alexdowad

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by alexdowad 6y ago
Linus has incredible knowledge about the lower levels of the computing stack (CPU architectures, etc), and so I, for one, am very interested in knowing what he thinks about those things. But regarding his other opinions in general... yeah,
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by alexdowad 6y ago
Adam, you said at the end of the interview that you are looking for ways to grow your listener base. Well... I guess you got exactly what you were looking for, between interviewing Brian Kernighan and being featured on Hacker News... That&#
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by alexdowad 6y ago
I found it interesting, and curious, that Apple has included hardware specifically for "machine learning" on the M1 chip. It's hard to imagine that anyone will be training ML models on their Mac laptop. So presumably, this mu
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by alexdowad 6y ago
My personal preference would be more like: 5. Make something cool and release it under any license which I feel like. Ruthlessly limit the project scope so I can finish it while still having fun and learning interesting things. (This mean
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by alexdowad 6y ago
> 30% margin I know of firms which hire offshore programmers for $15/hr and bill the client $90/hr. (500% margin!) Of course, it helps if the client has plenty of money.
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by alexdowad 6y ago
Good old Ulrich in his best form!
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by alexdowad 6y ago
This is a far better idea than "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" as suggested by the OP.
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by alexdowad 6y ago
Please feel free to privmail me and I will try to share some ideas.
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by alexdowad 6y ago
Suggestion: Dig in to the very bottom of your computing stack and get a working knowledge of your CPU, bootloader, OS kernel, system libraries, etc. Along the way, you will want to try: - Using a debugger to step through simple programs at
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by alexdowad 6y ago
I respectfully disagree with this comment. I banged my head against The Art of Electronics for years before discovering that the problem wasn't with me... but rather, it was just a very poor book for a learner. It may be a great book f
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by alexdowad 6y ago
Looks fascinating. I wish that in the first section, they would have shown which instructions (for a sample architecture) might have been generated for each application of the tree rewrite rules. It looks like the reader was expected to und
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by alexdowad 6y ago
If the lyrics were all generated by a Markov chain from beginning to end, there's no way that it would have a repeating chorus. Are all the 3-word tuples actually used in other AC/DC songs? (Output this grammatical could not be ge
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by alexdowad 6y ago
Once I worked at a place which was very interested in protecting the IP inherent in their firmware. They gave me a research assignment to get an idea of how difficult it would be for an attacker to extract it as a binary given unlimited phy
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by alexdowad 6y ago
But if an attacker is already "inside" your system and is able to access the interface for configuring the FPGA, I think you have already lost...
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by alexdowad 7y ago
Definitely not. The kernel has its own implementations of any standard C functions which it needs.
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by alexdowad 7y ago
Just searching the web to see if anyone has published a list of Linus Torvalds' best technical posts -- those where he shares his extensive knowledge of system programming, CPU architecture, etc. With all the years he has been posting
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by alexdowad 7y ago
What is this guy actually trying to say?
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by alexdowad 7y ago
I felt the same. Also feel that he put too much stuff in, as if wanting to make it run for as many pages as possible.
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by alexdowad 8y ago
As an extreme example: I just saw a new micro the other day which costs 3 cents per unit... but it only has 64 BYTES of RAM.
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by alexdowad 8y ago
This. Never heard of Dan before today. Now he is "a guy on the Internet who writes about programming but doesn't know much about it".
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by alexdowad 8y ago
Is there anything you can do to reduce living expenses? (Cancel unneeded subscriptions, eat out less, etc.) Whatever happens with your job, slowing down your "cash burn" can only make your financial situation better.
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by alexdowad 9y ago
I found Khan Academy really helped with high-school algebra, single-variable calculus, and especially multi-variable calculus (the visualizations were great). Khan Academy's linear algebra course was awful and I dropped out there.
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by alexdowad 9y ago
Tried the app on my Nexus. It didn't work, at all. When I open the app and try to take a selfie, the image is completely blurred out and it can't detect my face. (The built-in Camera app works just fine, though.)
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by alexdowad 9y ago
Why doesn't he say which of Google's terms of service he supposedly violated? He just spends the whole 3 pages saying that he hasn't done anything wrong, without even once saying what he is alleged to have done wrong. Seems
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by alexdowad 9y ago
I tried btrfs and got bitten by bugs; not doing that again. Judging from this move by RH, it looks like I wasn't the only one.
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by alexdowad 9y ago
A Go amateur's synopsis: it seemed like Ke was winning and it seemed like Ke was winning and then stuff got complicated and then AlphaGo won.
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by alexdowad 10y ago
IDE or text editor + CLI tools? The answer depends on the programming language which you have chosen to use at this stage of your learning process. Each language has its own community, and in some of those communities, IDEs predominate. In
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by alexdowad 10y ago
Presumably he is working on other things in the meantime.
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by alexdowad 10y ago
Spamnesty is really amusing! It would be even better if your bot had a wider variety of responses. I foresee that sooner or later, your bot will get stuck in an endless conversation with a spambot which keeps replying, leading to another ro
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by alexdowad 10y ago
elihu, these are some good ideas here. I would love to see your "full wish list". Can you post it somewhere? More improvements on the POSIX interface: - Processes should be able to reserve some % of both CPU and I/O bandwidth

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