swells34

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by swells34 1y ago
I'm very confused about your comment; putting Trump in office is the nation-scale version of choosing to have brain damage. Why would any intelligent person think anything good or efficient would come out of that?
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by swells34 1y ago
I wouldn't take this line of thinking too much to heart. At some point, a piece of technology is too complex for a person to parse what it means without sufficient background in this space. The "buzzwords" simply aren&#x27
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by swells34 1y ago
> I doubt there is any specialised hardware on the Windows 95 machines, the specialised hardware is likely connected to something else. Based on my experience with older government systems, this is likely an incorrect assumption. It was
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by swells34 1y ago
The focus here on "tariffs good vs tariffs bad" is missing the point. Tools can be used in a productive way or an unproductive way. I think anyone with even a basic understanding of global economics knew what the outcome would be
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by swells34 2y ago
This is a good representation of my experience as well. At the end of the day, this is because it isn't "writing code" in the sense that you or I do. It is a fancy regurgitation engine, that will output bits of stuff it'
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by swells34 2y ago
Isn't code review the one area you'd never want to replace the programmer in? Like, that is the most important step of the process; it's where we break down the logic and sanity check the implementation. That is expressly w
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by swells34 2y ago
It does strike me that the purpose in attending college is the credential you get; education is a far second.
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by swells34 2y ago
In my experience, complex tools encourage fluffy programming. You mention a generic container; if I were using C, I just wouldn't use a generic container; instead, I'd specify a few container types that handle what needs handled.
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by swells34 2y ago
I used it quite a bit early on during military operations. The ability to see the timing component was key; not only would you plot the purchase locations, but you could play the timeframe of records, work out the timing so you knew the ord
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by swells34 2y ago
In the world of content moderation, we refer to this as constructive friction. if you make it too easy to do a thing, the quality of that thing goes down. Difficulty forces people to actually think about what they are writing, whether it is
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by swells34 2y ago
Curious, could you not calibrate using a force sensor, then include the output as a learning parameter. This seams a naive approach, which likely means it has been tried early on with other low hanging fruit, but I'm curious what the a
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by swells34 2y ago
Those three and REAMDE (which I'm currently rereading) are just fantastic. Snow Crash was very stylized; too much for some tastes, not enough for others.
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by swells34 2y ago
I imagine the flight planning software they use was affected (so their ability to coordinate with other airport's ATC), but not their radio systems or aircraft radar (nearly all radar systems I've worked with are run on Linux, and
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by swells34 2y ago
I assume if you weren't running crowdstrike, you would have still had logging/alerting systems set up, no?
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by swells34 2y ago
I've run into #3 quite often in embedded Linux projects, especially when dealing with the Jetson ecosystem where upgrading to a modern Python is a nightmare due to all the specialized hardware. Glad to see I'm not the only one who
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by swells34 2y ago
As someone who spent a decade doing precision metrology with optical devices... there isn't a way to correctly measure that part with the precision they indicate in the measured values.
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by swells34 2y ago
I don't see it that way. Most of my travel (and what I assume is true for the majority) is that they are traveling to a location because of an event, be it work or personal. If I am delayed a day, then there is no longer any reason to
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by swells34 2y ago
It would be silly not to first ask your interpretation, given that you are a college student. Since this is about quantum computing, real world effects are very likely to be none except an exorbitant amount of grant money.
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by swells34 2y ago
Your point is likely entirely valid, but the example you used is the wrong one.
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by swells34 2y ago
When trying to figure out something's type is the same as trying to fully comprehend a regex pattern, you know things have gone too far.
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by swells34 2y ago
Good feels and security theater
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by swells34 3y ago
Well, it is average locally earned disposable income compared to local housing cost, as a percentage. And in that case, houses are ridiculously expensive now. Most of my prior generation relatives purchased homes in the 70s in their early 2
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by swells34 3y ago
And those low population areas carry low paying jobs, which are proportional to high population areas. Yes, we have a housing problem. For the average person on an average local income, a house is unaffordable. If you look back at the 70s,
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by swells34 3y ago
I'm getting the impression you don't know much about aviation.
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by swells34 3y ago
China effectively banned the Play Store in 2010. Your Google-fu leaves something to be desired. https://cybernews.com/resources/how-to-access-google-play-ap...
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by swells34 3y ago
You can find idiots and assholes in every sector; they've always been there, just are more vocal now.
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by swells34 3y ago
> This is like saying you want to use Windows without a user account If only I was able to do what you describe, I would use Windows. But sadly, Microsoft wants to invade users' lives like a malignant cancer, so Linux it is.
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by swells34 3y ago
And religion in general is in a state of apostasy and is guilty of leading people away from reality. That's why it was invented after all, and it sure has done it's job. You'll never find a place more full of delusional self
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by swells34 3y ago
A majority of what you wrote is objectively false FUD. The only thing that I found accurate is: > it's getting more expensive and less efficient There have been a ridiculous number of medical advances in the last few years, advances
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by swells34 3y ago
Well, replacing novel creative functions with derivative creative functions. That's the big change I see here; similar to the difference between digitally editing an image vs. applying a stock sepia filter to it. Yes, we can use a mode

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