jfoutz

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   by jfoutz 4y ago

   The only correct approach is [1] if by whiskey Not the logical fallacy, that would be a terrible thing that does nothing to support discourse, and actively makes it worse. but the rhetorical flourish, taking everything good and support it,
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   by jfoutz 4y ago

   I’ve made comments about the dangers of yaml, primarily about truncation. I really don’t know how to parse Finch, or what the defaults would be for the missing data.
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   by jfoutz 4y ago

   I've read about actors from time to time for decades. I can't say I fully grok the concept. Kubelet wasn't necessarily designed as an actor. I think it's a concrete thing that people have interacted with that is a pretty
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   by jfoutz 4y ago

   Be bold! Any paper, any field, if you can get your hands on it, Take a half an hour and read the words. Look at the pictures, Look at the graphs. Take a break. Go for a walk, maybe get some coffee, and decide if you want to continue. This w
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   by jfoutz 4y ago

   It was actually a book first! I enjoyed all of Michael Lewis's books that I read. The book goes into more details around, well, a lot of things.
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   by jfoutz 5y ago

   Let me rephrase. Given a Tech document that addresses the risk of change, the rollback plan, the security implications etc, and a suite of metrics demonstrating load and failure conditions with appropriate alerting. And of course the PR wit
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   by jfoutz 5y ago

   Please convince this director to allow this very safe change to go to prod.
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   by jfoutz 5y ago

   https://www.wfae.org/business/2022-02-09/as-single-family-re... That count?
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   by jfoutz 5y ago

   for some reason, I thought it was M4. I had to learn pdf, I had to print pdf. the trusty old _4M_ was an absolute tank. I think I went through a box of paper, not ream, but box, working out edge cases and random floating point rounding erro
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Shhh. The man of La Mancha has a windmill that must be faced. I mean, never. But sometimes people just need to make stuff, and that's super cool. They're doing no harm, let them enjoy their fantasy.
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    I think part of it might be learning how to ask good questions. I wrote a terrible terrible C compiler for a class. But I learned so much about the choices between doing things the slow but probably correct way, vs the cool but hard way, or
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    I've only fiddled with this in a hobby way, but it's tricky to get accurate position information by integration of acceleration vectors. you could use the compass to get device orientation relative to motion, you could look for av
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Raises hand. I remember discovering promiscuous mode, and a stern talking to from our network engineers. It was obvious I didn't know what the hell I was doing, so I got a great tutorial about the differences between hubs and switches.
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    ah, I alluded to that with "ask the compiler". but yeah, types are great. Quickcheck is great too. But you'll have to pry my oracles from my cold dead hands. Computers show me over and over how stupid I am. Yeah, if I have a
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    osx comes with a command "say" which is a text to speech tool. I'd do things like make && say "build complete" || say "compile failed" with different voices I thought were funny. generally worked g
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    fast cycles are liberating, because it's easy to just ask the compiler or your testing harness if you're doing the right thing. I can't speak for the parent, but in my experience, typing isn't the hard part. With slower
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    as far as I know, there's nothing wrong with creating 1,000,000 corporations and having each donate $1,000 for each election. But it's easier to create a super pac, accept unlimited money, and then pay out in whatever way is effec
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Very true. Let me try to restate. I don't know how to prove the absence of a thing. I can only prove existence. I was trying to highlight that every layer of abstraction has vulnerabilities all the way down to the hardware level. I&#x2
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    CheerpX looks amazing. Not blaming that project it in any way. But rowhammer is still a thing. There's a whole stack of abstractions, that all _may be_ vulnerable. I'm sure CheerpX is very good, but there's no way to _know_ t
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Well a car was less reliable than a horse. Cars were destabilizing. (No pun intended) but cars kinda worked out. Unreliables will get more reliable, these things take time.
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    OOOHHH! kinda curious, if I create a byte stream that's larger when compressed, do they pay me?
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Lincoln was born in poverty. The founding fathers were all rich. I get your point, it’s just a bad example.
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Thank you for the wonderfully detailed reply. I mostly agree with your right to repair sentiments. I have a remote controlled car, and have to keep reminding myself fixing it is half the fun. It sure would be nice to have the option to eval
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    I'm a little skeptical. Equipment from this era was designed by slide rule and sent to draftsmen to draw up and send down to the factory floor. The solution to problems was more power. I would imagine some wily old programmer knew comm
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Might be useful for some folks to know lakh means 100000.
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Yup. makes sense. Wasn't thinking 7nm cutting edge, more along the lines of op amps or maybe a 70's era microcontroller - I had the impression lots of chips are used, and some are real fancy, but some are just old and, since they
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I had some misconceptions around how versitile auto manufacturers are. I'd sort of assumed they'd be very good at turning a low volume, low quality process into a high volume, high quality pro
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    It's a little weird to me. I see in the comments 50 cent chips going for 75 dollars. The old process chips _seem_ diy able - http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/ Obviously it would take me, like, a year or two to get a
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    I'm by no means a physics historian. I'm pretty sure quantum physics pissed off Einstein so much he spent the rest of his career trying to refute it. "God does not play dice with the universe". I'm just some jackass
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    by jfoutz 5y ago

    Wild. I guess the NSA black bag job at Google was 2013, which led to SSL everywhere. I guess most folks still had the hard and crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy model on the inside mindset. Time flies.