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by banish-m4 2y ago
Completely missed that Nix solves RPM dependency hell, which is a superset of the shared library hell. Another problem not solved by NixOS and most other distros is conflating and mixing dependencies in a messy, fragile way rather than havi
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by banish-m4 2y ago
I'm not talking about Intel's engineers, I'm saying very few software engineers today understand how a processor works. I'm sure Intel hires all sorts of engineers for different aspects of each ecosystem they maintain. F
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by banish-m4 2y ago
It's corporate BS to blame the victim, the employees. Suddenly create new, surprise, unrealistic expectations proving the existing performance review process was also bullshit and not based on fair, consistent, objective merit. Trust l
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Ah, truth. Brain fart. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Section V Helium leak detection sensitivity is 3 orders of magnitude higher. Memory is fallible, but the code doesn't lie.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
@sama was hyping 3B on podcasts ~2016-2018. I thought it would've had an iota of integrity because he put his name out there with it, so I gave it a go not expecting much. I've interviewed ~100 candidates, have been on the other s
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Most of the complexities lie in managing the various configurations of total system compatibility emulation, especially for timing, analog oddities, and whether to include bugs or not and for which steppings. If you want precise and accurat
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by banish-m4 2y ago
This is an illusion and a red herring. RTL synthesis is the typical functional prototype stage reached which is generally sufficient for FPGA work. To burn an ASIC as part of an educational consortium run is doable, but it's uncommon.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Seconded. A microcoded, pipelined, superscalar, branch-predicting basic processor with L1 data & instruction caches and write-back L2 cache controller is nontrivial. Most software engineers have an incomplete grasp of data hazards, cach
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Won't stop lobbyists, spouses, their financial advisors, or them from taking gold bars. 95% are still crooks, or campaign finance reform would've passed years ago. This is a performative ruse.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
The marketing of EDB is as a drop-in replacement for Oracle.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
It still seems wild to me that laser products powerful enough to chemically alter objects are sold or allowed without a sealed protection system. I guess product safety standards aren't what they used to be.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
I can read, thanks. There is no benefit to it. If the desire were to look at them out of curiosity, a microscope would do.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
They claimed they were going to restore service by 5 pm CST, but it took until 7:30 pm CST for us to get it back. PS: If you're Google Fiber, please roll out to the TX triangle. We're dying here where the only other alternative is
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Hey HN. I actually have a current need for on-device wake-word-like STT. Which model(s) have the lowest WER and can run on an RPi 4B? I've been looking at openWakeWord. It's for an DIY inventory system.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Algorithms can and are definitely patented in utility patents in the US.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Too big to jail. In Boeing's case, they're also a "strategic defense contractor" making bombs, missile, fighters, bombers, and such besides airliners the flying public uses. They are a big chunk of the military-industria
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by banish-m4 2y ago
The medical industry uses QALY.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
It's performative BS tantamount to their "self-regulation". Regulatory capture and influence capture is so complete, they can and are getting away with murder.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Obama was their pitchman for a while while POTUS. He even directed the DoJ to "announce" premature and incorrect conclusions, overstepping the NTSB's investigation in the Jamaican 737 non-MAX NG crash. It seems Boeing is gett
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by banish-m4 2y ago
No, but I had really good vision then and could see it by squinting and using the pinhole camera trick. In the end, the exhaustive preparation made the difference. It might as well have been open book because it was a damn hard test that re
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by banish-m4 2y ago
It's slow as shit though. I had 5x U6-Mesh after ditching the Google/Nest Wi-Fi garbage. Now, I have U6-Enterprise running on PoE on dedicated copper. There's no substitute for the bandwidth afforded by physical media. FS: U6
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by banish-m4 2y ago
I have Ubiquiti APs that run off a local UniFi VM. The APs don't have internet access and the UniFi box has only limited access to grab firmware updates. No need to trust when you can enforce limits on a separate router running a FOSS
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Anecdotal evidence. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Note that it's possible to (mostly) hermetically-seal non-helium, air-exchanging breather holes of HDDs for use in submerged mineral oil applications. It's typically done by adhering a flexible membrane over the air port.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
That's not the main problem. The main problem is hydrogen is fucking painful to contain.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
MRI machines borked the MEMS accelerometers in iPhone due to helium contamination. I assume most smartphone sensors are now helium-tolerant.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Even harder to contain than helium. Hydrogen notoriously diffuses through many materials and ridiculously-small pores.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
If someone is only looking at cat videos or reading mass-market fiction, then they're probably also ignorant or illiterate about the world regarding current events and history. That's their choice. While depressing, it's unre
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by banish-m4 2y ago
So there are modern efforts to replace LP compressor blades of LM1500's (industrial conversions of J79's) to save weight and improve efficiency. Carbon fiber blades weigh a fraction of what metal ones do. Also, with computational
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Haven't you ever been on a night flight where you had to ask someone to turn down their Samsung phablet from the brightness of indoor landing light? That's roughly the level of inconsideration that is routine on flights, so this p

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