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by RandomOpinion 6y ago
Gell-Mann ammnesia.
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by RandomOpinion 7y ago
Both were by Gearbox, IIRC, probably best known recently for the Borderlands series.
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by RandomOpinion 7y ago
I would say in addition. Black Mesa has rather uneven difficulty which detracts from the experience.
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by RandomOpinion 7y ago
Black Mesa is beautifully done but combat is not as well balanced as the original game; there are odd spikes in difficulty at certain points that will have you cursing. Players new to the series would be better served by playing the origina
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by RandomOpinion 7y ago
> older devs had to go into management to keep their career trajectory ... FAANG companies seem to have figured it out for people they've already hired. The FAANG companies and other technology platform companies have separate tec
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
> A perfect vacuum is a perfect insulator. If that were true, vacuum tubes (used for radio and early computers) wouldn't work.
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
Email works just fine for that.
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
The homebrew RFID tags in the articles you link to are LF (125-134 kHz) RFID tags. The ones described in the video are UHF (860-960 MHz) RFID tags, which differ considerably in design and protocol.
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
Compilers, embedded systems and similar low level work, reverse engineering where you don't have the binary (e.g. malware), and that kind of thing.
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
There's the ACM and IEEE already though?
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
> Or you could argue that it originated with Unix coming out of Bell Labs and being passed around universities on reels of tape, with new extensions contributed along the way. That was not motivated at all by the open source movement.
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
Perhaps use the pattern used by rotary encoders? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_encoder#Ways_of_encodin... See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5hIxdCMZ0 for a visual example.
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
> Didn't Star Trek essentially pioneer the concept of technobabble? Hell, no. Technobabble has been a staple of science fiction all the way back to its origins.
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by RandomOpinion 8y ago
> I kind of expect that the "let consumers be the beta testers and fire all our QA" approach is going to majorly bite them in the ass at some point and lose a lot of goodwill. I wish I could agree with you. However, the QA l
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Nice to see some competition in this space. For those curious, the Xeon Ds are designed for low-power servers; one can get a 8 core/16 hyperthread D-1541 that has a TDP of 45W. Makes for a nice home server but Intel has been charging
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> I guess what I'm saying is that by allowing a device to upgrade in software to more power-efficient designs, you might claw back some of the efficiency lost by using an FPGA when you consider the entire product's lifetime.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
There wasn't any real reason to use the 80186 in a PC; it was meant for embedded devices. The only major feature that it had was some additional hardware for timers and DMA built in. Everything else was (more or less) architecturally
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Seems to be based on this paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089523 There appears to also be presentation slides for a preview of this paper at: https://siepr.stanford.edu/syste
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> The functioning of chemistry in individual cells definitely are influenced by quantum effects. So? Transistors used in modern computers directly depend on quantum effects (semiconductor physics was an outgrowth of QM) as well, yet w
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> I'm not sure why you think the underlying physics is deterministic. If conclusive evidence were found that human consciousness is fundamentally dependent on QM processes to function, that would be a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery.
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
"HPE straps AMD chip into 2P/2U server box with Epyc results" - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/21/hpe_brings_amds_epy... "Microsoft Announces Azure VMs with Dual 32-core AMD EPYC CP
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> They pretty much dominate mobile OSes, they have the top used browser, they dominate email There's no direct value in any of those. Google gets very little direct revenue from the things you list nor could they ever hope to tra
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
Visual Capitalist has a set of pie charts that show the breakdown of revenue streams for 5 of the top tech giants, including MS, Google, Amazon, etc. that illustrate exactly what you're talking about: http://www.visualcapita
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> At the other companies I've worked for, you were expected to come to the meeting having read the docs sent over email. It may be expected but large numbers of people don't do it. The 20 min. thing is a bit odd but I can se
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Except every vendor doesn't. By some magic voodoo witchcraft, x86 remains consistently capable of producing a single kernel that can run on anything from Intel or AMD. The "magic voodoo witchcraft" is Microsoft's
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
If you're carrying it physically on your person daily, I have yet to see anything better than Leatherman's Skeletool. It's light (5.0 oz), has the core tools (a rather sharp knife with quick-access mechanism, pliers / wi
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> See anyone you can think of from the 60s and 70s like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Ken Thompson had a MS in EE/CS and Dennis Ritchie had degrees in both physics and mathematics, all of which are far more difficult than progr
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> Do they have the work ethic and professionalism to continue to do so? It is a rare person who has enough work ethic to force themselves to use their own free time to improve in a field they don't have any passion for. If that w
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
> How do you make sure that everyone understand that that equipment belongs to you and not The Company? For BYOD laptops/PCs, keep the receipt (which will usually include the serial number) and store a photocopy at the office in a
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by RandomOpinion 9y ago
I've happily brought equipment purchased at my own expense to work. It amortizes down to very little over the lifetime of the hardware (even a $1600 workstation laptop amounts to roughly $0.25 per hour over 3 years at 40 hours a week)

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