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by jzl 8y ago
400 is starting to push into standard deviation territory but 300 (total comp) is absolutely right in the center of the bell curve for a mid-level engineer (not a rock star), from everything I've seen and heard both first and second ha
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by jzl 8y ago
There are several good books about c++11 and c++14, though I'm not sure about 17. "Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14" https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Modern-Specifi
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Agreed it would be nice if there were official Apple support, but FYI there's a project called MoltenVK that implements the Vulkan API on top of Metal: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-co
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Read articles about the leaked emails. They clearly talk about segueing from this project into additional multi-hundred-million-dollar contracts. So yes, it's a huge win if the Pentagon contracts die with Maven.
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by jzl 8y ago
Want to play with Minecraft-style voxels? There's a really wonderful freeware voxel editor called MagicaVoxel: https://ephtracy.github.io/ Pretty incredible what you can do with it.
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by jzl 8y ago
Yep, you could lose the domain. It would be a big risk to take if there's any chance someone wanted to go after the domain.
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by jzl 9y ago
I think the duck curve is more about residential usage rather than overall grid usage. And this conversation is about home solar installations rather than commercial ones in offices and places of work.
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by jzl 9y ago
If you enjoyed this bit of photo sleuthing then I highly recommend film director Errol Morris' incredible tale of sleuthing regarding a photo from the 1850's (!) taken during the Crimean War: https://opinionator.blogs.n
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by jzl 9y ago
"Chromebooks are a direct descendant of the XO laptop." Is there any written evidence of this in old tech articles, etc.? I totally believe this could be possible, but it also could be a simple case of convergent evolution.
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by jzl 9y ago
You don't even have to look as far as Saudi Arabia to raise similar questions. The Koch brothers are MIT graduates and huge donors. For a similar discussion of the ethics of MIT's acceptance of their money, see: https:/&#x2F
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by jzl 9y ago
No one has mentioned the heroic work of Sci-Hub yet, so here's an obligatory link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16332139
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Ah! Thanks for the correction.
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by jzl 9y ago
Read this thread. Even though I've always known that this was all stored it's still eye opening to see it methodically laid out: https://twitter.com/iamdylancurran/status/977559925680467968
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They disingenuously claim it has roots in Latin without mentioning LotR at all: https://www.palantir.net/blog/palantir-philosophy-or-what-s-... Even if it does, and I'd love to see more details about that (Google
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by jzl 9y ago
Yes! It's insane. It's probably using location data and IP address among other things. If they had even an ounce of concern about privacy they would detect and explicitly prevent making recommendations across accounts that someone
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Wow, I had no idea there a buried option like that to really delete it. Several years ago I read an article about how savvy teenagers and college students were calling account deactivation "Super Logout", since it was well known t
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by jzl 9y ago
I was reading about this recently here: https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay Even the strongest setting "Document user activation is required" isn't good enough. It means one click in the page w
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by jzl 9y ago
In response to a question about Alex Stamos leaving: "So we’re going to double the amount of people working on security this year. We’ll have more than 20,000 people working on security and community operations by the end of the year,
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by jzl 9y ago
Tons of screenshots in the amazing series of articles about that topic from ProPublica. Like this: https://assets.propublica.org/images/articles/_threeTwo2000w... via: https://www.propublica.org/ar
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by jzl 9y ago
The complaints in this article appear to be regarding OS-controlled lut adjustments, i.e. via special X11 features. I've used color calibrated monitors on linux in color-sensitive industries with hundreds or even thousands of artist se
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by jzl 9y ago
Lastpass has an awesome option when generating passwords for cases like this: "Make pronounceable". It will generate a password like "lickyusideno" (just generated that now) which is easy enough to remember between looki
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by jzl 9y ago
It's pretty clear from some simple googling that he ended up somehow activating a feature called "Facebook Texts" (the key giveaway -- that replying to the texts posted to his wall): https://www.facebook.com/h
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by jzl 9y ago
There is an incredible book about this topic called "The Alchemy of Air"@, which I highly recommend. It's one of the best non-fiction science books I've ever read. Also available on Audible. Fritz Haber's life story
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You think that's bad? This was a really good expose on the darker side of Facebook's "People You May Know" feature: https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-outs-sex-workers-1818861596
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by jzl 9y ago
Huh. This is cool. If you had asked me before reading this I would have sworn that “open source” was used all throughout the 90’s. I guess that’s a testament to how good a phrase it is. I feel compelled to do some research now to see what e
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I had to google it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise,_vibration,_and_harshnes...
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by jzl 9y ago
"We currently support 45 editions of Windows. Patches for 41 of them are available now through Windows Update." Wow. I have to admit, that number larger than I would have guessed. (I probably would have said 20.) But ultimately
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A new thing that's going to become a standard part of systems engineering: deciding whether any given system needs to run with or without these kinds of protections. Do you want the speed of speculative execution or do you want Meltdow
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Great answer. The web issue is easier to mitigate if not fix completely since there is already a massive infrastructure for widespread, rapid browser updates, and crippling Javascript to eliminate attack vectors such as high-resolution time
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I can't imagine the number of people who paid for non-Hollywood content on YouTube was anything more than miniscule. There is a social contract on YouTube -- if I enjoy your videos I will "like" them, share them, and maybe su

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