PorterDuff

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by PorterDuff 7y ago
The book is a bit expensive, although I'd like to have a copy. Given the turn that modern politics has taken, I guess all that matters was this sentence: "Today, as cultures cross-pollinate, and as technologies topple timeless way
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"He should appeal to Trump. Pretty sure Trump would enjoy trolling the Left forever about it." That's an interesting notion. Perhaps have Trump pardon him. Never gonna happen given who actually runs government. There are a t
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It's just my own ignorance speaking (probably), but I can't say that I like the idea of Android getting near/intertwined with mission critical systems. Hopefully 'infotainment' implies something that is well clear
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Between the need for expensive training and diagnostic equipment, and the ever-widening view of things that are .gov mandated and covered under smog or safety laws including spare parts sourcing, we are largely there. I'll counter. In
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
" Chevy Small Block v8 is a little newer starting mid 1950's" ...and not used since 2003. Honestly, it's probably best to view an engine family like this as a form factor, not a design. It isn't like there were an
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I'm rather hoping to forget how to code at age 65.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Entertainment media narratives are mostly interesting when they are done for reasons outside of maximizing sales. You certainly can't blame someone for making up plots with just any old nonsense as long as the butts fill up the seats.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"A lot of public services and utilities have shifted their customer facing operations to the web and the very people who struggle to interact with these services are often the ones who need them the most." Well, that's the th
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
That's an interesting essay. It seems to me if desktop general purpose computing becomes a distinctly minority need, then the future of hardware design will bend towards that article's view. Large scale design and manufacturer of
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
That's an interesting point. I have friends in the movie makin' business and should ask how their unions work in terms of benefits, negotations, etc. The jobs all seems to be split into individual films as independent businesses
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
My view of the state-level (golden) rule for cyberwarefare: (1) Thou shalt not publish the goods on another country's elite else they shalt do the same to you.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It depends on the use case of course. Low cost with no other constraints is good for utilities, medium cost with smaller size and weight for vehicles, high cost/high capacity/small-light for portable devices. Since the rest of el
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It seems to me that it would be difficult to separate those valleys from the valleys you see from long term cycles in mass human behavior...under/over population of labor for example (or under/over supply of prey animals and food
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Betcha that women tend to be protein deprived in hunter-gatherer groups, at least the ones where they don't get to run a bunch of buffalo off of a cliff. I should look around for a study based on dental remains. I've always been
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
And then itty bitty windshield wipers on the glass.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
> (Two other solutions exist... Or using a monitor for the 'windshield' and cooking up some way to keep the camera lens clean.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Dammit, it's like they have a different word for everything.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
re: Unions If a software union only existed to deal with the following: . Pensions . Health insurance I can see the point.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
You mean this? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/282505033/always-punch-...
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It's an interesting problem. There's some sort of rule of thumb here (it needs a name). . Due to network effects, websites sites tend towards monopolies. . Due to human tribalism, websites tend towards bias. Even given some sort
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It's just one more case where there is a mismatch between offense and defense realities. I'd much rather try to design an anti-carrier missile than design a carrier that was missile proof.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
It sounds like a reasonable idea for another job shop who gets a cut, perhaps dealing with some of the contractor's paperwork over time. The more the merrier. Good luck. What I would like to see are contractor middlemen who are more t
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Also: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/china-seeks-to-buy-cont... That seems pretty smart to me. If your two choices are either assimilation or to make a separate state (with separate laws, etc.) out of
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
The Toyota Jihad model does appear to be a popular truck in certain quarters. I've been surprised for years that infrastructure wasn't more effectively attacked. It seems to me that a ton of mayhem could erupt just from a guy wit
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
If you make it to Senior Principal Staff Engineer they'll bring coffee to you.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"If I have a low level, quasi hardware layer service that I need coded in C or C++? Fine, yes, experience matters. It matters a lot in those instances, and I'd be foolish to hire some kid to do that. But there is less and less of
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I've always liked the idea of a consulting firm that specialized in hiring old people. I wonder if there's enough work to keep something like that fed if one were to specialize in 'obsolete' tech and market at a nationa
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"I'm 54. Have been in sw dev for 40 years.....Last year I applied for 300 positions,..." Being somewhat older than you, but bored, I think about taking up the oar again. My problem doubles down on yours in that my background
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Rats are too good at the game given a chance. Given proper hiding places (like your barn), you'll never find them.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"We had something like a consensus reality when big newspapers framed the terms of debate. Now we're retribalizing." Looking at newspapers prior to (let's say) WWII and that statement might be worth reconsidering.

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