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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Books like these fall into the pantheon of didn’t ask for it, didn’t expect it, but now that it’s here, I’m reading it from sunrise til sunset. The author has written several other books on processors and embedded architecture. Much needed,
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
The article mostly centers on 2023 and onwards as an increase in trend. But anyone who has seen a TED talk over the last 10 years is right to have ample suspicion about anything anyone says that does not fall under their direct, day to day
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> Stated another way, more people die from dysentery now, every year than ever died from any cause on the Oregon Trail. So let’s calm down about the Oregon Trail, okay? Okay fine. Fuck.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
>1972: Using Anything Other Than Assembly Will Make You a Bad Programmer 1995: Using a Language with a Garbage Collector Will Make You a Bad Programmer Both of these remain true to today, which is why we always interview people at one la
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Ah, “I’m just a journalist.” To Graham Hancock’s credit he also used that line quite a few times when people accuse him of pseudoarcheology. Unlike Gladwell however, Hancock’s crack pot theories and musings and what ifs turn out to be close
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> The Igon Value Problem is a way of summarizing the lack of depth often encountered in modern journalism that focuses on esoteric subjects in which the journalist (or any writer in general) is not personally an expert. If eigenvalues an
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
>Disruption of the incumbent is required. State your case. You have an audience here, now sell us on your idea.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Seconding this.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Your comment appears grey to me so I assume someone downvoted you? How strange. At any rate, I do own his books on electronics as a kind of an amusing look into the history of how electronics were taught, but I do find it to be a positive t
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
He’s working on a new book that attempts to disprove evolution or at least show cases to the contrary, advocating for a grand design as a primary mechanism instead. Curious to read it, I’m hopeful he will release it.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
I agree with majority of what you’ve said. I think we are, predominantly, in agreement. Or at the very least we would overlap from time to time. I’ll skip on the John Oliver details because so much of what these programs focus on with resea
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Less than nothing. It has flipped to the other side in the bullshit of it all. Pundit hot takes have ruined quality dialogue. Frankly I’d rather have discussions with people who do their own research and form their own opinions, no matter h
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
You’ll have to share more I'm sure your father had stories galore.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Isn’t MAID something out of Soylent Green?
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
C# is Pragmatic [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41761346
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
I’m assuming what’s his face that created the bingo card program will spring up to educate us again on how we are so wrong about this one obviously overlooked thing.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> Real engineers write their compilers in assembly. Not sure where this misconception comes from. The engineering department mostly relies on Verilog twiddling, shoddy Spice models, debugging prototype boards with poorly crimped jumper w
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Anyone who wants to do kernel-level development should first do Embedded hardware/software interfacing. No RTOS, plain “Embedded C”, with some bit banging and dealing with voltage spikesc transients and people doing stupid shit to hard
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> Your mention of novels and emotion is a false equivalence because novels are richly authored, edited and long form. It is not a false equivalence but rather a statement that there isn’t anything inherent about text that makes it devoid
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Regardless of the “politicizing” of WFH vs. RTO mandates, I think the internet sphere of people that grew up on being able to communicate and absorb a tremendous amount of information through text mediums like BBS, IRC and the messaging pla
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Came for the news, stayed for the Hackers.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
As someone who likes to read things of technical, scientific and practical nature, my only issue is their usefulness to the next generation, a problem which bothers me whenever I attempt to embark on this sort of project. Am I, an avid hard
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> but I wouldn't check even half of their dating requirements I’ll bite. What do you think is on that list of dating requirements?
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
I’m upvoting this comment because it’s a good bit of juicy flamebait and I wouldn’t like it to go to waste. Not on HN anyway. It has all the hallmarks of the genre trope. The undertone is that of the cliche: it’s women who are suffering, an
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
[laughs in job security]
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Yeah so, just to get this out of the way: Graham Hancock was right once again. He covers this in his BBC documentary (4 parts I think?)
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
As others mentioned, the shakiness of whatever this is (an opinion piece) doesn’t really convey much effort into a rock solid argument. Put another way, if you are going to look at pro-RTO under a microscope and critique every single thing
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
> Who are the referees? Bought and paid for. Uber broke and ignored so many laws it was obvious the referees were on their side all along.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
Every other sentence reads like a non-sequtur. I don’t know why they are singling out Tesla, looks like they’ve got bigger problems.
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by stonethrowaway 2y ago
In other words, avoid pathological behaviour.

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