davemp

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by davemp 9y ago
> This is tyranny of the masses, nothing else. It is called democracy. It has brought more success/improved living conditions than any other model (tyranny of the elite) in history. > And I would suggest to you that there are num
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by davemp 9y ago
> Karl Popper was a well-regarded 20th century philosopher I'm aware and don't see why an appeal to authority is necessary. Also OP didn't link Karl Popper. They linked a rando-streamer who's opinions on censorship pr
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by davemp 9y ago
I'll call bullshit. You do not have to tolerate all speech in an ideological sense (the only sense that matters) just a physical sense. Be careful when letting youtube faux philosophers feed you ideas. EDIT: I apologize if this comment
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by davemp 9y ago
> It's sort of disconcerting to admit this but recent events have me reevaluating the utility of unvarnished free speech as a societal value. Very disconcerting that you and so many other people feel this way. Free speech and compet
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by davemp 9y ago
I'm surprised I didn't hear about this until now. It looks like the user had to have enabled AMT, so this isn't exactly conspiracy levels. It is troubling how little priority the computer world gives to proper security models
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by davemp 9y ago
If CPU backdoors exist how has nobody logged network traffic required to abuse them?
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by davemp 9y ago
Nope, plently of people do heavy computing with FPGAs. The speedup between FPGA -> ASIC is not that dramatic. Their real advantage is power draw and ammortized cost. FPGAs also have to initialize when powering up.
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by davemp 9y ago
What do you mean by major apps? Do you have some reason to believe that apps will suddenly become embarrassingly parallel? Major apps often don't even take full advantage of SIMD instructions on the CPU. As soon as you need a context s
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by davemp 9y ago
> the original June could identify up to twenty-five food types Hot dog or not hot dog? On a serious note this could have been a neat product, but I'm not really interested in an oven that's packed with telemetry and proprieta
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by davemp 9y ago
> It’s using HackerRank, a web platform that trains and grades people on writing computer code What is HN's opinion on HackerRank and the like?
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by davemp 9y ago
> finance, "helping kids with the homework", "the little lady can store her recipes", and home automation. The only ones that really panned out were games (including edutainment), spreadsheets, word processing, and ma
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by davemp 9y ago
> \d now matches Unicode digits such as ᭕ (a Balinese five) and ๓ (a Thai three). This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
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by davemp 9y ago
You should probably set up a true RT system if you're going to use an atomic clock.
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by davemp 9y ago
TL;DR: A distributed "nano-processor" [1] architecture with a bunch of neat tricks to allow the "nano-processors" to coordinate with the help of a master processor. It looks like it could have potential if they come up w
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by davemp 9y ago
> But yeah, online documentation, classical tutorials are usually useless. How long ago was this? Checkout the arch linux wiki. It's a pretty great resource for all things GNU/linux.
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by davemp 9y ago
So corporations find that mentally healthy employees are more productive/valuable so they promote mental fortitude. Somehow anti-capitalists spin even that into some deep evil. Ridiculous.
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by davemp 9y ago
Losing out on an early five years of investing is huge. A ~$30k/yr stipend is not going to be enough to do anything with. > But there are ways for making up for the lost pay; I do know of a few Data Science Managers who earlier drop
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by davemp 9y ago
> a PhD is literally dedicated to carry out original research *for ~$30k/yr for five years > Conducting original research is a natural requirement to be on the cutting edge of any scientific or technical field. I'm not sayin
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by davemp 9y ago
It's a shame how going through the hassle and politics of getting PhD (from a reputable school) is now almost a requirement for the cutting edge. Getting a PhD is honestly such a bad deal financially and socially. I'm sure the pro
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by davemp 9y ago
I agree completely. The safety to be complacent is what you (sometimes) take the pay and freedom cut for when you work for salary.
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by davemp 9y ago
> There are probably less non dictionary words than dictionary words There are infinitely many non dictionary words. I also didn't say to use _strictly_ non dictionary words.
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by davemp 9y ago
I think that is pretty much the alternative approach dan spoke of at the end, but without saving the cycle in a data structure (worse for testing): > In practice, you probably don’t “need” to know how these algorithms work because the st
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by davemp 9y ago
Using non dictionary words should help greatly.
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by davemp 9y ago
You have a very valid point, but it's not exactly the issue at hand. - The memo was posted in an opt-in group for these types of discussions. - The issue is very lopsided. I have personally never heard of someone being fired over sayin
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by davemp 9y ago
I've found cash to be much faster and more pleasent than card for eating out. - Waiter brings check - Leave cost + tip - Leave If you pay with card that's an extra trip from the waiter which can take a pretty long time.
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by davemp 9y ago
Looks much cleaner. Again, I really like the project and encourage you to dive deeper into progamming language theory.
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by davemp 9y ago
> This is by far my highest upvoted post in this thread, even higher than ones that exhibit much stronger "virtue-signaling" argumentum ad populum [1] > In it effort to save myself some time (seriously, you're asking me
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by davemp 9y ago
I'm sorry, you can't just say the man is "implicitly claiming" anything. Espectially when his career was so negatively effected. Support your claims with direct quotes or keep your slander to yourself.
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by davemp 9y ago
> So now the CEO of one of the richest companies on earth Even more frightening--one of the companies that has the most power in determining the information that people see.
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by davemp 9y ago
> To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work Didn't the paper suggest biological reasons for not entering the field and nothing to do with capability?

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