foobiekr

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901.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Same. Once I started seriously considering retirement, admittedly a bit early-ish relative to the usual 65-70, the internal mental model of self has started to shift pretty dramatically, and the hypothetical "I have a lot of things i w
902.
by foobiekr 4y ago
It would be interesting to understand how much of that effect is actually education and how much of it is the explicit need to delay reproduction for _any_ socially structured reason.
903.
by foobiekr 4y ago
I have a coworker who, when he got out of school in the 90s, got hired to write COBOL. There's a ton of COBOL out there, and why not? As much as "waterfall" is a fiction, high-spec, super-detailed-spec projects actually do ha
904.
by foobiekr 4y ago
90% sustained utilization is quite amazing, and 10% is shockingly typical. I am a quite skeptical that this holds for training and very large data sets, of the sort where data placement comes into play, but if so, congratulations, and I ho
905.
by foobiekr 4y ago
A lot of it appears to be non-streaming approaches to data distribution resulting in actual job behavior that looks a lot more like stage-process-clear batch jobs than what you'd want to hide the latency of data moves.
906.
by foobiekr 4y ago
So is the thesis here that there is no other way to have non-crap sound on a laptop than this Apple patent? No alternative? No patent-non-infringing approach? Because if not, the real reason is as the author suggests: other manufacturers do
907.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Poor GPU utilization even when available is the rule. Truly amazing. Staging of data is probably a huge part of it.
908.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Is polywell dead? So little news.
909.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Unity has already done a lot of harm to Unity's reputation.
910.
by foobiekr 4y ago
I really love looking at systems where life of a message is one of constant transformation - from JSON to internal to JSON to internal to JSON to internal to JSON to internal. U'm not even talking about the reply path. Even if you&#x27
911.
by foobiekr 4y ago
The IBM drive was commonly sold with early DSLRs like the Canon 10D. It was very common and routine. I am even aware of some products in the embedded space that used it.
912.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Power is the main reason to do custom ASICs. I’d be curious as to your opinion of Recogni given they are claiming a 10x power reduction per unit compute.
913.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Most of these are pretty familiar if old enough but this is a wonderful list. I didn’t know C23 was getting rid of trigraphs. That’s probably a good thing and easy to clean up if needed.
914.
by foobiekr 4y ago
It’s actually probably easier to get $20k approved annually than $5k. The bigger number implies skin in the game at all steps in the process and has an air of legitimacy.
915.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Don't worry, there is ample evidence all around us that there are plenty - hundreds of thousands at least - of engineers who have zero moral compass.
916.
by foobiekr 4y ago
My goodness, a Heathkit H-8 in the second photo. I am very surprised to see that in Japan.
917.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Is MADE alive and open? The website is super unclear as to what happened post-Covid.
918.
by foobiekr 4y ago
It took me awhile to figure out why the LED tail lights made me have a specific weird feeling. If you're old enough, you may have seen the science fiction children's show "Captain Power." The LED tail lights remind me of
919.
by foobiekr 4y ago
ChatGPT is more than happy to churn out misinformation.
920.
by foobiekr 4y ago
As a rule, it is better to have developers learn one way to work, rather than N. A problem with time travel debugging is that you generally can't use it in production [of course, there are people who think devs should have direct acces
921.
by foobiekr 4y ago
This is a very common practice in embedded code, generally three things: 1. A ring of log-like objects (obviously not rendered strings, since that is a waste of CPU) that can be optionally included in a crash report in structured form that
922.
by foobiekr 4y ago
That’s like 90% of Java that uses spring.
923.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Fossil plants emit radionuclides (coal) and, obviously, lots of other things. But dismissing fiber inhalation risk from their replacement because fossil plants are bad is pure sophistry.
924.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Top performers are pets. You use layoffs to generate excess opex savings in order to retain them. You guys are acting like companies are too dumb to think of these very basic concepts. I have personally witnessed discussions that can roughl
925.
by foobiekr 4y ago
You say that like the sequence described has not been common since the nineties. Assuming you knew that, why is now different? And if you didn’t know that, there’s your answer.
926.
by foobiekr 4y ago
When that concrete is later demolished, what new risks are we creating?
927.
by foobiekr 4y ago
I’m wonder how the eroded fibers are from an inhalation risk perspective.
928.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Truly for that you want to head to Milpitas. I wonder how the economist would describe that. “The fragrant town of Milpitas, adjacent to the unappreciated Asbestos Gem of Alviso…”
929.
by foobiekr 4y ago
Shoreline is kind of hilly even if the hills are landfill.
930.
by foobiekr 4y ago
The last thirteen years have been a job market going from around 10% unemployment to practically zero to approximately 3% now, a period of continuous growth in employment and the economy, followed by the hottest extended job market in the l

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