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by lvoudour 9y ago
Specifically, give one group of people a 4+ year head start in the field in addition to engaging in activities that will build confidence for the person when engaging in those activities (e.g., participating in and/or winning programm
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by lvoudour 9y ago
That fall, when Facebook’s Williams came to campus with colleagues, the visit didn’t go over well. In a meeting with students, one Facebook employee brought up diversity so often that students say they felt uncomfortable—as if she wanted t
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by lvoudour 9y ago
It sure does smell like a PR assisted attack on excel in favor of enterprise solutions
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by lvoudour 9y ago
For those that don't remember or never heard of the case: https://badcyber.com/the-great-greek-wiretapping-affair/
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ECHR orders Greece to pay damages over probe of death in wiretap case(reuters.com)
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Just a few decades ago, all Greeks spoke Demotiki (modern Greek or "people's" Greek) but also learned Katharevousa in school ("pure" Greek, very close to ancient Greek). They don't teach that any more, but
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Difficult for modern Greek speakers. I can't say if it's generally more difficult than classic era Greek but personally I can understand classics better. The easiest for modern greek speakers to grasp is Koine greek, the language
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by lvoudour 9y ago
The modern shift away from the classics as standard part of western education is sad, but understandable to me. I believe it started as a reaction to the teaching rigidness and the over-reverence of classic texts by previous generations, pe
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Of course, Fitzgerald points out that, no matter the power of the translation, something is seriously lost by not reading the original Greek. One of the sadnesses of the limitations of a chosen life I'm greek and I still can't
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I'm surprised he wasn't mining bitcoins on the side :)
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by lvoudour 9y ago
> Bob Widlar Sometimes I hear a name all my life because of an invention/discovery, but somehow in my brain it's dissociated from the actual person because I know nothing about them. And when I finally do, I get this nice fuzzy
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>The design tool market is horrible I wouldn't say it's horrible, it's just not open source (mainly because it's mostly a high-end market). You can easily get by with the free versions of the implementation/simul
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I actually want to understand the chip manufacturing process - design, prototyping (using FPGAs, etc), baking process in foundries. And also at least a basic understanding of how IP is managed in chip industry - like "IP core" is
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by lvoudour 9y ago
lol But honestly, I've grown tired with all the doom-and-gloom oracles every year, they irritate me much more than the "everything is fine, nothing to see here" ilk. And when a recession finally happens, you'll see all t
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Same here, using it for a month both in desktop and mobile, not a single crash. On the desktop the performance improvement is really noticeable
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Upvoted, I'll include The Other Side of the Hill as well. It's true, he sounds too enthusiastic with the German operations and very sympathetic to some Nazi officers (Rommel and Manstein for example), but I think it stems from h
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Right, give them a desk and a book. > Yeah don't force me to socialize pls. Most people like socializing and benefit from it (which in turn benefits society), you can't possibly ask for a system that caters to the few who d
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Maybe it’s a good time to talk about the fact that school is largely a waste of time. I strongly disagree, but I'm willing to hear a viable alternative that covers millions of children/families (eg. no private tutoring or home
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Does this confusion typically happen to engineers who are trying to teach themselves hardware design, or is it just an indication of a terribly-designed curriculum? Your curriculum seems very sensible to me, you learned the basics first
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by lvoudour 9y ago
> Data, like victims of torture, tells its interrogator what it wants to hear That is a great analogy and something that bit more than a few scientists and engineers over the years
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Great read, gives a logical theory and really puts things into perspective. While government sponsored surveillance is still going strong, the cold war was crazy. Imagine for a moment if the internet (correction: the web) was invented and b
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>That said, and I hate to be this guy (not really), but... Emacs? I intentionally didn't include console editors, totally different beasts. Never used emacs, only learned vim and only touched the surface, mostly use it when I ssh to
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>Have you ever seen UltraEdit? A long time ago (>10 years) but then I mostly used IDEs for development. Didn't know it was still out there, I'll may give it another try, thanks
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Sublime is probably the first GUI text editor that left me satisfied. Everything else over the years was either non-portable, slow or lacking features. After two months of use I just had to buy it, it's worth the price. - It's fas
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by lvoudour 9y ago
Sadly that's true, but the blame for this single point of failure falls entirely on those people. In this day and age it's inexcusable not to have multiple ways to contact people you care about.
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by lvoudour 9y ago
>We’ve only begun to grasp the problem, but in the past, natural monopolies like utilities and railways that enjoy huge economies of scale and serve the common good have been prime candidates for public ownership. The solution to our new
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by lvoudour 9y ago
It's far fetched, there's a broad spectrum of systems one can fit the same metaphor to, and like those systems it offers no insight about them. What is the conclusion and what does it mean for blockchains? What is the benefit of m
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by lvoudour 9y ago
He describes phenomena that apply to every market ever (not to mention simple control loops). How are blockchains any different?
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by lvoudour 9y ago
I don't agree teaching students experimental high-level languages in lieu of proven industry standards just because those standards are archaic and/or un-intuitive. It's a great academic endeavor but the FPGA (and ASIC) lands
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by lvoudour 9y ago
You're absolutely right, but I feel the author's statement refers to internal logic only. I/O bring up is certainly more tricky - a reset that goes through the FPGA is not a guarantee of proper power-on behaviour anyway, you

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