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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It is an interesting bit of etymology, isn't it? The quote doesn't really make sense if you use a traditional definition of "witch hunt", because the phrase comes from actual historic trials where the charge was somethin
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I'm curious if the author has heard of sites like: * https://repl.it/ * https://jsfiddle.net/ I didn't see anything like that mentioned in the article, but I think that you can easily write code i
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
What's wrong with targeting ads based on subject matter? TV channels and magazines know how this works. If the page is about fashion, sell ad space to clothing companies. If the page is about travel, sell it to hospitality companies an
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Reminds me of a scene from Cryptonomicon that may or may not have been inspired by history. It describes the RAM from a fictionalized 1940s computer: >The pipes are laid out horizontally, like a rank of organ pipes that has been knocke
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
No, I don't believe so. Any individual can easily create a website and publish whatever they like. It costs maybe $100/year and takes a couple of hours for an inexperienced user to set up a Wordpress blog with manually-moderated c
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Transparency in how ads are targeted would go a long way. Personally, I would appreciate a legal mandate that every targeted advertisement must include a link explaining which demographics or criteria are being used to target the ad. Ideall
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
This is pretty cool. An Apple car could be amazing, and something like a small electric town car probably wouldn't be too expensive as a joint pilot product between companies like Apple and Hyundai. But, here are the big questions. Wil
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yeah, that - thanks. I'm not a nukular physicist.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Maybe. I'll believe it when a large-ish city runs off of it.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Good question, and the answer is still a matter of opinion. I think the HN crowd is mostly excited because it is an ISA that fits two important criteria: * You can build a RISC-V CPU into your own digital designs for $0. There are also a lo
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It's kind of funny how so many people instinctively dislike season 2. "Blegh. Unions. Politics. Yawn." But it makes sense, right? Real corruption and crime isn't always about drugs and shotguns.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yeah. It's always a bad situation, and really the best we can do is empathise when people have to go through it. Voting with your feet is usually the best policy, but people with visa issues have an especially hard time with that. Sadl
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
A fun anecdote from my youth near a US seaboard was that our elementary and middle school buildings were designed by the same person who designed a few prisons around the area. When I bounced around cities later in life, I was surprised at
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
This might be a good time to mention Jay Carlson's excellent "So you want to build an embedded Linux system?" article: https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/ It's been discussed here before, but it&
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Well, a company doesn't have to be big to be impactful. What's important in my experience is a productive environment which can foster the occasional side project. This is actually something that I've struggled a bit with, be
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I think they mean that you should document everything, then express your concerns to HR in a non-confrontational way, then quietly bring your documentation to a lawyer if nothing changes. The documentation is your "plan B" which H
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I don't think so. I've worked at other FAANG companies which had these sorts of posts written about them, and I've witnessed plenty of situations that I would call "abusive". But what I read in this article was beyo
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Having also worked for companies that HN hates, of course it's much different on the inside. Nobody twiddles their mustache and cackles when they make decisions that screw people over. They find ways to make it sound benevolent and p
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yes, but we're not talking about people who read the Bible here. One example off the top of my head, Jeff Sessions once invoked Romans 13 to defend Trump's immigration policies: >“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his cl
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I wish that modern oaths also had curse clauses. It seems oddly common for autocrats and kleptocrats to have no problem screwing over millions of people, while still being terrified of religious or superstitious wrath. "So help me god&
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Where do you live that that is a viable option? Outside of super-dense urban centers, there is almost no public transit, and taxi/Uber rides are prohibitively expensive because of the distances involved. Outside of cities, it's no
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
We absolutely should. But we should also have alternative ways for John Doe to get around without a car, and we don't. Car culture in the US has started to evoke that old saw: "If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a pr
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
That's always being worked on - modern medicine is nothing short of miraculous. People are trying. We want to cure cancer, and find effective general-purpose antivirals, and help people maintain healthy bodies, and figure out how to re
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Sure, but then what happens when you give your neighbor's dog RF burns for walking in the vicinity? Unshielded magnetrons aren't exactly safe...
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It probably refers to digital design education, not software development education. And it does seem like universities are rapidly starting to adopt the ISA for that purpose. A few years ago, those classes would use a custom instruction set
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
> For example, in RISC-V, the bits are 'jumbled up' when encoding constants; the argument is it, ultimately, makes the processing faster (due to the way sign-extension works). It's not just sign-extension. You can naïvely
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
They started using soy-based insulation in automotive wiring a couple decades ago. Sadly, it turns out that rodents really like to eat that kind of insulation. So if you have a car made after ~2000, you need to keep pests away from wherever
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yes, I think it's a very exciting technology for sending all kinds of small packeted data around rural areas. Besides messaging, it's also good for having remote stations report their current conditions (e.g. electric fence batter
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Load testing for cyclical holiday traffic spikes is not a new or difficult concept. Most retail companies do it annually around September-October, IME. But the cause of the outage is still speculation. I hope that something else caused it,
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
HopeRF modules are a decent example of consumer LoRa hardware. Check the datasheet: https://www.hoperf.com/modules/lora/RFM95.html They advertise bit rates of up to 300kbps, but that doesn't tell the whole st

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