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by dblohm7 2y ago
This is precisely why I consider the notion that the IC track and manager track are somehow parallel to each other. Only managers truly have any say over employee performance; there is an inherent power imbalance that always puts ICs at a d
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by dblohm7 2y ago
It's not about who is the "Netscape" this time around, it's about the irrational exuberance surrounding the entire thing. These days it seems like anybody can throw "AI" into their company name (even if it&#x27
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by dblohm7 2y ago
> Them along absolutely everyone else. ChatGPT was an iPhone moment. Old guy here, but it feels more like a Netscape moment than an iPhone moment. We'll end up with our pets.com of the LLM age, the whole thing will implode, and the
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by dblohm7 2y ago
I'm not GP, but I've had transitions denied while attempting to purchase something because the retailer's code flagged my email address as suspicious because it contained their name in it.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
AIUI the verbosity is by design to make scripts more clear, and users are expected to use aliases to make cmdlets easier to work with interactively. But I assume that few of those aliases are actually standardized...
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by dblohm7 2y ago
More like 30 years ago at this point.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
> It's not NASA's job to keep Boeing in the running. In theory it is not. The reality is that a lot of NASA's budgeting and decisions are made based on the pork-barrel politics of the ones who hold the purse strings -- con
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by dblohm7 2y ago
> Adding generics was too much I strongly disagree. Sure, like anything in programming, generics can be misused. But even comments can be misused! OTOH I am able to build things in Go with generics that I would not be very happy building
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Microsoft added a feature to Windows that allows specially-signed antimalware drivers to be loaded extremely early in the boot sequence and be marked as non-optional. The idea is to give antimalware drivers the opportunity to load first, be
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by dblohm7 2y ago
This is silly. Home users also don't use CrowdStrike.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Apple also 100% controls their hardware, so they can afford to do away with third-party kernel extensions.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
** SLS has entered the chat **
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Android has a permission for internet access. It's still there, but enabled for everybody by default. This was an intentional decision on the part of Google. Back in the day, you could install Android apps that explicitly did not use t
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by dblohm7 2y ago
As somebody whose machine learning expertise consists of the first cohort of Andrew Ng's MOOC back in 2011, I'm not too surprised. One of the big takeaways I took from that experience was the importance of getting the features rig
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by dblohm7 2y ago
I'm surprised the BBC left out the elephant in the room: Supply Management [1]. TL;DR Canada has highly protectionist dairy and poultry sectors that artificially constrict supply of dairy and poultry. You'll periodically read repo
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Don’t forget that the notwithstanding clause cannot be used to override just anything; only specific sections.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
ILM Compositor Todd Vaziri talks a lot about stuff like this both on his blog [1] and on X [2]. One of his pet peeves is marketing campaigns claiming mostly practical effects when in fact the opposite is true. [1] https://fxrant.b
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by dblohm7 2y ago
(Former browser dev) Agreed. Feature detection is the way, not UA sniffing.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
> (they tend to have 2-4% acceptance rates to either the college or the CS department) This leads me to a broader question: What does their acceptance rate of high schoolers have to do with anything? We're always using that as some
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by dblohm7 2y ago
I remember that Apple used to wave around these SIMD benchmarks showing their PowerPC chips trouncing Intel chips. In the fine print, you'd see that the benchmark was built to use AltiVec on PowerPC, but without MMX or SSE on Intel.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
AIUI the UNIX subsystem was there entirely for the purpose of getting Windows NT certified at C2-level security.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Look up the F-1B.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Firefox has done a lot of work on devirtualization over the years. There is a cost.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Unfortunately a lot of developers are conditioned so heavily to believe that inheritance is intrinsically bad, that they contort their code into an unreadable mess just to re-implement something that could have been trivial to do with inher
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by dblohm7 2y ago
Found the one!
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by dblohm7 2y ago
It's because the emperor has no clothes. Most of the VCs I've met have been complete airheads.
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by dblohm7 2y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that 5.25" floppies were already well out their way out in 1998, already.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
I really like the way the author explained RCU!
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by dblohm7 3y ago
Don't get me started talking about #cccc
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by dblohm7 3y ago
Apollo 11 isn't really the proper comparison to make, though; more precise landings were goals of later missions.

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