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by oppositelock 4y ago
Certainly, the variance between engineers is huge and can offset experience. Over time, though, the bad older engineers get managed out of the profession, or leave out of frustration or lack of satisfaction, so you end up having fewer. The
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by oppositelock 4y ago
Yes, definitely in the minority.
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by oppositelock 4y ago
I'm almost 50. I've been working in tech since 1996, and at this point, despite being a strong and seasoned engineer, I'm getting comments like, "it's different now", or "back in your day", etc, and t
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by oppositelock 4y ago
It's difficult to make a blanket statement like this. I've built some very high throughput Postgres backed systems in my years, and doing application side foreign key constraints (FKC) does have its benefits. Doing this client sid
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Engineering culture. SGI was not pragmatic in building hardware, more of an outlet for brilliant engineers to ship experiments.
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by oppositelock 5y ago
I think some kind of discipline around releasing products in a timely way by cutting features would have done wonders. However, the kinds of computers SGI built were on the way out, so they couldn't have survived without moving in the
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by oppositelock 5y ago
the framebuffer had a recursive rasterizer which followed a hilbert curve through memory, the thinking being that you bottom out the recursion instead performing triangle clipping, which was really expensive for the hardware at the time. Th
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Oh, it's a lot longer story than that. I worked as SGI from just around its peak, to its downfall, seeing the company shrink to a tenth of its size while cutting products. At the time, I was a fairly junior employee doing research in A
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by oppositelock 5y ago
I would not immediately dismiss current designs as archaic. Lawn mowers, cars, whatever, have had a century of little improvements to make them easy to use, safe and affordable. There is a lot of accumulated wisdom in these products. Sure,
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Bah! Those of us who are morning people would prefer to ban daylight savings time and stay on standard time. Pretty soon, we'll have the war of the big-endians and little-endians like in Gulliver's Travels.
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by oppositelock 5y ago
It's unlikely. Anything attached to the wheels is "unsprung mass", and it has a huge effect on the handling and comfort of a car. Furthermore, for efficiency, you really want to minimize rotational inertia in the wheels. Sure
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by oppositelock 5y ago
The Simon Ehrlich wager comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Aha! Here we go. Here's a telephone pole: https://earth.google.com/web/search/39.0303298,-93.58495/@39... We know that telephone poles stick about 32 feet from the ground. Measuring the shadow in Google
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by oppositelock 5y ago
You can get height if you can find the shadow, and find the time that the photo was taken, because at any given time and date, you can compute sun position, and you know the precise lat/lng of the shadow. The shadow would need to be in
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by oppositelock 5y ago
The B2 bomber photo isn't from a push boom sensor, because it would be distorted since it's moving relative to the camera. This would manifest itself as a shear along the motion vector . There is no shear in this photo, only spect
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by oppositelock 5y ago
It's actually difficult to get smooth, realtime performance from webgl apps, there are just too many moving pieces. I've written a lot of code for PS1, Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2, XBox 360 and PS3, and except for the last two, what
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by oppositelock 5y ago
I've hit this myself as well. I no longer purchase streaming media, but instead, I buy Bluray's or DVD's. I rip them to H.264 with Handbrake and use those for travel. Yes, it's a bit annoying, but much less annoying than
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by oppositelock 5y ago
It depends where you are. Most EU countries forbid throttles, but they're ok in the US as long as your under 1000W motor output (Federal laws), but local laws can make this stricter. I've built several e-bikes, for fun, and like t
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Just like Betamax was better than VHS? There are lots of reasons for success and failure. I would not count out two enormous chip makers full of skilled people and experience.
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Sometimes, people can't be on the latest version of software due to various compliance and regulatory issues, and updating anything to a new version requires some kind of re-certification or new auditing. So, when supporting such users
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by oppositelock 5y ago
You're right. I maintain a very large code base in a private repo and a successful open source project. Generics will allow me to clean up a lot of code duplication internally, but given that Go modules are distributed as source code,
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by oppositelock 5y ago
I worked at Google from 2005 to 2013, seeing it grow from 4,000 to 50,000 employees during this time. In 2005, it was a wonderful, prestigious place to work with many great people and a startup vibe, the place was vibrant. By 2013, Larry an
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by oppositelock 5y ago
I remember when margarine, and other plant based fats were being touted as the healthier alternative to animal fats, and in the end, it turned out that these artificially oxidized plant oils ended up being a direct cause of heart disease. I
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Nobody knows until you test. Biology is messy, it's not like computers. Give this a read, Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes To Die. ( https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-... )
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by oppositelock 5y ago
It's really not that simple. I'm not current, but I studied immunology as part of medical school a long time ago. The Delta variant replicates really quickly, that is its evolutionary advantage over other strains, it's not th
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by oppositelock 5y ago
While I posted above about being on the fence about vaccinating my kid, I was in a similar case as you. I'm in my late 40's, and I came down with covid early in the pandemic, before general availability of PCR tests, but I did man
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by oppositelock 5y ago
I've got a child under 12, and while everyone in my household over 12 is vaccinated, I'm not sure if the vaccine has any point for him. If you look at CDC stats, today there are only 412 reported covid19 deaths in the 0-17 age gro
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by oppositelock 5y ago
Jak and Daxter's engine was freaking amazing on PS2. The PS2 has a terrible CPU. Given the way the instruction cache works, you can hit a theoretical max icache hit rate of 7/8. Nothing hits that except synthetic demos that have n
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by oppositelock 5y ago
I make these kinds of maps for a living. Yes, it's expensive, however, as we refine algorithms, and the processing systems, it gets cheaper, especially amortized over more cars, where the per-car cost becomes affordable. ML doesn'
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by oppositelock 5y ago
There is a backup driver, in an operations center, via data uplink. When the car is confused, it asks for human help. It's more of a system to help with decision making and perception than to drive the car by remote.

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