davemp

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by davemp 9y ago
Yes. You're working from an overly reductive perspective. Transportation, government subsidy, and population density are way too complex to cover with a simple "I don't use it, so why should I pay for it" argument.
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by davemp 9y ago
> Free use of government property is a great thing when it's a public good, but parking is not one of those situations. Gonna need to provide some sources if you want to claim that public parking doesn't benefit society.
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by davemp 9y ago
I think the problem comes down to simple economic factors. How much will it cost upfront to automate a specific area and how long will it take for such automation to turn a profit vs human alternatives. Right now: - the upfront costs are hi
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by davemp 9y ago
Neat idea, I really like it. The only comment I have is that the `__main__.py` looks like a bit like spaghetti with ~1200 lines, multiple classes, and scattered global state. Not really a big deal unless you plan on growing the project or u
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by davemp 9y ago
I'm curious as to where this mass automation story originated. I haven't seen any real evidence that anything besides the most basic repetitive tasks will be automated in the future. This automation would also likely just lead to
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by davemp 9y ago
I've been doing some work for Areva's (large nuclear services company) North American branch this summer and have had a chance to talk frankly with upper management / executives about the current state of the industry. Areva&
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by davemp 9y ago
Also nomadic societies haven't faired too well either.
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by davemp 9y ago
Sorry, you are definately right about the motivation for the change. My first paragraph is off base. I should have said "this seems incomplete" instead of wrong. I just wanted to see the architectual reasoning behind how switching
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by davemp 9y ago
Who is this author? This seems mostly wrong to me. Shrinking die size doesn't seem to have anything to do with the removal of tristate buffers from FPGAs. FPGA vendors are constently trying to shorten the length/amount of intercon
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by davemp 9y ago
Yeah. Fusion will happen in the year of the linux desktop.
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by davemp 9y ago
Kind of interesting, but honestly I'd like to see a much more drastic departure from UNIX roots. If you want to clean things up, go all in. I wouldn't hire a cleaning service to clean 1/5th of my house (especially if they lef
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by davemp 9y ago
I'd argue that snapchat is much closer to a productivity app than instagram. Snapchat makes picture (and now regular) messaging faster and more fire&forget. Instagram is just other feed for the user to slog through.
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by davemp 9y ago
You're right, most of these problems stem from companies extending the Garbage C Compiler that encourages abuse of C's awful macro system to cover up its poor decisions.
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by davemp 9y ago
Those forces are so strong people are still pushing for C on FPGAs.
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by davemp 9y ago
Good to hear. I'm sure there is a large group of developers sitting on the sidelines that check in from time to time hoping to be able to leave C behind. Has anyone on the rust team tried reaching out to get input/contributions fr
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by davemp 9y ago
Certainly not general CPUs, but there are probably domain specific processors out there that use something else. Why would you want to design a domain specific processor and still use C? Beats me.
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by davemp 9y ago
Thinking about hardware is definitely the move when writing C. This is the major struggle with abstraction. We want to remove the burden of knowing the ins and outs of the target architecture. Inevitably, we create trouble and fall on our f
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by davemp 9y ago
This is a very important point. The hardware world itself suffers from this effect even more than software with synthesis and PNR for verilog/VHDL. I'm hoping the compilation world progresses enough with efforts such as LLVM to br
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by davemp 9y ago
> Special registers are just slots at specific memory addresses. > As far as the rest is concerned, not a single language in the world will provide you with primitives for that and make them portable across a thousand architectures wi
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by davemp 9y ago
Yup. You'd probably like the first footnote if you haven't already read it.
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by davemp 9y ago
> And that’s why C is still the best language for systems programming—it still lets you to do what you mean (the problem is that most programmers don’t really know what they mean) Honestly after a ~1yr of embedded C co-op/intership
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by davemp 9y ago
I'm about to start my final year of university and have been developing a similar set of skills. Would you mind sharing or emailing your thoughts on the current market for people with skills such as yours?