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by JoshuaJB 23d ago
The article argues that attributing it solely to poverty is a mistake, and that because of several cost barriers it's more likely being done by middle-income fishers.
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by JoshuaJB 2y ago
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Remote: In-person preferred, open to remote. Willing to relocate: Yes. Technologies: Efficient Real-Time Systems on GPUs Résumé/CV: https://jbakita.me/CV.pdf Email: (see CV) I'm curr
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by JoshuaJB 2y ago
Yes. The kernel has access to data from every workload, and so technically a bug in _anything_ running at kernel level could result in data leakage.
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by JoshuaJB 2y ago
No official word, but the communication antenna on the tower appears to be damaged [1]. Seems likely that played a role. [1] https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1858998330401190375
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by JoshuaJB 2y ago
This law does not prevent Americans from reading, viewing, or saying anything. You will still be free to visit TikTok's web client and do that. This prevents US companies from doing business with the company (eg. ads, app distribution,
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by JoshuaJB 3y ago
Broadcast news and radio are limited to at most 20% foreign ownership by default [1]. Applying a similar requirement to large internet news distributors seems reasonable if they want to do business in the US (even if "banned" they
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by JoshuaJB 3y ago
Although there is a type of peer review that includes redoing experiments and analysis: artifact evaluation. All of the top conferences in my field (real-time embedded systems) include this as an opt-in option, and papers get a special badg
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Livestream of Memorial Service for Dr. Fred Brooks(youtube.com)
2 points by JoshuaJB 4y ago|0 comments
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by JoshuaJB 4y ago
Very nice overview of the Voyager program. I love the words from the President included on the spacecraft: “We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope
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by JoshuaJB 4y ago
It's like a bonus level!
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by JoshuaJB 5y ago
> Last commit was from march... why was this posted now and is there any interest/activity left? I work in an adjacent research group at UNC, and I can assure you that this is a very active project. Unfortunately, because most venue
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How Much Does a C-Section Cost? At One Hospital, Anywhere From $6,241 to $60,584(wsj.com)
3 points by JoshuaJB 6y ago|1 comments
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by JoshuaJB 6y ago
As of fairly recently, the average US household had 1.9 vehicles. [1] [1] https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/highlights_of_the_2...
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by JoshuaJB 6y ago
Per [1], the comment appears to be partially correct. The data prior to 1950 does not agree with [1], but hurricanes were not tracked in the same way prior to 1950. The author may just using a different source for those estimates. [1] htt
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by JoshuaJB 7y ago
From what I understand, they just lengthened the submarine to increase its displacement enough to counter the extra weight. It also looks like the hull of the first submarine is now complete, [1] so there's some possibility they'l
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by JoshuaJB 7y ago
> Tangentially related, does anyone know if there is a DisplayPort-to-USB-C/Thunderbolt cable one could use to connect a GPU (DisplayPort) to a monitor (USB-C/Thunderbolt)? Edit: See other comment. Looks like someone actually d
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by JoshuaJB 7y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm a PhD student in real-time operating systems at UNC.) Each program has its own strengths, and simply comparing between similarly titled classes is an unfortunately poor metric. (Eg. At UNC, OS is really an introduction
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WeWork’s List of Potential Conflicts Adds to Questions Ahead of IPO(wsj.com)
39 points by JoshuaJB 7y ago|8 comments
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by JoshuaJB 7y ago
A large part of that competence comes from their increased manpower. It's almost funny how many more developers they have. I heard from an ex-Google-intern that Google has over 1,000 people working on Chrome. Compare that with EdgeHTML
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Innovation Requires Originality(newsroom.intel.com)
2 points by JoshuaJB 7y ago|0 comments
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
Oh, I could certainly see that. I don't recall encryption/signing working very well in the best of cases. If you haven't yet, I'd suggest submitting a bug report (I think there's a button somewhere in the O365 web i
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
Eh, half the problem is that there are far too many options to maintain, many of them legacy. Smart card authentication has worked great in Edge on Office 365 for years without any plugins at Microsoft, so I imagine your employer has got th
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
> Finally, reboots are necessary on all major operating systems, even linux... Sure, but there's the question of regularity. For the most part, I can do live updates of every part of my linux system (including the kernel if livepatc
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
"For example, they may start integrating technologies for which they have exclusive, or at least 'special' access. Can you imagine if all of a sudden Google apps start performing better than anyone else's?" This is
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
Note that this does not effect all MIPS-based systems. The standard has included hardware floating point for many years now, it just seems some OEMs have neglected to upgrade or cut it for cost savings.
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
They revived the app sometime last year and it's back in a usable state now.
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
Some of the "others," includes pilots, FAA managers, and ex-crash investigators. The article is worth paying for.
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
I was just poking through some of the code and noticed that there seem to a lot of open bugfix PRs [1]. Have you thought about going through and upstreaming some of them? Many of them seem like quick reviews. Edit: Also, if you would like s
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
I spent this summer working on a Windows team at Microsoft, and this article is incredibly insightful for an outside perspective. The dev process internally is basically just waterfall sped up 3x. While my team only permitted code commits a
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by JoshuaJB 8y ago
AMD has a CUDA Transpiler ( https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP ) and a multitude of other open source libraries through GPUOpen ( https://gpuopen.com/professional-compute/ ). The quality and

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