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by marktangotango 1y ago
The influence and dominance of conservative media is striking. They have sane-washed and explained away things that would have ended 10 other politicians careers. Trump is Asimovs "mule". His appeal to large groups of people is in
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by marktangotango 2y ago
At one company (think bank/financial services) I was at as a "software development supervisor" I had to run a daily standup/scrum meeting every day, for 3 years. It really became oppressive over time. That company eventu
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Indeed there are multiple such optimizations. One that occurs to me is a hub/spoke model where inter-city/state is driverless, from/to truck "yards" on the outskirts of cities. Then human drivers take over and drive
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by marktangotango 3y ago
How is authentication/authorization handled with this stack? Or sign up with email validation and password reset?
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Wire length matching would seem to be a big factor in attaining the highest performance.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Very interesting indeed: > discovery of a new quantum algorithm that offers an exponential advantage for simulating coupled classical harmonic oscillators. > To enable the simulation of a large number of coupled harmonic oscillators,
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Cheap SEMs are also useful for electron beam lithography, which has gotten some attention lately with Canons machine <10nm process.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Parsing cobol is actually not bad. The grammar is pretty simple; the "rail road" diagrams correspond to the recursive descent parser very directly. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.1?topic=div
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by marktangotango 3y ago
We did this, and I'd add that repeating what they say back to them so they get that feedback is important too. It's startling to see the difference between our kids and their class mates, who's parents don't talk them (I
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by marktangotango 3y ago
> You could consider building this storage system on top of BLAKE3's tree model. Consider a crypto currency pow that did that without the chunk counter. It'd be trivially exploitably by precalculating all the tree but the chunk
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Vinges novella "True Names" for anyone interested.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Ken Macleod is a Scottish sci-fi author I've enjoyed. Stanisław Lem and Ken Liu are two other well regarded authors; Poland and China respectively.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
One of the things that surprised me about social media (facebook in this case) was how people I'd known for a long time could barely string two sentences together, and tended to use meme/gifs in place of what I'd consider &qu
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Give pointy head bosses (PHBs) insight into who is the most productive. At least that's how my former VP of engineering, the one who measured developer productivety by checking git commit counts, would use it.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Converted oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico: https://spaceexplored.com/2021/07/07/update-on-spacexs-gulf-...
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by marktangotango 3y ago
What kind of transistor count can one get with efabless? Ie novice way of asking how complex of a design can be implemented?
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by marktangotango 3y ago
> And probably a harder problem than just placing bricks down. Actually, the unreasonably long boom arm is bouncing around significantly, yet the bricks are being place precisely independent of the boom movement. There's some nontri
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Is there a lego inspired solution to industrial design, specifically mechanical mechanisms? I have had a product in mind that is quite intricate with several possible configurations. I personally haven't excercised my 3d muscles as muc
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by marktangotango 3y ago
We should not be surprised how much ignorance there is around this. Networking even for technical people can be a "black art". https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861188/missouri-govern...
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by marktangotango 3y ago
The aws/gcp/azure tax is starting to bite hard. At least we have choices. IBM rode a similar gravy train for many many years.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Surprisingly, gatling guns are not consider automatic by the definition or the atf [1]. But if one were to attach a hand drill in place of the crank? [1] https://tippmannordnance.com/22lr-gatling-gun/
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by marktangotango 3y ago
The funny thing to me is, knowing Joel, the interns and developers being interviewed where the few, the proud, who could solve fizzbuzz. Nowadays that's... quaint given the prevalence of leetcode style interiews.
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by marktangotango 3y ago
I would guess this one, but I don't think any usernames carried over. Except maybe the one I can't recall right now (startup related to streaming video over .gif back in late 90s iirc).
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Jeremy Corbin and George Knapp were on Rogan recently talking about Grusch and what was said seemed like some really poor decision making on Grusch part, not least of which was Grusch decision talking to those guys. In that way, what you sa
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by marktangotango 3y ago
The social side of Hacker News isn't for hackers. It's for people who want to be seen to be hackers. It's the kind of people who badly want to be seen as intelligent, and well-informed. Read the posts here. They're terri
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by marktangotango 3y ago
Agreed. Discovery is a big problem with youtube. There seems to be a pattern. Like I've been researching hardware designs for real time image processing lately. Over time the same search terms reveal more and more relevant links. Overa
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by marktangotango 3y ago
This x1000. Back in the 90's writing software 3d rasterizers was right of passage of sorts. Writing parsers and interpreters too. At least that was my impression. Doing "hard" things like this can be very illuminating, it&#x2
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by marktangotango 3y ago
My kids are into collecting pokemon cards big time. We have this conversation pretty frequently; why didn't I buy pokemon cards in the 90's? We'd be rich! I try to tell them about the over production and glut in collectible c
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by marktangotango 3y ago
I once worked at a place where about 5 of 15 developers sat on crucible all day fellating each other on code reviews. Anytime the rest of the developers would have code reviewed they'd be met with a long list of required changes that w

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