janoc

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by janoc 6y ago
The problem is not the expectation but that something like that can even come up during an interview for a senior position! It is like testing a surgeon's suturing skill during a job interview. Of course, it is an essential skill for
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by janoc 6y ago
The problem is that those apps are often Electron because they can't be done as a pure browser app. If the browser doesn't expose some system API then what do you want to do?
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by janoc 6y ago
Yes - but only because of massive government subsidies for buying electric cars and installation of charge points in those countries, especially in Norway. And given that Tesla is/was pretty much the only thing on the market in that cl
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by janoc 6y ago
In other words - replace one horrible mess with another for what is ultimately only a web app. Moreover, it is a complete red herring - there is not much advantage in a "much more up to date browser" in an app that will ever open&
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by janoc 6y ago
And you know someone who uses an app for those on desktop instead of a browser? Especially a locked down one, full of unblockable ads? (cf Youtube app on mobile which is happy to insert 10 adds in a 10 minute video ...)
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by janoc 6y ago
More like a kludgy workaround for having to go through the submission process of the app store walled gardens of phone vendors. Nothing else. It has certainly nothing to do with any "agile apps development" and there is little to
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by janoc 6y ago
Teslas fit just fine into European cities, they are no larger than BMWs or a VW Passat, not to mention the humongous SUV "tanks" that seem to be so popular. Tesla isn't that popular in Europe simply because most are not insan
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by janoc 6y ago
Well, the front page has literally "Holocaust didn't happen" plastered on it right now (crime in many EU countries) ... Not really going to miss this one. "Neutral" and "free-speech" have unfortunately bec
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by janoc 6y ago
NEON is not API, it is literally the SIMD instruction set for ARM. https://developer.arm.com/architectures/instruction-sets/sim... So x86 is certainly not going to adopt it. The GPU/neural stuff is basically
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by janoc 6y ago
ipernity.com/ ?
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by janoc 6y ago
Nonsense. Software vendor cannot be held responsible for errors committed by the user. That would be blaming a parachute maker for the death of the guy who jumped out of a plane without a parachute or with one rigged wrong despite the expli
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by janoc 6y ago
That should have been reported by the doctor. Lubitz (the pilot) was denied an American license for this before - and somehow it wasn't caught/discovered when he got the Lufthansa/Germanwings job. Or nobody has followed up on
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by janoc 6y ago
And yet another "C++ sucks, Rust is better" thread. Why are these C++ bashing threads practically always about Rust? I have nothing against the language but I do feel the Rust devs have some sort of inferiority complex and a com
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by janoc 6y ago
There is almost never a single cause. If a single cause can trigger a disaster, then there is another cause by definition - poor system design. E.g. in the article's case it is clear that there is some sort of procedural deficiency the
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by janoc 6y ago
I was referring specifically to the Germanwings incident. That pilot shouldn't have been in the cockpit to begin with - his eyesight was failing, he had mental problems (has been medically treated for suicidal tendencies), etc. This wa
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by janoc 6y ago
Of course it would. But then there should be a process that identifies such pilot before they even get on the plane, there are two crew in the cockpit, so if one crewman does something unsafe or inappropriate, the other person is there to n
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by janoc 6y ago
Not sure about books but look up the Swiss cheese model. It is widely used approach and not only in aviation. Most industrial accidents and incidents are investigated with this in mind.
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by janoc 6y ago
It is not only that but also realizing that there is never a single cause to an accident or incident. Even when it was a suicidal pilot flying the plane into a mountain on purpose. Someone had to supervise him (there are two crew members in
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by janoc 6y ago
What I meant is that it would break the CUDA package for Python and support in things like Tensorflow, obviously. Not CUDA itself. You can't just "install new version" of those packages unless Nvidia supports it, unless Tenso
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by janoc 6y ago
He is a known shill who was actually paid by Oracle for a while. And disclosed it only after it was uncovered independently. Not exactly what I would call neither an impartial source nor a copyright law expert (he is a software developer an
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by janoc 6y ago
Oh Florian Mueller. We didn't hear from this shill in a long time. He "forgot" to disclose that he actually consulted for both Microsoft AND Oracle, including in this particular case.
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by janoc 6y ago
None of those emulators need accelerated graphics in the form of the Nvidia GPU and emulators for the ARM platform most likely can't even use it as most of these SBCs don't have anything like that. This Jetson really isn't a
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by janoc 6y ago
That will most likely break OpenCV, Tensorflow and CUDA which depend on binary packages compiled for the given version of Python.
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by janoc 6y ago
Rapid prototyping and in the case of Jetson - computer vision and Tensorflow running on the GPU. Both have excellent support for Python. Sure you can make those things run natively but people using them are used to Python, lot of code is wr
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by janoc 6y ago
ARM doesn't make any chips. They license IP (CPU cores and the MALI GPU) needed to build those chips to companies like Apple, Samsung, TI, ST Micro, Microchip, Qualcomm ... That margins on $1 microcontroller are "thin-to-non-exist
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by janoc 6y ago
Softbank bought ARM for $32 billion, sold for $40 billion, plus they were collecting profits during all that time. Not quite sure how that meshes with "valuation drops" ... RISC-V in high performance computing is years out even if
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by janoc 6y ago
The "decade" comes from the fact that there is currently no RISC-V silicon with performance anywhere near the current ARM Cortex A series. And a realistic estimate how long it will take to develop something that would be on par wi
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by janoc 6y ago
You would first need an actual working RISC-V silicon that it would be worth porting to. Not the essentially demo chips with poor performance that are around now. RISV-V is a lot of talk and hype but the actual silicon that you could buy an
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by janoc 6y ago
RISC-V is only a tiiny player in the low end embedded space (there are only a few parts actually available with that instruction set) and no competition at all at the high end. Maybe in a decade or so it may be more relevant but not today.
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by janoc 6y ago
Frankly, good riddance.

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