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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
Bell Labs also served to maintain positive perceptions of the monopoly. Unix was famously developed despite the knowledge that AT&T would not be able to offer it as an independent product.
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
No country has seriously invested in the thorium fuel cycle because it cannot be used to create weapons. Unfortunately, the technology also began to look most promising as an energy source around the same time the Three Mile Island nuclear
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
There is no business case for basic research, but if you stop basic research long enough you will have no business. The United States and its allies seem to have completely forgotten this.
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
This is true. However, people with that position tend to reveal it because it supports their argument.
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
This and your comment upthread read like a textbook example of the naturalistic fallacy. The environment that produced your apparent masculine ideal was not permanent, nor was all of what it produced ideally suited to it. If you really bel
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by lunar-whitey 11mo ago
Uncharitably - GP likely believes (as many do) that the current zeitgeist of reproductive norms is ideal, as the possibility of it excluding themselves has never occurred to them.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Abdication of sovereignty is precisely what one party wants. I don’t understand how many people fail to recognize this.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
> I went to one of those universities where CS grads had the option between being a Quant at Citadel, an APM at Google, or an SWE working on an ML research team I find it interesting that you are trying to find fault in my position while
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
There is also the matter that the American political leadership managed to maintain some level of economic prosperity for the white working class in the intervening decades. Now that is collapsing, and the old narratives have returned. The
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The universities could have continued in their socially productive capacity if their leadership realized their obligations should take precedence over career advancement. Instead, they chose to embrace cost disease. The reactionary right re
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
ECE is a compromise track that limits how far one can progress on hard systems design problems. An ECE’s principal strength is that they tend to manage long term software projects better than EEs. EEs lead in anything that is limited by phy
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
It’s more nuanced than that. Americans on the west coast can express dissent; the means, however, are indirect and easily missed by managers who lack cross cultural competence. There’s also less motivation for a worker at a large successful
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The talent pipeline was shut down because adtech sucked most of the oxygen out of the room, and consolidation by hyperscalers finished off what was left. Big data firms simply don’t need the same headcounts to maintain their infrastructure
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
I think the problem lies with the American polity, values, and business environment, and not industry leadership per se. Smart new grads generally go where the money is, and for the last 20 years that has meant either finance or big data fi
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The United States Constitution is a relic that predates national political parties as a concept. Political parties effectively neutralize many of its structural checks, including federalism. The framers recognized this failure in their own
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The code for both of these is largely a liability. You cannot market a competitive offering in the OS or search spaces with code alone.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Proprietary software has not been a business moat for decades. The moats are their complements: hardware, networks and protocols (including humans), data and formats.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The party with control of the federal legislature and executive has vigorously opposed shifting energy demand away from fossil fuels for decades. The opposition has spent that time doing the opposite. The economic viability of added generat
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Rural voters are not most of the country unless you believe geographic area is more important than people. There are better ways to address the concerns of rural interests than enshrining gerrymandering along state lines.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
That is all but assured at this point. Today, open source drivers are written mainly for new entrants that are trying to undercut dominant players or incumbents in stable market niches that have largely ceased developing new products. If th
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
After cleaning up the sources, the whole chip would still be an unwieldy proprietary chunk - you would just be able to ignore it more easily.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
I’m not aware of any widely available tools that can identify unreferenced C preprocessor macros and newer language constructs that are amenable to analysis are still fairly new. Removing unreferenced definitions from open source patches wo
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Simple portable programs that perform nontrivial tasks are expensive. Open source overcomes this where possible by socializing the cost.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The size of the MMIO addressable register space on many modern VLSI devices is shocking the first time you see it. However, OS device drivers often do not need to access more than a small subset of the registers. In addition, the register
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Sadly, presupposing that everyone who struggles socially somehow deserves it has been common for all of recorded history. People who struggle for extended periods axiomatically cease to be considered “normal” at some point. It is better to
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
Thanks for admitting you are disingenuously harassing the parent poster for the benefit of whatever in-group you happen to find yourself in. I hope they come to understand what you are doing and do something productive with that knowledge.
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
The few academics that actually tried to characterize incel reprobates found astonishing rates of autism. This observation was broadly dismissed because their study designs (necessarily) relied on self reporting and any proposed solutions s
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
No one here is going to help the parent poster by assuming a superior position and lecturing them. It is totally unproductive. I suspect they have been hearing statements like this their entire life. Everything I am reading here is consiste
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
This looks like a reductive view of the field’s broad shifts from psychoanalysis to behaviorism, and again to cognitivism. The impact to practice in the 21st century has been minimal since the latter shift began in the mid-20th and most of
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by lunar-whitey 1y ago
People who downvote this need to think very hard about whether their preferred solution is workable, or if they are simply ignoring the problem because they can. It’s unpleasant to say that people actively desire the current outcomes, but n

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