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by debatem1 8y ago
Nvidia is not ignorant of the realities of hardware design. Google spends capital to get what it wants. Western Digital is not just "somebody with a listserv". Once those players front the money for the ecosystem the incentive to
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by debatem1 8y ago
Could just be referring to a lack of concerts, nightlife, etc. If you're used to the frequency with which major acts visit LA or Chicago or Nashville, adapting to anything else can be hard.
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by debatem1 8y ago
This was literally part of my first programming assignment in college. Can people really not do this? Isn't fizzbuzz considered too obvious these days? I feel like I must be misunderstanding...
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by debatem1 8y ago
Maybe I'm just off in my own little world but this seems a bit table stakes. Am I out of touch?
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by debatem1 8y ago
Came here to say exactly this. I'd add that of the non-aerospace tech companies that have tried to build planes, I'm not aware of any that have launched commercially and I can only think of one that has ever flown. Turns out tha
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by debatem1 9y ago
Frankly, I don't think starting out with spherical cows and a neoclassical economics textbook is a rational approach to the housing problem. If you want to engage in it that's cool and you do you, but it's a bit like expect
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by debatem1 9y ago
I'm... not sure of this. A sharp spike in interest rates could make mortgages less attractive and dampen demand. Or, more positively, the Northgate or Othello areas could come up and start to look more like Ballard and increase the att
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by debatem1 9y ago
Yes, I was speaking to the actual situation in Seattle with all the caveats that implies. Most important among those is that HALA is an actual policy that describes what will be rezoned, how, and when. It notably will not permit 10x growth
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by debatem1 9y ago
I mean, what problem are you trying to solve? If the concern is that it takes roughly $60k/household just to live in Seattle, the answer is higher wages. Even if that acts as a drag on King county GDP, the King county housing market is
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by debatem1 9y ago
No need for mumbo jumbo. Supply greatly outstips demand and HALA is not that ambitious of a plan (and took many years to get through). There just aren't enough new units in the plan to cause prices to drop.
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by debatem1 9y ago
So, I live in Wallingford (the community mentioned here). In one of those Craftsman houses, no less. Here's the thing: Wallingford will be valuable and therefore expensive no matter what kind of housing you build here. Literally anythi
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by debatem1 9y ago
I did some interesting work, wound up on a recruiter's list somehow, and nobody cared about anything other than my code in my interviews. Which is pretty much the same way everyone else winds up there.
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by debatem1 9y ago
I really want to like the Maslow, but I admit I'm losing patience with it. After a multi-month waiting period to get it I found that they hadn't shipped me all the parts. After a chat with their co-founder (who was very nice) I as
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by debatem1 9y ago
I graduated with a GPA so low recruiters used to ask me whether it was on a 4-point scale, but I got a job at Google and eventually led a team there. Probably shouldn't freak out over one test.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Minor typo but can someone fix the title? Cryptocurrency is misspelled as Cyrptocurrency.
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by debatem1 9y ago
As someone who graduated high school with a whopping 1.8 GPA I totally disagree :). So far the industry seems to like my work.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Google has a gaggle of security teams, almost all of which occasionally red team and some of which exclusively do. I'm not sure who told you otherwise but they were certainly mistaken. Source: I TL'd a security team there several
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by debatem1 9y ago
We bought about two years ago and live in Wallingford. It's starting to get crazy but there are still reasonable places to be had, especially as you get into summer. Seems to work out, and we're very happy with the area.
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by debatem1 9y ago
"A pledge that we won’t bring a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) action against a researcher for research consistent with the policy." Minor issue, but it's DMCA-- if someone reading this has edit rights on the page yo
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by debatem1 9y ago
Cool attack, but the the proposed mitigations don't seem to solve the threat model. An attacker on the supply chain can always add a part that interposes on all i/o to the secure parts. This would have the same impact, unless I&#x
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by debatem1 9y ago
FYI, I get a tls error on that link, in case you're affiliated with the webmaster.
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by debatem1 9y ago
The sentiment in this thread is so odd to me. Whether you believe Google is a force for good or evil in the world, the fact that many of its employees demand that it be a good one should be positive, yeah? (As a disclaimer, I worked for Goo
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by debatem1 9y ago
Seems like an odd approach. The interesting thing about robust adversarial examples is that they fool computers but not humans. Something that fooled humans but not computers would seem to be the right next step. If you fool both it seems m
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by debatem1 9y ago
IIRC Android is the most common operating system on Earth, while Linux desktops are still around 5% market share. Seems like desktop Linux needs to do as Android does to take off, not the other way around?
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by debatem1 9y ago
Gangs are fascinatingly effective and persistent social structures. I suspect that they and the three/four man squad form the minimum viable products for defensive and offensive operations, respectively. The conclusion from that is tha
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by debatem1 9y ago
There's a restaurant near me with a 5 cent cellphone charge that just doesn't get enforced. The simple fact that it is noted and low keeps people aware that it is a faux pas but not too grouchy about it (especially over a $150 din
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by debatem1 9y ago
Not sure I follow. Shuttle service costs for small runs of silicon are, for most people in most situations, tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum. My argument is that if the price dropped to the point where it was competitive with FPGAs
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by debatem1 9y ago
The problem isn't that you can't fab for mass production, it's that development costs are very high to get there. Working on an fpga only gets you so far.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Past time, but progress on the riscv front is amazing. If prototype-scale fab got cheaper I expect we'd see a wave of parts focused on security and auditablity in short order.
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by debatem1 9y ago
Even without genetic predisposition this is the Catholic stance-- that being gay isn't a sin, but having gay sex is. Of course, this is sophistry; ask about whether two celibate gay men would be allowed a Catholic wedding and the answe

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