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by djcapelis 6y ago
If this is what failures from a “dead” project looks like we’re only a few more failures away from some working rail: https://youtu.be/sa-X1qqxvJU (I’m much more aware of the California HSR project than most people on the I
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by djcapelis 6y ago
I feel like your comment is spot on for the usual Texas vs California dialog: High speed rail in Texas: 0 miles built, zero miles under construction, projects stuck in regulation waiting to begin work[1] High speed rail in California: Activ
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Why don’t you look through these job listings and tell me which state does most of the science on those rockets: https://www.spacex.com/careers/?department= I don’t think SpaceX is a great example of “Texas science” gi
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by djcapelis 6y ago
> Why should outdoor dining be closed, yet indoor retail stores still be open? That’s easy. They shouldn’t. And yes, it is that simple. California is within days of running out of ICU capacity in whole areas of the state just given our
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by djcapelis 6y ago
This is exactly how the hardware works and what micro-ops are, on any system with a u-op cache or trace cache those decoded instructions are cached and used instead of decoding again. Unfortunately you still have to decode the instructions
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by djcapelis 6y ago
You are correct that with a lot of effort you can get a compiler to emit VLIW instructions that can claw back some of these problems and have some, but not all, of the information you have available to the processor core at runtime which ca
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by djcapelis 6y ago
I think you are correct that there is a section of the field enchanted by the idea of VLIW and desperately hoping to justify any possible reason why building these chips was less of a bad notion than they’ve turned out to be each and ever
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by djcapelis 6y ago
> Compilers "failed" because VLIW is fundamentally not a particularly useful idea. I think the problem isn’t just that it’s not particularly useful, but that it’s an actively bad idea. It statically encodes ILP that we get dyn
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by djcapelis 6y ago
> we're also going to see someone give VLIW another shot Dunno why people would keep thinking this is a good idea, but if someone wants to try eating it with a new VLIW design yet again, I’m always down for some popcorn. Dynamically
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by djcapelis 6y ago
I think it’s a good point actually. I think it’s reasonable to say swift isn’t intended as a language to experiment with a specific concept, it’s a six year old production language designed for a general set of usecases where it’s good at
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Are they? If so, we’ve been saying them for about the last 30 years and things seem to be fine.
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Pick your favorite ranking of world universities and let me know how many California universities you have to pass before you find a Texas institution on the list.
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by djcapelis 6y ago
It’s nice that you’re so invested in your fever dream of CA’s downfall. I hope where ever it is you live turns out nice for you. As long as we don’t descend to full on fascism next year I think I’ll buy a house here. I like California.
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by djcapelis 6y ago
> If you make it too costly to do business, business will leave. They’ve been saying that for 30 years and the numbers have not significantly changed. > That or a company from somewhere else will use less taxes and regulations as a co
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by djcapelis 6y ago
I live in CA rather than Texas because I expect the state to take some of the wealth we create with the common infrastructure we’ve built like excellent public education etc and reinvest it in our communities. That’s why so many companies c
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Wake me up when Tesla moves their management and engineering out of CA rather than just writing snotty tweets on the Internet. Feel free to scroll through yourself: https://www.tesla.com/careers/search#/?country=-1
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by djcapelis 6y ago
This nonsense pundit piece is talking about ~700 or so commercial entities leaving CA. This is a state where that number of corporate entities is a rounding error. I’m shocked the number isn’t higher. We are a long way from Detroit and h
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Companies are plentiful and as the fifth largest economy in the world we don’t have to fight like pigeons over our cast offs like other states do. In the time that ~700 commercial entities left, how many more do you think were created here
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by djcapelis 6y ago
What did you expect? The Hoover institution is a fundamentalist think tank and their analysis is written entirely to pitch lower taxes and less regulation as always being the right thing. In short, they are living up to the level of brill
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by djcapelis 6y ago
I always find it amusing when a policy thinktank founded by Herbert Hoover wants to dispense advice on how to build a strong economy. Welcome to California. While we have plenty of problems, fundamentally, if your company can’t cut it here
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by djcapelis 6y ago
US society, discourse, media, and government structures have sidelined experts to the extent we’ve finally managed to forget they exist. Instead we’re left with reporters who write articles that bemoan that since they’re lost and unable to
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by djcapelis 6y ago
So... no? > It's the #1 way to pay progression, sadly This has not been my experience.
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Yeah I agree with you. My post was written in haste and yours captures the intent much better. Thanks!
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Well first off I think any company using leetcode as a screen for their candidates is out of the minds. (It seems to be a popular way to be out of their mind but that doesn’t make it a good idea. :)) But implementing a trivial unoptimized
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by djcapelis 6y ago
> all these jobs were in the last 7 years. Question here... I hope I’m not being a huge jerk here, but uh. Does this feel like this strategy is working well for you? Did you like any of these positions?
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by djcapelis 6y ago
60 interviews in 30 days is not a process in which you’re carefully learning and calibrating to tune yourself, extracting lessons from each one. 60 interviews in 30 days is throwing an entire pot of spaghetti against a wall and not even wai
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Don’t interview in bulk! Look for the positions you really want and think can grow you in a way that matters. Then find out what skills you need to do that. If you have them, go talk to that set of organizations and tell them about you
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Routinely failing a simple tech screen is not a symptom of stretching. It’s a symptom of probably not being in a place to be blogging interview lessons for others. Totally credit to this dude for putting himself out there, but I think he’
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by djcapelis 6y ago
Hotter tip: toss the advice from people who interview a lot and aggressively and seek advice from the people who wander into opportunities seemingly without effort. Ask them how they approach their job search. Most of this advice is bad or
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by djcapelis 6y ago
> Those are those sort of numbers I'd expect for every candidate. > The point of a technical screen is to filter people out. I mean sure. But I’ve never once been rejected on a tech screen. Most people I’d want to take advice f

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