hpcjoe

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by hpcjoe 8y ago
My union stories. TL;DR definitely not fantastic. Quite the opposite. In grad school, early 90s, we were getting this brand new ethernet installed. Originally they were going to run thin-net, and decided instead to run UTP to the offices
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
I wonder which state will be Silicon Commode ...
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Honestly, laws like this give rise to the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." I am not anti-gdpr. I am quite concerned about the side effects on the small guys. Its obvious that this law was targeted at larg
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Well ... laws of physics are being broken by their ships. They use fusion drives (which don't quite exist yet), and in S1, transit between Ceres and Eros on a passenger ship doesn't require weeks/months. Transit from earth
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Amazing how, a decade or more after the python-perl skirmishes, some still ... still ... cannot give up their attacks on perl, using the mask of accounts created in the last day. Perl is still alive, well, and growing. It's not the c
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
This. Its highly problematic when these people are in positions where they are able to derail efforts to stabilize by insisting upon RCA first-and-only. Seen this everywhere. Been on both sides of this. Learned to be humble from the exper
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Unfortunately, there are folks who jump right to the RCA, with often devastating impact upon their ability to deliver functional products reliably and on time. Moreover, when doing an RCA, you need to be able to objectively examine every
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
The problem is, again, thermodynamics. You are going to get entropy, i.e. conversion of useful energy into unusable energy without getting work out of that process. This means you are going to need to pump more energy in than you produce.
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Charters are generally free, as they have contracts with the state to provide school services. My wife teaches at a local college prep charter high school. Our daughter did both private and public school before college. Charter schools ar
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Gaak ... thanks!
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
Mario's[1] for excellent Italian food. Xoxhimilco[2] for excellent Mexican food. Antonio's[3] in the burbs. New Peking[4] in GC for excellent Chinese food. I've lived in Michigan 30 years now. Came here for grad school, f
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by hpcjoe 8y ago
While this is true, it is less impressive to have a headline of "Foxconn to use rounding error amounts of water from lake Michigan." And less likely to get people rallied to your cause, which I am assuming the headline/articl
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Economic death by a hundred lattes per month.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I found the "well vetted" expense itemization to be non-reflective of my situation. I am (I think) middle class, though thanks to some crap in my recent past I had a significant issue with food/housing anxiety (very long pai
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Yeah, some of us (phd) physicists do have these problems. More interestingly, some of the problems on places like hackerrank, which are expressed as math problems have fundamental problems in that the answers they posit as being correct are
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Paraphrasing from Monty Python's Holy Grail ... "Answer these questions three, and a GOOG employee you shall be!"
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I had, literally, the exact same test. Only really missed the bit counting as I brute-forced it (phone screen after all). Was interviewing for a similar position. Was not advanced after on-site. Had a mix of good and bad on-site people.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
This was one of the reasons I made the case to my wife that, at the time, we should be in control of our own destiny. No corporation would have my families best interests at heart. No one would be looking out for them when they swung thei
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I remember those days. The worst layoff I remember, I was at an ACS meeting at the SGI booth when word of layoffs came. They nuked something like 1/3 of our team there. I escaped all of the layoffs, and finally had my fill of the VP
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I got this CSV question at some nameless large company in the bay area. I asked "Do you want me to do the simple thing, and use a library, or write code to do this?" They preferred the latter. So I did. As happy as it might make
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Transparency is a function of wavelength/photon energy as well as the underlying material. Glass (the silica version) is opaque to portions of the UV spectrum. Generally you'll get absorption (opacity) when the photon energy exce
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Many proxies suffer from a set of problems relating to specificity, applicability, and how much you can infer from quantitative data. Specificity, in that you are attempting to model one specific question with another, which might not even
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
"Rumours of my demise are greatly exaggerated." -- Mark Twain, who may or may not have been writing about Perl, Perl6, and other languages that are no longer hip.
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Part of the mistake here is in interpreting the p value as being a measure of anything really meaningful. P<0.05 doesn't mean 1 in 20 are wrong. It does mean that in the narrow confines of the definition of the statistical model u
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Responders have been making the argument that Jupyter is beating Mathematica because of financial or social issues. I'd like to posit a different interpretation, which could be construed to encapsulate these reasons, as well as additi
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
Maxima, the gpl'ed version of Macsyma (which I used in grad school days for stat mech calculations on spin systems with Potts, Ising, and other models) is available for most systems. There is a Jupyter kernel for it[1]. I am personall
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
What I've tried to do over my career has been to hire people who showed ability to learn and grow, and then offer them the ability to step up to challenges. What I've gotten has been a rather bad mixture of incompetence, clueless
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I've too been in the position of trying everything I could think of to avoid being shot in the head (my company that is), and then watching it get destroyed by the bank ... I can and do empathize with those in this position now. Obviou
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I bought a Sager (customized Clevo chassis) in 2010, and have just replaced it about a month ago with another Sager. My needs are somewhat different than pure editing/sw dev. I do quite a bit of analytics, visualization, and some CUD
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by hpcjoe 9y ago
I am as incensed over Cambridge Analytica's effort to microtarget, as I was over OFA's similar effort, using similar data from similar sources ... though ... Cambridge's source was an allegedly dishonest broker from what has

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