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by zmb_ 2mo ago
During my academic career I worked at a top German research university and advised multiple of these projects. On the surface it’s a good deal for everyone: the professor gets increased publication and graduate counts without having to pay
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by zmb_ 2mo ago
Intel does not have their own version of this machine. This ASML machine is a component in a very large system of machines from many manufacturers that runs wafers automatically from machine to machine until a month later a chip comes out t
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by zmb_ 6mo ago
A black friend of mine did exactly this, asked for a permission to get a pen from his pocket. The cop laughed “sure” and the moment he put his hand inside his pocket they jumped him and arrested him.
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by zmb_ 8mo ago
It’s effectively the company saying that they believe the shareholders can get a better return by investing that money elsewhere. So when a company starts doing major buybacks it’s a signal that they have reached an inflection point.
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by zmb_ 8mo ago
You can thank Microsoft for that. Intel architects in fact did not want to waste area on an NPU. That caused Microsoft to launch their AI-whatever branded PCs with Qualcomm who were happy to throw in whatever Microsoft wanted to get to be t
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by zmb_ 1y ago
> we have to be honest that there is no unquestionable source of meaning in life Think about what you would like to remain in the world after you are gone. Then think how you can connect with and advance those things, and act accordingly
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by zmb_ 1y ago
In the automotive industry, pretty much the whole point of standards like cybersecurity (ISO21434) and functional safety (ISO26262) is to let the manufacturer claim in court that they followed “modern best practices” and therefore are not l
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by zmb_ 1y ago
It is really incredible how Apple has obviously broken and buggy UX in many primary use cases on their devices, and fail to fix it for generations. The iPad is particularly bad in this respect. For a decade it would not support the most obv
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by zmb_ 1y ago
The Human Brain Project comes to mind.
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by zmb_ 1y ago
Following the definition from the article, armed forces seems like a complicated system, not a complex one. There is a structured, repeatable solution for armed forces. It does not exhibit the hallmark characteristics of complex systems lis
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by zmb_ 1y ago
The article is about persuading your peers and your management to get what you need, not about persuading your direct reports to do their tasks.
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by zmb_ 2y ago
It was a life-defining piece of software for me too. As a teenager I found a server called “REALbasic Cafe” that inspired and helped me go from knowing next to nothing about programming to making my first money from shareware as a high scho
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by zmb_ 2y ago
As someone frustrated in a team of 10+ that is struggling to ship even seemingly trivial things due to processes and overheads and inefficiencies, I would really appreciate some insights on how do you organize the work to allow a single dev
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by zmb_ 2y ago
They mentioned during the presentation that they need the new display controller on the M4 to drive the new dual panel display.
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by zmb_ 3y ago
HotBits is my earliest memory from the Internet after getting access as a young kid around 1996. Back in those days computer magazines would print website reviews and links, and I found HotBits in one of those. It was fascinating to a young
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by zmb_ 3y ago
Let me give a concrete example: I have had iPad Pro for years now. A primary use case for me is to watch a lecture and take notes, or read a book and take notes. The way this should obviously work is that I have my iPad in portrait orientat
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by zmb_ 4y ago
> I've always been confused why salaried workers think they only need to work 40 hours a week. It's cultural. Living in Europe, I've always been confused how salaried workers would not have set hours per week in the US. I&
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by zmb_ 4y ago
In automotive, the key feature offered by QNX is safety certification. This does not (and cannot) offer it, so it is not a potential replacement.
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by zmb_ 4y ago
> But also before you consider healthcare, transportation, higher cost of living in some desirable areas, lack of time off, lack of any employee protections, dismal social safety nets if you fall on bad times. And for people who need tha
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by zmb_ 4y ago
Physical gold is also tax free after a year in Germany.
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by zmb_ 5y ago
The VPN exit point for the big tech company I work in Europe for seems to be in Poland for whatever reason. I had to switch to duckduckgo to not be served search results in Polish all the time.
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by zmb_ 5y ago
I just completed a successful job search, including landing a great senior level IC role at a large tech company. I do not have LinkedIn (or GitHub etc.). Based on what I've read and heard from hiring managers, I optimized two things:
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by zmb_ 5y ago
This brought back memories. The first money I ever made from software as a teenager was through Kagi. It was some Mac utility shareware apps written in REALbasic around the year 2000.
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by zmb_ 5y ago
By Litte's Law, the arrival rate to the waiting room (l) is equal to the number of customers in the waiting room (L) divided by the amount of time a customer spends in the waiting room (W), ie., l = L/W. If the arrival rate to the
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by zmb_ 5y ago
There are also legal and privacy concerns. I've worked on a few research papers where exactly one researcher had access to the data under a very strict NDA. And even they did not get full access to the raw data, only the ability to run
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by zmb_ 5y ago
Actually it's 25. Around that time your neuroplasticity changes and it becomes a lot harder to learn new things. You still can, but it takes much more effort and deliberate protocols to follow. Prof. Andrew Huberman from Stanford Unive
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by zmb_ 5y ago
I would add a word of warning here. In the multiple research groups that I've worked in, the completion rate for industrial PhD students has been way less than 50%. The industry part (whether 20% or 50%) easily ends up being close to 1
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by zmb_ 5y ago
> I'm sorry the hear that, and I think it's mostly worng. I think there is just a large variance between countries and/or fields. I've worked in CS/EE in three top EU universities, and in every case I've see
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by zmb_ 5y ago
When I was a PhD candidate, I was teaching directly what I was doing research on to bachelor and master students. So did my professor. The research absolutely impacts teaching to a great extent. We are only humans after all, and I don'
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by zmb_ 5y ago
This is not true. The GI specifications are very strict on where and how the protected product is produced. With Parmigiano Reggiano, for example, the cows producing the milk must be within the geographic area, and even their fodder must pr

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