averros

7 ms·

1.
by averros 6y ago
Thank you, I guess. I've been a practicing software engineer for over 40 years now, and watching the decline of my profession over the decades is quite painful.
2.
by averros 6y ago
Nope. Dijkstra was and still is right. The newfangled ways of teaching how to code managed to produce a generation of really poor-quality software "engineers" producing atrocious slow and buggy bloatware. You cannot be a good engi
3.
by averros 6y ago
This kind of confusion happens in newspapers and other coroprate media so often that one is left to wonder if it is intentional. After all, the fear porn sells.
4.
by averros 6y ago
Economy is NOT a social construct, fabricated or not. Economic laws are direct consequences of physical laws (i.e. scarcity is the result of Fermi statistics which makes material things to take space and of the no-cloning theorem which mean
5.
by averros 6y ago
Of course, people DID build ternary computers. The most notable of these is Setun' (I had a chance to play with it at Moscow State University). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
6.
by averros 7y ago
You still don't get accurate data if you just count bodies. The issue here is every death is attributed to COVID-19 if the virus is present even if the actual reason is some other underlying health condition . Given that most victims
7.
by averros 7y ago
Not really. When programming was done by real engineers (rather than "coders", "developers", or horribly misnamed "software engineers") - with proper engineering discipline which involved deliberate design and
8.
by averros 7y ago
Just don't mention the elephant in the room: the Cantillon effect which is primary reason for the wealth flowing from working classes and savers to the bankers and the managerial class. Entirely courtesy of artificially low interest ra
9.
by averros 7y ago
Why stop at plants? If someone chooses to take whatever substance it's no one else's business (unless others have to pay for the medical treatment afterwards... but that is easily solved by NOT making others pay). The actually da
10.
by averros 7y ago
No, LinkedIn works to establish the network of professional connections which stays with you even when you got a job. Now, I'm not sure if these are of any worth (I never got anything useful out of LinkedIn... either people trying to s
11.
by averros 7y ago
Because if homosexual behavior is genetically-determined (or inalterably biologically determined) the gays can argue that they are being discriminated for what they ARE, rather than for what they CHOSE to be. There's a large number of
12.
by averros 7y ago
The Left tries to sanitize history... Probably because history clearly shows that their cult is apt to turn into mega-murder. Like National Socialists' did.
13.
by averros 7y ago
I certainly did read it :)
14.
by averros 7y ago
TV shows are notoriously bad sources of information about the real world. In the real world if the police has anything solid which they believe points at you as the perp, they will arrest you first (possibly after watching you for a while)
15.
by averros 7y ago
Oh, woes. How people ever managed to develop any software before github?
16.
by averros 7y ago
The future missiles are going to be shiny. As in "mirrors". The BIG SECRET of directed energy weaponry is that there's a very simple and cheap method of reducing absorbed energy by orders of magnitude - reflect it in arbitrar
17.
by averros 7y ago
Facebook currently enjoys essentially the same legal protection from liability arising from the content as do post and telephone companies (this is known as "common carriage"). The legal reasoning for such protection is that commo
18.
by averros 7y ago
If compiler speed is your problem, then you're not doing development right. Tweaking the code until it produces something which looks right (and/or passes the tests) as the primary means of achieving correct operation is guarantee
19.
by averros 7y ago
The reason why most coders (who came to an interview) cannot code is simple: a decent coder gets a job after a few tries. A pretender (in my experience, a degree from IITs or some other degree mills from the same part of the world strongly
20.
by averros 7y ago
As somebody who wrote all of the above (and a lot more) I call B.S. on this one. The amount of unique stuff in each subfield is not that great, and if you have a wide and solid base in different subfields, picking up the unique ideas and te
21.
by averros 7y ago
...oh, and there's also the issue of time domains and time sources having different spectral shapes of their noise.
22.
by averros 7y ago
Basically, everyone who has a clue about time standards uses TAI for internal representation in non-relativisitic applications. In other news: most software is brain-dead and most software engineers lack basic education in pretty much every
23.
by averros 7y ago
The kids are just spoiled brats. If they wanted to combat inequality the option of donating their allowance to a charity or simply giving it away is always here for them. But, of course, the kids want to force OTHERS to be "charitable&
24.
by averros 7y ago
Here's a good rule of thumb: if you are a mentally competent adult and are forced to do something, this something is not in YOUR best interests. A propos: the "herd immunity" line of argumentation is totally red herring, sinc
25.
by averros 7y ago
Well, producing solar panels and such also requires energy input, and these do have limited lifetime. What is the real full-cycle energy conversion ratio is? Secondly... continuous distillation doesn't necessarily require lots of energ
26.
by averros 7y ago
It degrades energy density of the fuel (by volume). In other words, today's gasoline in US takes you 4% less distance than gasoline from 70s. It also creates problems with internal corrosion (which is why it is not used in aircraft fue
27.
by averros 7y ago
Airplanes have differential braking (in some models there's no other way to steer on the ground, in most the nose or tail wheel is turned by the rudder pedals), and the brakes are controlled by pressing rudder pedals by toes (rather th
28.
by averros 7y ago
Well, TANSTAAFL. Inflation takes wealth from savers and people on fixed annuities (such as pensions) and transfers it to spendthrifts and fools who took on loans they're not able to pay. This proposal is quite asinine, so it must be ra
29.
by averros 7y ago
Moar conspirology! It used to be Trump in cahoots with GRU. Now it's <s>reptiloids</s> Assange. Since when leaking the evidence of shady dealings is something immoral? Really, why outrage at Assange who is merely a m
30.
by averros 7y ago
It's a usual CS graduate failing, actually - to think that only asymptotic time complexity matters. A competent programmer understands that in many cases there are much faster ways of doing things with small chunks of data than asympto

More ›