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by debatem1 4y ago
> self-driving car developers operate in the most difficult conditions they can find. Ehhhhhhh. While I agree that these aren't the easiest driving environments in the world, they are certainly mild climates. If I were in the busine
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by debatem1 4y ago
I'm really surprised to hear people talking about the US, UK, Russia, etc but not talking about Ukraine.
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by debatem1 4y ago
> Older equipment brings higher risk. If you can't accept that basic premise, then there's not much for us to discuss here. Ok, not much to discuss here then: you are quite wrong in cases mechanics encounter all the time, and t
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by debatem1 4y ago
> I didn't say blind to the reality, but blind to the risk specifically. Are you referring to some non-real type of risk, then? I think you may be, and given that this is a subject outside of your wheelhouse you may want to consider
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by debatem1 4y ago
Are you a mechanic or similar yourself? It seems very bold to me to assume that someone who spends their professional life around cars is "blind" to the reality of the cars they drive, when a much more likely explanation is that e
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by debatem1 4y ago
The type conversion assumptions here are real problematic. "64 bits ought to be enough for anybody"-style statements ignore integers as bitfields, large constants (eg Avogadro's number), any kind of math with large intermedia
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by debatem1 4y ago
They're going to. The new performance process is clearly teeing people up to get the axe. They'll just say it's part of their new process rather than a layoff.
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by debatem1 4y ago
Just want to point out that this is pretty much WAI: a candidate who sounded promising but wasn't getting funding got airtime, turned out not so great, and failed. Saying a person should be in the race shouldn't mean that you de
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by debatem1 4y ago
Yeah well they wanted Intel to be one too. I don't think you can buy a phone running x86 or x86_64 new anywhere, and that was back in the honeycomb timeframe.
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by debatem1 4y ago
I've long advocated for building a candidate pool for both hires and promos from a low baseline (with the option to opt out for promo), then hire/promote randomly out of that pool. Then fire/demote based on demonstrated incom
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by debatem1 4y ago
I use go and python pretty heavily, and I probably write twice the amount of functionality and three times the number of bugs in python in a day as go in a day. I take that to mean that they're good at different things, and therefore p
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by debatem1 4y ago
Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing.
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by debatem1 4y ago
They also let you do pickup from their Seattle location, which really cuts costs.
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by debatem1 4y ago
In the same way that me turning off secure boot on my desktop means free Netflix for everyone and we should shut down Comcast until there's a fix. This is a cool attack, but (so far) no more than that. I'd expect that the SpaceX s
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by debatem1 4y ago
You can build a simple Doppler radar yourself today using a couple of SDRs, but sophisticated phased arrays are the kind of thing that makes for pretty good military equipment. I doubt an open one will come on the market (legally) soon.
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by debatem1 4y ago
I only made it a few paragraphs into this dumpster fire of an article and if it were a begging-the-question drinking game I'd already be dead. Who reviewed this disasterpiece?
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by debatem1 5y ago
Sounds like the standard google process to me.
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by debatem1 5y ago
Weird that the author mentions international support and the importance of inaccessible bases to Mao, but doesn't mention the ability of the Taliban or Viet Cong to hide in neighboring countries where conventional military force can&#x
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by debatem1 7y ago
Danny Dunn and the homework machine was what got me interested in computers! I keep a copy of that and "geometry and the imagination" together on my side table.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Why? There are plenty of places the cash in my wallet doesn't get me into where the country of origin isn't the issue.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I think you're inferring a lot of things I didn't say (and an unhealthy number I don't agree with). "We" in this case is shorthand for you and I. It seems you resent that association, so I apologize for extending it
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by debatem1 7y ago
I think you're arguing something that isn't germane to my question. The OP on this thread said they would be irritated by (and I'm paraphrasing) someone coming in who spoke a different language. I am aware that such a thing e
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by debatem1 7y ago
I mean, I think you'd still need someone with commit rights to actually push the change (presumably our elected officials), and you would need to have some way of tracking merges well, but that's all seemingly pretty solvable.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I've never understood why legislatures don't move to something more like modern code review. It would have to dramatically simplify their lives.
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by debatem1 7y ago
So, you do have a problem with people speaking other languages, but don't have a problem with people having different religions, despite both causing the same issue you're worried about? Not getting it. Starting to lean toward
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by debatem1 7y ago
The first part seems circular to me: you feel like we should fear becoming Lisbon because if you were in their shoes you would fear this outcome. Well, sure. But at a glance Lisbon seems to be doing pretty well for itself-- certainly better
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by debatem1 7y ago
Ok. So, are you angry when someone with a different religion moves into you town? Or different food? Or different ideology? I feel like the more this is being explained to me the more unsavory it seems.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Wait, doesn't that blow up this whole line of reasoning? If language isn't the thing that matters for national harmony, then this is at best a red herring and at worst a fig leaf.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I mean, let's imagine for a moment that it's reasonable to treat everyone who doesn't speak your language as the vanguard of a situation such as you describe. Is Lisbon a dystopia we should fear becoming? Returning to the fir
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm not sure why you believe the similarity ends there. The Japanese person would likely do the same thing I do if I need a cabinet made-- hire someone with that skill to do the job. Eventually that might stop making economic sense and

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