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by sbf501 4y ago
I was looking it at from the product point of view. The time between the 8088, 286, 386, 486, Pentium spans nearly two decades. Now intel churns out a dozen new SKUs a year. Granted they are all variations on the same silicon as the process
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by sbf501 4y ago
He has an amazing lab and access to a lot of expensive resources. There should be maker labs like this for pre-college kids all over the place, that are free.
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by sbf501 4y ago
> why so many of us have the impulse to figure out what the flaw or missing part of the story is. Why? Because that's literally what engineers are paid to do: make things, break things, fix things. It's all about tearing things
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by sbf501 4y ago
Perhaps if we scaled time by Moore's law. :) In that case, the distance from 1979 to 1997 is much longer than 1997 to 2022.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Yes, I agree. I thought that was obvious in my response. Modern cars are "low code", so mechanics don't need advanced degrees to fix them. Also: "the complexity is eventually abstracted away", which is exactly what
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by sbf501 4y ago
Unfortunately, I think in the world you describe, you will be immersed in 100x more computers, they will just be smaller, and everywhere (possibly inside you).
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by sbf501 4y ago
Automobile engines are also very complex, but no one talks about no-mechanic cars. In highschool where I grew up, the bottom academic 50% of boys ended up being mechanics of one type or another. At one point in time, being an auto mechanic
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by sbf501 4y ago
> I have been interested in retro hardware for a long time. Retro. 1997. Cries in 8088.
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by sbf501 4y ago
ctrl-shift-enter + 2 variable solvers. It will change your world. That is all.
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by sbf501 4y ago
An instruction wouldn't fix that, right? The cacheline fetched by the memory controller would still contain leaked data. Perhaps a fill cacheline with zero on invalidate...
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by sbf501 4y ago
CPU throughput =/= endpoint throughput
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by sbf501 4y ago
Remember when CSS meant Content Scramble System? Everyone was printing DeCSS onto everything: t-shirts, sigs, hats, mugs.
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by sbf501 4y ago
You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Please read the other comments before adding a redundant one.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Oh, good point. OP was looking for original source, papers referring to, etc. Too late to edit, but minus points for me for not comprehending the original question.
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by sbf501 4y ago
This is what bugs me about the stackexchange model. Most of the comments are guesses by people who really don't know. The "correct" answer doesn't explain anything, it just points to some sources. The highest ranked comm
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by sbf501 4y ago
Counterpoint taken.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Musk's companies have done some truly amazing things. He absolutely created enough buzz with Tesla to put EVs on the map, after they were fading. Battery tech. StarLink. SpaceX. They are all long overdue. Also: He's a complete hob
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by sbf501 4y ago
My dad is an 82 year old Musk fanboy. Why? Because Musk made fun of Elizabeth Warren. My dad likes him because Musk trolls people that my dad doesn't like. Period. Musk took Rush Limbaugh's place, along with Hannity and Carlson. B
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by sbf501 4y ago
266 pages of well-written, edited, fact-checked electronics and computer programming. Monthly. Let that sink in. There is so much good info packed into this one issue, it is worth terabytes of crap on stack overflow. Clearly there was less
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by sbf501 4y ago
> clear-cut booooo....
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by sbf501 4y ago
I can't believe in enumerating his accomplishments they left off Netscape!
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by sbf501 4y ago
Huh. Today I learned about Xeyes. Thanks!
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by sbf501 4y ago
Of all the apps in the upper left, I still to this day use xload and xclock. Xeyes was always kind of pointless to me. And xbiff is meaningless in today's world of email saturation.
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by sbf501 4y ago
I agree with this. Three-letter words that dangle by one letter are just a chore. There needs to be a balance between discoverability and guessing. Perhaps the auto-generator needs to evaluate the discoverability somehow... Also, why no coo
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by sbf501 4y ago
Do you really want to, or do you just want lots of money? ML jobs are split into theoretical and practical. Theoretical involves building proprietary models based on academic papers, and training them. This is where the PhDs are going. Prac
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by sbf501 4y ago
I don't know my machine's specs: it doesn't really matter anything off-the-shelf from Circuit City or Best Buy is fast enough for what I do. I have a windows desktop machine from 5 years ago that I run Visual Studio and dozen
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by sbf501 4y ago
Sounds like Alan Rickman! Thanks!
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by sbf501 4y ago
My current mentor is 67 and pretty much knows everything. His coding style is shit, and he's slow as molasses, but he has an insane memory that can recall obsolete architecture ISAs, compiler quirks (for dozens of compilers), and triba
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by sbf501 4y ago
Sure. These are the top level sites but each one has a variety of different newsletter (these are free); https://www.techonline.com/ https://www.electronicdesign.com/ https://www.edn.com/

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