bgorman

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by bgorman 6y ago
If you are developing low-level device drivers, it is nice to be close to the hardware engineers.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Nit: factories are not fabs, "fabs" refers to semiconductor manufacturing factories.
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by bgorman 6y ago
X and Wayland is a good illustration why desktop Linux never progresses. Tons of wasted development effort in dead/useless technologies like Systemd/Pulseaudio/Xorg when the market is clearly moving elsewhere. The Linux kerne
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by bgorman 6y ago
Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.
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by bgorman 6y ago
What I have seen in the wild is that in dynamic languages programs end up being "stringly" typed, where a mistyped string in the program results in an error, and programs needlessly rely on array positioning. ML languages that su
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by bgorman 6y ago
It’s interesting that this is basically a PR piece for a highly controversial company, intellectual ventures.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Wow, this is completely inexcusable. Google deserves being given the antitrust ban-hammer.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Do you have any sources for this? I am interested in learning more
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by bgorman 6y ago
If you want to get degree for these purposes I recommend western governors university. It is a major US university run by the government. Nothing against university of the people, but I don’t know how accepted it is.
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California keeps key virus data out of public sight(ktvu.com)
3 points by bgorman 6y ago|0 comments
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by bgorman 6y ago
Gas stations in cities are being converted to apartment/condo complexes, not EV charging stations. The economics just don't allow wasting prime real estate on something like a EV charging station.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Probably due to Biden being the one who tried to get Edward Snowden extradited to the US.
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by bgorman 6y ago
It is pretty weird to me that there is no comparison with screen and tmux prominently displayed.
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by bgorman 6y ago
I was a pretty early user of dropbox. One of things I used dropbox for was storing some of my college homework assignments. I estimate that these assignments occupied ~10 megabytes at most. Dropbox deleted my stored files due to account ina
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by bgorman 6y ago
One of my theories based on life experience is that many fields do not attract the brightest people to begin with, and consequently many of the ideas from these fields are not pressure-tested enough. In todays academia, it is basically impo
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by bgorman 6y ago
I have a MacBook Air 2020 (Intel). After upgrading to Big Sur, I have experiences a general degradation of performance, graphical glitches and serious Bluetooth problems (failing to connect to Apple mouse and keyboard). The fundamental prob
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by bgorman 6y ago
For anyone interested here is the Parlor CEOs “parlor tweet” about this: Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet. There is the possibility
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by bgorman 6y ago
Did anyone here actually use Parler? I installed it, and as a new user the default experience is basically a Twitter clone, but with only prominent right wing celebrities like Sean Hannitty. I didn’t see any hateful trending topics here. My
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by bgorman 6y ago
The app still loads for me
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by bgorman 6y ago
Why doens't Intel just pay Samsung a lot of money to license their methodology for the latest nodes? This worked for Globalfoundries back in the day.
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by bgorman 6y ago
The foreign car manufacturers in the US are all in the south, where they can operate without labor unions. Hyundai's assembly line in the US seems to be in Alabama: https://www.hmmausa.com
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by bgorman 6y ago
Unfortunately Signal is just a poor application. There are frequent bugs and after a while push notifications stopped working for me. (Pixel 3a, Android). I eventaully switched to iMessage.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Yes, I clearly typed the wrong word. It is clearly a noun.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Lots of comments are being voted down disagreeing with the literal definition of censorship. Whatever your position on this issue, it is certainly alarming that on hackernews intellectual arguments over the meaning of a word are sent down t
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by bgorman 6y ago
You are incorrect. Censorship is not a legal concept, it a noun. Oxford English Dictionary definition: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/censorship Nothing mentioned about the government at all.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Censorship doesn't need to be done by the government From Oxford dictionary: "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.&
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by bgorman 6y ago
HP had 10.2 billion in profit last year. Source: https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/HPQ/financials/annual... Certainly enough to take a 50 million dollar risk.
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by bgorman 6y ago
Definitely not true, IP blocks are available for all critical features and chip layout can be outsourced. ARM has a Cortex-X chip available for licensing for anyone that wants a high performance CPU core. For example, HP (who also makes lap
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by bgorman 6y ago
Canada is a part of NATO, and NATO militaries have strategies for the sharing of nuclear weapons. In the past nuclear weapons were stored in Canada.
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by bgorman 6y ago
This is misleading at best. Every country that has the ability to enrich uranium is 99% of the way there towards developing nuclear weapons. Iran feels threatened. Countries that have felt threatened (North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel) h

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