kevinmhickey

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by kevinmhickey 10mo ago
Merry Christmas to all!!
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by kevinmhickey 10mo ago
Hear hear!!
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by kevinmhickey 1y ago
In school I would have tried to solve this… now if I want to know I just get out my multimeter and measure. Faster, simpler, and more practical.
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by kevinmhickey 1y ago
I agree that models are bad at counting in general, but in this case it could just as easily be ambiguity in the wording of the prompt. The model was shown a 3 legged chicken and asked how many legs "this animal" has. It is reason
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by kevinmhickey 1y ago
Don't forget US Robotics
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by kevinmhickey 1y ago
The degree of difficulty for building this is the premise of the 2001 movie Antitrust from back in the old days when Microsoft was evil. Notable as one of the first movies to use Linux desktops and reasonably correct shell script and code i
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by kevinmhickey 2y ago
What's old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal
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by kevinmhickey 2y ago
It’s the hot staging spacing ring. They didn’t call it on the feed but it is an expendable part that ejects after separation.
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by kevinmhickey 2y ago
Not on your life my … friend!
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by kevinmhickey 3y ago
Reminds me a little bit of Catholic mass when the priest "sings" some of the sections. There is no consistency, no cadence, but their voice goes up and down. It's high-effort talking. I wonder if these models would do somethi
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by kevinmhickey 3y ago
On a related note, when I re-watch shows from the 1990's or even early 2000's it's amazing how many problems would be solved with a simple cell phone call or text message. Buffy the Vampire Slayer would be a much shorter show
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by kevinmhickey 3y ago
Yes. Being able to stand at least part of the day is great. Some people mention wobble - I for one don't like typing while standing so I stand for meetings and sit for keyboard time. One additional benefit is that you can adjust the he
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by kevinmhickey 4y ago
I'm no expert but it didn't look very healthy. Mottled color and lethargic movement. Maybe that's normal but my gut says that squid is not feeling well.
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by kevinmhickey 4y ago
Wish I could upvote more than once. What I call "Resume Driven Development" creates fractured architectures and reduces quality in stable systems for the sake of "the latest standard". Not the best spend for the business
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by kevinmhickey 4y ago
I worked on a MIPS SOC that had a pair of registers that controlled DDR timing. The formula for calculating the correct timing was complicated and I am bad at math. Most of it was constant but 2 values were important. After failing to get i
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by kevinmhickey 4y ago
Thumb drives in a truck offer great bandwidth but terrible latency.
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by kevinmhickey 4y ago
Scrolled to find this comment and was not disappointed.
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by kevinmhickey 4y ago
Meanwhile, the data center is on fire as the machines try in vain to parse it...
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by kevinmhickey 4y ago
I call it Resume Driven Development
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by kevinmhickey 5y ago
So act. But don't act like you're acting.
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by kevinmhickey 5y ago
Very carefully. But seriously, check out the book "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Feathers. It has helped me tremendously in multiple refactorings. His thesis is that Legacy Code is code without tests. So to make it not
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by kevinmhickey 6y ago
Underrated response. As true today as when it was written!
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by kevinmhickey 6y ago
Mine too at UIUC almost 20 years ago! We had to design a working CPU for the instruction set in verilog or VHDL, then run a program in the simulator. I still vaguely remember that exactly one instruction needed 2 passes through the core pip
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by kevinmhickey 6y ago
With the caveat that I have not read your code, I usually solve this same problem by adding a parameter constructor to FooController and annotating it @Autowired. Spring will then inject using the constructor instead of setters or reflectio
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by kevinmhickey 6y ago
Just to offer another perspective, I work for a small consultancy and routinely do our "exec" interview. This is a free-form interview with a member of our leadership team as a final check on the candidate. I ask candidates some q
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by kevinmhickey 7y ago
I read the headline too fast and thought it said "Gas planets Will Get Crushed by Solar Wind by 2035". Sounded terrifying.
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by kevinmhickey 8y ago
Probably because (IIRC) mov is 2 bytes and inc is only 1 byte and they're optimizing for minimum size.
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by kevinmhickey 8y ago
I think their behavior matters more than their market share. As other commenters pointed out, defining market share of an infinite resource is not very useful. These companies buy potential disruptors at inflated prices. Sometimes they shut
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by kevinmhickey 9y ago
Fair point. I suppose that means the Oxford comma is actually necessary in this case.
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by kevinmhickey 9y ago
Feels like they could have made this even simpler by reordering the exemptions. For example: The distribution, canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing or packing for shipment of: I'm a fan of the Oxford co

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