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by gpcz 6mo ago
Good luck finding every contributor to the Linux kernel and getting them to agree to that.
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by gpcz 9mo ago
You would probably get what you want with a Deming regression.
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by gpcz 9mo ago
Feynman learned calculus from the textbook "Calculus for the Practical Man".
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by gpcz 1y ago
This is the Hacker Newsiest comment I've ever read on Hacker News.
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by gpcz 1y ago
In functional safety, probabilities are usually clamped to an hour of use.
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by gpcz 1y ago
For now. If someone makes a practical quantum computer, pretty much every asymmetric primitive we use at the start of a cryptographic protocol to make a shared secret for symmetric encryption will be breakable.
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by gpcz 1y ago
Looking for a nice, solid, well-documented library to do something is difficult for most stuff. There are some real gems out there, but usually you end up having to roll your own thing. And Lisp generally encourages rolling your own thing
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by gpcz 2y ago
I'm interested in knowing how they achieve requirements traceability to code and the requisite level of code coverage (certain SILs require MC/DC coverage, which usually requires expensive tooling). Also which hazards they identi
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by gpcz 2y ago
Even if true, it seems like they're doing a pretty good job on their own.
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by gpcz 2y ago
The remaining 11 should see this as a sign of what's to come and quit.
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by gpcz 3y ago
Did it know where it isn't?
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by gpcz 3y ago
I believe that software-related college degrees are mainly there to get the horrible first few tens of thousands of lines of code out of people before they go into industry.
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by gpcz 3y ago
This reminds me of Joe Kennedy (JFK's father) getting out of the 1920s stock market right before the Depression because his shoe-shine boy was giving him stock tips.
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by gpcz 3y ago
"The same thing will happen if you're running a startup, of course. If you do everything the way the average startup does it, you should expect average performance. The problem here is, average performance means that you'll g
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by gpcz 3y ago
I have a lot of my old code, but I never want to look at it because it's super-cringe.
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by gpcz 3y ago
There may be a security advantage to using a separate non-bypassable network appliance that puts your traffic on Tor, since then it would be much harder to break into a Tails machine and make it leak your location. However, given that it&#
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So you want to be a hacker? It's a state of mind!(textfiles.com)
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by gpcz 3y ago
Do they want Gerrymandering Simulator 2024, Bribe-A-Senator, or Citizen's United: SuperPAC Simulator?
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by gpcz 3y ago
I'd assume the Toyota Production System and their method of lean manufacturing.
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by gpcz 3y ago
Aviation safety for FAA airworthiness generally follows SAE ARP4761, which requires risks of Catastrophic severity to have a quantitative failure rate of 10^-9 incidents per hour or less. The Air Force follows MIL-STD 882E, which generally
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by gpcz 4y ago
Hair dye that you purchase and apply yourself.
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by gpcz 4y ago
Instead, the companies want people willing to lie on forms.
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by gpcz 4y ago
All death is "fractional" if you make a fraction out of it. For example, dividing the number of people that died making the Empire State Building by the total number of workers. It seems subjective which fractions matter and whi
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by gpcz 4y ago
SeL4 uses capability-based security, but unfortunately it's not in common use.
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by gpcz 6y ago
From an ISO 26262 perspective, it seems like for the driving scenario of "unexpected windshield wiper speed increase", they may have set the controllability to C0 (Controllable in general) [1] when it may have needed to have been
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by gpcz 6y ago
Most safety standards that address software's contribution to hazards use some notion of "controllability" to determine risk. For example, ISO 26262 explicitly calls it controllability [1], and it directly contributes to how
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by gpcz 8y ago
Previous Discussions: - Nov 26, 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942778 - Aug 13, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4374865 - Jul 5, 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by gpcz 8y ago
In "The Soul of a New Machine," there is an engineer who spends months debugging nanosecond-level glitches in their new CPU, snaps, and runs away after leaving a note: "I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no
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by gpcz 8y ago
The alleged Socrates quote is a mutation of some quotes in a dissertation published in 1907 where the author was summarizing common complaints about children in ancient times (src: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05&
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by gpcz 9y ago
You can answer this question yourself: simply figure out how you'd implement certain types of programs in Prolog. For example: an operating system, a Unix command-line tool, a video game, etc. You'll quickly shake out deficienci

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