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by LASR 5y ago
Above a certain level of expertise, ICs are far harder to hire than management-like positions. This is definitely surprising to younger ICs in the industry - who seem to want to become engineering managers any way they can. The ceiling of g
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by LASR 5y ago
Pretty bad. In my last company we tried to get server-side swift integrated into a backend microservice. While there is big-company momentum behind swift on servers, it’s always a second-class citizen compared to its own native platforms (i
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by LASR 5y ago
To be fair, those Windows RT tablets were complete garbage. I was working at Microsoft when they came out and they handed them out for free to every employee. Due to the lack of any meaningful apps (not even Chrome), the thing was DOA. IE11
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by LASR 5y ago
I bet the number of people within the technical user base for whom the lack of linux support is a deal-breaker is significantly smaller than the number of people who don't care. So while it's a nice boost in goodwill, it's pr
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by LASR 5y ago
Probably not as good as you might expect. Z machines are built for enterprise features like RAS, and performance on specific workloads. The ultra-high-clocked IBM cpus are probably significantly faster at DB loads, and less than the best at
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by LASR 5y ago
I was at Microsoft when Silverlight & XNA were the only supported platforms on Windows Phone 7. Less than a year after launch, just as some devs started writing windows phone apps, “we” decided to deprecate Silverlight and XNA in favor
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by LASR 5y ago
Yes. But more than comparing a set of specific A vs B, I think the differences emerge from 1. fundamental entropy of the medium 2. mode of delivery 3. ambient perception of consensus. Video is a medium that has far greater entropy than some
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by LASR 5y ago
Yes it does. Intel usually is the host adapter.
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by LASR 5y ago
It’s not even the mains voltage. There are components in there that can exceed mains voltage when probed the wrong way. When you start getting into the higher voltages, the body’s resistance is much lower. It only takes a few milliamps to s
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by LASR 5y ago
Products like these are often sold as part of a contract to deliver complete solutions + support + maintenance over some number of years. It's hard to estimate a per-unit cost. But suffice to say it would cost similar to other datacent
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by LASR 6y ago
They are far more than that. For a large number of people, the smartphone is their first and only computing device. Enabling internet access is like rocket fuel for advancing socioeconomic conditions for those in developing nations. Entire
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by LASR 6y ago
Had a similar experience, but by proxy. I was answering a lot of LOT of tech support calls when my dad decided to buy the latest and greatest Samsungs. Next cycle, I got him an iPhone X as a gift. Apart from "how do I do this on iOS&qu
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by LASR 6y ago
+1. You can’t effectively hide away a mesh unless if it also handled versioning and service dependencies automatically. I’ve seen several codebases now where the company decided to move to a full SOA-architecture without much effort put int
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by LASR 6y ago
The service mesh is an abstraction layer. It hides the complexity of interconnecting multiple services. But the mesh itself is not intended to be transparent. Just like an OS hides the complexity of managing hardware, but software written i
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by LASR 6y ago
The difference is in the programming model. The library itself is probably quite easy to support both models. If you have some UI in retained mode, chances are that rendering it live every frame will lead to unacceptable performance. But if
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by LASR 6y ago
Yes, but how are we accounting for the cases where T1 already makes the right call? The reality is that we don’t hear about it unless if we have a situation like this. So I’m not sure how we can draw any conclusions re: Apple vs Indie devs
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by LASR 6y ago
About a month ago found a stack of MiniDV tapes from about 15 years ago. It was my own home videos. I wanted to preserve them, so wanted to upload them to Google Photos. It took me some looking around in eBay to find a camcorder to play the
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by LASR 6y ago
I've been running Home Assistant ( https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/ ) The default configuration has an integration for HomeKit such that it bridges devices that do not have dedicated support. For example, I can
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by LASR 6y ago
You’re talking about Microsoft. It takes me a couple of lines of code now to spin up a web server than can handle thousands of connections. Or an app with beautiful fluid UI. But I remember that I am standing on the shoulders of giants. Wha
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by LASR 6y ago
I mentor interviewers at my job. Pretty much, every junior (< 3 years of experience) interviewer at first asks me what they should do if the candidate starts talking about something they know very little about. The interviewers are peopl
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by LASR 6y ago
Flash player emulator written in Rust...compiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser? I like how things like this come out so frequently these days like it’s no big deal.
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by LASR 6y ago
I bet they’ve thought through this with a system that operates at the scale they say it does. But often with technical blogs like this, you get a “dumbed-down” version that is inaccurate but summarizes in a few minutes what is essentially m
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by LASR 6y ago
It’s what happens when a trillion dollar company does vertical integration the right way instead of dicking around. Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft - all have to build products that work for the lowest common denominator. Loss of focus is a majo
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by LASR 6y ago
I don't want to be extremely pedantic. But even regular chemical reactions change mass just as nuclear reactions. It's very small, but it's there. Any change in internal energy will cause a mass change, regardless of the spec
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by LASR 6y ago
The real difference over a file is that you some intelligence(the manager) running that can offer all kinds of additional security functionality. A typical deployment might involve placing the manager on a secure host that has access to gen
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by LASR 6y ago
In macOS Keyboard Settings Remap CapsLock -> Esc Changed my life.
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by LASR 6y ago
They are. Look at the stimulus plans all over the world. They’re not printing notes for these.
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by LASR 6y ago
It’s certainly not. The money multiplier is a very basic macroeconomic concept. Almost very little of all the “money” is actually grounded in a tangible form. For all intents and purposes, almost all money is indeed digital. It’s not digita
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by LASR 7y ago
Did you try the basics first? Hold down power for long time. 30 seconds. There is a small chance you’re not affected by this issue.
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by LASR 7y ago
So Netflix, Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, and whatever Microsoft has going on, all these sound horrifying too?

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