foobiekr

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by foobiekr 3y ago
Yeah. It's amazing that people in technology so often are unable to comprehend that the legal system is not a bunch of statements where debating the meaning of words or symbols or obscure things like rendering somehow are magic to bypa
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Much like sales the professionals establish a pretty rigorous funnel and pay no attention to anyone who looks like they will fall out of the funnel. They optimize for offer and if they sense the candidate won’t get there they are better off
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I spent yesterday recovering some files that had silently reverted to October 2023 versions on - no kidding - December 24th. I only noticed it yesterday morning when I opened a spreadsheet and was absolutely baffled. This is the second time
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by foobiekr 3y ago
GPUs doing DMA is a problem whether you have unified memory or not. This is why IOMMU exists.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The blue dye seems to have gone nowhere since the initial study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coomassie_brilliant_blue
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by foobiekr 3y ago
HPV causes cancer. The prevention here is literal - by preventing infection from the oncogenic HPV variants there is no cancer.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Replying to a post noting a 90% reduction in cancer thanks to the HPV vaccine with "preventing cancer seems like a fool's errand" is pretty amazing. Would you care to expand on that?
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Software is absolutely getting worse. I think you need to go back in time and really consider whether the SW is "doing a lot more." The valid excuses for some of the footprint these days are bad protocols (but you pretty much hav
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by foobiekr 3y ago
This is mostly Musk mythmaking. Both vertical launch, reusable rockets and electric cars predate the current era. Unless you are 100+ years old electric cars were demonstrated possible before you were born.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
TCP/IP was neither a consortium nor an open initiative. You’re missing the critical point. When TCP showed up there weren’t losers or anything else. It has no relationship to the problem I am describing. Routing is what killed IPX&#x2F
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It's not just Intel. Open initiatives and consortiums (the phase two of the same) are always the losers ganging up hoping that it will give them the leg up they don't have. If you're older you'll have seen this play out
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Different services have different and unclear expectations. For example, you'd imagine that a big online storage service would have some access controls in place to limit what uploaded data random employees in operations and engineeri
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Spam. And you knew that.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Once you own the home folder you can drop aliases for anything you want in the bashrc with almost no one noticing. At that moment point you are essentially done in almost all cases even in the absence of a local root exploit which Linux con
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by foobiekr 3y ago
For years a friend tried to get his department (where he worked as a lecturer) to add a software engineering course where the basic syllabus was to (1) receive a TOI from the last semester and the code base, (2) implement some new features
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It's not that, it's that quality doesn't matter and mostly neither does technology. If you are doing network switches or GPUs or server CPUs or whatever, yeah, technology matters. If you are building pretty much any SaaS, MCC
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It isn't weird, its completely straightforward why this is a problem.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Spam. Spam is the reason and the Beeper guys know it.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The algorithm is interesting - at one time I was going to use https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/sigmo... to do a startup. This is different but very similar and contemporaneous.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
First, the companies involved in self driving need to stop lying about their records. Tesla has engaged in years of making extremely suspect claims about their safety that do not stand up to scrutiny at all.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Do you somehow think complexity is the opposite of amateur - that is, complex = professional? Because I have bad news for you. If iMessage is simple that means literally the opposite of what you think it means.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It’s not a double standard. AVs aren’t human. We can set whatever standard we want for them. There’s no logical reason it should be consistent with the standard for humans.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It makes liability for failure more complicated and customers might link their proprietary items to toxic licenses. They don’t want to be involved. Also, just to be frank, if you’re using a solution like this, open source does not meet your
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by foobiekr 3y ago
No, they aren’t. Literally any of the examples I give did that. Not in consumer, but elsewhere.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
This article appears to have been written by someone who heard about Apple's chips and, since it was new to them, decided it was actually new. Respect to Apple, but internal ASIC teams is nothing new in a lot of the tech industry, and
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Maybe he means how ASML’s technology was developed by the US DoE and Intel and then licensed to ASML for political reasons including green lighting the acquisition of Cymer and deliberately excluding Canon from a license? I mean maybe. A lo
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by foobiekr 3y ago
In direct experience a lot or nurses are dumb and crazy just like the general population. There are plenty of antivax nurses and nurses who believe in things like Kinoki Foot Pads
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by foobiekr 3y ago
more like 50
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by foobiekr 3y ago
As many as they can afford. A lot of clusters are totally homogeneous, at least within some very large domains, so for a given interconnect and a generation of GPU you know the maximum message latency, the peak sustained pflop rate, and so
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I was being facetious. The only thing amazing is how few tech people understand how close the industry is to the people involved becoming pariahs.

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