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by manholio 4y ago
By that standard, my cat is a truck driver because she can ride the Roomba.
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by manholio 4y ago
That sounds about right. Why bother with a clock anyway, asynchronous is the way of the hardware samurai. Although it should be fuzzed a bit with signal and power noise, to kill those "solutions" that only work due to a lucky phot
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by manholio 4y ago
It shouldn't come as a shock, since self-driving cars currently do not exist - not even in the prototype stage.
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by manholio 4y ago
> will we demand perfection from autonomous cars before we allow them out of “test” status? Not perfection, just no human injuries for the limited duration of the tests, that is, for a few billion km or so.
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by manholio 4y ago
She * was caught
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by manholio 4y ago
> Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, lost investors $1 billion. She faces up to 20 years in prison. > Adam Neumann, founder of WeWork, lost investors $11 billion. He then raised $350 million for his next startup.
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by manholio 4y ago
I wonder how soon we will have microarchitectures that are purely the result of some deep learning algorithms optimizing for performance and compilability of high level languages. We would be able to prove them correct - that they correctly
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by manholio 4y ago
I agree, there's no reason to think large haul electric trucks will have a better efficiency margin over internal combustion variants than in the case of passenger vehicles. On the contrary, there's reasons to doubt it, for exampl
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by manholio 4y ago
Luckily, there are people doing Blu-ray digital backups for the disks we own, in open formats unnecumbered by DRM, then store them in large file distribution systems.
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by manholio 4y ago
That's why you use the homework as a final step, after screening CVs, technical interview etc. Taking a burn from time to time from a candidate not really looking for a job yet willing to go through hoops is surely more reasonable for
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by manholio 4y ago
Or you could just pay people for their time at the prevailing rate, > 50$/h cash. Here is your homework, we expect someone at your level to spend no more than two days on it, here is your $800, have fun.
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by manholio 4y ago
This is not a story about tenacity or an overloaded court system. It's a story about deliberate bad governance to keep corruption money flowing in an impoverished country. The political leadership could easily find solutions to stop su
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by manholio 4y ago
> But as long as users can still withdraw into a non custodial address, they have the option to escape to that neutral base layer. Using blockchains for money is just about the most absurd solution a society can come up to the problems o
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by manholio 4y ago
It supports exactly the format it needs to so that you can purchase DRM encumbered ebooks off Amazon. I hope that clears it up.
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by manholio 4y ago
> I hate that phrase, it rarely pans out with anything that makes any sense. That's just the evolutionary loop of contrarian views. Of course the large majority will be crap, because that's why the mainstream views are dominant
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by manholio 4y ago
Rust is not only a C++ alternative, it's a C alternative too. You don't have to have methods in your structs or use generics, traits, closures, interators etc. You won't be able to use the standard library, but it's doab
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by manholio 4y ago
> But that's not realistic, a lot of simple things need to go through the cell membrane all the time. But surely something that contains an executable payload (DNA/RNA) needs to be better scrutinized than a simple nutrient. Run
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by manholio 4y ago
In terms of information security, as viewed by an infosec engineer, biological systems seem to have incredibly weak architecture. Hear me out, please. If any piece of DNA code manages to find its way into the nucleus, it's happily adde
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by manholio 4y ago
As an avid reader, I anticipate the feedback as "unlikely to scale, since the centralized productivity gains don't outweigh the diminished flexibility and substantial transport costs". This is a recurring theme with prefab sy
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by manholio 4y ago
You should really watch that video, it goes into great details, backed by scientific research, into how and when the 10,000 hours trope works and where it fails. Creativity and skill are somewhat orthogonal, you can be an exceptionally well
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by manholio 4y ago
"Vision" is what happens in your brain after you grind 10,000 hours on a skill that is improvable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eW6Eagr9XA At that point, you no longer have to grind, because your brain has har
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by manholio 4y ago
I think they understand it, but maybe they believe that advice is misleading. If you are enjoying it and having fun, then you are in your comfort zone, and that means you are improving at a much lower rate than your potential. This is true
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by manholio 4y ago
"-" still works, "+" was bastardized when Google launched Google+ but you can get similar functionality by surrounding your term in quotes, preventing it to be dropped.
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by manholio 4y ago
I don't dispute it's a philosophy, but it's an extremist version. It's like having the choice between asceticism, living alone in the desert eating critters, versus extreme hedonism, gluttony and materialism. But most pe
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by manholio 4y ago
> If neither of those are a good fit, premium support, merchandise and ultimately donations might be an option. And what if neither of those are a good fit? Will you concede that there is a real world out there where open source software
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by manholio 4y ago
There is nothing unethical in having a commercial contract with your users whereby they pay for the features you implement. The typical ways this is done leads to unethical outcomes (lock-in, secret source etc. etc.) but by itself a commerc
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by manholio 4y ago
It would not be open source for the duration of the time-bomb, clearly, that's the point of creating an exclusivity period. After the time-bomb, it's undeniably open source: users have all the freedoms granted by open source and t
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by manholio 4y ago
What I dislike about BSL and related is that on the Change date the software typically reverts to GPL, which prohibits others from creating their own BSL competitor to MariaDB. What I would like is to take the MariaDB 4 year old source and
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by manholio 4y ago
Exactly. The time-bombed license would grant you from the start all of the important freedoms of OSS - freedom to create a derived copy, to compile and understand the program, to freely distribute in source form etc. The only thing it would
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by manholio 4y ago
What we need is an time-bombed open source license, that allows a limited exclusivity period for the author during which they can charge for the software. After that time expires, say 3 years, the software reverts to a free shareable licens

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