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by jmspring 2y ago
There is a regional issue that can come about. We hung out with friends a little over a week ago in Croatia and Italy. We came back via Rome -> Copenhage n -> SFO. No luggage issues on SAS. Friends flew Split -> London -> SFO
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by jmspring 2y ago
I was just out of college (masters) when I worked for Netscape for a couple years. Worked with some super interesting people and learned a lot. General opinion was Marca wasn’t the best engineer and others helped out. There is a huge over
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by jmspring 2y ago
The real need here is for the US Govt and state/local govt to get real about consumer privacy and put measures into place where harvesting of data like social media does is not allowed to be used w/o consent of an adult (if at all
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by jmspring 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#:... .
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by jmspring 2y ago
I know Salesforce has a huge AWS presence. That said, is it possible they are doing multitenancy? I don't know myself.
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by jmspring 2y ago
I had his class in the 90s as well. Enjoyed it. UCSC was smaller then and some interesting classes I’m not sure would be possible today. Another I enjoyed was Frank Andrews (chemistry) course titled something like the chemistry of love.
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by jmspring 2y ago
Racing the Beam. About the Atari VCS.
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by jmspring 2y ago
That’s a shallow take. The Bay Area used to have a plethora of different types of companies and innovation. Sadly social media and ad companies took over.
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by jmspring 2y ago
An M4 in an iPad. It feels like the hardware between an M* Macbook Air and the M* iPads is really about the same (maybe screen differences, a keyboard) and memory. That said, the real hinderance / differentiator(?) is what the OS all
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by jmspring 2y ago
The MIT link I shared mentioned Demaine studied Huffman's work but the mini and full paper make no reference. I first heard about this from Huffman when Demaine was about 16 years old. So I would hope for some reference there in.
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by jmspring 2y ago
He was a hardass. I had a class with an acquiantence/friend (who went on to found two start ups) and failed is 103a class the first time around with Huffman. We caught Huffman in a mistake and gave back as good as he gave. It was a
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by jmspring 2y ago
Cybernetics, if I recall rightly, was a “multidisciplinary (80 series when I was there) class, no? His classes were my favorite because he was one of the few profs that really didn’t sugar coat things and appreciated those that put effort i
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by jmspring 2y ago
Every time something like this comes up, I recall “office hours” with David Huffman at UC Santa Cruz. Most of the conversation was about things other than class. One frequent topic was his paper folding. https://mitmuseum.mit.e
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by jmspring 2y ago
I don't do a lot of writing, that said I use fountain pens when sketching out ideas / designs - paper is preferred to sketching / whiteboard programs. I've found the pen that works for me is a $30 Lamy fountain pen - it
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by jmspring 2y ago
6.22 would likely be what I was remembering.
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by jmspring 2y ago
My brain is rusty, but I feel like MSDOS 5.11 was where things finally just worked. TSRs, memory managers, etc. Moving a lot and not being a packrat I've lost some of that history. It'd be interesting to see 5.x and 6.x released
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by jmspring 2y ago
Here is one such article - https://www.cringely.com/2016/04/06/is-ibm-guilty-of-age-dis...
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by jmspring 2y ago
There is a former column that was under multiple writers (same name), that did a great expose on IBM and age discrimination, but I don't want to give said column their due since the columnist had other issues.
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by jmspring 2y ago
IBM was taken over by bean counters years ago. There were researchers and others that would literally skip being in or find a way to avoid bean counters when they walked through IBM Research Labs (like Almaden Research Center) years ago (h
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by jmspring 2y ago
Under no circumstances should knowledge of Assembler be needed to work with LLMs. Many people that work in DS/ML can barely make it with Python.
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by jmspring 2y ago
Stuart describes one type of mentality. I’ve recently joined a small company as the senior person. My goal is to understand our deliverables, our timing, and can we do it? In enterprise companies like the one I recently left, management i
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by jmspring 2y ago
It seems typical Elon Musk to me.
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by jmspring 3y ago
Earthquakes are apparently rare on the East coast. We had a 4.8/4.9 here near the census designated place of Belden in Plumas County CA yesterday evening. Others farther away felt it. I didn’t. Cats didn’t react either. Unless it’
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by jmspring 3y ago
I’ve been in the same boat. My soon to be ending role was as a lead/IC but the actual work was more devops than actual development. It was cushy and pays well, opting to get more hands on writing code and building things which is muc
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by jmspring 3y ago
The funning thing is, people I know who have a Volt love their cars. Haven't tried one myself. My family has a couple of paid of Toyota gas vehicles that are 8+ years old and will probably live longer than we will.
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by jmspring 3y ago
25 years will be enough to where he’s doing time, wish it was more. Sadly his parents have enough cushion to where he won’t have to work when he is out. Many people are in prison for doing less harm and for longer sentences than many white
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by jmspring 3y ago
The problem here is that large corporations trusted with public safety - be it flight safety in the case of Boeing; electical generation and transmission safety in the case of PG&E here in California - is that companies cater to Wall St
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by jmspring 3y ago
Every time I see Parc mentioned, I miss going their for various talks. A friend worked there in the AV department and I got to see a lot of talks I would not otherwise. I also loved showing up one time when they had an exhibit of David Hu
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by jmspring 3y ago
For me, I don't think I feel the same way as you (my loss was small). There have been many cases where white collar crime which has similar (or greater) financial ramifications as the example of mugging you give, but the punishment is
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by jmspring 3y ago
The allies also had low tech solutions that helped greatly. One such example is the Ghost Army which used decoys and the like to make it look like there was a large force. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/visit/exhibi

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