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by rm445 2y ago
A (temporary) monopoly is not as bad in something that wouldn't otherwise exist. If Elon Musk concentrated only on cars, or SpaceX had had another couple of launch failures and gone bust, this functionality might be 40 years away. Not
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by rm445 2y ago
Many other industries haven't yet been fully eaten by software. All kinds of data is locked away and in proprietary formats, and is generated by humans without much automation. I don't think we know where exactly the frontiers are
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by rm445 2y ago
It's at least twenty new web frameworks, but maybe not so long in low-level stuff. You can probably rely on C99 being available now more than you could in 2014.
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by rm445 2y ago
Fun post, but I'll state the obvious because I think many people do believe that every Windows machine BSOD'd. It was only ones with Crowdstrike software. Which is apparently very common but isn't actually pre-installed by Mi
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by rm445 2y ago
Yeah, I was going to ask about this. I think ST Micro will sublicense you a PID under their VID, but with restrictions, and companies attempting to buy a VID and sell PIDs as a service have been sued?
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by rm445 2y ago
I can imagine exactly what that thumb would feel like if it was integrated with my nervous system. Wondering how common this is. When I was a very small child, I was fascinated by the sensation of different body parts - the way touching eac
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by rm445 2y ago
Heh, the "integral" I(1) = 2 + C, where C is a constant from the set {0, 1, 3, 5, 9,...} (has to add up to another prime number).
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by rm445 2y ago
People might remember the faux-cassette tapes with an analogue audio input, that you could use to play music from other sources on a tape-only car stereo.Does something similar exist for legacy floppy drives? Like a fake floppy with a micro
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by rm445 2y ago
It seems pretty confusing given that operator D already exists as notation for the usual differential calculus. (Not the most common notation, but useful sometimes). It may not be very exciting that D{n} = 0 for all numbers, but that's
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by rm445 2y ago
Warrior Within had such great gameplay, just some slightly cringe choices of tone, which particularly unfortunately, were especially apparent in the first half-hour of the game. It generated a load of negative talk for a really good game.
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by rm445 3y ago
I'm not saying it was a sensible decision, but I think at that level you kinda need to have a few balls in the air. Having a few projects using ML or whatever else is in vogue is defensible, might be a win, might build some expertise,
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by rm445 3y ago
That is surprising, the industry of implementing industry-standard ERP systems is pretty established. I'd have expected it to go way over time and budget (they always do) but eventually succeed. Usually success is in proportion to the
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by rm445 3y ago
Nothing in this article pertains to actual research - development has always included elements of design. Interesting article otherwise though. I've been in an organisation that was actively winding down the research side of R&D. L
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by rm445 3y ago
It's interesting, isn't it. Jack Welch must have had very many superb characteristics, to be as revered as he was. Or is it an element that the profits of golden-goose-killing created the mystique?
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by rm445 3y ago
That's nice. I try to create ceremony for Twelfth Night with my family, essentially to keep the Christmas spirit going a bit longer. We turn off the lights on the house together, sing The Twelve Days of Christmas together one more time
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by rm445 3y ago
I feel that way too, but there are practical aspects. Getting away to visit people can be more challenging in the very depths of winter, while Christmas is generally a bit milder. On the other hand, actual white Christmases would be more co
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by rm445 3y ago
Bad debts sell for pennies on the dollar, no-one is incentivised to get you not to pay. On the psychological side, I know what you mean but you do seem to be taking things a bit personally. Yes, businesses are big and impersonal and automat
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by rm445 3y ago
Prior to the current generation of very fast EVs, having a louder vehicle was a way to indicate more power. A more powerful (internal combustion) engine implies more noise. Of course the reverse doesn't apply, more noise doesn't s
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by rm445 3y ago
We're still on the exponential rise of the hype cycle. If capabilities appear to plateau - no GPT5/6 that are even more amazing, then the hype will not merely plateau but plummet. For now, anything seems possible. As for a killer
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by rm445 3y ago
I've wondered the same thing. It's really hard to distinguish real grass roots from astroturf. It doesn't bother me. It's fine if the contrast between these films has just sparked off people's imaginations. But if t
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by rm445 3y ago
A system-wide key-value store, that's distinct from file storage, seems like a pretty great idea. The Windows Registry is icky, we all know that, it somehow appeared out of nowhere in Windows 95 already crusty as hell. But if it were d
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by rm445 3y ago
This is crazy. The electronics and telecommunications industries have just kept trucking on and improving hardware and connectivity by orders of magnitude. Meanwhile web technologies have provided the software complement to smartphones that
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by rm445 3y ago
To be slightly more charitable, the argument is that big changes come off better than random chance would indicate, because the psychology of status-quo-bias/loss-avoidance makes people stick in bad situations too long. On balance I be
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by rm445 3y ago
Autodesk are sunsetting it in favour of their subscription, cloud-based, always-online Fusion 360. Most Altium users are probably on a subscription too for that matter.
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by rm445 3y ago
Reminds me of a joke in a John Meaney novel, a physicist discovers faster-than-light travel through a dimension with unusual properties, gaining inspiration from Java's booleans having three states (true, false and NullPointerException
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by rm445 3y ago
And the pun in the headline being 'The Last Post', the bugle call played at funerals. (To American ears, it may sound like a slow mournful version of 'Taps').
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by rm445 4y ago
It's notable that PSVR1 worked on the PS5 as well as the PS4 though. Sony would even post you a free camera cable adapter. And it was using Move controllers from the PS3.
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by rm445 4y ago
Weird how Windows is mentioned as one of the two programming models and then discarded. Obviously people have long-standing objections to commercial operating systems and Microsoft in particular, but it would be interesting to hear whether
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by rm445 4y ago
For software-eating-the-world reasons, I'd guess. A chance to differentiate your product as software does more and more, versus a big chunk of the experience being within someone else's control and the underlying vehicle being an
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by rm445 4y ago
I have been hired essentially on the strength of a covering letter... weirdly, I was later cc'ed on a whole email chain going back to my application, and saw the impact of certain things I had mentioned. It was basically explaining my

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