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by davemp 3y ago
Or ~147 avg house footprints
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by davemp 3y ago
This is not really a discussion in good faith. > the reason given for Scrum being bad is it features estimation This seems like a strawman and not at all what I was picking up from further up the thread. --- https://news.ycomb
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by davemp 3y ago
> How can they do that without even a rough idea of how many people it takes for how long to accomplish anything? This is not exclusive to scrum.
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by davemp 3y ago
Maybe I don't see the relevance of your question then. Software developers are not negotiating fixed price contracts with their project managers every two weeks. Just how toxic such a situation would be should be obvious. Managers need
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by davemp 3y ago
Estimates you get are what the estimator thinks you will pay (mostly) not how much it costs them. Prices in the real world are barely linked to costs. Budget risks are bundled in markets with high variance.
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by davemp 3y ago
> "People" aren't owed an unstainable business model by society any more than companies are. True. But society needs to align incentives with its desired outputs. If original work and creativity just makes other folks (ent
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by davemp 3y ago
I don’t get the “found in nature” arguments. We’ve likely been using black (carbon) markings for thousands of years.
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by davemp 3y ago
Yeah I imagine the average dosage of RF across populations has been increasing enough overtime along with rollout of new technologies that you’d be able to correlate some function of adoption of these technologies to population level effect
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by davemp 3y ago
Yeah I don't really see FPGAs ever making their way down to consumers the way GPUs and CPUs have (end users actually programming them). For (semi) fixed pipeline operations FPGAs will basically always be worse than some slightly more s
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by davemp 3y ago
It goes even further. You can partially reconfigure the FPGA fabric itself: https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/34924?language=en_US
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by davemp 3y ago
> But our national anthem is also a guy asking if the country will survive, so maybe that's just how we like our patriotic songs. Even the over the top “America the Beautiful” has the line “God mend thy every flaw”. The founders wer
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by davemp 3y ago
> "Born in the USA" was popular because few people actually listened to the lyrics I hear this repeated often, but is it even true? Couldn’t also be true that the song is popular because people can relate it to their negative f
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by davemp 3y ago
What’s the power situation on old devices like these? Is it not really a big deal because you’re not running heavy workloads or would say a NUC pay for itself in comparison?
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by davemp 3y ago
> when you can have 1 person do the work of 30-100 (using AI) That’s quite the statement. I highly doubt that will be reality in the next 1-5yrs, especially for novel R&D work. Even more so for products in the physical world.
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by davemp 3y ago
The USA currently has the its highest immigrant ratio in ~100yrs: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm... I’m not sure about that compared to other countries, but I’m also not sure why
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by davemp 3y ago
It seems like video game consoles aren't competing based on practicality (hardware) anymore and are mostly just rent seeking with ways to abuse the legal/IP system. There used to be a much bigger moat to assemble a platform that c
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by davemp 3y ago
This is not true afaik. IQ has been shown to not be constant through development [0,1]. So while adult/college IQ scores have been correlated with success (equivalents are used university admissions after all). I am not aware of any st
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by davemp 3y ago
I poked around a bit and only really found [0] and [1]. It looks like there are a bunch of contradictory results and the effect sizes are small. That’s just education research though, it’s very hard to control for anything or get good data.
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by davemp 3y ago
I’m not proposing anything except that we don’t pretend certain tools are more powerful than they are. > “IQ tests are ineffective.” Okay. How do you propose we determine what children are smarter (because there will always be those who
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by davemp 3y ago
> I used to do pro Bono professional work for a gifted organization. It was generally understood that a child with an extremely high IQ should be assessed at a young age to get the most accurate results. What a “gifted organization” has
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by davemp 3y ago
> When Henson was 6, he tested off the charts on an IQ test I find it very hard to believe an IQ test on a six year old is going to be much of a indicator of anything. I guess it would at least indicate that the child belongs to a group
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by davemp 3y ago
Nobody I know with acre+ yards rakes or blows leafs. It’s all done with a mower either just mulching it or bagging and dumping. Raking or even blowing an actual (semi-wooded) acre is a crazy amount of work.
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by davemp 3y ago
> It is a sign of the success of the oil industry that this analysis always takes the cost of electricity generation back to the source, but assumes that fuel stations pump from a perfect source of naturally refined/distilled hydroc
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Embedded systems or firmware dev
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by davemp 3y ago
Not OP and haven’t ported linux in a while but: Obviously some details are going to depend on the device, but it’s essentially: - set up a (cross) compiler - configure&compile the kernel - write the device tree (so the kernel knows what
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by davemp 3y ago
> . . . and for most of us (I'd venture), we silently read by internally 'hearing' the audio version. Not until I read this sentence! Feels a bit like "breathing manually".
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by davemp 3y ago
The US Gov really needs to start in-housing critical tools if only to build internal competency. There also probably needs to be more incentives for individuals inside the USG to excel and produce value. There are too many perverse incentiv
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by davemp 3y ago
Yeah almost everything is iterative. WotC is more like SEGA in this scenario though because they only bought out D&D.
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by davemp 3y ago
This is a pretty good article about CPU virtualization, which is a key starting point (as this seems to be the starting point of a series). What I'm interested in at the moment is device virtualization, which seems like a pretty hairy
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by davemp 3y ago
I’m sure that could be addressed with some sort of crypto signing strategy.

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