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by bcrl 4y ago
I feel it would benefit users immensely if developers had to sit down and watch users performing tasks in their apps that they find infuriating. It's not like we don't have the technical ability in modern phones / tables for
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by bcrl 4y ago
I'd rather have 1 solid product than 2 dozen cancelled products which can no longer be used.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I think Apple is one of the few companies that tries to maintain a level of focus that Google simply does not have. Just compare the number of cancelled Google products/services vs Apple.
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by bcrl 4y ago
It looks like the search results got better in the last couple of months. Back in the fall when I was searching for "2TB SSD" the results were completely awful and included things like HDDs (why?!?). Trying the same search today
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by bcrl 4y ago
Yes, it's getting worse. I inadvertently deleted a bunch of information manually collected out in the field last week from Notes on my iPhone. What was my mistake? Apparently I reached into my pocket and somehow managed to unlock my
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by bcrl 4y ago
But Xilinx has the absolute worst SERDES interface. Microsemi's Polarfire was way easier to get 10G ethernet up and running on (hours vs weeks).
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by bcrl 4y ago
Server BIOS is just very poorly written. It never gets the boot time optimizations that desktops get. At a former employer, every time we got a new generation of Intel dual socket server boards, the bugs that we had to get fixed in the pre
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by bcrl 4y ago
Doctors are like any other profession. There are average doctors, there are really good doctors, and there are also really bad doctors. The world is full of nuance. Sadly some people don't want to believe nuance exists, and others d
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by bcrl 4y ago
The big challenge for electrification is how to cope with energy demands of commercial vehicles. The Tesla semi needs 1MW for the fast charge. Yes -- that's 1000A at 1000VDC going into a single truck, which is a lot of power! Simult
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by bcrl 4y ago
A good work environment will see only good from developers asking each other questions to gain a better understanding of the complex systems being worked on. I was pretty senior in one of my last few roles, and I regularly asked questions
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by bcrl 4y ago
Which will eventually be cancelled because they're not search.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Python is only slightly younger than awk at this point.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Linux Weekly News ended up with this kind of model. A long time ago back in 2002, LWN was about to shut down, but those of us in the Linux community found it had tremendous value and asked for options to pay, as well as options to pay more
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by bcrl 4y ago
Musk is/was distracted by the ongoing Twitter fiasco. How a single person can run 3 massive companies simultaneously without things going sideways is beyond me. He needs to decide where his focus is best spent.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Except for the trade war when tariffs were slapped on DRAM imports from Japan because of dumping. The prices listed in the ads by Jameco and other companies in the back of Byte tell some interesting stories.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Meanwhile, the externality of the damage cheap disinformation causes to society won't be paid by the creators of this technology. I fear that computer scientists don't have the necessary training in and understanding of ethics and
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by bcrl 4y ago
I wonder what sort of technical debt the Alexa team is racking up by putting in hacks like this.
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by bcrl 4y ago
The protocol for interacting with an exchange to trade for fiat isn't decided by the protocol. You just don't get to find out if you've been scammed by trusting your exchange to do what it said it did until it's too lat
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by bcrl 4y ago
Bandwidth costs way less than $0.003/GB. Even cheaper for Netflix because ISPs are willing to host cache servers for free.
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by bcrl 4y ago
https://futurism.com/bitcoin-mining-company-buys-entire-coal... sums it up for me.
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by bcrl 4y ago
In the legal world, plagiarism is known as "precedent".
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by bcrl 4y ago
I wish ethics courses were mandatory for Computer Science majors. Sadly not in this universe.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I've always wondered why there aren't diesel hybrids on the market given the higher energy density of diesel plus its long term stability. It would seem to be the ideal use-case since the diesel engine could be run at the RPM nee
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by bcrl 4y ago
I forgot to type the OoO -- that was indeed what I meant. That's what I get for being tired and overworked doing storm repairs for the past 2 and a half weeks.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I was a free range kid. I would wander off 5 km from home on my bike and wander through the bush and back roads, and everything was fine so long as I got home for supper. Hell, as a teenager I would hitchhike the 100km trek from the city
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by bcrl 4y ago
I don't think it was the OS that held NetWare back, rather it was the change in the CPU / memory / network / disk bandwidth balance. Back when NetWare was being heavily used in the 1980s and early 1990s, 10Mbps ethernet
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by bcrl 4y ago
It would have been interesting to see a superscalar ia64. The biggest problem with ia64 is that virtually every generation shipped late. Very late. We had working first generation CPUs years before anything shipped publically. The first
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's not memory bandwidth entirely. Modern superscalar Out-of-Order CPUs rename architectural registers with some number of physical registers to make larger OoO windows useful. To accomplish the same thing on a stack based architect
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's not that simple. Large SRAM arrays have the same problems that DRAM has: how much charge do you need to drive into the row and column lines to select the cell you actually want to have active. You can't push it too high bec
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by bcrl 4y ago
DNS over TCP is fine, and I'd far prefer it to be the default over UDP, as any packet loss with DNS over UDP results in rather lengthy timeouts (typically >1 second). DNS over TCP fixes that (or at least reduces the delay to RTT)

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