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by bhb916 3y ago
Quite the contrary, the world you envision isn't nice to think about at all. It's impractical, inefficient, wildly haphazard, and, worse than that, would produce the exact opposite of what you're looking for. The profit motiv
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by bhb916 3y ago
I just confirmed - this book was my first purchase on Amazon. May 24th, 1999. I had just decided to go from undeclared to EECS at Cal and wanted to take a crash course in hardware. I read the book over the summer and never turned back.
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by bhb916 3y ago
What specifically did you find objectionable in his list of charities?
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by bhb916 3y ago
These laws are not made to be coherent or actually help people. They are made to curry favor with a particular base. It creates all these super strange situations where it's impossible to know what the rules will be. These nonsensical
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by bhb916 3y ago
To top this all off, our ability to "put the domestic economy first" through policy is non-existent. Any attempt to fix this "problem", that you accurately described as a problem only because it's socially unaccepta
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by bhb916 3y ago
This isn't textbook Baader–Meinhof, but after 4 decades of never consciously hearing about this fruit I've now encountered it three times in one week: [1] on the allowed low fodmap diet, [2] in the lyrics of a jungle book song, an
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by bhb916 4y ago
That doesn't seem like a problem - that seems like a feature. Maybe "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" just stuck with me, but a just society doesn't sacrifice the prosperity of a few for the "greater good".
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by bhb916 4y ago
Pre-uber it was common at McCarren Airport (Las Vegas) that taxis would intentially take you the wrong way to spike their fare. Those who knew would have to demand the driver to not take the tunnel, and even then they would argue with you.
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by bhb916 5y ago
Ugh. Sorry to hear that. IMHO the damage done to the kids here is worse than the risks they would face from the virus. Kudos to you for doing what you can to keep your kids connected socially.
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by bhb916 5y ago
Facebook Kids Messenger is decent (for all the reasons you mentioned), however, I am pessimistic about it being genuinely appealing to kids. It's staying alive because middle-aged parents are forcing it on their children - they are the
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by bhb916 6y ago
But what about the driver who doesn't want to be classified as an employee? What right do they have? Less trite - my nephew is in his mid-twenties and appreciates the flexibility that food delivery and ride sharing allows him. Is legis
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by bhb916 6y ago
This reply is spot on top to bottom. "Who knows what sort of damage it will cause in the Five Eyes countries next time a moral hysteria sweeps through the public..." That moral hysteria is NOW and every day since mid-march.
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by bhb916 6y ago
Genuine question: how will these countries keep deaths below 10 a week while being completely out of lockdown? Doesn't that rely on a treatment or vaccine?
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by bhb916 7y ago
Fragile systems are generally built using single points of failure. Centrally planned solutions are generally rife with them. I will trust the robustness of a system made up of 327.7M individual plans then the command solutions you are sugg
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by bhb916 7y ago
"Beaches and rivers belong to all of us." This seems like an arbitrary distinction. What makes you think this and not something like "all geographic features belong to all of us"? What makes beaches and rivers so special
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by bhb916 8y ago
This is not meant to be snarky - but how are you sure? Are we convinced that those who attend TLJ will perform better than their peers who do not? I agree that dignified education systems matter, but I think effective education systems woul
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by bhb916 8y ago
Especially in socialist countries.
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by bhb916 8y ago
And it's environment, with 8 of 10 most polluted cities.
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by bhb916 13y ago
As someone who spends 40 hours a week (and 60 - 70 lately) coding Verilog for FPGAs I'm always excited when something domain-specific hits the front page. I have no idea what a PL Troll is, though, so I think I missed the point of the
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by bhb916 13y ago
That's not a dumb question at all. The answer is simple: by cramming for logic in between registers. Since you (or at least the tools) are in complete control of the routing, you can place as much logic as you would like between regist
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by bhb916 13y ago
I find it interesting that Synopsys would attempt to compete directly with Xilinx's System Generator product. The latter is to my knowledge completely endorsed and supported by The Mathworks. Something to investigate ...
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by bhb916 13y ago
I agree with your assessment. PR is important to designers and system engineers and architects. C-to-Gates is important to business types.
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by bhb916 13y ago
That's a good question. It's almost impossible to tell objectively. I would say that the Altera tools felt more like circa 2007 Xilinx Tools. They lacked quality control AND maturity. This is all very subjective, though.
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by bhb916 13y ago
I moved one of our smaller projects over to Altera because they were first to 28nm plus the local Altera team was willing to help out with porting any device-specific code. I was very disappointed with the tools. It's worth a write-up
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by bhb916 13y ago
It being "hard" shouldn't give them a pass on quality control. From the early Project Navigator to ISE to Vivado, Xilinx tools are buggy, poorly documented, and completely unintuitive. Yet, they're still better than Alte
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by bhb916 13y ago
This is a solid article. I'm continually surprised by how few software engineers in industry spend the time to pick up HDL and FPGA programming in general. In my mind, it is an easy way to expand your breadth of knowledge and make you
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by bhb916 13y ago
"...it's rather frustrating to know that this guy doesn't actually give a shit about the matter like we do, he just wants to score points in this BS game." Wait. How do you know that? Isn't it possible and actually
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by bhb916 13y ago
I'm not a Cato Foundation supporter, but I can't seem to find a single article on their website advocating fossil fuel subsidies. To the contrary, I found four articles articulating opposition (one even congratulated the President!) to them
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by bhb916 13y ago
More ex post reasoning. And it's not being a cynic that makes me believe this -- it's an honest look at the empirical evidence. There is really vibrant underground restaurant industry in Seattle. I don't think people are getting sick/dying
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by bhb916 13y ago
The only difference that matters between friendly exchanges (cooking and room/board) and AirBnB or underground restaurants is that one set of actions threaten the existing power brokers who have the ear of City Hall. No one blinks when you

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