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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Judging by the Suez Canal or the Salton Sea it doesn't have good long term effects. Eventually it dries out and the salt left behind gets flung around surrounding areas, contaminating water supplies and ruining crops.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Sort of true. You get accepted to a division at Microsoft (as a new grad) and if there's headcount on multiple teams for someone of your level you can choose between them. A lot of the time there's only one team that is willing to
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
I strongly prefer Computer Organization and Design over their Computer Architecture book. I had to read both while at Berkeley. I've considered picking up the new RISC-V edition of the former but I can't justify spending that
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
If anyone has a book similar to this for embedded - I'd love to know. I've recently been reading Elecia White's Making Embedded Systems which is the closest thing to this book I can think of.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
I would love a book similar to C# In Depth but for C++. The book takes you on an evolutionary tour of C#s features, version-by-version. One of my favorite programming books of all time and a good read even for someone who doesn't pro
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Why are topological quantum computers more resilient? Do they handle the problem of decoherence better?
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
There was a noticeable drop in quality on HN after we started allowing political content. I think it's brought in a new crowd of HN users. I remember how in 2006 to 2010 Reddit changed from a place mostly frequented by programmers to a
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Yep. And as someone engaged in the RISC-V community, I've seen zero evidence of Google involvement outside of Patterson. Normally if they had something brewing, you would start to see signs on the forums, email, or Github.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Public sentiment has turned at this point. Tech companies are no longer the intrepid, utopic little guy fighting the good fight -- they are the incumbents. I would bet serious money that one of the hallmarks of the next presidential electio
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Pretty crazy! Hopefully they get Patterson to work on some novel computer architectures. TPUs are very cool but they are not for consumers.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
FT-8 is a game changer. I've never seen a mode take off like it as long as I've been a ham.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
It's written in F# so it makes sense it draws inspiration from it.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
* Myrddin * Terra
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Why not? It ticks all the boxes: tax breaks, good airport, transit, large metropolitan area, good schools, talent pool, etc.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
These are 5 of the most likely but who is giving the biggest tax breaks? Knowing how Bezos works, I guarantee he has a team who are creating spreadsheet after spreadsheet, and the winning city will be chosen by some algorithm which saves th
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Sure, but you're moving the goalposts :) Look, I'm a big fan of Rust - I want to see it succeed. I go to Rust meetups in my city, I've advocated for it's adoption in my company, yadda yadda. But I don't these vague
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Except the context of the quote was OS architecture so dmitrygr was correct -- Rust will not provide different OS architectures. Moreover, it was mean-spirited. Probably because they were reacting to the second part of dmitrygr's quo
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
I wasn't a huge fan. It was more about his life and less about his ideas. If you want a little bit of both, I highly recommend Seife's Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosm
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
How many game studios roll out their own allocator?
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Even five years ago, it was common knwoledge in the SF startup scene that Uber was run like a frat house. We used to laugh and hear about the Travis gang doing cocaine on his desk after work.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
As someone who followed that gamer->modder->hacker path, I would like to see statistics of how many developers got there start that way. The cohort of CS/EE majors I went through college with in 2010 had a solid percentage who st
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
I haven't used ROS in two years but it was such a painful experience at the time. We were stuck on an old, old build because we found that some of the drivers we used didn't work on anything newer. I spent so much time trying diff
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
!pip install <>
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
Yep and there's https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexRiscv But admittedly, SpinalHDL is basically Chisel.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
I also studied EECS at Berkeley and had Shewchuck. There's this mentality at Berkeley that the EECS classes are the hardest and most competitive in the country (and that private schools just give everyone A's) but after meeting ma
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
The above poster didn't say that there weren't any OSs or low-level stuff (anyone who frequents HN would know that) they said that majority focus is elsewhere.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
C# has a compiled version that uses the MSVC backend.
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by cbHXBY1D 9y ago
I downloaded it but I'm currently on mobile. I'll link to it when I get back to my desktop in an hour.
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by cbHXBY1D 10y ago
Well, I mean 'layman' as one of the most common demographics on HN: someone who has a degree in CS and maths but is now a full time developer.
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by cbHXBY1D 10y ago
Is this a good introduction to physics for a layman who is comfortable with linear algebra and calculus?

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