eecsninja

15 ms·

91.
by eecsninja 8y ago
And why do we care in a real-world sense whether this student has cheated in general relativity? If that person goes to a physics lab, he would be found out eventually. In a real-world sense, cheating hurts nobody except the person doing it
92.
by eecsninja 8y ago
How does that harm anyone? Does anyone who doesn't work at Verizon care? Here's the real problem: leaking private info: > And it had then called on Verizon to look into what it had suspected had been malware used to route confi
93.
by eecsninja 8y ago
I'm really disappointed by the downvotes that sithadmin, misterbowfinger, and I have been receiving in this thread. Let me restate the argument, not in favor of cheating but why it's not the moral issue that everyone makes it out
94.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Agreed 100%. We only think cheating is only "wrong" because it goes against how the people who set up the educational system intend for it to work, e.g. they are short circuiting the system. It has no counterpart in the real world
95.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Academic cheating is NOT morally wrong in a general sense. We only think it is because it's drilled into us from a young age by the educational system. But there's really no equivalent of "cheating" in real world industr
96.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Let's not forget this article from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704501 The great irony is that there are plenty of people in the SF bay area who think Tokyo is more expensive than SF just like it
97.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Agreed that this extreme. It doesn't cut to the heart of the issue, which is that these services are being funded somehow. Mostly by ads, I'm guessing. Somewhere out there are people who are not only unable to resist giving their
98.
by eecsninja 8y ago
I've encountered type 2 leaks while working on a popular web browser. It wasn't type 1 leak and so it got overlooked. One example: on pages that self-refreshed at regular intervals, the same page URL was added to the history list
99.
by eecsninja 8y ago
An example of how not to use bitfields: https://lwn.net/Articles/478657/ I am not sure whether the underlying spinlock_t struct is something in memory or mapped to a hardware register. But it seems like this was b
100.
by eecsninja 8y ago
I've only used bitfields for register access. I get the first 3 points you make. (I use uint32_t for all fields) What is the danger in #4 if you've followed #1-3? You seem overly paranoid. Is there something from your experience
101.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Did you forget to include field width specifiers?
102.
by eecsninja 8y ago
The solution is just to make sure you have padding fields that result in an overall size that's a multiple of however many bits e.g. 32 or 64 bits. Use static_assert() to enforce the size. See my earlier comment about unit testing too.
103.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Bitfields are too useful of a feature not to use. The solution is simple: add a unit test to verify that setting one bitfield to all 1's will result in the overall 32-bit or 64-bit word having the expected value. Add a comment explaini
104.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. --Will Rogers Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/will_rogers_128073
105.
by eecsninja 8y ago
It's helpful to have an AI that gives you analysis but ultimately leaves the decision to you, the human. But some of the AI fanboys go beyond that, wishing for an AI that can make these decisions for us.
106.
by eecsninja 8y ago
> It generally boils down to just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Funny you say that... I have asked the same question regarding why some people are obsessed with pushing for technological singularity and AI th
107.
by eecsninja 8y ago
I don't know of anyone in tech who takes these things, except for myself. I also don't know anyone who microdoses LSD, although I doubt those people would tell anyone. If I wanted LSD, I don't know anyone I could ask. I get m
108.
by eecsninja 8y ago
From the link: "The lawsuit, filed Apr. 27, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was spurred by a proprietary, independent investigation by the law firm’s antitrust attorneys who determined that DRA
109.
by eecsninja 8y ago
That's not what he said. To summarize: - "price gouging"/"overpricing" -- "businesses are held guilty of overcharging if they price their products as high as the market will bear" - "predatory pr
110.
by eecsninja 8y ago
But not a short commute to the South Bay, which is where I worked.
111.
by eecsninja 8y ago
I agree actually. I don't intend to stay here for the long term, but I don't plan to move back to the bay area anytime soon either. I already spent most of my life there.
112.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Hell, even rent is cheaper in Tokyo: https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/san-fra...
113.
by eecsninja 8y ago
That's a coarse comparison. Most housing in the bay area is multi-room units. Even the relatively new apartments in North San Jose are mostly 2 bedrooms. If you're single and want your own place, there's very few studios and
114.
by eecsninja 8y ago
This was why I never got that much value out of being in Silicon Valley beyond my day job. So much of the hot new startup activity was in SF. I lived and worked in the South Bay. While I'd have liked to attend some tech talks in SF, it
115.
by eecsninja 8y ago
I grew up in the Bay Area. Spent several years at a FAANG company. About 2/3 of the time, I lived with my parents. The remainder was with housemates. In my early 30s, I decided that I couldn't continue living with parents, while
116.
by eecsninja 8y ago
Yes, this is unfortunately one of the great mistakes (or intentional deeds, depending on how you look at it) of US economic policy of the last few decades. > I have thought about this before and really think we should stop treating home
117.
by eecsninja 8y ago
I wish people would stop spreading these half truths about Japan. Japan's suicide rate is not significantly higher than that of Finland, Argentina, and the USA. South Korea is the one developed Asian country that has a notably high sui
118.
by eecsninja 8y ago
The irony in all this is that NYC is actually more affordable than SF now. I live in midtown Manhattan in a renovated studio on the 30th floor. I pay less than my coworker who is renting a 1bed apartment in Mountain View on a job rotation t
119.
by eecsninja 9y ago
> An argument could be made that that's exactly why it's doing better. Since it got completely destroyed, it could be built from the ground up without the legacy costs that are now plaguing NYC's subway. What kind of &quot
120.
by eecsninja 9y ago
+1. I'm tired of hearing people make excuses for the NYC subway system such as age and complexity, seemingly ignorant that there's plenty of large cities in other first-world countries in the 10+ million range that do a much bette

More ›