jimbomins

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by jimbomins 10mo ago
But it does leave me wondering how would we know if it hasn't already happened in some company?
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by jimbomins 10mo ago
An AI may be making an ultimately random choice (prove the CEO isn't) but it's actual options are weighted on statistical grounds from much wider sources of data than a human can knowingly handle. I say knowingly because actually
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by jimbomins 10mo ago
No because it would be too well informed to make biased (company focused/favouring) decisions. (Joking)
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by jimbomins 10mo ago
It strikes me that software has become a bit like law and accounting used to be. "We had to suffer and so must you". Making it pointlessly hard to keep people out. Rather than dealing with people on real problems. I'm current
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by jimbomins 2y ago
I've never looked at any Rust. But this mini thread leaves me expecting the Rust world to be like Perl. The experienced Rust/Perl user uses every feature and short cut for magnificently dense expressive (alt. incomprehensible gibb
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by jimbomins 2y ago
frama-c
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by jimbomins 2y ago
Indeed. My daughter did a couple of games in Scratch when she was 8 (possibly younger). But from other comments Scratch seems to have picked up a lot of extraneous crap like social and tiktok in the intervening years (decade).
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by jimbomins 2y ago
My variation of what you say is read lots, look at what people are doing, then make sure you have a big space that lets you stop thinking. Once I'm in that "hey I'm not distracted by a million things" space ideas and sol
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by jimbomins 2y ago
I wouldn't call it diagnosing. Just suggesting they consider it. Personally it all sounds very familiar. So familiar I'd admit I'm mildly depressed. But I do still have a pad of good ideas that I add to. Also very interesting
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by jimbomins 2y ago
Most of my former colleagues just ignore it. Big USA company and turns out they only started mandating it because the USA offices were going in so little. Others go in, have lunch (free canteen), then go home. Having ticked the system for e
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by jimbomins 3y ago
I'm not sure your point "3." is wholly correct. They do also go much wider than just combinatorial math.
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by jimbomins 3y ago
Probably because two years would let you produce a skinny inconsequential dip into a topic that would quickly be surpassed or barely distinguished from introductory texts on programming.
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by jimbomins 3y ago
Is Charles Dickens worth it? It's a matter of time, taste and purpose (in reading). I've enjoyed dipping in. Sometimes found it directly useful to work. But the best of his works I read (in full) was the MMIX book that is a litera
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by jimbomins 3y ago
Is Charles Dickens worth a read. Depends on your time, purpose and taste.
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by jimbomins 3y ago
I've my doubts about Arm's future with the reports of intending to up the price of licensing. That strategy seems insane with the Risc-v progress and increased uptake by big tech companies.
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by jimbomins 3y ago
£320 on Amazon does not seem to fall into affordable to me compared to a RPi 4
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by jimbomins 4y ago
Benefit of the doubt. I try and start from the assumption it might be me that is missing something. Or just let it go. The latter being more difficult to do these days as I boggle at the environmental decline and general reaction to ignore
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by jimbomins 4y ago
They are only used in places where confusion benefits the user. It has to be deliberate so people accidentally opt in. I've assumed it's a dark pattern.
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by jimbomins 4y ago
If you have an engineer the whole point of them being able to claim the title is they are educated and expert in their field. Without knowledge and expertise in a field you aren't going to get any engineering done. Which is different t
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by jimbomins 4y ago
"removing impediments" - just sounds like good managers in any process. Bad managers often are an impediment.
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by jimbomins 4y ago
Small groups of 1+ with a vision isn't really software engineering though. You aren't building to solve someone else's problem and it's that which is engineering. Turning up to the beach with bricks and cement on a whim
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by jimbomins 4y ago
To be clearer than my first post. The whole set of processes that are software engineering are fun, including dealing with people for requirements, design, analysis. But programming at the end is like writing up the final report once you ha
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by jimbomins 4y ago
I find the opposite. Analysis, requirements capture and design get you to the point where programming is required. But it's the least interesting part of the process. I don't consider Agile as software engineering it's manage
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by jimbomins 4y ago
You're kidding if you think the premium brands you list don't have massive dependence on software systems. The basic physics is, as you say, better because they've kept mass distribution in line with how it was. And how about
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by jimbomins 4y ago
That's not strictly fair. The problem is that the critical systems were moved to share transport on the main hub with infotainment (safe, I did modelling of the messages for Volvo way back). On that hub is wireless access. Cars have be
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by jimbomins 4y ago
You may get your wish. Recent research has shown that real knobs and switches are much less of a driver distraction than trying to fiddle with screens or get voice commands correct. The two either mean you look away from the driving because
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by jimbomins 4y ago
I've been out of automotive safety critical software (engine, brake, controllers, etc...) but still have friends in it. Proper best practice is still followed by the likes of Toyota, Jaguar and Ford as the ones I've had experience
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by jimbomins 4y ago
Faking those things is a totally different state of affairs to safe operation. I've been out of automotive for 20 years but never met anyone who would compromise normal operational safety. Let's face it most people who work on car
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by jimbomins 4y ago
I don't think size of company is as relevant as the market sector. My employer is a 40-50k work force globally and it's bash stuff out. But similar size companies doing medical or CNC, etc, where errors kill write to best practice
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by jimbomins 4y ago
Didn't sound like there's a team. More that everyone is working in their own silo. Under those conditions do your own thing. Similar state of affairs in my current "team". None of us really work on the same thing at the

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