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by static_noise 9y ago
This basically kills cloud computing for anything sensitive using shared hardware. In the short term this will actually be good for cloud providers because the demand for dedicated instances will shoot up as there is no short-term alternati
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by static_noise 9y ago
How much in advance do the intel managers have to register a stock sell?
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by static_noise 9y ago
So, as I gather, one of the main culprits is that unwinding of speculatively executed commands is done incompletely. That is something that the people doing the unwinding must have noticed and known. Somewhere the decision must have been ma
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by static_noise 9y ago
Testing is not for finding bugs, testing is for preventing bugs. But otherwise you are right, it's hard to calibrate and further develop the testing procedure if you rarely find bugs. While you might wide awake on one eye you might be
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by static_noise 9y ago
It's also about using multithreading to achieve a responsive user interface. Something that is not quite as easy in python with the global interpreter lock which tends to lock up quite some time on seemingly innocent operations.
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by static_noise 9y ago
Why don't we just dump the radioactive material into the ocean to dilute it sufficiently? Apparently that's what solved most of the Fukushima problem.
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by static_noise 9y ago
There was also that incident in Fukushima that turned the political tides against nuclear power.
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by static_noise 9y ago
What is the problem with nuclear energy? It is very safe and very clean and provides near limitless power. Our technology has been much advanced in the last decades. Now we would only need to build next generation (Thorium) reactors. At lea
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by static_noise 9y ago
There is always the new hotness. The researchers and research money needs to go somewhere. Until it reaches silicon levels of efficiency and durability it won't become a serious contender. Silicon has reached the point where it is &#x2
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by static_noise 9y ago
> many people are getting quite rich Only if they cash out. You need new investors to be able to cash out. The wise ones smell the crash and are the first ones out. Some make it out just before the crash when the party is still going but
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by static_noise 9y ago
I haven't seen many market studies but those that I saw were... not very predictive beyond rolling dice and generic drawing exponential curves. I think we might have reached the point where push comes to shove and solar is making its b
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by static_noise 9y ago
This foot of the goverment did their work to stomp freedom. Let the other foot stomp again.
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by static_noise 9y ago
You are right. It sounds like that. I actually wanted to say more: "Look, fellow Germans. We are called inudstry leader and powerhouse of Europe. We export lots of goods for money they owe us. So much that we can bankrupt other nations
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by static_noise 9y ago
> it makes German government dependent The home country of Microsoft still has big and active military bases in Germany and spies even on Germany's highest politicians. If they wanted they could pulverize Germany withhin minutes. Yo
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by static_noise 9y ago
Key users hated Linux and their know-it-all IT administration prescribing them software that nobody else uses. During the time the IT department failed to provide a solution that was better than the MS offering. The user interface is differ
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by static_noise 9y ago
People learn about and optimize for those heuristics. Those resumes will on average get better and better over time until half of them are almost perfect. Those people all spent considerable time and energy on optimizing their resume. You g
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by static_noise 9y ago
There is supposed to be... evidence?
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by static_noise 9y ago
What aspects of politics? How do they interact with engineering?
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by static_noise 9y ago
Now that you say it, I believe that there are several (military) aircraft projects that have huge delays exactly due to changing specifications. The people making the contracts did not have a clear vision about what they actually want and t
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by static_noise 9y ago
The hiring process hires exactly the people that it was designed to. You do not want a team that excels in every aspect. How would you manage such a team? They would go off in directions you cannot control anymore and you have no way of sto
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by static_noise 9y ago
One essential part is managing complexity. With a mechanical part it often is obvious to see and easy to understand what this part does. A lot of engineering goes into finding the right materials, the best shape and processing tools. But th
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by static_noise 9y ago
Can you tell us more about what was holding you back and what worked for you?
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by static_noise 9y ago
If they rely on you (you being apple here). It's their fault for relying on undocumented interfaces. Consequently, they should stop using your system but they don't.
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by static_noise 9y ago
When it's documented it cannot be changed as easily, so it's often better to not document everything in detail.
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by static_noise 9y ago
The problem with those cures might be that they modify one measurable imbalance but there may be many more and that imbalance might only be a symptom of something else. Also, people differ in the ways and rates they process chemicals. Using
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by static_noise 9y ago
What chemical corresponds to the mental picture of a cat? Sure, they are heavily interrelated. They are vastly different models of the same thing. While we can understand some processes simply by chemistry, we don't get too far with th
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by static_noise 9y ago
The root cause of depression is chemical not psychological. It's a natural process and everybody gets depressed sometimes. If you get depressed, you can fix it by behaving like a normal person following normal person schedules and doin
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by static_noise 9y ago
I fear that it's becoming a catchall-diagnosis for illnesses the doctors don't understand and can't cure. The current catchall is "it's psychosomatic" or "get over it already you lazy *". Most docto
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by static_noise 9y ago
While you can misuse a feature, you don't have to. My example is extreme and you probably don't run into something like that often depending on what you do. There could be other solutions. There surely are other solutions that are
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by static_noise 9y ago
It seems like you can... but then this could be done implicitly at no loss and lead to less clutter. It's not hard to understand what default parameters or named parameters do.

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