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by nxobject 8mo ago
OP's point exactly: the Great Leap Forward is the classic example of society murdering people to make the line go up every quarter, no matter the cost or the truth.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The quality of life is “it compiles nearly everywhere with the first toolchain you can get your hands on”.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
What is this, conceptual art? /s
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by nxobject 8mo ago
My bad – that was a misleading thing to say! Thanks for pointing that out. I figured out what I said wrong. (Caveat emptor, I do biostatistics now.) The context IIRC was this: one of the key results of the class was generalized Stokes'
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The first author is well known for teaching "wild ride" undergraduate classes where he compensates by spending a lot of time on their pedagogy. He once taught an open to all freshman knot theory elective: https://people
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by nxobject 8mo ago
We don't need to know the specific person. But, yeesh, it'd be a waste of a lot of people's good faith if they ended up contributing under another anonymous identity, that could just vanish again if they put their foot in it.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Yes, we're not saints... but at least we have the self-awareness to do more reflection than TFA did!
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Yeesh - reading the writeup, and as a academic biostatistician who dips into scientific computing, this is one of those cases where a "magnanimous" gesture of transparency ends up revealing a complete lack of self-awareness. The `
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by nxobject 8mo ago
It's not fully applicable here, but industry standard DSLs also stick around because non-programmers find learning it a good investment. I have a business analytics friend that knows SQL because it's part of his workflows. But Exc
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by nxobject 8mo ago
This is amazing. I’m tempted to read it backwards just to see the Lisp I know get more and more alien, until we reach the Benjamin Button stage of m-expressions.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
> recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive It wouldn’t happen to be a certain podcast about engineering disasters, now, would it?
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Ha, I think a user since 2007’s earned the right to do that once in a while.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
A postmortem for that but not Copilot in notepad.exe? Priorities…
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by nxobject 8mo ago
God, as someone who took their elective on graphics program when GPGPU and computer shaders first became a thing, reading this makes me realize I definitely need an update on what modern GPU uarchs are like now. Re: heterogenous workload:
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The Guardian has a decent (enough) US bureau – I think an alum of the Intercept edits it. Of course it's not as thorough as an American-based outlet.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The BOM file format is very, very old - I think for the first decade of its life it actually lived on big-endian platforms (m68k/SPARC/PA-RISC NeXTSTEP, and then over to Apple and big-endian PowerPC.) EDIT - someone needs to crack
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The Menu, production draft script (2022) [pdf](deadline.com)
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Thank makes sense, thank you! Is there a rule of thumb for how high you set the hot plate? I’d be worried about SMD components on the side in contact with the hotplate.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
What tools do you use for BGA soldering? I’ve seen people (well, dosdude1) using board preheaters and hot air stations, but I could never justify the expense for the amount of board rework I actually do.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
There are a surprising number of Indian cell phone repair shops with YouTube channels that do feats of soldering, like repairing torn flat-flex cables… I bow down at their craft. If I ever get a sabbatical I’ll go to India and ask to be an
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by nxobject 8mo ago
It started getting really annoying earlier with PGA, to be honest.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
> Maybe they'll eventually make their own RV core designs too. I am not a deeply technical embedded person, but I actually don't think that would be the death of ARM: my understanding is that they develop a lot of SoC-level int
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The original Macintosh had similar specs as well – 128k with a 68k clocked at ~6-7 MHz. It helps that both platforms put a significant amount of OS code in ROM.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
As a consumer product example: e-ink readers. (Of course, it helps as well that the GameBoy had no radios etc...)
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by nxobject 8mo ago
How conservative of a lower bound would next-gen PCI-e give?
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Honestly, I think we could’ve pulled off a lot earlier if GPU development had invested in GPGPU earlier. I can see it now… the a national lab can run ImageNet, but it takes so many nodes with unobtanium 3dfx stuff that you have to wait 24 h
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by nxobject 8mo ago
> The good thing was that there was very little Javascript. Because all of the complicated client side stuff was in Java applets or Shockwave :( Pepperidge Farm remembers having to wait 10 minutes for a GameBoy emulator to load to play
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Lots of good practices! I remember how aggressively iPhoneOS would kill your application when you got close to being out of physical memory, or how you had to quickly serialize state when the user switched apps (no background execution, aft
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I’m not too nostalgic for an OS that only had cooperative scheduling. I don’t miss the days of Conflict Catcher, or having to order my extensions correctly. Illegal instruction? Program accessed a dangling pointer? Bomb message held up your
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Having only ever encountered the Bussard collector in dialogue, I find it strangely reassuring that the writer's room does in fact know where it is.

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