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by matthias509 6y ago
Your statement regarding the lack of deterrence does not match reality. See https://transition.fcc.gov/bureaus/oet/tac/tacdocs/meeting12... "Similar to New York City, San Francisco also provides evi
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by matthias509 6y ago
I used to work on public safety radio systems. Things which seem like minor issues like clipping the beginning of a transmission every now and then are showstopper defects in that space. It’s because it can be the difference between “Shoot”
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by matthias509 6y ago
We should always remember what is being sold and who the customers are. Apple sells iPhones to consumers. Facebook sells our attention to businesses. Both companies are trying to sell more of their product. Of these two I am much more conce
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by matthias509 6y ago
By default yes, though I worked on a codebase which was ported from M68k to SPARC which had a lot of misaligned memory access. You could opt into having "packed" structs with #pragma pack and avoid the runtime error by compiling
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by matthias509 6y ago
> For many people, doing something unique is far more satisfying than dealing with people problems. These are not mutually exclusive. If you want to accomplish big unique things, you can't do it yourself. You are going to have to co
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by matthias509 6y ago
Exactly, I use my free will to exchange money for an experience with less hassle and thus get back time which I can spend on other pursuits.
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by matthias509 6y ago
I’ve seen this over and over. The engineer building the mock is the same that wrote the code, so the same incorrect assumptions get baked into both. This is what makes mocks of limited utility. In the end, they don’t prove the code works an
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by matthias509 6y ago
I cope with level 1 support by remembering we have a common goal: to stop talking to each other as quickly as possible. The tech just wants to close the case and I want to talk to someone else who can actually help me.
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by matthias509 6y ago
Maybe use excess electricity to produce hydrogen using electrolysis and then burn it in a turbine later?