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by not2b 5y ago
Often the issue is that what was decent advice five years ago can become horrible advice later, but the formerly decent advice is already moderated to the top on Stack Overflow and Reddit and is the first hit on a Google search, while the a
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by not2b 5y ago
Please change the title: the linked article is entitled "Fire at Ukrainian nuclear plant outside perimeter".
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by not2b 5y ago
It takes at least one clock cycle to do anything, and clock frequency stopped increasing in the 2003-2005 time frame, mainly because of the horrible effects on power with very small feature size.
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by not2b 5y ago
It wasn't the speed of light, it was the size of atoms that was the issue here. As old-style scaling (the kind used up until about 2003) continued, leakage power was increasing rapidly because charge carriers (electrons / holes) w
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by not2b 5y ago
I don't work for Google. I said that my office is near their HQ.
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by not2b 5y ago
Please read my comment again. My office is 1/2 mile from Google HQ, but I do not live at Google HQ. I'm about 13 miles away, but at peak commute times pre-Covid the roads were parking lots, and public transportation options take
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by not2b 5y ago
That's why I will continue to work from home. My old office is about 1/2 mile from Google HQ and pre-Covid it was 45-50 minutes each way unless I stayed in the office quite late.
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by not2b 5y ago
Parnas's work was very influential and had a major effect on language design and software design, even (indirectly) on those who never heard of him. The trend before him was to write monsters where everything knew about everything and
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by not2b 5y ago
No, it isn't phrased the same way. If you have an ethnic-sounding last name but don't have a foreign accent you might be asked about your ancestry, but they won't say "where are you REALLY from" with the stress on t
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by not2b 5y ago
The commit log could still credit the bug discoverer even if that person's proposed fix isn't used.
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by not2b 5y ago
There are some kinds of attacks that are more likely to be launched against well known people. But even for lesser-known developers their names with corresponding addresses will appear in the archives of mailing lists, and this could be use
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by not2b 5y ago
Github could easily add its own handling for historical addresses of well-known developers, and block others from masquerading as them, once abuses like this are reported.
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by not2b 5y ago
In many cases this is the right thing for a maintainer to do: a contributor produces a PR and a proposed patch, but often that patch doesn't solve the whole problem, or clashes with the coding style, or isn't very efficient, so th
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by not2b 5y ago
It is more likely that the company has a fixed number of licenses for some product, and is using a grid to maximize the amount of work they get out of those licenses. That is the usual practice with expensive EDA software, to the extent tha
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by not2b 5y ago
And any programmer who finds an optimization that makes existing code run 10% faster will be fired, for costing the company 10% of revenue.
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by not2b 5y ago
This has nothing to do with trust; China would back Russia if it were in their interest, but it looks like they are hanging back, probably because it looks like it is blowing up in Russia's face.
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by not2b 5y ago
China is backing away from this. In the Security Council they didn't vote with Russia to veto the condemnation of the invasion. They abstained.
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by not2b 5y ago
s/the database/a database/ The Russian military is a huge operation, this leak is a small amount of data and it is unclear what its significance is.
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by not2b 5y ago
The difficulty with this is that thousands of Russians are protesting Putin's actions, at great risk to themselves, so cutting them off doesn't seem right. Sanctions should focus on the leadership and the cronies.
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by not2b 5y ago
In the past, India had good relations with the USSR and bought weapons from them, but now they are more more tied to the US economy than to Russia's. They buy from and sell to the US much more than to Russia.
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by not2b 5y ago
A lot of what is being shared is fake. Careful what you believe. Gizmodo has some examples: https://gizmodo.com/10-photos-and-videos-from-russias-invasi...
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by not2b 5y ago
As others have said "non-commercial use only" means "not open source". But ignoring that for the moment, what does "non-commercial" even mean? Is the license violated if the software is used on a website that h
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by not2b 5y ago
MacWeek published the code name.
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by not2b 5y ago
MacWeek published an article about the code name, along with the code names "Piltdown Man" and "Cold Fusion" for two other Power Macs. That's how he found out. So, two well-known scientific hoaxes and him. Sounds li
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by not2b 5y ago
Apple had the legal right, sure, but they should have just respected Sagan's desire for them not to use his name without being dicks about it. They used his name without permission for a codename, he asked them to stop, so the changed
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by not2b 5y ago
I like the subtle Alice's Restaurant reference: Remember my bug? This is a song about my bug.
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by not2b 5y ago
I worked with Hans Reiser before he want off to Russia to found his company in Russia (we were at an EDA company, not on the same project but in the same small group). ReiserFS was very much his vision, the core ideas were his, so the names
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by not2b 5y ago
Yes, but a minister isn't bringing this case.
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by not2b 5y ago
Back in the 1960s there were some prominent Christian ministers in the American South who insisted that interracial marriage was against God's will. Will business owners be allowed to discriminate against multiracial couples as well? D
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by not2b 5y ago
That's not what this article says. Here's the relevant text: “Just say whatever you need to say to get them to stay. We can’t lose any more techs or we’ll have to announce huge delays on the launch. I’m holding you accountable for

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