glangdale

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by glangdale 5y ago
It depends on field and more importantly, country. I was the last person in my year (that I know of) at CMU to get a PhD, a whopping 9 years after we started. A friend had to re-enroll to get his 10.5 or 11 years in. Meanwhile, I knew tons
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by glangdale 5y ago
We found (in the world of building Hyperscan, a high-performance regular expression matching library) that asking users what features they wanted was a disaster. You have to ask them what they want to achieve. Their suggestions as to how to
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by glangdale 5y ago
Agreed, and even more drastically, taxes on cars are an incredibly poor ROI on the massive infrastructure given to roads. Obviously we all benefit from this public good - even non-drivers are getting the benefit from things being moved arou
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by glangdale 5y ago
The kid, unless he is very stupid, won't falsely claim to have graduated. They don't background check you on things that you don't claim. That said, I wonder if a university will confirm a partially completed degree. If not,
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by glangdale 5y ago
A common thread in these endless discussions is what a shallow and reductive view the pro-dropout people have of university. This guy thinks the biggest dig against McGill is that they teach web development (!) with an old stack, and he &qu
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by glangdale 5y ago
I should note, in the interest of fairness, that about half of the top 10 cities in the USA by homicide rate are in states that could be described as "gun control states". Thus "no pattern". Although, I will reiterate th
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by glangdale 5y ago
It's remarkable how little you engaged with what I actually wrote, in your haste to deploy the usual LARPing tropes about freedom fighters and "armed civilians" and such nonsense. Once again, for the slow kids with reading co
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by glangdale 5y ago
It's actually advantageous to have a separate "mob" as well as controlling the military/police; the last thing you want is to formally deputize or enlist them. This way you can go to international events and join the han
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by glangdale 5y ago
I always enjoy watching Americans accuse other Americans of living in places "with strict gun laws", as if nearly all of the US isn't a moderate drive away from a place with lax gun laws. It's also fairly absurd to refer
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by glangdale 5y ago
The thing I always find astonishing about the LARPing element of "taking up arms against the state" is how one-sidedly political it is. An authoritarian right-wing state - say, an alternate world where Trump had somehow seized pow
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by glangdale 5y ago
Aside from DUI risk and passive smoking, most of these risks are specific to the person. I can't catch obesity from being in the same room as a obese person, and while public health costs go up from drinkers/smokers/heavy peo
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by glangdale 5y ago
I shouldn't have made it sound like I was sneering at "web stuff" - just that people I work with who are meant to be doing other things have been regularly dragged into fairly menial "web stuff" (i.e. they're n
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by glangdale 5y ago
Agreed. It's hard to hire senior people with experience in anything much. I strongly suspect that our industry has a self-inflicted injury where we make developers - even people who are meant to be doing deep algorithmic stuff - do web
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by glangdale 5y ago
Two points. First of all, a lot of the grandiose claims here about how "if I was demented I would just get myself put down" are coming from tech people who could afford this end of the spectrum. Second, 24 hour home care - or &#x2
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by glangdale 5y ago
Agreed. I think people change their minds about how bad life would be if you can't function at a high level. A good deal of this is pride. On Monday I will be an Intel Principal engineer again - but there's some Monday where I may
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by glangdale 5y ago
The drugging in those places is an obscenity. If you're going to do that, you should be intentionally shortening people's lives with opiates, which at least is a lot more pleasant than getting loaded up with anti-psychotics to mak
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by glangdale 5y ago
Speaking from experience, people are not nearly as enthusiastic to make the decision to kill themselves (as dementia sets in) as every likes to imagine that they will be themselves. I have seen multiple cases of people who - in healthy midd
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by glangdale 5y ago
Seriously. I couldn't stop hearing The Dude from The Big Lebowski ("Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man") while I was reading this. An astonishing amount of the heavy lifting in this article come
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by glangdale 5y ago
Thanks, good thoughts there. I'm off BJJ for a while (lockdowns in Australia), and won't be getting to decide how classes go for a long time if ever, but it's good to hear people thinking about it rather than blindly replicat
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by glangdale 5y ago
I like this approach. I always wanted more positional sparring and less free sparring. I've noticed that high pressure "expected to win" situation (which, frankly, I love in mount/side control as I've got a better g
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by glangdale 5y ago
Not a black belt myself, but agree with GP. Sparring frequently tends to be "people trying to murder each other on the mats in pursuit of their egos". There's a level of dynamism in good sparring that can immediately get shut
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by glangdale 5y ago
Maybe you're right, although 'Stockholm syndrome' feels a bit strong. Agreed that stuff like CLZ/popcount/rotate etc should not be tucked away in a weird extension. I'm a bit alarmed at RISC-V's tendency
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by glangdale 5y ago
I feel you are focusing on the literal aspect of what I wrote and ignoring the broader implications. The tradeoff here between "student OS kernel principles" and "grind through a USB driver implementation" will recur as
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by glangdale 5y ago
Pretty much every instruction that doesn't start with the name of some known crypto algorithm (and maybe some that do) are useful for general-purpose stuff. I've had a good deal of success making Intel's GFNI do "weird o
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by glangdale 5y ago
No. Driver work is painful but it mostly teaches you about the h/w in question; you don't learn deep principles from a lot of it. You just grind away, spec in hand, until stuff works. A lot of this winds up being "one damn th
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by glangdale 5y ago
It was a fantastic experience, although TA'ing it was daunting. Like the apocryphal Ledru-Rollin quote: "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader", it was frankly hard to keep up with all the different a
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by glangdale 5y ago
A perennial complaint; Rob Pike had a trollier but similar version years back. I'm not nearly as optimistic that we have the resources to cope with the monstrous complexity of hardware now. An anecdote I like to share is that while I w
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by glangdale 5y ago
This seems naive. I'm sure the people looking for SROs or other low income choices are not the people buying $1M houses, but they probably have a good deal of overlap with people who are buying houses that are at the lowest rung on the
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by glangdale 5y ago
Agreed. The startup I used to work for (acquired by Intel) both before and after acquisition had a good deal of lab hardware. Between evaluation boards and rack mount hardware our server room was insanely loud - like "it's 25M awa
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by glangdale 5y ago
So, all you have to do is experience a 15x worse outcome in terms of deaths and illness early, in order to have a delta-bump that's half the size (per capita) now. I guess that passes for "enlightenment", at least among the p

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