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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is effectively a 400M device niche that will open up, not sure how thats a bad thing. The Android fragmentation problem suggests that no market will open up, and the 400M pool of devices running Windows 10 will simply continue usi
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by rewmie 3y ago
Thank you for sharing your insight. Your post is one of those things that makes HN great. Outstanding!
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> I kinda agree with Intel. While Apple's M1/M2(..3-4) are arguably very usable (also) as desktop chips, What do you mean "arguably"? They are top performers. The m2-based 2023 Macbook Air outperforms the intel-based
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by rewmie 3y ago
I guess my point is that engineering and academia are not independent and mutually exclusive sets.
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> I’m not familiar with science, but I don’t believe things are terribly bad for engineers. Brilliant innovative engineers have a degree of control over their lives. The only fundamental difference is not between science and engineering,
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This article makes me wonder how many groundbreaking discoveries are buried under academia's bureaucracy and ego battles. I don't think this problem is exclusive of academia. Anyone in the job market has war stories about rid
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by rewmie 3y ago
As a side remark, it seems the link does not support HTTPS. Is this still a thing nowadays?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> But to be a 13485-compliant device developer, (...) Those would be engineers, mainly mechanical engineers or electrical engineers.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I am well aware of what static program analysis, thank you very much. You see, I don't think you are. If you were, you certainly wouldn't make totally oblivious claims such as "static analyzers are for when your test s
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> Just because you adopt a change doesn't mean you'll adopt an outcome. You don't adopt changes. You adopt or emulate good examples. This means processes, and the goal of processes is to deliver an outcome. It's not
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> We live in a world where a large subset of people have fooled themselves into believing that there's some other place without problems. If where you live has any problems, then it must be an awful place to live - so their thinking
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> Because the US government has a money printer (...) I don't think your non-sequitur bears even a passing resemblance to the subject. I think the whole point of the thread you're replying on is mentioning the individualism and
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by rewmie 3y ago
> You claim that static code analysis has different responsibilities, but then you leave out what those responsibilities are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_program_analysis If you're interested in onboar
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> They do serve the same purpose: they find defects. No, not really. If you read up on the basics of automated testing, you'll find out that test classes such as unit, integration, UI, performance, accessibility, and localization te
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Static analyzers are for when your test suite is subpar. No, this statement is quite wrong and expresses a failure to understand the roles and responsibilities of each class of automated tests, and the purpose of static code analysis t
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> Medicine has incredibly rigorous engineering processes (...) You're confusing with mechanical engineering applied to medical devices with medicine. It's like claiming bakeries have incredible rigorous engineering processes ju
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by rewmie 3y ago
> That's why I said architecture and medicine and not rocket science. You conflated architecture and medicine to a builduo to "serious engineering culture". There is no way around it: it's nonsense. Even though they a
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> Our field is getting closer and closer to architecture and medicine now. We've tech like this we can come out of the fiddling age and deep dive into a serious engineering culture. This comment reads like ml-generated nonsense. Arc
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by rewmie 3y ago
> * The ratio of exponents is 102:101; not much apparent difference. I'm not sure if you understand why this is nonsense. A factor of 10 is not small by any scale, and the relationship between 1 ton and 100kg does not suddenly becom
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I genuinely don't understand how people on 'hacker' news get so excited about these locked down, bloated toy computers. There are two aspects in play: * the possibilities and potential of these devices, as platforms to r
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by rewmie 3y ago
> FAANG engineers are usually pigeonholed into extreme niches and work with rigid longstanding systems. Startups need jacks of all trades. My experience in one of the FANGs is the exact opposite: they value jack-of-all-trades that can on
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by rewmie 3y ago
It's also noteworthy that at least some FANGs value engineers who are jacks of all trades and in general make it virtually impossible to specialize on topics, and whose average tenure hits around 3-4 years. This contrasts profoundly wi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Their FAQ is definitely unclear, but, as mentioned in a previous HN discussion, a 5V/3A is going to work fine for most workloads. I don't think so. Historically, Raspberry pi board always had non-standard power requirements a
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by rewmie 3y ago
> In real C++ codebases the same headers are unnecessarily re-included and re-parsed hundreds of times. This scenario is only conceivable if you do not use include guards, and not protecting includes with include guards is a very fundame
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I don't know. The difference between 10^101 and 10^102 seems insignificant. Pour yourself two cups of coffee. In one, add 10g of sugar. In the other add 100g of sugar. Do you think both are the same?
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> that's just one order of magnitude off "Just one order of magnitude off"? Just? Do you understand that this means the real world value is between 1%-10% of the initial claim?
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> (...) but the chances of it being incidental is vanishingly small. I think you're misrepresenting OP's claim. OP explicitly stated there's some likelihood the influence is minor, but for some reason you're trying to
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The whole point is that we are constantly finding causal, not casual relationships with our microbiome. Both your examples cover casual relationships/correlation, and don't even try to assert causality. I think you inadverten
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> As long as pot boils, but doesn’t spill over the USA will be able to continue to slowly increase its support. Also noteworthy is the fact that the support from US in particular and NATO in general has been decades-old and potentially
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> NATO drones are way too advanced for this battle and not a significant part of what’s being provided to Kyiv. I would add that one of the key factors of Russia's complete collapse of its 3-day invasion of Ukraine was Ukraine field

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