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by examancer 4y ago
You try 3D printing a house on a Pentium, or running inference models. We needed the compute. We need so much compute it boggles the mind and we don't know what to do with it. Only then, as we are drowning in compute, does it spill ove
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by examancer 7y ago
Denver is taking the same approach, and, really, it's the only tool we have for preventing huge increases in traffic as population increases and actually getting people to rely on public transit. I live in a transit-oriented developmen
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by examancer 7y ago
We continue paying more for demonstrably worse care and outcomes than our global peers. Single payer needs to happen, now. Medicare for All.
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by examancer 7y ago
I learned some cool new features coming in Ruby 2.7 and I am very much looking forward to them now. The rest of this post is drivel, complaints, and ends with begging questions answered in his opening bullets. How does this optimize ruby fo
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by examancer 8y ago
This is good for everyone. Hopefully the adoption is swift and we can pretend the myriad Thunderbolt/USB-C/USB 3.0 issues, differences, and confusion never happened.
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by examancer 8y ago
The Incredible Shrinking Sears https://nyti.ms/2uOeTsH
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by examancer 8y ago
I didn't know they sold homes. Kind of amazing. It's a surprising footnote in the tragedy of Sears. The popular narrative of an out-of-touch company unable to compete with the likes of Amazon is false. The CEO is a hedge fund mana
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by examancer 8y ago
It's not all doom and gloom. Major American cities are also being invaded by a litany of battery powered vehicles, especially through ebike and electric scooter rental services. Some places, like here in Denver, seem to be embracing th
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by examancer 8y ago
I think most of us want our code to see the light of day. If given an actual problem to solve, we aren't going to toil away at tiny details forever. We want to see it run! A good manager knows this and will give you room to find that b
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by examancer 8y ago
I was lucky that my first technical role was where I found the best manager I've had. He was my 2nd supervisor in that first role. After that I got to be pickier than most about where to go next, so my results might be rosier than othe
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by examancer 8y ago
He tore down barriers and made sure interactions with other parts of the organization or external parties were as frictionless as possible. He would take any non-technical chores off our plate where possible. He would give clear and frequen
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by examancer 8y ago
I bring my own laptop to work, which runs a linux distro I installed myself (Ubuntu). I also have to use my camera and mic quite a bit, so, they remain free of obstructions most of the time. If I was using my work supplied laptop I would li
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by examancer 8y ago
This story is very thin on details, but with the abysmal quality level of most Samsung software it is 100% believable.
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by examancer 8y ago
That's literally what the OP did. A 1950X is only $799 now, so less than half a top end i9.
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by examancer 8y ago
I misread the headline. I was really worried I wouldn't be able to search C-SPAN archives anymore. I'm glad I can still find old clips of bonehead senators trying to grandstand at hearings.
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by examancer 8y ago
Mickey has been on the verge of entering the public domain for decades now. Every time it gets close Disney and other companies are successful in re-writing copyright law to whatever they want it to be. No, Mickey probably won't be in
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by examancer 8y ago
The GPD Pocket fits this bill. It was available with Ubuntu pre-installed during it's crowd sourcing campaign. The support under Ubuntu is pretty good, including good support for the touch screen. 7" 1080p, atom CPU, 8GB RAM, 128G
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by examancer 8y ago
10000mah and an ARM A53 mean it should last 10 hours or more with moderate brightness settings. It's hard to beat this for a light cheap terminal/browser with plenty of battery if that is something you need.
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by examancer 8y ago
Pretty sure the are just banking on SpaceX dominating the global space launch services market for the next few years. Signs increasingly point to this being a safe bet. The valuation is higher than the annual global launch market, but below
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by examancer 8y ago
Impressed a girl once who's friend had a Mac Classic with important files that needed to be removed. The only removable storage option was a broken floppy drive. It did have a network card, but couldn't find any way to move files
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by examancer 8y ago
While it is a good idea to spread to credit for SpaceX's acheivements around, Musk himself has done more engineering of products at SpaceX and Tesla than any of his peers. His title as CEO of both companies is somewhat misleading as he
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by examancer 9y ago
Newer Intel chips seem to render it fine in Chrome on Linux. i7-8550U laptop here running Ubuntu 16.04.
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by examancer 9y ago
The UX design is very well executed. This feels so polished. The floating graphs in the background, the individual paths under the chart, etc. It's all very well done with lots of little flourishes. Makes me want to up my game. Thanks
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by examancer 9y ago
Expected the new XPS to have a developer flavor soon, but also expected it to be limited to 16GB still. Was not surprised since the Windows version has the same limit. Went ahead and purchased a 32GB System76 Galaga Pro last week with the s
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by examancer 9y ago
Came here to vote for this. I even published an app to their store during the ~2 weeks it looked like HP was going to throw their weight behind the TouchPad. It was really ahead of its time and most of its major metaphors can be found in th
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by examancer 9y ago
Flying cars. I remember seeing prototypes in late 80s and early 90s, constantly showing up on Discovery Channel programs I watched as a kid like Beyond 2000 or Next Step. Over time it seemed increasingly far out, but, possible. Eventually I
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by examancer 9y ago
Dr. Lisa Zu, CEO of AMD, is the real "man" behind the Zen microarchitecture. Not only is she an engineer who was deeply involved with the product, she lead the company through a tremendous turn-around that made Zen possible and pu
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by examancer 9y ago
This is all fair and tempers my interpretation of your original post. Some people do get stuck, and members of echo chambers are a good example. I think this observation is likely a snapshot of people who usually do move forward, but take a
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by examancer 9y ago
This has not been my experience at all. I have watched many developers progress from being coders ("hammers") to being thoughtful architects who have no trouble seeing the forest through the trees and re-imagining problems from fi
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by examancer 9y ago
This a very dim, short-sighted view. Most large companies do have training programs and don't artificially limit the skills to ones that are not transferrable. Investing in the skills of your current employees can be far cheaper than t

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