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by potbelly83 4y ago
I miss the days where people actually cared if you knew about threading, how the unix file system worked, the finer points of the language you choose to work in. Yeah I get it, most of it is book knowledge, but it still somehow selected for
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by potbelly83 4y ago
In all fairness, Gates does fly around the world in his private jet, live in huge energy consuming mansions, all the while expecting us commoners to live an ascetic life. If these people where serious in instrumenting change, maybe they cou
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Out of curiosity how do they plan too monetize these workflows? I'm sure the really big players in the industry (i.e. Merck/Eli Lilly/etc..) all have their own bespoke workflows. Maybe, the founder actually put in a few years
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by potbelly83 4y ago
No reason they can’t stick a designated call spot at the end of the plane where people can make their calls. Why does everything have to be a negative?
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by potbelly83 4y ago
It looks like a lot of the EU crowd have jumped in here with the usual US sucks, everything about the US is crazy. Just to give some perspective, I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia and the kids in my neighborhood are always outside, no p
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by potbelly83 4y ago
I'm always curious what is it about old people that make some behave in this way? Is it the way people used to be raised, cognitive decline, or simple nothing better to do? I also notice it in the comment's section where older peo
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by potbelly83 4y ago
How about first tackling the low hanging fruit like a) private jet flights b) cruise ships c) methane production by agriculture rather than again putting all the responsibility on the working/middle classes?
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by potbelly83 4y ago
MS research is an interesting case. From my memory they did support some theoretical research in non-linear stat mech a few years back (i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oded_Schramm worked there and he was certainly
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by potbelly83 4y ago
The system (at least with regards to the sciences) worked well during the cold war because we had some higher goal to focus on, now with that gone, it's just a bunch of hacks looking to line their pockets. Speaking as someone with a Ph
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Agreed. For inspiration though as to what programming could be it can't be beat.
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Abrash Black Book(jagregory.com)
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Understand this has probably been posted numerous times, but just wanted to point out that written over 20 years ago, Abrash really was prescient. Here's a quote "Again, I am not saying that this is bad. It does, however, have maj
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Masking might not be effective on a population level, true, but on an individual level it may make a difference (wear N95, proper fit, etc etc ....) Still I agree, this does supply evidence against mandates. Off topic but reminds me reading
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by potbelly83 4y ago
And they wonder why they don’t get the best candidates.
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Ha no worries, to be fair most of my working life has been spent at C++ shops. I guess Windows does something similar via dlls.
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Interesting question arises here. Given most shops are now using interpreted languages, is it possible to make a change to say a .py file and ONLY deploy that .py file to production? i.e. do incremental releases
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Well at some point you may want to actually calculate the eigenvalues. Unless you just dive in and try and compute the characteristic polynomial directly.
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by potbelly83 4y ago
Because aprior it's not really clear what does increase our collective wealth. For example, the whole quantum age (and hence the silicon age), came about from people trying to understand the spectrum of radiation emitted from a heated
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by potbelly83 4y ago
what are you smoking? we've consistently taken away gun laws.
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by potbelly83 4y ago
I’d like to shed some pessimism on a lot of the optimistic comments. Unless you did your phd in quite an applied area you may find it tough to get a job without extensive study. I graduated with a phd in pure math and had a very hard time e
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by potbelly83 5y ago
How do you differentiate a string? Enum?
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by potbelly83 5y ago
Maybe they can also follow Cromwell into coming to the realization that in the end only God can rule over men.
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by potbelly83 5y ago
As a math PhD I have to say the only way you're going to learn mathematics is if you actually have a pressing need to do so. i.e. You have a project at work that needs some math, you have a hobby that needs some math. In this case you
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by potbelly83 5y ago
Off topic, but curious why Ada went?
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by potbelly83 5y ago
I mean you'd think people would just look at how long the mormons live for to figure out that most of these studies showing abstainers=>higher chance of death are biased.
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by potbelly83 5y ago
When you made the switch how did you go about getting embedded employees to take your applications seriously?
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by potbelly83 5y ago
Nice book. As a C++ programmer how much of its discussion related to C's storage/memory model would carry over to C++?
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by potbelly83 7y ago
Well technically a PDE is an operator between various function spaces.
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by potbelly83 8y ago
This is bad advice. When it comes to school finish what you start otherwise you look like a quitter. Jumping ship every 1 year? I wouldn't hire that person. At most places it takes min 6 months to get up to speed.
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by potbelly83 8y ago
Why? What's this obsession with ML? There are tons of interesting problems in the embedded/distributed systems/security spaces.

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