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by VLM 5y ago
I would go a slightly different track after seeing comments on OPs linked article making fun of people who know what ACID compliance means WRT databases. The point of interviewing about algos or ACID or SOLID is fast inter-team communicatio
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by VLM 5y ago
Which employees? Its like the old claim that only 10% of the money spent on advertising is worth anything but nobody can figure out which 10% it is. So the corporation knows that 99% of the employees showed up for work the day after their
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by VLM 5y ago
If you're bored you can go to mycmp.fr and check their process catalog and compare a typical 55nm run to a 160nm run. Its not quite as standardized as ordering PCBs over the internet. Different metallization (you usually don't ge
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by VLM 5y ago
In the long run we'll only use FPGAs and soft cores. In 2050 if your old 2035 Ford needs a new ECU you'll just stuck a somewhat newer and larger FPGA on it, and if the 2035 ECU needs three hardware I2C bus with clock stretching, o
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by VLM 5y ago
I never signed the NDA, although I follow the space distantly, and they went public on their own website a couple years ago with a list: BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler AG, Ford, General Motors, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Toyota, and Volkswagen.
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by VLM 5y ago
Its easier and more realistic to kill the company via a recall. Take for example the Boeing 737-MAX. Eh, its bigger, needs a little more elevator movement to simulate the older model, just flex the software so it can wiggle a bit more what
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by VLM 5y ago
Very handwavy most of these stories seem to revolve around Google tying ad accounts and play store accounts, and having a VERY EXTREMELY heavy hand on ad accounts, which results in the banhammer smashing distantly related play store account
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by VLM 5y ago
Actually no, they didn't seem to admit any violations. I've been in this game awhile, dealing with Google is a continuous stream of "we have a new policy and you now have 30 days to provide the URL of your official formal leg
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by VLM 5y ago
Youtube should be held civil and criminal liable for ALL content on its highly edited and curated platform.
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by VLM 5y ago
Its kind of like writing a paper about sorting algorithms while somehow forgetting to mention or reference Hoare's QuickSort from 1961.
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by VLM 5y ago
> Effectively destabilizing and splintering western societies. There's a biological analogy where a predator can't move into a niche if its already populated. In the USA we already have groups we're not allowed to criticiz
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by VLM 5y ago
No because as long as two sites exist, a malicious actor can cross them over. Alice thinks she's posting to a Mongolian basket weaving forum, and as such she solves a captcha-type proof, and her post appears, so all seems well to her.
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by VLM 5y ago
Eh. Car people tend to be more generational than tech or computer people. My generation certainly has its own amusing peculiarities as we replaced our muffler exhaust tips with clothes dryer vents. We're not going to get mass market
644.
by VLM 5y ago
Observationally heat seems to make plastics more brittle than sunlight. Top of dash car parts seem about as brittle as shaded bottom of dash car parts. Field service people seem to kill laptops in a couple years, although we're talkin
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by VLM 5y ago
Unfortunately retrobriting doesn't take off surface dirt or ink or similar. Painting-like surface preparation is required beforehand. Just dumping sort-of-casually clean parts in the solution will lead to splotchiness and areas that
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by VLM 5y ago
I suspect if EVs ever get cheap enough for "regular joes" to drive, there will be hot rodders ripping out batteries to make them go faster. A Tesla model S battery is something like 1200 pounds. The entire car weighs something li
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by VLM 5y ago
There's a big wikipedia article on the various vehicle frame technologies thru the ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_frame So my commuter car is a cheapie Yaris ICE not EV. Its lead acid battery lives o
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by VLM 5y ago
> People wake near sunrise. I found it surprisingly difficult to find data. Not just data for or data against, but any data at all. What little I found organized by month seems to accurately show the percentage of the month typically o
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by VLM 5y ago
I don't see any reason for greenwashing, or fearmongering along the lines of "think of the children", or virtue signaling in general, to decline in effectiveness, so they'll likely keep on using those strategies. Younger
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by VLM 5y ago
That did not even slow down the "smart TV" phenomena. We do not live in efficient markets.
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by VLM 5y ago
The most likely outcome of demanding software support would be the elimination of perpetual software licenses and maybe logic bombs in the hardware to destroy the hardware after a certain calendar date. So buy an iphone in 2023 (or really a
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by VLM 5y ago
Interestingly, no. I had recently finished reading both books by Robert Mason, who started out flying helicopters for the Army in Vietnam and ended up smuggling literal tons of weed and got caught and did federal time. Pretty interesting a
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by VLM 5y ago
A couple comments on supersonic aircraft: There are no jet engines ever made that I'm aware of that can run at supersonic speeds. The fastest mass air flow rate I've ever personally heard of was some Soviet thing that didn't
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by VLM 5y ago
Seems like most USB-C cables and chargers on the market are fake. And as per "the market for lemons" the fake $2 chargers that can't output full power without smoking or have zero isolation from power line or refuse to use X
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by VLM 5y ago
All you have to do is lase them. Like handling security cameras... you can fire an artillery shell at a security camera, but most of the time security cameras are mission ineffective if you just shine a bright enough flashlight (or laser) a
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by VLM 5y ago
Produce is mostly made out of natural gas and diesel, not plastic. Those plants aren't going to fertilize themselves LOL. As with most greenwashing announcements, the net result will be increased, not decreased, environmental damage.
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by VLM 5y ago
People are too free with their phones. Just walk into a bar and say you're too drunk to drive and could the bartender call my wife to pick me up? Not knowing its actually picking up $60M worth of coke instead of picking up me. Or pul
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by VLM 5y ago
IF you want to send arbitrary data. Usually people don't need that. For something like coke smuggling you just need to know its on the way, get ready. So the OTP could be something as lame as "if you get a phone call from some r
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by VLM 5y ago
In this situation that would leave you open to network analysis and location analysis, even if no payloads were decryptable. Using enough data warehousing and artificial intelligence, eventually some algorithm would notice that every time s
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by VLM 5y ago
Ironic to see this on the front page along with the article "Misinformation on Reddit has become unmanageable, 3 Alberta moderators say (cbc.ca)" which is basically a sob story that three people are having a hard time forcing thei

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