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by rhelz 2y ago
Both you and the world are changing so fast now that nobody can foresee where these changes will take us. And therefore nobody really knows what is good advice or what is bad advice.
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by rhelz 2y ago
From the article: "Twitter, which was arguably the hub of wokeness, was bought by Elon Musk in order to neutralize it, and he seems to have succeeded — and not, incidentally, by censoring left-wing users the way Twitter used to censor
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by rhelz 2y ago
// Now you're just being performative about performative people. // Nice ricochet. I'm grateful to Paul Graham for actually giving a definition of "woke". Really, this is the first anti-woke essay I&
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by rhelz 2y ago
Is there anybody on here with the military chops to tell me why these wouldn't just be sitting ducks? You could bomb them with plains, you could torpedo them with submarines, you could mine the area where they land....
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by rhelz 2y ago
// EV Mustang is in my honest opinion the worst EV I have driven // I don't doubt it but that just makes its sales all the more impressive. (One of?) the worst electric vehicle on the market still was better than
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by rhelz 2y ago
It is virtually a tautology to say that the moral failings of capitalism are already condemned by current moral systems. It's hard to see how one more way of condemning them would help. If you want to solve problems with capitalism, t
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by rhelz 2y ago
Back at the beginning of the 20th century, you had to learn both Latin and Greek to qualify for Harvard or Yale. Because they were foundational. How could you learn the classics without being able to read them? If all you ever read were
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by rhelz 2y ago
You know, this is one of those crimes which you object to not merely--or even mostly--because of the damage done. What really gets you is just how petty the crime is. Just how very small someone would have to be to think this was a go
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by rhelz 2y ago
// a large blame for this can be placed on disinterested parents // Is this really something to which we need to attribute blame? I mean, after I learned how to program, I never again sat down and did 100 computations b
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by rhelz 2y ago
I'm transitioning to teaching math after a 30-year career as an engineer. I am really conflicted about the use of LLMs for homework. One thing we *for sure* know that employers are going to want is that one employee does the work of 1
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by rhelz 2y ago
chuckle If you are just over 55, you are GenX, not a Baby Boomer. Our generation is so overlooked that they are not even able to falsely accuse us :-)
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by rhelz 2y ago
// The population is basically fixed // The whole purpose of markets is to try to satisfy our infinite wants with our finite means. That doesn't argue against a free market. // everyone could be employed
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// HOWEVER, there is a dire shortage of extremely talented and motivated engineers in America. // In a free market, there are no shortages. Musk just doesn't want to pay market prices to motivate extremely talente
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by rhelz 2y ago
Quote from the article: "Ferguson added that “you can’t organize a society on the basis of atheism.” “It’s fine for a small group of people to say, ‘We’re atheist, we’re opting out,’ ” he said, “but, in effect, that depends on everyon
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by rhelz 2y ago
A couple of questions/points about the article: 1. Figure #2 purports to show the difference in total compensation vs wages. The last date (July 1, 2021) entries for compensation is 206.32 and for wages is 117.63. A. What are the un
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by rhelz 2y ago
An alternate way of phrasing that is "citizens cooperate to preserve and increase the value of their biggest asset--their homes." Sure, your home price would be reduced if somebody could build a pig farm, or a heavy-metal processi
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by rhelz 2y ago
// I really don't get this perspective. How can you possibly hope to understand "recently-published papers" without first understanding the basics of the field, // A healthy field moves faster than the tex
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by rhelz 2y ago
Not getting all defensive is a superpower!
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by rhelz 2y ago
Docker had nothing to do with it?
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by rhelz 2y ago
Anybody who has actually worked on a ground-breaking CPU--a really new design, with a radically new architecture--and not just recycled/repackaged third-party IP--knows that it is always a total disaster. It is always at risk of b
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by rhelz 2y ago
That's a very cheap shot. And highly inaccurate. Nobody working at Intel has thought they were entitled for a very long time.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Well said. Everybody makes mistakes. How many mistakes do you think you have to make in order to build something like Tesla, or SpaceX? Larabee was a mess....anybody who as actually been involved with designing a chip which breaks new gro
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by rhelz 2y ago
I think I can explain why it appears that there are ghost engineers. My favorite metaphor is a one-lane road vs a two lane road. On a one lane road, you can only travel as fast as the slowest car on the road. A two-lane road is far more e
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by rhelz 2y ago
Sure, you can create any kind of arbitrary set of rules you want. We could have programming contests where, say, code-coloring and auto-indenting editors were banned. We could ban the use of auto-complete in editors. We could ban the us
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by rhelz 2y ago
// This is the interface description // Yeah, but that is the abstraction. The associated .c files are not the abstraction, because they could be implemented any number of different ways, and it would still be the sam
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by rhelz 2y ago
I remember when the first edition came out---back in the early 90's!!!! I was young, slim, had a full head of hair---and this new textbook was the bomb. Vastly better than any previous textbook on computer architecture. I can't
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by rhelz 2y ago
Its kind of cool that you can abstract the operating system with only a 200-line long header file.
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by rhelz 2y ago
One of these days, its going to dawn on people that every dollar somebody makes off of bitcoin is another dollar that somebody else has lost off of bitcoin. It's not like stock in a company, which becomes more valuable as the compa
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by rhelz 2y ago
If the managers are so checked-out that they can't even equitably distribute the work their teams have to do, it's really hard to see how any software no matter how magic could help. Seems like it would just give them excuses to
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by rhelz 2y ago
For programming, querty-typing speed is not really a bottleneck for me. I already don't think as fast as I type. I would like to be able to take notes as fast as people are talking, though, and for that you do need a chording keyboard

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