GrumpyYoungMan

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by GrumpyYoungMan 16d ago
You describe impact based on the scope of your job role. Most of the things you do day to day could conceivably be phrased of "I am doing my job and I overcame unusual challenge X / did Y to prevent the problem from occurring nex
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by GrumpyYoungMan 29d ago
The author's other videos are also worth a look for those interested in physics, particularly the ones that visually show what occurs under various conditions at relativistic speeds. It is astonishing, not to mention trippy, to see th
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The Relativistic Submarine Paradox (in physics) [video](youtube.com)
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by GrumpyYoungMan 1mo ago
No, they are managers; management and leadership are different things. Being a manager is a set of things that a person is authorized to do on behalf on their employer, "hire, command work and fire" as you said being examples. L
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by GrumpyYoungMan 1mo ago
Having had to estimate peak user traffic patterns, bandwidth usage, etc. for continent-scale services, Fermi estimation questions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem ) are excellent questions for people working
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2mo ago
> " I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. " It was truer in the 1980s-1990s, when programming was not a prestigious or high paying job and comp
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4mo ago
We're already seeing it if most are incapable of recognizing it. The chip folks aren't doing ridiculously complicated things like https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-technology-roadmap in $30 billion+ fabs fo
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by GrumpyYoungMan 4mo ago
There's a very old paper by Cem Kaner about the meaninglessness of "100% coverage" where he included an appendix where he enumerates 101 different possible types of code coverage: https://www.researchgate.net&#x2F
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5mo ago
In what way? RF test equipment is costly and so is building a home electronics lab.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5mo ago
> " ...stuck with hardware out of passion... " At least you don't hate your job, I hope? The recent maturation of AI revealed how many people in software seemingly loathe their own profession.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 5mo ago
> Fred Brooks "throw one away" philosophy Everybody remembers that soundbite but nobody remembers that he changed his mind about it later and switched to advocating iterative refinement.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 6mo ago
> " FPGAs reconfigured during program execution to speed up hot paths " The IEEE conference on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines ( https://www.fccm.org/ ) is in its 34th year, to give you an idea of ho
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by GrumpyYoungMan 8mo ago
Developer testing is checking whether the code does what the developer themself thinks it should. QA testing is checking whether the code does what the customers / users / rest of the world thinks it should.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 9mo ago
My frequent "senior moments" are what make me senior. ( ba-dum-tish )
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by GrumpyYoungMan 10mo ago
Terry Pratchett's Going Postal seems particularly apropos these days as we have Reacher Gilts aplenty in tech news headlines. Obscure and a bit dated but Bruce Betkhe's Head Crash is hilarious if you've been deeply immers
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by GrumpyYoungMan 10mo ago
The problem with that quote is that all of us reading this are telescope operators, not astronomers. The quantity and quality of our telescope photos is what we are paid for so we have no choice but to know our chosen brand of telescope in
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by GrumpyYoungMan 10mo ago
The things you list illustrate @aplamers point that software "doesn't really kill people". If you asked the average person on the street, they might just barely remember the Boeing incidents and the rest they probably have n
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by GrumpyYoungMan 10mo ago
> " How many centuries did it take for civil engineering, for example, to become the codified, standardized, and respected calling it is now? " But the software industry is not starting from centuries ago. We have the benefit
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by GrumpyYoungMan 10mo ago
Software "engineering" doesn't kill people instantly in a flashy way, sure, but it has become more like leaded gasoline, a widespread low-level harm whose effects are increasingly evident in hindsight. You pretty much can&#x
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by GrumpyYoungMan 11mo ago
"Is the company consistently profitable or not?" and "Are revenue and profits growing over time, stable, or declining?" are very important questions to answer, particularly if stock grants are part of the compensation pa
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by GrumpyYoungMan 1y ago
Casual of research shows that the ACM's Code of Ethics can be traced back to its Guidelines for Professional Conduct in Information Processing dating back to 1966 ( https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics/1966-acm-code )
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by GrumpyYoungMan 1y ago
TDD is a development methodology, not a testing methodology. The main thing it does is check whether the developer implemented what they thought they should be implementing, which is not necessarily what the spec actually says to implement
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by GrumpyYoungMan 1y ago
Early in my career, the raise and put it entirely towards retirement savings. Later in my career, the free time.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 1y ago
Debuggers are great until you have to work in a context where you can't attach a debugger. Good old printf works in every context. By all means, learn to use a debugger well but don't become overly dependent on them.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 1y ago
The *.home.arpa domain in RFC 8375 has been approved for local use since 2018, which is long enough ago that most hardware and software currently in use should be able to handle it.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
The fabs propped up the corpse of Moore's Law by throwing mountains of cash at expanding transistors into the third dimension: finFET, GAA, CFET, etc. That has kept the party going a little while longer than it would have lasted but
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
The issue with scrum and agile is that it became a managerial and reporting process to force teams to hit a management imposed deadline instead of what it was intended to be: a tool for engineers to self-manage and self-evaluate their progr
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Vastly? I dunno about that. I was rather fond of Tanenbaum's Structured Computer Organization .
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
Sure, okay, but we can add that variance to the simulated load if it turns out to be meaningful for the system under test.
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by GrumpyYoungMan 2y ago
That battle has been lost. Dell's Ultrasharp U30xx 30" monitors were the last large 16:10 monitors I was aware of and it looks like Dell doesn't even make them anymore when I just checked.

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