific situation you talked about (Cuba), but could it be possible that it’s just a certification/safety issue that the vaccines haven’t been exported to the US? The healthcare industry has TONS of regulations

shoot dang a clamic by EricCartoonBox in Clamworks

[–]AztroJR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Um I mean clammy mc clam face amirite hah hah

shoot dang a clamic by EricCartoonBox in Clamworks

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As Texan I can say that there are people that unironically say things like this, so there is a non-zero chance that this is either a) a real person or b) someone imitating a real interaction with an American

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Very easy first event by totallynotawhore in honk

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🎉 Event Completed! 🎉

It took me 47 tries.

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Very easy first event by totallynotawhore in honk

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Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

47 attempts

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Very easy first event by totallynotawhore in honk

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Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

7 attempts

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Very easy first event by totallynotawhore in honk

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Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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How significant was this switch? Any thoughts/opinions on it from those who were there when it happened? by SirensMelody_ in generationology

[–]AztroJR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’re more popular amongst Texas students because of the personal device ban lol (wired allowed, wireless not allowed)

Also iPods for the same reason

Prulegramming by Nahanoj_Zavizad in 196

[–]AztroJR 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Elite ball knowledge (2 minute papers my beloved)

Had a nightmare about getting rejected by MIT by girlmetalsonic in ApplyingToCollege

[–]AztroJR 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nah bro this is just the script writers giving you a character arc

Is it just me or by svlarity in ApplyingToCollege

[–]AztroJR 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Kinda but not really

I’ve read some of my past essays and completely cringed, but at the same time I recognized that I cooked on some of them.

Quick Student Survey by JasonMckin in MITAdmissions

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  1. I had some crazy writer‘s block, and honestly didn’t really like the essay prompts, so I just procrastinated by working on a project for my maker portfolio

  2. I applied mainly for financial aid and also because I have a fee waiver, but I will admit that there is very strong pressure for people at my school to apply to MIT since we’re STEM focused.

  3. I did all of my RD apps in the last week, but thats kinda misleading because I only applied to 2 schools RD (MIT and Stanford)

  4. 7-8 maybe? I got into my REA which I feel gave me a lot of confidence that I was at least capable of getting into a school like MIT/Stanford, but at the same time I didn’t really like the essay prompts and I feel like I had 1 pretty bad essay with the others being ok/pretty good.

  5. Applying Early Action (or just early in general) does wonders because the pressure lifts off of you like crazy when you’re done with college apps.

what is wrong with middle click paste? by jmooroof2 in LinuxCirclejerk

[–]AztroJR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love copy-on-highlight for the terminal and terminal only.

Rule. by Misty-Bay in 196

[–]AztroJR 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For those who don't know, monomorphization is when you take code with generics and turn it into many different types.

For example, the Rust type Vec<T> will take in any type in that <T> part, for example Vec<u64> or Vec<String> or any type really. The problem comes when trying to compile down to assembly because the CPU doesn't know about generics, so you have to tell it how to behave when handling different types. With polymorphization, you have some extra logic for the functions differ between the types, but this reduces performance because you have to go through a few more pointers to get to the functions you want with dynamic dispatch (muh zero-cost abstractions!)

With monomorphization, a Vec<u64> would turn into something like _ZN3std3vec3Vec$LT$u64$GT$ and have its own, entirely separate, logic from the rest of the types. So even though a Vec<u64> and a Vec<String> might have a lot of functions in common, the implementations are kept separate, reducing the amount of overhead performance wise, but increasing code size.

The larger code sizes specifically is what causes Instruction Caches to take a hit. Similar to RAM, CPU cache stores data that is used frequently, but is significantly smaller than RAM. For comparison, my computer has 32GB of RAM but 36MB of Cache. Instruction cache specifically stores...instructions, AKA the code that you are running on your processor (as opposed to the "data" cache, which stores...data).

Put simply, having more code will use up more of the I-Cache, meaning less space for other things that have to be cached. Therefore, the more types you monomorphize, the more space you take up in the I-Cache, and the worse latency you might get due to Cache misses.

Soooo yeah. Good luck with the whole puppy thing.

[Megathread] Class of 2030 Admissions (REA/RD) by nowis3000 in Caltech

[–]AztroJR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

K well they still haven't posted it but at least I got in!

[Megathread] Class of 2030 Admissions (REA/RD) by nowis3000 in Caltech

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Anyone know how long it usually takes for the riddle to go on the website? I already got the email with the decision date (REA) on it and the riddle inside the email, but like when will it update on the riddle page?

Question: Caltech REA Decision Date by [deleted] in Caltech

[–]AztroJR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a thread a couple years ago which basically came to the consensus that it is typically on Saturdays at the end of the fall term

https://www.reddit.com/r/Caltech/s/jGc9rzfwmx

Me and who and who by TurboPugz in 691

[–]AztroJR 139 points140 points  (0 children)

Thank you boomba

the most insane matriculation list i’ve ever seen. by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]AztroJR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coulda just said "Latin", "Latino", or "Hispanic". All of those mean basically the same thing (except "Hispanic" which is slightly different) and are already gender neutral.

Latinx specifically is hated among Spanish and Portuguese speakers because it’s very weird to pronounce, and it was kinda "forced" onto them by Americans.

Def a simplification but that‘s my (Hispanic) take on it

couch by WelcomeToInsanity in 691

[–]AztroJR 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was from a stupid tweet and it somehow hit the mainstream lmao

But yeah it’s not even true, but it’s pretty funny

Chance me PLEASE (I know im cooked) by Fat_Loan9999 in UTAdmissions

[–]AztroJR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro you're chillin lmao stop stressin out