falcrist

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by falcrist 3y ago
> Apparently, his involvement was less significant than many others in the Manhattan Project He was essentially the project manager, so I'm not sure how this is possible. Are people simply suggesting that he wasn't the one who
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by falcrist 3y ago
There were two such incidents. The first with Harry Daghlian stacking tungsten bricks around the "demon core" before dropping the final brick into place. The second with Louis Slotin and his infamous screwdriver. The whole idea of
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by falcrist 3y ago
Ok I see what you're saying. Closed source libraries can make use of this idea.
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by falcrist 3y ago
In the production C code I've written that makes use of modules with interfaces that define public and private variables and functions, I tend to avoid using pointers where reasonable. I'd prefer to either give access to the varia
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by falcrist 3y ago
> And usually, what you have is a "main" struct that represents the "class" itself. Yes that tracks with the work I've done. It could even be so simple that only one value needs to be exposed through a getter (al
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by falcrist 3y ago
I guess I'm reading the article a different way, because what I'm getting is that the author is suggesting the C analogue of a class is an entire header/source "module". That would make more sense, since you can use
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by falcrist 3y ago
USPS isn't losing money. It's a public service. It costs money.
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by falcrist 3y ago
No. The things you mentioned aren't both microcontrollers, and they use C. Why continue to double down when you clearly have no idea what you're talking about?
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by falcrist 3y ago
The things you mentioned aren't both microcontrollers, and they use C. Why continue to double down when you clearly have no idea what you're talking about?
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by falcrist 3y ago
Atmel and Xtensa have libraries in C. It's almost like I have some domain knowledge that you don't. Imagine coming in here with examples that aren't even microcontrollers as if that "debunks" what I said above. Like
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by falcrist 3y ago
The statement you quoted is true of both of the examples you gave. Also, you've deliberately chosen a specific interpretation of my statement in order to manufacture an argument that doesn't exist. You should probably avoid doing
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by falcrist 3y ago
The other options aren't relevant to my comment. If you're going to be pedantic, you need to be both relevant and correct. You are neither.
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by falcrist 3y ago
It absolutely is only C on the microcontrollers I'm doing work on. I don't understand why you're trying to cherry-pick like this.
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by falcrist 3y ago
Arduino is a platform, not a microcontroller. ESP32 is technically a microcontroller, but it's an SOC... which is not the kind that generally gets used for industrial applications in the field I'm in. You shouldn't assume I g
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by falcrist 3y ago
Microcontrollers exist. Their libraries are written in/for C. The programs running on them are small and need tight, efficient memory management. I also like the minimalist nature of the language itself. I get that for desktop applicat
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by falcrist 3y ago
The only way for the story to make sense is if they weren't resting on the sea floor, and were instead at or above crush depth with neither propulsion or spare ballast capacity to rise to the surface. It's possible, I suppose. It
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by falcrist 3y ago
GPT doesn't give correct answers. It gives answers that sound correct. Those correct-sounding answers are often actually correct, but this is more coincidence than design. Anything it says is suspect, and should be fact-checked.
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by falcrist 3y ago
This has always been the primary concern. Frank Herbert addressed it in Dune. Right after Paul is tested by the Reverend Mother, there's a conversation where she says the following: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in t
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by falcrist 3y ago
> But there's no true "original" since it was always a series of wood block prints. This isn't quite correct. There was an original painting on a special Japanese paper called "gampi". That original artwor
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by falcrist 3y ago
I really wish the messaging about Net Neutrality focused less on the idea that ISPs were going to be able to charge you for access to specific services or throttle competing services (which is a terrible idea), and more on the freedom of sp
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by falcrist 4y ago
The arguments being made in this article are remarkably poor, and the entire premise is poorly defined. What do you mean by "take over", "everyone", and especially "soon"? If AI changes the world as much as the
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by falcrist 4y ago
Regarding point #2, How have you vetted the NPR article? Is there some ultimate source for this information that would reveal gross negligence or omissions by the author of the article? I'm not trying to be a jerk about it. It's j
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by falcrist 4y ago
> it seems slightly surprising to claim that a Chinese company has the full benefit of first amendment protections The first amendment isn't a law that says "these people have freedom of speech". Instead the law is written
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by falcrist 4y ago
Dune touched on this topic in 1965. Frank Herbert has the Reverend mother tell Paul: > “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave
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by falcrist 4y ago
Nah. Tesla is doing good work. They're far from perfect, but it's an interesting product, and they were first to market in many ways. I can't see it lasting that much longer in it's current form, but that doesn't un
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by falcrist 4y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say his companies are doing great work. He's an idea guy, but mostly he's just an investor. A toxic, thin-skinned, sometimes fraudulent investor, but it's hard to argue with the work bei
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by falcrist 4y ago
> why should individuals that live their entire lives in suffering because of the very conditions humanity as a collective has encouraged and enacted give a shit about humanity? Because if they don't, they're descendents will s
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by falcrist 4y ago
As a sort of corollary to what you said: being loyal to a company is foolish because companies cannot return that loyalty. There may be some borderline exceptions with very small companies (less than 10 employees), but in general a company
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by falcrist 4y ago
> I guess my message is: sometimes loaning money won’t work out, but when it does, the ROI (emotionally and for society) is extremely high. My personal attitude has always been that you should loan money without the expectation that it b
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by falcrist 4y ago
There's a lot of exaggeration that goes on with certain fans of postfix systems when they talk about infix systems. For example: I really like HP calculators, so I'm in several facebook groups for fans of RPN/RPL and HP speci

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