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by bcrl 4y ago
This article appears to be misrepresenting what at least some of the statistics are actually saying. For example, in Germany, the percentage of people with higher education is lower because the system is set up to guide people into trades
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by bcrl 4y ago
I was quite thankful to be exposed to AmigaBASIC and QuickBASIC that led me into more structured programming than earlier line based BASICs. That really helped make the transition to C and Turing easier.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Depends on what you're debugging... An FPGA board with the appropriate optical module slot, or a really expensive sampling oscilloscope. In my FPGA hacking one of the debugging techniques I used was to grab a bunch of raw data sampl
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by bcrl 4y ago
As does Google, Airbnb, Amazon, Facebook... This seems to be a recurring theme here on HN of late.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I guess it's better to control the fraud directly rather than relying on your competitor's best interests.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Back in the mid 1990s I had a summer job porting a map engine from Visual Basic to a Java applet running inside of Netscape. It ended up being a performance optimization nightmare. Because $reasons, the database stored polygons as strings
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by bcrl 4y ago
You're running a mailing list with a web signup form that doesn't even use a captcha to filter out bots. That's going to result in a bad reputation for your mail server. At the bare minimum you need to put some barriers bet
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by bcrl 4y ago
ASRock motherboards will probably support ECC on these CPUs, but DDR5 ECC UDIMMs will be insanely expensive at launch.
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by bcrl 4y ago
For Zen 4 a good part of the power reduction is that the i/o die went from the Global Foundries 12nm process to TSMC's 6nm process. That probably accounts at least partly for the large drop in power for the same performance, maki
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by bcrl 4y ago
Forums still have individual to individual conversations. Forums also have instances where individuals have an excellent reputation on one group but post what is considered to be spam in other groups. Take reddit and /r/theDonal
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by bcrl 4y ago
You are failing to address a use-case that matters. As a result, your solution can't be adopted by everyone, and will therefore fail. You need to consider privacy concerns, as not everyone in the world wants to see their web of assoc
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by bcrl 4y ago
Email and SMS are very much distributed systems. There are many mail servers, and many telephone companies, cell phone companies and VoIP providers that can send SMS messages. With SMS messages the problem is quite similar to e-mail in th
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by bcrl 4y ago
This is also possible using GPIOs on an FPGA as well. Have a look over at FPGA4Fun: https://www.fpga4fun.com/10BASE-T.html 10base-T is such a simple protocol, and implementing it is a good way to learn many of the physica
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by bcrl 4y ago
A pension fund with no losses is not taking any risk. Risk is always present, and is a normal part of doing business. So long as the risk is being managed appropriately across the entire portfolio, they're going to do just fine.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Is there really enough lithium in the world to supply fusion reactors while also meeting the demand for its use in batteries over the next 1000 years? It will be interesting to see what the actual long term consequences are for building fu
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by bcrl 4y ago
In order for an AI to understand the world like a human, it will need to interact with the world. Absent the ability to perform real world experiments, there can be no closure to the hypothesis => experiment => conclusion loop that i
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by bcrl 4y ago
Meanwhile, let's make it impossible to click on a button to obtain support from Google when you need it (and are willing to pay for it).
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by bcrl 4y ago
Clearly you have never traveled to Australia. They rigorously check incoming passengers for food and other undeclared organic material, as invasive species are a huge problem. Every time I've come in from an international flight in A
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by bcrl 4y ago
The recent Rogers outage shows the downsides of having a unified transport network.
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by bcrl 4y ago
You are gleefully ignoring the nearly weekly posts here about people getting locked out of all their Google services for terms of service violations that make no sense. Google has no support mechanisms. My personal experience with an anti-
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by bcrl 4y ago
The problem is that Optane wasn't better than the other NV-DIMMs that came to market. It's easy enough to build an NV-DIMM based on DRAM with some buffers that dumps to flash when the power fails, which ends up being cheaper and
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by bcrl 4y ago
Users don't have time to continually advocate for features they use in their desktop environment. If I'm a developer using a Linux based desktop, I have a whole bunch of work of my own to do. I don't have time to spend hour
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by bcrl 4y ago
You are making assumptions that are wrong. Just because you think a feature isn't used, that doesn't mean that there aren't users of that feature. Not every user participates in developer mailing lists to advocate for wor
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by bcrl 4y ago
A decent high leverage cable cutter costs under $50 and cuts through fibre like butter. A few seconds at each point where fibre is accessible is all that's needed to do damage that costs hundreds to thousands of dollars to fix. Damag
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by bcrl 4y ago
Just look at their track record on the BIOS for server boards. A company I worked with ran into the exact same PCIe probing bug in the BIOS on every new generation of Intel server motherboard + CPU. And it always took 6 months for the BIO
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by bcrl 4y ago
But you can't make a bot that reasons like a human currently. They don't understand intent, and I'm pretty sure it will be a heck of a long time until that deficiency is overcome. Having been programming for upwards of 40 ye
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by bcrl 4y ago
Within Canada Interac e-Transfer is fast and easy (except when Rogers is down). Takes a few seconds to go from one bank via email, click on the link and have it in another bank.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Crypto cheaper? Seriously? I pay $0 in fees for doing an EFT (or ACH) from my bank account to another bank account. Wire transfers via a currency trading platform I use don't charge a percentage either. If I tried to do that via cr
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by bcrl 4y ago
I live in Canada. I can send a wire transfer internationally in 5 minutes from my couch on my laptop without breaking as sweat. The 40 year old technology works fine from a website.
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by bcrl 4y ago
Weird, I now find transferring money between accounts at different banking institutions is incredibly easy. My credit union provides me with free access to the services of EFT Canada via which I can move money around any canadian banks wit

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