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by FLT8 2y ago
I'm sure I'm going to offend a bunch of people with this, but my experience has been similar to yours, and it reminds me of something "Uncle" Bob Martin once mentioned: the number of software developers is roughly doubl
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by FLT8 2y ago
I tried it, I guess I'm your target market, I'm relatively new to keyboard, trying to learn, and do happen to have a Bluetooth MIDI adapter. A few notes and observations from a quick trial run below: - the app crashed out a few ti
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by FLT8 2y ago
Or... given Australia is heading down the path of acquiring nuclear submarines, maybe it makes some sense to bootstrap a nuclear industry in advance of that?
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by FLT8 2y ago
We use Jekyll for this at work, build the site using GitHub actions, and host through GitHub pages. Works a treat. Supports mermaid diagrams, mathml, ...
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by FLT8 2y ago
Maybe add to that: try to stay long enough in a role to really feel the consequences of your actions. Even better if you're on pager for a while too. I know it's not trendy to stay in a job for long these days, and conventional w
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by FLT8 2y ago
40% is the marginal rate. Only a very small proportion of people will be paying that, and vanishingly few will be paying that on a substantial proportion of their earnings. The average rate of taxes paid will be much more reasonable.
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by FLT8 2y ago
I was under the impression that we primarily ground one side to prevent atmospheric charge and/or things like lightning strikes causing large voltage differentials to occur between power lines and grounded objects (it's probably a
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by FLT8 2y ago
I left a well paid gig in the finance industry, where I'd been supporting a team of ~15 through a large restructure. I was getting fed up with the pointlessness of it all - there was more distraction than value creation going on and i
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by FLT8 2y ago
> who will be able to afford a robot? How about capitalists/investors wanting to own an army of cheap-to-run blue collar workers? Your barista, hair dresser, mechanic, plumber, sparky, builder, bodyguard .. eventually one robot ca
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by FLT8 2y ago
I would have also thought: 3. It lets users get software on to the ipad without going through the App Store (thereby escaping apples ability to clip the ticket on the way through).
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by FLT8 2y ago
Why would anyone want to have kids today? Most couples in the western world can barely support themselves while getting into home ownership, let alone trying to support multiple kids and put them through college while saving for retirement.
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by FLT8 2y ago
All three are also superficially easy to learn to use, hence they're able to sucker people in initially with the learning curve, then keep them there with the sunk cost fallacy.
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ACM/IEEE release CS curriculum 2023(dl.acm.org)
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by FLT8 2y ago
There are other reasons to be logged into iCloud. For example, "find my device" relies on this. Just because you want to be able to find a stolen device doesn't mean you also want your data exfiltrated.
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by FLT8 2y ago
My first introduction to urushiol was as a kid... there was a Japanese rhus tree [1] near my local bus stop and I happened to play with some of the seed pods while waiting for a bus one day. I ended up looking like the elephant man for a f
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by FLT8 2y ago
Haha... I'm surprised to learn my wife and I aren't the only people playing the "Getz" game! We started around 15-20 years ago, when every second hire car in Queensland was a Getz.. they're a little harder to com
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by FLT8 2y ago
Also related: C64 booting Linux by emulating a RISC-V processor: https://hackaday.com/2023/08/27/linux-on-a-commodore-64/
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by FLT8 2y ago
The C64 breaking was almost certainly not your fault.. they had a bunch of commonly occurring faults, and a number of the chips, especially those which commodore fabbed themselves were notorious for giving up eventually. The PLA failing w
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by FLT8 2y ago
In general I agree, but Prodigy-level people can come with their own challenges too. Eg. They're going to be coming up with a million ideas for how to improve things, so you'd better be prepared to listen and support them, which
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by FLT8 2y ago
As far as I remember things, newspapers used to carry a lot of advertising. And the face value of a newspaper was more-or-less a nominal amount, I suspect largely to support the distribution network. I don't recall ever seeing a newspa
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by FLT8 3y ago
I feel this even in my profession as software engineer. It used to be that I could focus on writing good software. Studying the domain, finding abstractions, picking the best language/approach for the problem at hand, designing domain
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by FLT8 3y ago
There's a bridge in Melbourne, Australia, called the Montague St bridge that's so (in)famous it has its own website. The average streak without a strike is currently sitting at 42 days. They've even tried putting up tons of
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by FLT8 3y ago
Interoperating? Is the iMessage spec public? Can I use iMessage on an android phone without hacky workarounds like using a mac computer? Come to think of it, the same lack of interop openness applies to airdrop, use of the on-phone NFC ch
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by FLT8 3y ago
I understand that things are often more nuanced than they may appear, and in questions of moral judgement there will always be room for fuzziness. Personally I think the idea of compromising security for everyone in order to make life a li
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by FLT8 3y ago
It's perhaps not 'critical' in the sense that losing it would matter much, but it is worth caring about because of the number of people who are affected if/when things go wrong.
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by FLT8 3y ago
Nah, I've met enough amoral people over the course of my career to know that's not the case. However, the overwhelming majority of people I've worked with are people who do have morals and do care about the outcomes they&#x27
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by FLT8 3y ago
You simply legislate that if a company is building anything that will be used regularly by more than eg. a few thousand people, then the work must be designed and/or signed off by a licensed engineer, who will a) be subject to a code o
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by FLT8 3y ago
I also hope that any ethically minded engineers inside Meta take a stand against this BS. The only way stuff like this happens is because engineers working on these projects decide that they can set aside whatever morals they may have had f
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by FLT8 3y ago
It doesn't seem out of the question that the U.S. or allied nations might want to be involved in the development effort around these CPUs. Even if initially it's just to build some credibility for this account so future adversari
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by FLT8 3y ago
And a dystopian vision for the future that can make profitable use of the above ...

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