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by db48x 1y ago
If corporations don’t do research, why do they employ so many researchers?
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by db48x 1y ago
Pharmaceutical companies do all kinds of foundational research all the time. Sure, they’ll start by reviewing the literature and reproducing it when it exists, but they can and will do the research themselves when it doesn’t.
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by db48x 1y ago
Eh, most research is done privately by corporations. The fraction that happens at universities is not critical. There are more postdocs than will ever become researchers or professors; most will have to get jobs outside the industry anyway.
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by db48x 1y ago
All of that sounds very plausible to me.
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by db48x 1y ago
At the Internet Archive we occasionally had to return big batches of hard drives because of firmware bugs. That had to have ruined someone’s day, but apparently not enough to actually level up their engineering so that it wouldn’t happen ag
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by db48x 1y ago
It’s something about hardware companies writing software. The motherboard itself may be excellent, but the BIOS/UEFI/ACPI tables will be horrible. Meanwhile you look at a company like Oxide that is a software company at heart, and
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by db48x 1y ago
> The root cause of this bug, once again, lies in the unsafe handling of NVRAM variables. Sheer incompetence, in other words.
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by db48x 1y ago
When you tell the story about how you went to New York City for vacation nobody pictures you hanging out with the Mayor or meeting the City Council or whatever.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, but those felonies are the stupidest felonies ever invented. They literally convicted him because his accountant put “legal services” in the memo field for checks to his lawyer. They charged him with falsifying financial records, which
640.
by db48x 1y ago
It’s true that most Americans are lazy and do not pay sufficient attention in school. Thus the observation of nuances such as this are becoming rarer every day. Do you pronounce the “oo” in “coordination” the same way as you do in “bookkeep
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by db48x 1y ago
You’re supposed to do that for any word where two consecutive vowels have a syllable break between them instead of forming a dipthong. Of course, most of the time it’s redundant because there’s only one cromulent word anyway and the reader
642.
by db48x 1y ago
Very few do, and only quite modern ones. Although I believe there are hashtable libraries where the iteration order is unspecified but generally consistent, only changing when a resize shuffles the elements into different buckets.
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by db48x 1y ago
ZFS has the same problem, for the same reasons. But it also has additional reasons. The simplest of them is that inode numbers are 64–bit integers but ZFS filesystems can have up to 2¹²⁸ files.
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by db48x 1y ago
Except that many software engineers _do_ own the farm. A large percentage work in startups where equity is a big part of the pay.
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by db48x 1y ago
It would have to be a pretty robust error to survive 30 years of continuous study.
646.
by db48x 1y ago
The error bars on those distances have been shrinking for decades. Slow steady progress.
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by db48x 1y ago
You’re welcome.
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by db48x 1y ago
It does, but it is really sad by comparison with rr and UndoDB. You could use it to record a few function calls or perhaps if you’re lucky a whole frame of your game but not a whole program.
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by db48x 1y ago
> * You can our ship recording tech with your application and control it by API, so you can grab crash recordings on customer systems. That’s actually pretty neat.
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by db48x 1y ago
> If […] you're still not using any kind of time travel debugging, you have effective tied one hand behind your own back! Completely agree about that! I’ve used rr to debug things that I never could have without it. People are resi
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by db48x 1y ago
That's because ibuprofen reduces inflammation but acetaminophen does not. Joint pain and other such aches are all accompanied by inflammation, but headaches are not.
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by db48x 1y ago
You’re being pedantic for no reason.
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by db48x 1y ago
I agree with you. At most companies your manager would never even think of spending that much money on you, even if it was completely justifiable. You’re lucky if you can get permission to buy a $50 book. That said, if you’re going to spend
654.
by db48x 1y ago
If you’re going to spend money, then you would be better off using rr and paying for Pernosco. Pernosco is amazing.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, loneliness is not something you should rely on work to solve. It’s something people should just solve for themselves by simply going out and meeting people. It’s a bit cliche, but you know those people at the park who play chess at lun
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, c² is pretty big.
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by db48x 1y ago
That’s because it’s not really a hazardous material. 70 antiprotons annihilating with 70 protons releases a grand total of 2×10⁻⁸ Joules.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, I don’t use any website that requires a captcha or any other such nonsense. A restaurant won’t lose me as a customer over that, if I am already inside, provided they can bring me a regular menu. So far that’s never been a problem.
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by db48x 1y ago
> Most cities don't even have a downtown to protect from cars, they're just suburban sprawl forever. This is completely untrue.
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by db48x 1y ago
You can run screen as setgid instead. Fedora sets up a system group called screen and installs screen as setgid so that the multiuser functionality works but cannot be accidentally used to do things as root.

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