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by bsder 1y ago
> In business, it is said that one ought to focus on core competencies and let other companies handle the rest. In contrast, "Maximally efficient is minimally robust." Something that business intelligentsia propagates should be
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by bsder 1y ago
>For example Zig is probably the most impressive new language, and it’s got a ton of awesome stuff but the chance that I’m going to adopt it over a language with often comparable performance that is ALSO much safer? Rounds to zero. 1) Ru
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by bsder 1y ago
> we wound up with more and better jobs. You will have to back that statement up because this is not at all obvious to me. If I look at the top US employers in say 1970 vs 2020, the companies that dominate 1970 were noted for having hard
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by bsder 1y ago
Or, better yet, simply prevent any company who laid people off from being able to access any more H1-Bs for some number of years. You can keep your current H1-Bs, but no more for you for 5 years if you do a layoff.
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by bsder 1y ago
Nobody is switching jobs because if you move you likely have to switch two jobs rather than just one. Improving mobility means that you have to make a single earner household a viable pathway again. That means bring house prices down and
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by bsder 1y ago
This was for a high risk cancer that was already treatment resistant. This is an unusually effective treatment with remarkably smaller side effects. If it is this good, it will probably start getting used more broadly.
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by bsder 1y ago
Then set the limits properly at the 85% mark. And ban speed limit fines from going into local coffers.
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by bsder 1y ago
It doesn't help that the OCaml community also has the problem that a significant minority seem to resent the fact that one company (Jane Street) has written more OCaml than the the rest of the world combined and then some and so de fac
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by bsder 1y ago
> I don't really know how else to put it, but it's vaguely like a C derived spiritual cousin of Lisp with structs instead of lists. Zig comptime operates a lot like very old school Lisp FEXPRS before the Lisp intelligentsia boo
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by bsder 1y ago
> In isolation, this might be a positive. But watching one of the world’s richest multinationals do this primarily in response to an autocratic, authoritarian regime is neither a good look nor what we should hope for as an example of how
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by bsder 1y ago
Those datasheets show creating a series pack/cell. They don't show the circuitry to then parallel the packs together. I guess I need to do more research on this.
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by bsder 1y ago
> Putting the protection circuit* on the battery's negative pole is standard best practice Pointer? Especially since LiPol paralleling seems to want to use bus bars to minimize wiring resistance. Admittedly my experience is all abo
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by bsder 1y ago
With floating grounds due to those MOSFETS adding 50 milliohms or so (on the order of the internal resistance of the batteries!)! YIKES!
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by bsder 1y ago
> The WHY2025 badge was designed to be powered by 2 Li-Ion 18650 battery cells connected in parallel. Wait, what? I was under the impression that Lithium batteries were really difficult to put in parallel without a LOT of engineering w
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by bsder 1y ago
The biggest issue is simply: an HDL is not a programming language. As such, making an HDL look like a programming language doesn't increase my expressiveness or productivity all that much. (Side note: this assumes VHDL or SystemVerilo
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by bsder 1y ago
The problem is that these jobs are hard and the pay is crap. SmarterEveryDay attempted to make a grill scrubber in the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY tl;dr He did it, but it went very poorly.
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by bsder 1y ago
> I find it fascinating how much a pretty large group of people just hate semaglutides and seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain. Some of us also remember previous weight loss drugs which had similar leve
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by bsder 1y ago
> Both of us had 4.0s. You are so far removed from the ability of the average student that your personal observations about college simply don't generalize. > I never spent that much time in Physics I, Calculus I or any English C
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by bsder 1y ago
> The first week or 2 of each semester is very light. Please tell that to the undergrad STEM professors, please. Almost all of mine had an assignment first class that was due by the third class. Freshman engineering is generally Calc I,
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by bsder 1y ago
> One common theme I've noticed is that their class load virtually doesn't matter. They find ways to run out of time no matter how much free time they start with. 12 credits is normally a minimum. That's roughly 12 hours
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by bsder 1y ago
> I think there's a good chance this was just plain old incompetence, not malice. If you or I did this, do you think a judge would care ? No. We would be sitting in jail with a significant fine to boot. The point is that these b
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by bsder 1y ago
Interesting, I was just mumbling to myself the other day that I really needed to find someone to fold sheet metal before I needed another computer case. But this article points out that there really isn't any reason not to make this st
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by bsder 1y ago
> How is it reasonable to render the PDF, rasterize it, OCR it, use AI, instead of just using the "quality implementation" to actually get structured data out? Because the underlying "structured data" is never checked
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by bsder 1y ago
Except the whole point of using AI is to be able to actively route around gigantic dumpster fires of fail like CMake. The bug was the CMake-specific formulation and incantation of a Git tag. Something that should be in the documentation th
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by bsder 1y ago
> I have about two weeks of using Claude Code and to be honest, as a vibe coding skeptic, I was amazed. And, yet, when I asked it to correct a CMake error in a fully open source codebase (broken dependency declaration), it couldn't
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by bsder 1y ago
Taking immediately available cash instead of finishing a PhD is almost always a good economic decision (we'll leave aside the fact that a PhD is almost always a disastrously bad economic decision). You can always go back and finish y
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by bsder 1y ago
> at least acknowledge that the norm has been shifting for a while now. Sure. I agree it has been shifting, but mostly out of people simply not paying attention. However, it's pretty easy to get it to switch. I have converted prob
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by bsder 1y ago
There is a vast difference between "We quit inviting you to Sunday night dinner." and "We made so much grief that you lost your job." Presumption of innocence is a cornerstone of society since at least Roman times and
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by bsder 1y ago
> A couple of of the operating systems seem to point the finger at poorly documented hardware changes that the manufacturer has been no help with. If only we could have somehow predicted this. I mean who could have predicted that a comp
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by bsder 1y ago
> But today, who's getting tips in cash? Every server who waits on me. I make it a point to carry cash and tip the waitstaff in cash even if I pay the bill on my credit card. 1) Tips on credit cards are a "dark pattern"

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