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by jgeada 6y ago
I resent that comment; the way it typically goes engineers make something work and then an endless parade of scientist comes up with increasingly irrelevant explanations while engineers move on to the next challenge. As the saying goes, the
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by jgeada 6y ago
And that is society’s problem how? As a society we’ve decided that some standards are important enough to be codified into law. It doesn’t matter to us if you’re violating it by engraving cuneiform into clay tablets or using electrons in a
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by jgeada 6y ago
Being a police officer requires no qualifications and barely any training, and low intelligence is notoriously preferred [0]. Being a teacher requires at least a bachelors degree. The two jobs shouldn't even be comparable. [0] https:&
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by jgeada 6y ago
I think they're misunderstanding the difference between freedom of speech and not having any negative consequences accruing to you for said speech. Yes, we all agree that government must not censor speech. However, all us other individ
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by jgeada 6y ago
As that is where most of the people live, why is it wrong? Why does largely unpopulated land get a vote?
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The other interference problem is that all devices talking to a particular access point are all transmitting on the same frequency. As wireless is a shared transmission medium they all have to take turns and if two or more devices happen to
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by jgeada 6y ago
The other interference problem is that all devices talking to a particular access point are all transmitting on the same frequency. As wireless is a shared transmission medium they all have to take turns and if two or more devices happen to
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by jgeada 6y ago
6 months is not an atypical non-compete clause length.
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by jgeada 7y ago
Forth was a cool language when I was a learner programmer, when I was coding for myself, by myself. As soon as I matured and needed to work in large code bases with a team of people, the very properties that made Forth interesting became ma
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by jgeada 7y ago
What guarantees do we have that some for-profit pharma corporation will not take the information discovered by this, patent it and profit at our expense? As it is, the public already funds most of the early research into drugs and yet almos
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by jgeada 7y ago
Funny how libertarians and conservatives are all in favor of big government when it defends their particular private interests. Socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else as the common meme goes.
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I call bullshit on you too. Software is impossible to get correct for the vast majority of cases because there is no specification, nobody even knows or agrees what the specification should be or whether there is even such a thing in the
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And yet for Stonecipher it was a personally financially successful personal decision and none of the consequences will hurt him personally. When the rewards always go to the top (aka shareholders) and consequences always fall elsewhere, thi
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by jgeada 7y ago
Nice summary. A bit more context: * typical supply voltage for advanced CMOS is now under 1V * your typical high performance part dissipates anywhere from 50W to 250W from the die * this means that a chip has to be supplied 50-250 A of curr
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by jgeada 7y ago
At the really small geometry sizes (beyond 28nm for most foundries) transistor topology has changed from planar to finfet or even variants of gate-all-around for the really leading edge stuff. These topologies limit the leakage paths, so ev
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by jgeada 7y ago
Who says we're not? For context, I'm one of the people quoted in the original article. EDA companies constantly work on advanced technology with a few development partners. You can read that as: large companies willing to put subs
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by jgeada 7y ago
So what then is the actual role management plays? They're paid the big bucks (absurdly so in the typical large US corporation), and yet largely they hardly make clear decisions, frequently "didn't know" about decisions t
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by jgeada 7y ago
The problem of unqualified freedom of speech is that it amounts to freedom to lie without consequence for those that have power. And once you can lie with impunity, you have a mechanism to consolidate that power, either by disrupting those
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by jgeada 7y ago
Minimalism is something only the truly rich can actually afford to do: https://priceonomics.com/post/45447777955/is-minimalism-just... Money is the ultimate backup for missing things or for things that are needed
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by jgeada 7y ago
Engineers create value, management is a tax on that value. And when management takes over a company culture the next stop is typically bankruptcy as management wont stop until all value is extracted into their pockets. American corporate hi
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by jgeada 7y ago
> But all that sounds like an idea an executive would invent to justify earning 1000x more than what an average worker makes. Of course, and the recent absurd ratios of executive pay vs average workers are likely unsustainable. It is all
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Terry Pratchett had an interesting spin on that: https://www.thebillfold.com/2015/03/to-terry-pratchett-who-g... And yes, I've noticed that you do save money buying better made clothes that don't disinte
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by jgeada 7y ago
Agreed. The problem is that software really falls into 2 main categories: 1) doing something that has already been done in a very similar way. This type of software is relatively predictable and estimates are generally reliable, assuming th
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by jgeada 7y ago
You often hear about required ethics courses for engineers, but it strikes me that it is management that most requires this. The whole MBA thing & the implied notion of managerialism has been a straight up disaster to everything it has
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Because Arkansas or Nevada are only really viable economic entities when supported by the much more productive states like California or New York.
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by jgeada 7y ago
Except that is politically expedient to always under represent the costs to properly finance those future benefits (eg by making rosy expectations of growth, or pessimistic assumptions about expected lifetimes). Those invalid assumptions ca
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When poor UI results in a driving hazard(reddit.com)
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Wish I could upvote the above comment more than once!
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I think we’re going to need adclickers: similar to adblockers except they put the ad in a sandbox and click it. As long as this registers as a click, someone somewhere will want to be paid and sooner or later the whole ad economy nightmare
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by jgeada 7y ago
Well, that is exactly to be expected and is exactly what is predicted by economic theory: Markets only actually function under regulation, unregulated markets lead to monopolies or monopsonies.

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