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by souprock 8y ago
Yep, that is an unjustified risk. On the other hand, people would also hold a map draped over the steering wheel or beside them. That relates directly to the operation of the vehicle and is in fact needed to operate the vehicle, so it is ju
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by souprock 8y ago
People who can actually penetrate stuff "by hand" do exist, and I'm one of them, but how many of us work for pentesting companies? I don't think the money is there, mostly, because clients are wary of buying snake oil an
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by souprock 8y ago
The technical reason to prefer Matrox cards was the sharp analog video output. You could do 1600x1200 without the pixels blurring. NVidia was a terrible blur, and ATI wasn't much better. Matrox cards were thus great for CAD and for peo
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by souprock 8y ago
data fetch, in parallel: MOVDQA xmm2, XMMWORD PTR [esi+ecx] data fetch, serial: REPNE SCASB I also can use a webclient of some sort, which is handy for looking up instruction timings.
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by souprock 8y ago
I know people who did this. They were a nice well-behaved family, though a bit clueless about some things. Converting to add an apartment exposed them to stuff that hadn't really been a part of their world, like prostitution and drugs.
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by souprock 8y ago
That is a horrible justification for continuing to outsource American middle class jobs to China. Cheap trinkets are not worth the loss of jobs. That idea is an economy-killer and is the long-term death of the nation.
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by souprock 8y ago
The canonical example must be TFTP. Back around 2000, I installed tftpd so that I could boot a VxWorks board. It came locked down for security to the point that it wouldn't even work, and the documentation was no help in making the tft
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by souprock 8y ago
Most programming languages change the meaning of one of the most common mathematical symbols. There are at least 3 meanings of "X = Y". Pascal: Is X equal to Y? C: Change X, making it equal to Y. Mathematics: X is equal to Y. Thos
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by souprock 8y ago
You'd want that because a college degree is a 4-year delay during which the human body ages. Everything gets worse with age: hearing, eyesight, neck strength (needed for high-G pilots), etc. That cuts the career by 4 years, meaning tha
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by souprock 8y ago
I believe the F-22 uses air that is oxygen-enriched by a mechanical device that does some sort of filtering/diffusion process. Picture this: It's time to go fly. The alarm is going off, and you need to get in your jet. Boogers are
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by souprock 8y ago
That delay is common where many Hacker News people reside, in places ranging from San Francisco to northern Sweden. It is however unnatural, and people in more affordable locations are still starting families closer to the natural time. My
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by souprock 8y ago
There was a flight for 44.3 hours, then without even stopping the engines another one of 30 hours. That makes for a $10,030,500 flight not even counting the bombs. https://www.uso.org/stories/253-inside-the-longest-bomb
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by souprock 8y ago
I've dealt with a few. One turned out to be LZRW3, kind of like LZSS but with the 12-bit string source being a hash table index. That was totally reverse engineered from staring at hex bytes, and then later we found out the identity of
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by souprock 8y ago
I do it for work all the time. Maybe that does take something away from sport, like a car mechanic losing the desire to tinker with his own car every day. One does need an income though, and IMHO you might as well do something you basically
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by souprock 8y ago
What I find weird is that dorms have mostly not improved in the one way that would really matter: being private, including the bathroom. Issues with roommates are severely harmful to being able to study. You risk fights, disease, noise (ear
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by souprock 8y ago
The moral barrier problem goes both ways. How could you possibly spend your days making addictive games and web trackers when you could instead support your country?
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by souprock 8y ago
Flying that won't bore you to tears: 1. service to antarctic bases 2. water bombing forest fires 3. test pilot for a Navy contractor 4. dirt airstrips in Alaska, with animals on the runway and weather 5. dirt airstrips in Lesoto, short
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by souprock 8y ago
There are actual jobs, in industry, making use of this stuff. For example, here is one that I put in the "Who is hiring?" item this month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543995 Typically one would convert
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by souprock 8y ago
If the drive had all the technology of a modern hard disk, I wonder how much we could fit. That would include shingled recording, large sectors, modern error correction, etc. One could even do a single-sector disk, spiraling it around to av
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by souprock 8y ago
These people started off working for an American company with a contract in UAE. Once they were there, UAE replaced that company with a local one. You could say that they should have seen that coming. They are well aware that they now can&#
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by souprock 8y ago
It's just with JS/frontend. In 20 years, the change I've seen is very little. Pointers became 64-bit. C99 brought nicer initialization and the ability to declare variables after statements. Optimizers got cruel, particularly
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by souprock 8y ago
You list six broad categories on the archetypes page, but only five made it onto the salary page. The "Low-Level Systems Engineer" got lost. That is the only one I care about. That's me, all three sub-categories, and also wha
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by souprock 8y ago
Memorization is very important. You have to walk before you can run. To perform well at algebra, you can't be stopping to punch numbers into a calculator. You can't be constantly making mistakes. The slowness and errors will make
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by souprock 8y ago
Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (Melbourne and Indialantic), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) an
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by souprock 8y ago
I think it's wonderful that a bootcamp leaves out requirements that involve stuff like sociology, art history, community service, political science, and similar undesired gunk. I think it is tolerable that a bootcamp leaves out 3 semes
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by souprock 8y ago
It does not attract more applicants because they won't know about it unless you advertise a specific amount, which then creates other problems. You'd get a flood of useless people if the number is high. Some other people, underest
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by souprock 8y ago
Apparently the law is completely backwards from what is required for national security. Most places are prohibited from discriminating against people who have foreign connections. This dramatically increases the risk of spying. A more reaso
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by souprock 8y ago
The A10 has lots of redundancy, including a second engine, and even some armor. Super Tucanos lack all that. For a country like the USA, with expensive pilots and a huge aversion to getting pilots killed, something like the A10 makes far mo
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by souprock 8y ago
You're missing all of the assembly languages. You're missing all of the HDLs. (Verilog, VHDL, etc.)
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by souprock 8y ago
What should I call my situation? There are 2 people in a room with a door-free opening. It's probably 11x13 feet. It has drywall and a high drop-ceiling. There are a bunch of similar areas all off of a hallway. It's kind of the de

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