matthias509

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by matthias509 3y ago
Why? Lots of sentient animals kill sentient animals of a different species. Why should humans be different?
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by matthias509 4y ago
One reason carjacking is rare is because people don't foolishly stop for obvious carjackings. If an autonomous car has trouble telling the difference between a carjacker and a construction worker, then it will be much more likely to ge
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by matthias509 4y ago
I think it’s more like removing captain from a giant ocean going freighter. Everything will be fine till one day it runs aground or hits an iceberg.
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by matthias509 4y ago
My personal experience is that I was paid by my university to get my master's degree in the late 90's. Since I was a teaching assistant for an entry level programming class (in Java at the time). I got a tuition waiver and a stipe
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by matthias509 4y ago
I’m guessing you are thinking of cache lines where CPUs will read/write data in 64 byte chunks from memory to/from cache. As you said, being aware of this lets you optimize away cache misses by controlling the memory access patter
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by matthias509 4y ago
It is not true that Apple will know what web sites were visited. The article states “the device manufacturer or attester only knows the minimum amount of device data required for attestation. It doesn't know the destination URL or the
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by matthias509 4y ago
You can try HERE WeGo. Add free and you can download maps for use offline. Disclaimer: I work for HERE Technologies.
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by matthias509 4y ago
Also, choking people get bruises to the abdomen when someone performs the Heimlich maneuver on them, and people with cancer get pumped full of chemicals which just about kill them. That treatments also cause harm is pretty normal in medicin
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by matthias509 4y ago
So your solution is what? Don't donate blood or plasma? Have only humans who aren't exposed to PFAS done blood or plasma (which don't exist anyway)?
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by matthias509 4y ago
High salaries for tech workers are not a new phenomenon. So if programming were truly a skill a large number of people could just “pick up”, it would have happened already.
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by matthias509 5y ago
We use Ephemeral Inline Volumes backed by LVMs on a local ssd. TopoLVM can make this trick possible.
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by matthias509 5y ago
> I'm talking about the proliferation of DSLs like Awk in the world of Unix I get that there is a learning curve for Unix. However, a complaint about a "proliferation" in the context of a tool which is decades old seems a
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by matthias509 5y ago
Imagine the other extreme where every single executable on the system statically linked libc. Assuming libc calls are pretty common(which I think is safe) I would expect the cache to get trashed.
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by matthias509 5y ago
Saving disk space isn’t nearly as exciting as saving CPU cache space which is much more precious. That means that something like libc will almost always be in cache from something calling it.
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by matthias509 5y ago
All the implements which farmers use, planters cultivators, etc have gotten larger over the years as the scale of farms have grown. A 40 year old tractor likely isn’t going to have the horsepower to work with these new implements. Also, the
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by matthias509 5y ago
There are a few news stories out there indicating that because Omicron grows better in the throat that also swabbing the throat helps reduce false negatives. Though the official word would be to not do this since the tests were officially o
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by matthias509 5y ago
Case International Harvester https://www.caseih.com is also a big player.
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by matthias509 5y ago
Not a farmer but worked on one growing up and my in-laws farm several thousand acres. The existence of a competitor to JD is one thing, the distance from farm to dealer is another. If the competitor dealership is 75 miles away and JD is 20
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by matthias509 5y ago
I’m still rocking my aluminum hardtail Trek I bought in college 25 years ago with the (gasp) three front derailleurs and the Rockshox Judy front fork. I had no idea that the tech had changed that much since I don’t ride seriously any more.
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by matthias509 5y ago
This is saying that someone is hacking if they read text in a pdf which was “redacted” by changing the style of the text to be black text on a black background.
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by matthias509 5y ago
One point which I think bears mentioning with respect to performance is that even with O(1) access, the performance in the real world of a list implemented by a list of pointers vs a contiguous block of memory will be very different. This i
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by matthias509 5y ago
Mosaic release date maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
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by matthias509 5y ago
Another interesting rabbit hole to explore is the compiler. Back in the day I wrote a toy compiler for a college course and used this text book: "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools". a.ka. "The Dragon book", bu
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by matthias509 5y ago
This. If I’m not helping junior devs get their work done, I am failing as a PE.
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by matthias509 5y ago
So don’t let yourself get removed completely from the deliverables. Keep in there. Take some tickets off the queue and work them so your skills stay sharp. If you are worth your salt, this contribution will be noticed by other ICs on the te
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by matthias509 5y ago
> Most children aren't data-driven. Most people aren’t data-driven. Parents, teachers, guidance counselors etc are also part of the problem.
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by matthias509 5y ago
This is a fine line for me as a PE. It is good to help the team grow. However, I like to do the PoC sometimes so that I can keep my skills sharp and my opinions grounded in reality. If I just sit in my ivory tower dishing out advice, the ad
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by matthias509 5y ago
I am in a PE role right now and I 100% agree that the PE is the hub. I like that. I see my role as being a catalyst. I make things move along faster and more efficiently. I like seeing growth in others on the team. Also, it’s ok if you don’
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by matthias509 5y ago
One of the things I’ve done with my children to help them develop interests not based on immediate internet gratification is to not give them cell phones till high school. I view cell phones as just too addictive for young children. This ha
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by matthias509 5y ago
So high tech crypto is the solution to making trading with the developing world easier? Aren’t these the same sorts of places which struggle to have reliable electricity, let alone internet access?

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