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by projectileboy 3y ago
Your last sentence is almost the only reply the article requires.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
GDP bigger than that of the web.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
…and the core tech choices are now over 10 years old.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Seymour Cray used to say this all the way back in the 1970s: his biggest problems were associated with dissipating heat. For the Cray 2 he took an even more dramatic approach: "The Cray-2's unusual cooling scheme immersed dense st
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by projectileboy 3y ago
The digital half of class is available via extension (which is how I did it) although it moves at half speed. And for some reason the analog portion hasn’t been offered for a couple of years.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I took a class where we used Learning the Art of Electronics (with AoE as a reference), and that book was also excellent. Class was taught by a former student of Horowitz and Hill, and one week the OG did the guest lecture! Unforgettable.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I'm ignorant of this space, but it seems like the obvious solution for heat dissipation is to layer lattices and not solid layers, in order to increase the overall surface area of the chip. I assume the manufacturing is too difficult..
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I think we have been far too complacent as a society in tolerating these kinds of assaults on the backbone of our civilization. I would hope the perpetrators are being… dealt with.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
“ The problem is our society depends on these government employees.”
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by projectileboy 3y ago
The US has developed a strong culture of believing that government is always the problem and government workers are always lazy and overpaid. And so cutting funding to these kinds of services becomes an easy sell. The problem is our society
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Agree. At this point the JVM ecosystem is pretty mature. Complaining about it is a bit like complaining about Unix. The question isn't whether or not it's good compared to an ideal; the question is whether or not it's good co
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by projectileboy 3y ago
My first paying job! At least for the relatively simple problems for which I was using it (rating auto insurance premiums by insurer and by state), it was a very nice environment.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
This is an interesting story and was worth reporting, but I don’t believe it changes the fact that Altman is uniquely qualified to lead OpenAI. I am, however, disappointed to see that an organization that at first espoused the ideal of care
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Chomsky takes as axiomatic that there is some magical element of human cognition beyond simply stringing words together. We not be as special as we like to believe.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Well, great to see that the potentially dangerous future of AGI is in good hands.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Thank you - this is one of the few reasonable takes I've seen on this whole mess. There is literally nothing Altman could have done that would justify the board having handled the situation in this way, and it makes them look grossly i
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by projectileboy 3y ago
The worldwide jobs program that is modern-day Javascript would have you believe that elaborate front-ends are necessary to give end users the experiences they expect, which is an utter pile of lies. What users want is something simple that
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I didn’t see “Practice of Programming” anywhere on the list, which is unfortunate.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Great list that I wish we all would consider more seriously. Version two should edit the list down to core ideas to avoid repetition, and suggest some ways to address one or more of the items.
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Ask HN: Anyone have informed opinions about developer portals?
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Another example of: you can’t manage what you can’t measure, but be careful what you measure because that’s what you get. Alternately: measuring cost is easy, measuring value is hard. So we don’t hire another dev because that’s expensive, w
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by projectileboy 3y ago
The responses here are giving me some hope. I’ve just had many experiences as a customer where products I’ve used became worse (or were shut down) after their companies were acquired
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Does anyone have an example of an acquisition where the products of the acquired company then became better?
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Oh no you are right! My mistake - my first “real” programming job was at a game studio in 1997, and I devoured both of these books (well, and more, including Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden). Great books.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
This pops up on HN every few months, and I don’t even mind. At a minimum, read the last couple chapters on the development of Quake. So fun.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Acquisitions are usually great for the shareholders, and usually bad for the employees and the customers.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
Good point. I only have my own anecdata and that of friends; it would be nice to see some real stats. Of course, even if Amazon has that data, they would be unlikely to share!
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by projectileboy 3y ago
That’s a fair point. I would say the agreement that has been broken is an implicit social contract (in the sense of Rousseau) that people should share the burdens of society to make society function, and that individuals should do the work
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by projectileboy 3y ago
I didn’t think so, but it’s the text I used as an undergrad, so I don’t have a basis for comparison. I just have seen that criticism pop up on HN when this topic has arisen in the past.
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by projectileboy 3y ago
You might dig “The Theoretical Minimum” by Susskind, as well as his follow-on books. And he has associated lectures on YouTube.

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