dbcurtis

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by dbcurtis 2y ago
No, not that at all. It is more a reflection of APL’s extreme density. C-derivatives tend to devolve into ASCII-salad, which is no better. Also, with APL, the code for something that can be expressed in linear algebra is reasonably natural
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
A friend once described APL as a “write-only language”. You make his case well :) It is pretty easy to write unmaintainable APL, it seems to me.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
In my experience those that go English seek out siblings or cousins that have already gone English and find a support network that way. I am not saying it is easy, though.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Kind of an extreme position. How many Amish do you know? Ever had an Amish family as next-door neighbors? I grew up in an area that now has a lot of Amish. My in-laws had them as neighbors. You can’t paint all Amish groups with the same br
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
What part of “Let me save you an hour” is factual and emotion-free?
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I am a huge fan of Micropython. Sure, there are things that it can’t do because of the limits of highly constrained systems. But it is a great toolkit for limited systems, and greatly lowers the barrier to embedded experimentation.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
What is the license? I searched but could not find anything.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
The case Amdahl brought against IBM tackles this question directly. It may have settled, though. (I was a CPU logic designer at Amdahl for a while. Some people had access to info from IBM under the terms of the settlement. They could read a
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
It’s exactly what CC was writing about. It is the way large organizations think unless someone has the courage to recognize that if they don’t start a new division, some little upstart will eat their lunch. Kodak laughed at the early, fe
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I think the author maybe doesn’t know how to order 1% resistors from Digi-Key?? My intro circuit analysis prof gave these wise words to live by: “If you need more than one significant digit, it isn’t electrical engineering, its physics ”
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
For some values of "real life". I don't mean that sarcastically... I mean that for many production environments (like customer-facing retail web site), I agree with you. But that isn't the entire world. I've spent
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I have double vision from strabismus. There are quite a number of eye therapy exercises that you can do to improve the condition. The older you get, the more of it that it takes. I have made improvements, but before I made this discovery
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Here in NorCal it is common to have the laundry in the garage. If you have an electric dryer, then sharing the dryer circuit makes some sense. Sure, you can’t dry clothes and charge the car at the same time. I can live with that.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Interesting. I did not realize that revenue rides do not fall under the reporting requirement.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
My guess would be approximately zero. Cal DMV requires incident reports and they are public. Waymo is a good actor. If they are fudging these reports I would be shocked.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
That’s an overly simplistic assertion. It depends on the crop, how it is planted, and maturity. There is a soy bean pest that can invade crops on my family’s farm. If treatment is needed early, the cost effective solution is to drive a spra
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
How many acres of your own farm are you managing that way? Do you have before and after P&L’s that you could share?
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
What is the hobbyist developer experience? It’s very interesting but I mostly quit buying computation devices that I can’t hack on. Yeah, I’m not your market, but I gotta ask…
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
The paper also mentions a wider funnel of opportunities. I can see that in myself and my adult child. There is a kind of “generalist penalty” in terms of landing certain kinds of specialist positions, but there is a class of troubleshooter
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
I'm saying that an atomic RMW is going to get the cache line in "exclusive" state, (in typical MESI protocol) but that if you are trying to gin up the equivalent with spin locks you need to think through how that plays out, a
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Yes, having worked on one of the out-of-order Intel CPU's, I can tell you that you are correct. Instructions may be "complete", as in their results can be forwarded to later operations, but the instruction isn't "r
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Thanks for the great write-up! The Atanasoff-Berry machine gets overlooked in many histories. Part of the problem of obscurity comes from the fact that the PhD student (Berry, IIRC) finished his thesis, so, you know, reclaiming the lab sp
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
So... one thing I can say from experience is that you need to be aware of the motor skill limitations of the under 12 set. There really is something that happens around age 12 that causes a quantum leap in fine motor skills. So... tune yo
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Your comment contains some interesting assumptions. I don’t think we are aligned on how to surface thought processes. Your comment, taken to extreme, would say there is no point in looking for software design skills at all, because we can “
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Lately, when I have to do a coding interview, I ask the candidate to test some code, not write some code. I learn a lot more about how they think that way, and if you have an argument as to why testing is not a relevant skill, I would li
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
> The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning... This is my candidate for the sickest burn in a ma
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
At the risk of meandering very far off topic..... When qualifying a new semiconductor process, it is common to do "schmoo" testing, that is to intentionally drive the process steps away from nominal temperature, vapor pressure, do
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
Countless things to go after. Some straightforward, some esoteric, some ridiculously challenging, like making contact with 100+ 1x2 degree grid squares via 1.2GHz Earth-Moon-Earth ("moonbounce") -- that will take some effort, I g
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
> Quality is occasionally an issue Understatement of the century. Mighty Fine Junk -- it's been a looooong time since I've wasted any money on MFJ rubbish. Life is too short.
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by dbcurtis 2y ago
This is past the NPRM stage, if I am reading correctly, so final rule is getting published in the federal register. That is as baked as regulations get.

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