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by magduf 7y ago
>One could argue this is partly why companies want to do this sort of thing, so their employees grow (among other good / less-than-good reasons). I really wonder how much of it is this, and how much of it is virtue-signaling at the
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by magduf 7y ago
This reminds me of some web article I read a while ago complaining about how women suffer more "emotional labor" in relationships. It was of course written by a women, but to me, it really seemed like a lot of whining, which amou
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by magduf 7y ago
>I don't think any of these things are the primary reason people run windows. I think the primary reason people run windows is that they have to use it at work and so they're familiar with it and don't even bother consider
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>For example, I don't want GTK-3, I only have GTK-2 installed. It could be all fine and dandy if, one after another, year after year, applications wouldn't give up their GTK-2 backend to only maintain/develop their GTK-3 o
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>those of us old enough to remember the Halloween documents don't buy the whole "new Microsoft" thing. >Cynically, it's amazing that Microsoft collects so much personal data about each user -- and yet its "tar
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by magduf 7y ago
>partly for the unspoken assumption behind many posts that FAANG-like companies are a good thing and a good working environment Sorry for sidetracking, but are they not good working environments (note this is a separate question from whe
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>In mathematical proofs, you only need one counter-example to refute a proof or argument. The things we're talking about here aren't mathematical axioms, they're general trends. One counter-example does not disprove a tre
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Japan doesn't have the utterly broken politics and lack of interest in building infrastructure that the USA has.
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>The NEC is, quite frankly, extremely unusual in being a very dense, very linear corridor. The only other corridor in the world with similar circumstances is the Tokaido Shinkansen. It's too bad the Amtrak NE Regional (and the very
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by magduf 7y ago
We seem to be talking about safety-critical systems here. You don't need a GUI library for a safety-critical application, nor is any GUI system ever safety-critical (though it could interface to safety-critical systems).
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Good luck finding any software engineers who are proficient in Ada, much less a variant of it. I mean, they're out there: according to the SPARK Wikipedia page, it's been used in things like some Rolls-Royce jet engines, some mili
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by magduf 7y ago
I worked with a Simulink-generated system in a previous job. The generated code was absolutely unreadable by humans, and honestly downright ugly. I agree, it is very high-risk because it is a black box.
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Broadcom is absolutely the worst, because it's the most open-source-unfriendly. It's only had a lot of reverse-engineering attention because it's so ubiquitous (not just for routers, but for laptops too), but it's all n
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm not advocating for anything. All I'm doing is attempting to point out that it's really hard to have a rational discussion about something when people can't agree on basic concepts and definitions. And the problem i
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>As far as definitions go, my definition of "socialism" is actual socialism, not social democracy. Again, most Americans will disagree with you. The definition of a word is whatever most people agree it is. >This quote is o
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Considering how much of the population keeps voting for this system, I don't see that happening for decades at the least.
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The thing you're missing about "free market capitalism" is that, in the USA today, our "free market capitalism" absolutely does include state patent systems leveraged to create abusive monopolies. You might call
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by magduf 7y ago
Americans don't want single-payer healthcare. If they did, they'd be voting for it. Instead, they (especially poor, rural voters) strongly vote for the party that says they're keeping "socialism" out of healthcare
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>i actually prefer to run Tomato, but archer c7 is not broadcom :( Not being Broadcom is a very good thing.
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It's only with CS where I see this crazy attitude that you don't need to know anything about the tools of implementation and experimentation in order to pursue a science. Imagine someone trying to pursue a career in particle physi
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by magduf 7y ago
So why isn't it illegal and jailable for AT&T to testify that they wouldn't restrict content this way, in order to get government approval for their merger, and then do exactly what they swore they would not do? This is exactl
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by magduf 7y ago
This reminds me of a technology from a couple of decades ago that seemed to disappear: wearable computer monitors. What ever happened to those? Basically, you wore this thing like eyeglasses on your head, and it had a small arm that extend
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by magduf 7y ago
I'd like to know why you're being downvoted too; I've thought about this very thing for a while now. Everyone right now runs around with the head tilted down so they can look at their phone (which is supposedly causing us to
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by magduf 7y ago
With lasers, the photons are collimated, so they're all going almost exactly the same direction, instead of just being scattered like with normal light sources. Because of this, it doesn't take that much laser power in your eye f
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Well if you're making a drug to immunize against Ebola, you don't really need it to be FDA approved, since most of the Ebola is in Africa. Getting it approved in Uganda is sufficient. Then, if it comes across the Atlantic and st
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by magduf 7y ago
You can make all the threats about nationalization you want, but if you think that's going to happen in America anytime soon, to any company here, you're delusional. I'm not saying it's a good or bad idea, just that the
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by magduf 7y ago
According to your article, this might help ease the symptoms of the flu. So it's just as useful in prevention as decongestants, cough drops, expectorant, and other such drugs: not at all. It just helps you get through the infection
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Well, we can look at a place without much government to see how well their innovation is doing: Somalia. How many vaccines, or anything really, have they come up with?
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>The current regulations are setup so that it costs a mountain of money to make an antibiotic and you can only make a molehill of money. That seems like regulating the R&D away. So why can't pharma companies move their operation
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by magduf 7y ago
>It'd be a monumental task to re-create an aircraft carrier or fighter jet in another country, but recreate a drug that's taken billions to develop? Well that takes a small team of organic chemists and a small factory in India

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