jcadam

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by jcadam 5y ago
Major projects are going to need to add a clause to their CLA and/or vet their contributors. Sad we've come to this place, but everything is politics now. Time to start paying for closed source and/or curated/vetted OS
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by jcadam 5y ago
Biggest fear is people being put in prison based on deepfake video evidence.
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by jcadam 5y ago
My last project where we needed CUDA, we ended running our GPU workloads directly on a dedicated machine loaded up with GPUs. The rest of the system was containerized. Though, we were just a small team of software engineers working on an
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by jcadam 5y ago
The VESA local bus is dead, let it go...
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by jcadam 5y ago
I've seen it a couple of times, usually with a long-time employee who leaves for a new job, quickly realizes they landed in a bad situation, then comes back within a few months.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Nothing for the Commodore Amiga, eh? No AMOS or ARexx :(
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by jcadam 5y ago
Is using CUDA inside a container still a massive PITA?
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by jcadam 5y ago
Early in my career I took a job at Boeing working on spacecraft simulation tools written in Ada. When I asked I was told by the other folks on the team that they had no ability to debug the system (i.e., they did debugging via print statem
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by jcadam 5y ago
Wonder how many mix ups occurred before they added that additional safety factor :)
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by jcadam 5y ago
I was a senior in college on 9/11. The creation of the DHS, TSA, and the passing of the Patriot Act all occurred rapidly, with anyone trying to say "Hey, wait a minute.." shouted down as being unpatriotic and/or a terro
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by jcadam 5y ago
The water cans are the same size and shape, but only have one handle. So you can tell whether you're picking up a fuel or a water can in the dark. Useful :)
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by jcadam 5y ago
Yes, the newer EPA-approved cans are designed to ensure that you spill gas all over your hands and/or the ground when using them.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Very cool. I know nothing about these types of actuators but you're right that they seem pretty robust. When I heard actuators I was thinking of the common types that definitely don't last forever :) Unrelated: reaction wheel as
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by jcadam 5y ago
Any indication how many of those actuators they can lose and still maintain functionality (i.e., are any of those "spares")?
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by jcadam 5y ago
Javascript coders acting like children again...
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by jcadam 5y ago
Brave is my current default browser. This might be worth a try for something non-blink/webkit :)
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by jcadam 5y ago
No. In fact, Alaska doesn't have much net migration, not even the last 2 years. There's quite a lot of churn - people move up here, go through their first Alaskan winter, then move back to the lower 48.
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by jcadam 5y ago
> And will migration to smaller cities/towns continue unabated, (if you haven't moved to Austin/Vegas/Idaho/Montana yet, when do you plan to??) or will that reverse as companies want a physical presence again? Mo
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by jcadam 5y ago
Don't worry, when inflation really gets out of control the Fed will step in with a new currency (CBDC) and save us.
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by jcadam 5y ago
We'll see. we didn't have inflation like this during the last big downturn in 2008. I also don't think the Fed is going to be able to raise rates as high as they did back in the early 80s.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Got my mortgage at 2.75% late last year. Woooooo.....
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by jcadam 5y ago
As soon as the economy starts really sputtering, they'll reverse course.
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by jcadam 5y ago
No shortage of sunlight up here in Alaska during the summer, so this will make little difference then. I will actually appreciate having an extra hour in the afternoon during the winter. More opportunities for some cross-country skiing af
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by jcadam 5y ago
Don't tease me, is this real? I honestly don't care whether they go with ST or DST permanently, just pick one and stop screwing with my circadian rhythm twice a year.
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by jcadam 5y ago
One of the wackier pitches in an early season of Shark Tank was similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkDg33uGuc My favorite part is when he describes the recharging procedure :D
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by jcadam 5y ago
I once worked at a company that specialized in R&D. Short projects, ad-hoc teams, etc. Kept things fast, interesting and ever changing. I consider that time to be one of the best (and happiest) of my career. But then some of our proj
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by jcadam 5y ago
Depends, how much am I getting paid? Sorry, I'm old and jaded.
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by jcadam 5y ago
> Personally I hate having to job hop just to get what I wanted from this industry. A couple of times I've landed at a good company, where I figured I could stay for a long time and build something resembling a traditional career.
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by jcadam 5y ago
Same. I'm in my early forties now. Most new technologies are just recycled ideas from older tech.
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by jcadam 5y ago
> Wages have been rising for software people since long before COVID Inflation is "solving" this problem. No way are companies going to give across-the-board 8-10% (or more) cost of living adjustments this year. And it's

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