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by whomst 3y ago
My brother in Christ he was literally the CEO of VMware
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by whomst 3y ago
I wrote a generic kernel driver overlay for error correction for block devices on Linux (Winter 2017-18) for a student org at my university. Interned at NVIDIA on their Linux graphics driver in Summer 2019
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by whomst 3y ago
the end game is MechanicGPT trained on the obscure phpBB/vBulletin car mechanic boards from the early 00's
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by whomst 3y ago
Did you attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
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by whomst 4y ago
IMO QEMU is a nice spot between important, straightforward to contribute and relatively understaffed compared to how widely it is used. I have found multiple behavior/stability issues that I’ve fixed on my own (exposed though OSdev-adj
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by whomst 4y ago
There are meaningful things on other social media that make them Pareto distributed too and I disagree that the SNR of HN is higher than elsewhere
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by whomst 4y ago
To be fair almost all of Hacker News is a vapid waste of time too
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by whomst 4y ago
I've been running a SIGECOM chapter at UIUC and the main theme over the past four/five months is people meme-ing about Beanstalk and how its such a shit show. My original concern had to do with the stability lever only working to
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by whomst 5y ago
I did 72hr fasts and averaged about a pound lost per day at the fastest (i mostly ate eggs and cream cheese when i did eat anything). I exercised pretty heavily too but entirely cardio (physically weaker obviously so don’t want to fail lift
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by whomst 5y ago
Clayton Christensen wrote about this extensively in The Innovator's Dilemma. I read it and enjoyed it
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by whomst 5y ago
competition from miners to accept fees will still exist
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by whomst 5y ago
I think the main point the (grand?) parent is saying is that "Apple is in the phone business" isn't a reasonable description of Apple. I agree that Apple hosting itself on its own platform is an abuse of market position (espe
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by whomst 5y ago
I believe gating features or giving preference to tracking/not-tracking is a violation of GDPR
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by whomst 5y ago
Am I the only one who finds it funny that Bernie Madoff died within hours of Coinbase going public?
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by whomst 5y ago
Can you be more specific?
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by whomst 5y ago
I also feel that most science, math, and engineering is much more axiomatic than law and finance. It is easy to guarantee that things don't break when you have reasonable assumptions in an axiomatic system and can deduce the rest, but
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by whomst 5y ago
>The US could spend half of what it currently spends on the military and still be twice as powerful in terms of military force as the rest of the world combined. Do you have a source for that?
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by whomst 5y ago
I can't speak for California, but Illinois requires these things to be public (either automatically or via a FOIA request). Most state FOIAs work in the same way, but maybe with different sets of exceptions
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by whomst 5y ago
Interesting. Ive only looked into Wyoming and Illinois. If I pursue this path, what should I do to prepare? Thanks
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by whomst 5y ago
Mostly finances, economics, mathematics and law. Looking into self teaching a JD track (currently a Math undergrad at UIUC so ill probably follow the JD curriculum here) but I need to pass the Bar, which requires having a proper JD from an
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by whomst 6y ago
The USPS also uses Jeeps in the sticks, but those aren't common enough to be seen by most people.
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by whomst 6y ago
Something to note is that most physical things that are banned are one-time-use (drugs, organs, etc), whereas the shelf life and resale value of the gun are much longer. Also the classification of "gun" is much wider than classifi
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by whomst 6y ago
There's also the Killdozer with Marvin Heemeyer but it was a bulldozer effectively turned into a tank
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by whomst 6y ago
There's a lot of policy to encourage competition that isn't regulation. The USPS helped with early airplane development by contracting out mail delivery to civilian pilots, and grants provided by NASA et. al are partially done to
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by whomst 6y ago
I've had issues with Rust and OpenSSL, but that's because its effectively just FFI bindings. Rust, by default, links all dependencies statically except for libc, libm and other assumed-to-exist libraries.
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by whomst 6y ago
The key distinction AFAICT is that r/WSB isn't commanding people to buy, nor does it have any assets of its own. This is just a stochastic result of mania and individual investors doing what they believe to be in their best intere
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by whomst 6y ago
I’ve heard that it might be for anti trust reasons (but with putting Facebook on all of its properties). Properly establishing who owns what up front makes the average user more aware of the consolidation of platforms
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by whomst 6y ago
The amount of power the Bitcoin network uses is proportional to the number of miners, independent of the number of transactions. it is designed to have one block per ten minutes and adjusts the "difficulty" to match. As long as th
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by whomst 6y ago
Yea Huawei has a location right outside NVIDIA in Santa Clara that was hit with a DOJ investigation after they gave out bonuses based on stealing IP and other nonsense.
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by whomst 6y ago
To be fair, it doesn't ask for permissions until you click on it, and (on iOS at least) the permission isn't automatically granted. This all looks above board IMHO

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