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by thedance 7y ago
You write the software in such a way that instead of just reading and writing registers or memory you exercise some set of functions. In normal operation you pass the driver a set of real functions that read and write real registers. In tes
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by thedance 7y ago
This is a very "pets" perspective. I'm more of a cattle guy.
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by thedance 7y ago
"we" aren't lying about it to ourselves. It's enforced from the top down because VCs (such as the benefactors of this site) strongly prefer that their founders ignore culture and society to focus 100% on business. The la
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by thedance 7y ago
Long way of saying "it's not".
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by thedance 7y ago
That's preposterous. You need 5-10 acres to be self-sufficient in the steady state.
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by thedance 7y ago
It doesn't seem like they took "minimal" very far. It still has dual NICs, IPMI, and a bunch of expansion ports that most buyers won't need. It's hard for an OEM to make a minimal server because they have to market
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by thedance 7y ago
It could be faster than some alternatives under some circumstances. A loop would probably be more code (== icache pressure) and would consume at least a register and a BTB entry.
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by thedance 7y ago
I don't think so. I think "imaging products" is cameras. Sensors and modules would fall under their semiconductor division.
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by thedance 7y ago
Sure, you can get a $500 adapter to mount Nikon glass on a Sony body. There may be advantages (you already own the lenses, it throws a shitload of light onto a small area of the sensor) but there are also disadvantages (running at less than
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by thedance 7y ago
Wrong outage.
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by thedance 7y ago
If you are deployed in such a way that both GCP and AWS need to be up you're doing it backwards. Multi-cloud strategy is supposed to result in the intersection of cloud failures, not the union of them.
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by thedance 7y ago
What's a language that lacks such a facility? ClangFormat covers C/C++/Java/JavaScript/Objective-C/Protobuf/C#. gofmt obviously can do Go. buildifier will rewrite your Bazel BUILD files.
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by thedance 7y ago
In Berkeley we have these, plus bobcats, foxes, and mountain lions. One of the interesting things about California is that even though humans have stepped all over the ecology of the American West, that hasn't been going on long enough
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by thedance 7y ago
I fail to see how "ecofascistic" does not fly apart into its mutually repellant components. Fascism is strongly tied to modernity and modernism. It is the polar opposite of allowing nature to overtake cities. Intentional decline i
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by thedance 7y ago
If your company knows what situation it is in, and if that situation persists for more than a year, your company is already better than many. The company I just left had an endless parade of new missions, new "values", new career
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by thedance 7y ago
This whole article is predicated on the idea that you can quantitatively measure the performance of a software engineer. That seems completely unfounded.
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by thedance 7y ago
It's ridiculous that Google has to front a glove and mask company the working capital and donate the product to the CDC. That's what the government is supposed to do. The federal government should be providing interest-free workin
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by thedance 7y ago
Well, the problem isn't that the bootcamp people lack a computer science education, it's that they lack any formal education. I've hired epistemologists and physicians to program computers and it turned out fine. The bootcamp
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by thedance 7y ago
How hard can it possibly be to replicate? Zoom walked into a market packed with established players and now they own the whole thing. That suggests the barriers to entry aren't so great.
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by thedance 7y ago
Zoom is a lot smarter than this blogger implies. Even if I sit with my back to the sun, it still tracks my face and differentially exposes the image so I am not a silhouette.
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by thedance 7y ago
The point is that autistic people may not possess a theory of mind. They do not understand or anticipate the desires and intentions of others, and may not be aware that other people even have desires and intentions. You can't explain
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by thedance 7y ago
^^ Yep. shared_ptr is almost perfectly useless. As a function parameter the smell intensifies.
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by thedance 7y ago
I'd love to throw stones here but I'm just used to it. The official way of installing Ubuntu linux (and many other distros such as Mint) from a Mac, for example, uses a giant bloated piece of crap that includes not just the Faceb
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by thedance 7y ago
This varies greatly by locale and is not uniform across the USA. In Berkeley, California I have fiber service that terminates in my own equipment, no rented equipment and no bundled services (TV, phone, etc). It's nominally symmetric g
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by thedance 7y ago
This site is the mouthpiece of billionaire VCs who owe their wealth to lots of people buying into their system.
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by thedance 7y ago
They've got an ice rink in Madrid piled with corpses. Pretty sure that never happened from the cold.
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by thedance 7y ago
Not even the trolley, just the shareholders of the trolley company (and not even all of them, just the preferred class).
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by thedance 7y ago
I had to ragequit in the third minute. "A container is the filesystem inside your application." Just, no. This is exactly the kind of word salad approach to explaining k8s that I complained about in my other comment. All of the k
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by thedance 7y ago
There aren't any. Someone should write one. My beef with them all is they start from the top down, taking giant leaps of logic and assuming that everyone has the same use cases and motivations. In my personal opinion, humble though
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by thedance 7y ago
Why? The slowness in this article comes from architectural brain damage inside the kernel. Doing the encryption and IO on your threads, when and where you choose to do it, is the solution. As your performance requirements increase, you are

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