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by 0xbear 9y ago
Don’t know if this is true, but it rings true all the same. A students get bogged down with “getting an A” at what they do. That requires a lot of time and work. C students socialize and make connections. They fail a lot more often than the
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by 0xbear 9y ago
How do you make money off of people who don’t have anything though?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Breaking backwards compat isn’t actually such a big deal in certain cloud applications, or for e.g. Java or Go. When you have full control of the stack, a lot of interesting possibilities open up. The main issue is probably that removing ol
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And therein lies the problem no one talks about: all these autonomous vehicle technologies have only been tested in non-adversarial situations. Machine learning algorithms do not generalize the way humans do, and it has been shown that they
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I bet you also don't see the impending cloud price wars which will make the current cost structures unsustainable. And you also don't see that it is vital for cloud providers to avoid a single vendor situation with the most expens
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I hope they converge towards the middle and stay there until ARM takes over completely (which it will, within the next decade or so). I'm waiting for Threadripper and for AMD to address Linux-related problems with Ryzen (GCC crashes, g
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by 0xbear 9y ago
>> This feature should be safe in principle Famous last words. :-)
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's a complex issue. I'm willing to help people who work hard on getting out of bad situations. I'm not willing to solve their problems mostly or completely on my own. That necessarily implies some degree of American individ
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Direct memory access by USB host controller. A good explanation can be found here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/118854/attacks-...
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You don't need encryption to disable USB DMA. IIRC Apple and Microsoft disable DMA in recent versions of their OS when you lock your computer. Don't know about Linux, would appreciate if someone shared the state of affairs there.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Intel CPUs had the various "management" features for over a decade. Does anyone actually use them though?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Since when is it OK to post ads here?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Including the US. You do have to spend quite a bit of time here to be granted citizenship, even if you invest.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And if you know that, I'm pretty sure you'd pass that interview.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I don't use Facebook, so I wouldn't know. I've come to the conclusion that the function of the media has shifted over time from reporting news to just peddling narratives, all while also showing me irrelevant ads. So I shut o
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by 0xbear 9y ago
If I'm not mistaken the new minimum wage is not yet fully implemented and small businesses got a temporary reprieve. As to WaPo: the new release of Google News finally lets you ban the news sources you don't like. After removing W
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The age old management dilemma: "CFO: What happens if we train them and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t and they stay?"
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by 0xbear 9y ago
This is what real engineering looks like.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The worst thing you realistically can do to stall your CPU is miss cache every time you read data from RAM. If you do this for every instruction (which would be quite a feat in itself), you divide your instruction throughput by about 200. B
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by 0xbear 9y ago
But that's not what's being asked by OP. Their question is rather simple, and software engineer should be able to answer it on autopilot, without even engaging her brain. As a hiring manager I would end the interview right there a
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by 0xbear 9y ago
No, it's more like asking a roofer how about the area he can cover with shingles per hour. Information of vital importance.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Or if people live longer and longer, which some very smart folks are actively working on.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And we'd also have no kids, because that's an exponential factor when it comes to pollution.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
We simply have too much going on to sit around and try to perfect a solution. I don't even think it'd be worthwhile even if we had all the time in the world. We see what works, if it doesn't work we change it. We also don&#x2
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I didn't say it was the cause. The cause is that the congressmen/women will sell their mom for a buck.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Why do you need to know the streets if GPS and maps are built into everything? It's like saying, oh no, those "automobiles" are no good, their drivers don't even know how to feed a horse. Frankly I _want_ them to rely on
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Please. I used taxis before Uber. They all sucked ass and I did not "trust them" any more than I trust some random Uber driver. If it wasn't for Uber they wouldn't even have mobile apps, and the prices would be much high
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Government is interested in whatever their donors tell them to be interested in. That's why ACA is a trillion dollar giveaway to healthcare industry instead of net savings. ACA also disincentives private insurers from wanting to reduce
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I actually approve of some of that disregard for the law as it relates to the taxi industry. The law was utterly insane and I'm glad the likes of Uber and Lyft are challenging it.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Except of course no one in this system is interested in reducing costs.

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