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by marktangotango 4y ago
The phenomena been written about as "Who moved my cheese?" A lot of people value comfort and reliability over chasing higher salaries and more reward. But the "cheese" gets depleted over time. https://en.wikip
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Last week my fourth grader came home and said him and his friends wanted to build a web site for trading a certain type of collectible card. They had been doing some Scratch in school so he had that background. I pointed him at neocities, h
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by marktangotango 4y ago
That's the one thanks! I was just searching for the link.
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Watch the Joe Rogan interview with Zuckerburg. There's a moment in there where Rogan gives Zuckerberg a reality check on it, it's hilarious.
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Analyzing frequency of email addresses would be enough for what GP posted here. Questionable, but not as egregious as reading peoples email. But hey, gmail has done it for years so.... meh.
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by marktangotango 4y ago
It's interesting see people still working in this niche, I think it used to be called "backend as a service"? There were several contenders at one point, but Firebase seemed to "win" several years ago, and has been
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by marktangotango 4y ago
> Why go so far as to wish it doesn't exist? Because it pollutes other more "reliable" sources of information.
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by marktangotango 4y ago
I really wish twitter didn't exist. The utility I see in it is limited. For example, I don't have an account, but I do view tweets from time to time. The tweets I generally view are related to some real time event I'm interes
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Agreed, used to be outlandish and questionable content was relegated to known publications such as the National Inquirer (a weekly purveyor of alien, crop circle and 90 year old grand mothers giving birth) in the US. Nowadays with the decli
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by marktangotango 4y ago
If this is satire it's brilliant. I don't doubt it's factual, but the last sentence is a slayer.
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Indeed, as Erdogan, Orban, and Trump have shown, the path from democracy to autocracy is very short, disturbingly so. What's needed is a treaty organization that promises to invade and restore democracy in the case certain conditions a
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by marktangotango 4y ago
I get your point, the calculations are generally just arithmetic, but there are in fact many cryptologist who spend a lot of time and effort understanding these algorithms and finding ways to "crack" them.
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by marktangotango 4y ago
> it'd get stuck behind all the ox carts already on the road. Lol, that's pretty much the case today, as anyone who's driven a sports car in traffic, on public streets can attest! In my public education the steam engine r
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by marktangotango 4y ago
> It was a bad night > It was a surprising restful night. Is not a night of bad sleep often followed by a night of good sleep?
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by marktangotango 4y ago
I think this comment is a good example of why such an AI would be nigh impossible to implement, at least in a way to be meaningful. When I read this comment, at a high level it's very original like something GPT-3 could create. But thi
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by marktangotango 4y ago
I was wondering if this (128bit memory) are on the radar of any of the BSDs. Will they forever be stuck at 64bit?
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by marktangotango 4y ago
If you're on the jvm, lucene is actually pretty trivial to embed. The complexity comes around representing the data to be seached as "documents", ingesting the documents to be searched, reimporting when they change, and lucen
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by marktangotango 4y ago
I think the parent was posting ironically or forgot to add the \s? Otherwise, yeah, folks need to hang on to those '21/'22 salaries if they can. We may not see those again for some time.
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by marktangotango 4y ago
> This is a really interesting debate – I just wish it scratched deeper than the surface more often than it does, with a bit more historical context. I find this is true of a lot of topics, too bad there's not some way to shorten th
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Interesting, can anyone point out some SOCs with multiple serdes? As an interested, non embedded developer, I know high end fpga do, but I'm not aware of any SOCs. Also how hard is it to layout pcb for these? Is length matching suffici
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by marktangotango 4y ago
I agree with this sentiment. Although I didn't make it to even applying to grad programs because the professors at my uni were very much "what are you going to do for me" in Thomas Edison invention factory way, when even inqu
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by marktangotango 4y ago
> You just need to get off social media and google to find it. Maybe if you know the exact url or specific keywords, but generally not now. Google has turned into ad placement the same level ask jeeves and their ilk were. It's atroc
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Probably both, it is a top research university in the world, with a lot of smart people and funding. Also note the "T" in MIT stands for technology, they do tend to focus a bit more on practical applications and not just theoretic
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by marktangotango 4y ago
This is some old school stuff right here. I have a hard time believing this sort of gumption and moxy are as prevalent today. > The best perk is the number of parking spaces the requisite orange utility traffic cone opens up for you. Tha
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by marktangotango 4y ago
There's a fair amount to unpack here. > I can see why this is frustrating, especially to someone with no C exposure. But bear in mind that the C underpinnings are part of the reason why these languages are popular in the first place
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by marktangotango 4y ago
> with cameras and transmission capabilities I think the "transmission" part here is the real story for military applications. To get real time video further out than a few kilometers, not many nations have satellite datalink c
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by marktangotango 4y ago
Indeed, I've seen two instances of this. First, early in my career, a company was acquired and had a layoff leaving a skeleton crew in IT and development. People remaining did not have the knowledge or experience to deploy or maintain
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by marktangotango 4y ago
For comparison, a rail car can carry 120 tons of coal.
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There was a category of med/high range microprocessor machines ($10k+) that used it a lot, like Z-80 S100 machines with a bunch of "custom" expansion cards. I don't recall any of their names now, but if you look at the a
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by marktangotango 4y ago
> They had the best BASIC interpreter in the business[0] and everyone licensed from them already. Commodore 64 owners may have a different opinion.... :P

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