YorkianTones

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by YorkianTones 12y ago
Have you tried Microsoft OneNote? http://www.onenote.com/ I can't believe no one's mentioned it yet in all these comments. I've been using it for 7 years and I've never lost data. The worst bug I've
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
Detection of abnormal conditions might be tractable (though I wouldn't call online vision or recognition trivial problems). But taking action is harder. A piece of debris might manifest in a way that causes a self-driving car to skid t
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
Even Google's version will have risks and I expect will make mistakes in early iterations. Having a max speed of 25 MPH and limiting deployment will reduce some of this risk, but AI is hard and the environment is very open and will con
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
^This. This is the hard part. Interdependencies and compat.
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
For one, it's big. When I was working on part of the UIPlat team for Windows, my private enlistment just included build infra and maybe 5% of the sources and associated tools/tests and it still took up 60+ GB (100+ GB with binarie
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
I think Microsoft was being squeezed out of new markets by Google and Apple. I'm not sure how accurate it is to say Microsoft "is being crushed by opensource (sic)". Also, despite being overshadowed by other tech companies, M
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
"Nevertheless, 3,000 pages of Shakespeare and Sophocles in four months still sounds dense." Seems reasonable. Assuming it takes you on average 2 mins to digest a page, we're talking 100 hours total or 8 hours / week. I h
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
We used this set of labs as the basis for the master's OS course at UW. They're fantastic and fairly straightforward, providing scaffolding and then having you implement basic versions of interesting OS facilities like context swi
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
Yup, you can get up and running with a Linux VM in seconds. I've found Azure to be cheaper than AWS for micro VM instances. Running a twitter bot on AWS cost me ~ $10/month but after switching over to a CentOS VM on Azure I'm
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
We're using JOS lab assignments in the master's OS class at University of Washington this quarter. I think the labs are quite good at illustrating basic OS principles through having you implement the core functionality (paging, in
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by YorkianTones 12y ago
There are doors. There are revolving doors.