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by sqeaky 9y ago
Those big expensive power surely need software to run the reactors/generators. If there only there were project experts could use to make minimalistic attack resistant operating systems with only the stuff they need. If only we could b
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by sqeaky 9y ago
A minimalistic OS intended for high security ought to be much smaller and should lack almost everything a general purposed OS has. This should make the attack surface pretty minimal. If that OS gets reused by many people so it gets vetted b
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Perhaps there should be a 0% chance that those things are on networks and a 0% chance they run a normal consumer grade OS. If the software in power plants were treated like their hardware it wouldn't be a problem.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It seems like this page is trying to show a bunch of Musk's "failures", and really its showing how ambitious he is. He is succeeding at many things not just any one thing.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
This seems alarmist to me. In principle we can make computers much more secure and in practice some groups actually do. If we get some decent information out there and stop enabling people with the mentality that computer security is an add
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I didn't say that any given person was a liar or cheat. It seems clear to me that some significant fraction of the interviewing population is and I cannot tell the difference just by looking at you. So I must do something to weed out t
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Perhaps budget forecasting is more difficult to check in an objective way. It seems silly to compare that to easily checked skills like technical writing or software development. After my experience interviewing it seems reasonable to expec
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by sqeaky 9y ago
How does starting a comments with blanket refutation help encourage open discussion? Why do people, including you start a comment with "No,"? Type bing or duckduckgo in and you have switched, how is that hard?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I think you nailed it by distinguishing usefulness, labeling alchohol and potatoes the same way makes you want to treat one like the other and I don't see how that turns out well.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What isn't carcinogenic?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
One was an operating that had a monopoly that was nearly impossible switch away from and was bundling software to destroy specific competitors. The other is a web page with tons of competitors, many of which work well, deciding what their o
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Did they really get it wrong? Very few candidates are Diego Forlan, very few wrote books, verfy few created a foundational open source project, etc... I suspect candidates that wrote the Linux kernel, Rails, Modern Effective C++ etc... don&
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Is that so different from normal interviews? At least this way you can't forget you are competing.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You say we need to figure a few basic things out, how do we do if a person has basic confidence if not by asking them questions. Please keep in mind that resumes nor any other data from the candidate can be trusted, because a huge amount of
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by sqeaky 9y ago
People thought that the pace of the world couldn't get faster when everyone had horses. They had no distinct concept of energy and now we know nuclear energy is possible. You see what exists and presume it is all that can exist. You ar
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by sqeaky 9y ago
This seems highly plausible to me. The polishing wouldn't even need to be intentional, just a bunch of people taking good care of their equipment could create the effect.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
While I agree with much of your response I specifically disagree with the notion that a single person on the outside cannot identify a problem with the decision making of an insular group. Many people in microsoft seem to be thoroughly stuc
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Not all teams that do what you suggest write garbage code as the GP implied. I have worked a places with large garbage and excellent code bases. The places that have garbage and years of technical expect far less from their devs because the
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Some developers are expected to work on the systems that processes a bajillion dollars of whatever per day and when it screws up they are often on the line for it. I am not saying it is right, I am just saying at some shitty places it is.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
No science is definitive. Even Isaac Newton was overturned. As near as I can tell they have put the most effort into duplicating Archimedes Heat Ray. They attempted it three times with large budgets and demonstrated why it was possible, but
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by sqeaky 9y ago
There are some sliders for the different axis just below the visualization.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It is reasonable to have arguments about whether or not certain wars were fought of fossil fuels. This is not the case for any other industry I am aware of. When pressed I could not categorically refute those claims and there is at least so
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by sqeaky 9y ago
The market figures this kind of stuff out. Reputable installers won't use the cheap cells and will warn their customers off the cheaper selling stuff that won't break in a few years. If the market couldn't things like double
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Let the lexicographers deal with the semantics and meanings words. Simply put fossil fuels create a lot of problems they doesn't pay for. You are paying with your lungs to line the pockets of Exxon shareholders.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I believe the UK would nuke a blockading fleet in its water starving it of food. I do not believe it would do so to a fleet starving it of oil from the waters of Qatar.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It seems to me that people don't stop a behavior just because its unsustainable. They only seem to stop a bad behavior entirely when the market provides a less harmful alternative and its costs approximately the same amount or much les
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Its almost as if they expect that just putting chips into a market makes that market have to buy it, almost as if they have gotten to used to not needing to compete. How could a chip vendor that has thoroughly cornered a few major market se
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I thought Tsar Bomba was designed to have 100Mt yield, but they dialed it back (by using less fissile material I think) because there was no reason to set on of that large and because of safetey. It was my understanding that the nearby town
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by sqeaky 9y ago
That is all in the Pop culture and mentions lovecraft right there, this isn't some prank or defacement. This is just real references to literature.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It is not important, but I would argue even that, at worst its dated. The success of this paper seems to be what kicked off the trend of "Everything about <blah> every programmer [needs|should] know". Just like I wouldn&#x27

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