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by morning-coffee 2y ago
Ouch. I feel for you both. I count myself lucky... I still have my IBM PC XT in the basement (runs and my son plays Zork II on it) thanks to my Dad not only shelling out for it in 1983 but hanging on to it over the years. But I empathize fo
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
What's the benefit derived from death? I'd suggest death is simply the terminal state that most systems find themselves in after a sufficiently long period of time has elapsed or they've experienced a set of inputs outside th
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
How far back from the monitor should I be to be able to interpret what the ASCII art blocks are showing? Seems like maybe they were inspired by those 90's "Magic Eye" pictures.
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
CRT screens were also 60Hz. Look at the latency along all steps of the pipeline to get a keypress visible on the screen... https://danluu.com/input-lag/
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
Hmm. So this is the ancestor of stuff I block with my pihole now?
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
From the article: > The system includes an array of 11 internally developed cameras and five radars performing over 250 trillion operations per second, which Rivian says is an industry-leading statistic I generally like what they are doi
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
Exactly. And ditching the "move fast and break things" mindset. Learn your craft and embrace the learning process. Always be curious about how the stuff below your layer works, fundamentally. Recurse on searching for the seminal w
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
I didn't get that from the tone. I inferred this person was trying to convey the perceived importance of some critical things and gave good examples with clear knowledge of the problem domain in a limited space. IOW, I thought it was v
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
Good article, and I like the "Idea: " sections sprinkled throughout as a way of spurring possible progress. I like how markdown has allowed us to render a purely textual definition of a document without majorly muddying the concer
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
The title of the article is somewhat click-baity, though the "No, not like that" gives a hint. It's not arguing for visual programming like your response is about, more like "We need more visualization in programming&quo
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
If the news is a cost center, who pays for it? I'm assuming your implied solution is to roll-up news production/curation to be under the federal government? (Assuming U.S. here, since you mentioned EPA.) Aren't the strings of
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
This. I liken it to the flawed approaches associated with self driving cars... software handles everything up until the point it can't then asks the user to take over in the last second. Not a great strategy. As a software engineer and
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
That ignores the costs (time spent) of finding another company and assumes one has information to conclude that it does indeed suck less without actually having the experience of working there to know.
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
> Every company should be owned by its employees Today's latest example of someone, after observing the current state of some system governed by laws of economics, declaring a "solution" by merely stating how something &qu
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
Genuinely curious, as the article is paywalled, but I wonder what necessitated the house having to come across the ocean? Could it not have been preserved or relocated somewhere within Japan?
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
In the U.S., from what I've heard from friends who have been food service workers, the tips are collected by the server, but split up nightly among the whole front/back set of workers.
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
It is a good question. Is there a possibility of fundamentally fixing software/hardware to eliminate the vectors that malware exploits to gain a foot hold at all? e.g. not storing return address on the stack or letting it be manipulate
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
These requirements can be met by making the lift's systems and data observable, which is a uni-directional flow of information from the lift to the outside world. Making the lift's operation modifiable from the outside world is
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
I think engineering only means something because of culture. It all starts from the culture of collective people who define and decide what principles are to be followed and why. All the certifications and licensing that are prerequsite to
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
I think the same question can be asked for why lots of equipment seemingly requires an OS. My take is that these products went through a phase of trying to differentiate themselves from competitors and so added convenience features that wer
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
They could've gotten more mileage out of a headline like "Was an alien crystalline life form just discovered, or...!?"
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
Hasn't it proved pretty difficult to make C++ demonstrably safer without breaking compilation of all the existing code? (I mean it's not as if people have not been working on this goal for years now.)
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by morning-coffee 2y ago
It's hard to get past the hubris wrapped up in the statement "I'll show you how"... as if the tens of thousands of bright engineer's whose shoulders you stand on were incapable and you're the savior... maybe yo
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by morning-coffee 3y ago
I just can't help but have the feeling that the ship is sinking and this article busies itself with arguing over how much spackle is sufficient to plug one of the many holes. There is too much UB allowed in the C++ spec to be worth sav
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by morning-coffee 3y ago
Puzzler 3, to me, implies the author assumed both sides come to know of the state of a single duplex connection, rather than both having their own state of a simplex connection. TCP has always been designed to allow one side to continue re
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by morning-coffee 3y ago
Good post. (I appreciate the thoughtful responses and references, so thank you.) > In tech, we have poisoned our own information supply Curious to know more about what you mean by this, if you have the time... poisoned how? cheers!
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by morning-coffee 3y ago
Kudos to Bob, for a life well lived. I love both the Oat Bran, and Scottish Oats they make.
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by morning-coffee 3y ago
C:\> debug g=c800:5
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by morning-coffee 3y ago
As a C++ programmer since 1992, all through the 90's and oughts, I picked up Rust in 2019 or so... I'm not suggesting Rust has replaced C++, but IMHO, the writing is on the wall that C++ is past the point of saving. There has be
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by morning-coffee 3y ago
> I worked in embedded space for years. Rust does not suit that environment. It seems to be getting better though. For example... https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown

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