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by rkangel 4y ago
ITAR (i.e. National Security) is legally taken much more seriously than financial stuff.
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by rkangel 4y ago
My hope is to make this problem mostly redundant among my machines through use of tailscale. Tailscale SSH means that I don't have to worry about SSH keys at all - it just uses the same auth as the rest of tailscale. Only downside is t
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by rkangel 4y ago
> My personal answer is: No. It would not be worth it to me. I’d take that loss in expected lifespan, in order to travel and live freely for a couple years. My understanding was that actually for people in NZ they were better off than we
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by rkangel 4y ago
I didn't know about the last option! They didn't exactly notify us about the option... I have now selected it, thanks!
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by rkangel 4y ago
> The latest Google Apps fiasco is a great example of this, where Google eventually had to backpedal due to the massive backlash. In what way have they back-pedalled? I'm affected by this and hadn't heard anything.
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by rkangel 4y ago
This is all roughly right except that when you say "incredibly quickly on the time scale of milliseconds" it's often actually microseconds . This sort of work is done either in custom hardware or FPGAs - that's the only
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by rkangel 4y ago
A term often used is actually "Without prejudice, save as to costs". The meaning they're going for is "by making this offer I'm not admitting guilt, but when we come to awarding costs the fact that I tried to end th
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by rkangel 4y ago
I think the main difficulty is in the "obviously unjustified" determination. Member organisations would be trying to get the anti-patent-troll org to defend any and all IP claims against them. Not all IP claims are patent trolling
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by rkangel 4y ago
The Mazda MX-5 bonnet system: https://owners-manual.mazda.com/gen/en/mx-5/mx-5_8fl9ee16j/c... They wanted to keep the profile of the car low which didn't allow for the space normally needed, so they
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by rkangel 4y ago
I think you mean Honda rather than Toyota for hydrogen and fuel cells. Edit: or at least that was my perception. Doing some Googling it appears that they both have done things.
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by rkangel 4y ago
Eurgh, that's embarrassing. Also annoying that I can't now edit the comment. Thank you for correcting me, this is not a problem you should have to deal with.
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by rkangel 4y ago
I think the last point gives away the reason. He wants to make it a packaged thing that users can install with very little knowledge. The blog post is more as an insight into a dev process than it is a 'howto' for others - althoug
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by rkangel 4y ago
I think the logical explanation is that there was a mistake in the original article. A propeller is not the right choice for supersonic flight, I don't want to say impossible but it wouldn't be far off. They've gone from 3 je
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by rkangel 4y ago
I would recommend starting with Elixir. Elixir is a dynamic functional language, unlike Haskell/Ocaml etc. which are statically compiled languages. This means that you can learnt he basic concepts of operating on data with pure funct
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by rkangel 4y ago
This is absolutely true, but it's a function of the business, not the individual engineer. It's not just about engineering at all - one of the biggest GDPR fines was to H&M for some internal data that managers were keeping on
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by rkangel 4y ago
The software engineering profession is moving at light speed compared to any of those other careers. It is specific to us and not engineering as a whole too - as you point out, structural engineering does have qualifications required (chart
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by rkangel 4y ago
We had some fairly standard interview questions that I wrote - problem solving type questions asking someone to sketch out a pseudocode answer. One of the smarter things I did was 'interview' several of our existing employees to g
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by rkangel 4y ago
My view actually is that most of the world is actually really bad at hiring, and we spend lots of time complaining about the tech world doing it but that's because the tech world tries a lot harder. This is anecdata, but based on tal
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by rkangel 4y ago
Both ends of the starling link are already using directional antennas. The difference in power die to distance is already pretty irrelevant - the satellite is 400km up and we're talking about offsets of 10km on the ground. The 400km pa
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by rkangel 4y ago
Phased array antennas do not put all of the power into a spot and then no power elsewhere. It's all about the ratios and the distribution. This example is from the wikipedia article on directional antennas: https://en.wikipe
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by rkangel 4y ago
UX (User Experience) is more about the process a user goes through. UI is more about the visual or physical elements a user interacts with. For example, imagine you're designing about an online account creation flow. The UX design wo
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by rkangel 4y ago
> There's no way to control the people working at all those locations Except that you then give two examples of services that have solved this problem. I'm not saying that it's an easy problem, but it's clearly not im
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by rkangel 4y ago
The underlying goal (in the long follow up message) seems to be the desire to move from mdev (in busybox) to mdevd (not in busybox) so the title is to some degree justified. Although the situation is a complicated and subtle one, as per usu
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by rkangel 4y ago
The leading contender for type safe languages on the BEAM at the moment seems to be Gleam: https://gleam.run/ It's looking very promising Adding a type checker to Erlang does make some sense, in the same way that addin
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by rkangel 4y ago
An enormous amount of effort has gone into making Lego instructions as clear as they are, regardless of what age you are and what language you speak. They really show what is possible.
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by rkangel 4y ago
I've just dug through my email to be sure - I also had a 901! The 20GB version version, running Linux. I was just about not a student at this point but still doing a lot of Theatre touring. The EEE PC was great for what I needed which
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by rkangel 4y ago
Oh I see! You mean "built as an APE and targeting APE". That would indeed be an interesting idea.
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by rkangel 4y ago
You probably could, but that would be less useful than you think. There are two machines that you care about with a compiler: the machine the compiler is running on ("Host"), and the machine the compiler is producing code for (&qu
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by rkangel 4y ago
Oh, that's excellent and interesting news - not a fan of exceptions. I'm not sure how that's going to work with interop when libraries rely on exceptions though. Where did you hear about this? I'd love to know more.
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by rkangel 4y ago
It's not inheriting the complexity though. That's sort of the whole goal - the next 'generation' of C++ that can be used interchangeably with actual C++ but allowing re-visiting most of the design decisions and throwing

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