nelsondev

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by nelsondev 4y ago
You can listen to it (music), you can look at it (art), you can entertain people with it (video games), you can inform others with it (media). These aren’t the base level on Maslow’s pyramid of needs (food water shelter), but software can s
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Haha. I first thought this was a custom device for Ethernet over Power lines. For example, https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-AV600-Powerline-Ethernet-Adap...
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by nelsondev 4y ago
How much hardware did you need?
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Checkmate!, atheists.
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Scenario 6: The super intelligent AI creates an even smarter AI, which replaces the parent, and so on and so forth, forcing the AI into an endless series of reproduction.
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Rename it as “verified speech transcripts.” I don’t need to understand video codecs to watch Youtube.
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes. Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Last year in June, my Hawaiian airlines flight leaving Honolulu turned back after 30 minutes into the flight. No explanation was given, but they put us on a different plane about 3 hours later. But the experience was terrifying to be honest
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Cool solution! Almost like cache wrapping a hard disk. I am curious as to why they can’t tolerate Disk failures though, and why they need to use the Google persistent storage rather than an attached SSD for their workload. I would have expe
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by nelsondev 4y ago
The p50 speed up from delaying memory management comes with a trade off, namely you get Garbage Collection pauses, bad p99, and spend your effort tuning the Garbage Collector instead of your code.
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by nelsondev 4y ago
As for comedy in books, I find Bukowski - Post Office to be quite hilarious at times.
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Free “room and board” is a form of compensation. RA’s (Resident Advisors) at American universities, students whose job is to handle dormitory issues, are compensated via free “room and board.”
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by nelsondev 4y ago
This solution just moves the problem from colleges/universities to a “board”, but doesn’t solve it. People would still cheat on the hypothetical licensing exam. Licensing also would add friction in changing jobs, immigration policies,
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by nelsondev 4y ago
To second this point, part of being a good programmer means picking up new skills quickly, and then applying them. Leet code is very contrived. However, learning leet code, then applying it in an interview shows you have the aptitude to l
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Did you consider Web Browsers + Javascript?
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by nelsondev 4y ago
It’s both
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by nelsondev 4y ago
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by nelsondev 4y ago
Write down the value/impact of each task, and time to completion. Work on tasks with highest value/time-spent.
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by nelsondev 5y ago
Shopping malls often have attached parking garages?
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by nelsondev 5y ago
There were multiple factors, hard to know what percentage gender contributed, but I do think it played a role.
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by nelsondev 5y ago
When selling your work to a promo committee, building a new shiny thing lowers the communication hurdle. Personal anecdote, at Amazon, my wife led a very challenging refactor of legacy code and didn’t get promoted, I built a shiny thing ba
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by nelsondev 5y ago
That can work for some, but imagine you already have a job, and time commitments, and it takes 5-10 companies to find a fit. Spending ~1-2 months is expensive.
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by nelsondev 5y ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing. Rather than an offline model, why not use an online, continuously relearning model like a Multi-Armed Bandit to do the re-ranking?
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by nelsondev 5y ago
This just happened. (In Canada, not the US, but similar countries.) Here is a story about police rounding up protestors and sending them to jail. https://news.yahoo.com/police-arrest-dozens-blockading-canad... > Police c
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by nelsondev 5y ago
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
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by nelsondev 5y ago
You can focus on both the “how” and the “who”. I work in an engineering organization where when something sufficiently complicated goes wrong, we do a proper root cause analysis, ask 5 Why’s, propose process improvements, etc. But sometimes
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by nelsondev 5y ago
Why shouldn’t there be accountability of the person who failed to disclose?
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by nelsondev 5y ago
Does there have to be a persistence layer if the machine is never shutdown? If all our memories are stored in “RAM” and never flushed to “disk”, we may never find evidence of “disk”.
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by nelsondev 5y ago
Reminds me of this article, where spies abroad all suffer similar strange headaches, impacting their ability to focus. Perhaps your “hypothetical” bioweapon is already being tested in the field. https://www.gpb.org/news&#x2F
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by nelsondev 5y ago
Amazon AWS also deplatformed right leaning services.

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