theincredulousk

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by theincredulousk 9y ago
The immediate side-effects of any program and the processor are only to read, manipulate, and write data. Data is stored in a finite memory that all have states 0 and 1. Every single thing that can be represented or manipulated by a prog
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
Once someone makes this that works properly with arbitrary C/C++ and threads/interrupts, I honestly believe it will be a revolution in productivity. As mentioned below, others (esp. IDA) make it so glaringly obvious that how you w
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
Of course no offense, but the author does seem to be somewhere shortly after the first peak on the Dunning-Kruger curve. Even truly embedded systems with an OS like QNX don't "melt" with 100 threads. Obviously he "doesn
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
This is at least partially ill-advised. Comes off as an expertly done, but same old refactoring project that could be titled "I didn't understand this and would understand it better if I were designed based on my personal prefere
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
Called it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13759157 Should have charged people for it though. They need the money.
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
This seems like a shill article because black box testing makes almost no sense in this situation. These are seg faults not hardware lockups. Maybe get a kernel dump and gdb? You know, debugging.
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
Guess the radical efficiency didn't carry over to their web server
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
uhh so is this supposed to be web devs meet state machines? I see they've invented a new name to label the innovation as such.
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
This seems like a shill study because someone unhappy with cigarettes declining sales helped fund development of their neat-o 3D printed testing device. It is already a red-flag that they say "3D printed"... they didn't 3D pr
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by theincredulousk 9y ago
Why would they keep releasing it, and release it in the first place, with such a simple kill-switch. Doesn't make much sense. Reminds me of the Archer episode where Cyril plants the computer virus and was going to be the hero by &quot
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
The fact that it is technically possible to reach temperatures lower than absolute zero because of quirks in the math really makes this "declaration" less than meaningless to me. Math is a description of the physical universe not
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
Maybe holding this arbitrary line in the sand as if it were a commandment is why Twitter apparently needs to be "turned around". 280 characters isn't now extensive prose - it isn't fundamentally changing anything. It ha
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
If Snapchat fits then I think it means an endless stream of next-Snapchats will also fit. All of these things are 6 of one/half dozen of the other. The limit is people arbitrarily swapping messaging apps like phone cases based on moo
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
The 50th messaging app with a friends list is the same technological advance as the iPod?
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
Personally I'm not a chronic pessimist, but my view on Snapchat is the same as Twitter, and look at what is happening with them. They are only worth their Market Cap in the sense that investors literally bought-in that much because of
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
Are you sure there is nothing difficult about that? When you're reasoning against your own hospitals, and your own children? When a nightmare of a human being keeps his own children near him as human shields? If I'm to understand
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
Sorry, tuned out at $100 Billion. This is doing keg-stands of your own Kool-Aid. If you think Snapchat has the same macroeconomic value to the world as Intel, Cisco, or McDonald's... Then you've lost the ability to evaluate a tec
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
I'm just glad to read a story about smart people thinking about a hard problem. It's an excerpt from a book - I think the point is to get interested in the question not draw a conclusion ;)
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
Is there any realistic expectation that there be a news story for every airstrike? I'm not saying we're always the "good guys", but every airstrike looks bad without any context. We never get all of the intelligence tha
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
second regex101. Been my goto for several years.
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
Yes that's true, I can certainly imagine it as a possibility in the future. Specifically for motorcycles, as many experienced riders would say, sport bikes especially can hardly even be used on public roads anyways. My old bike red-li
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
I was pointing out that the author's logic is hyperbolic and naive, making it seem as if statistically minimizing risk is the only thing that matters to anyone. To your point, we also "pay" ~88,000 lives per year to allow ou
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
If it’s true that algorithms are statistically better than drivers then we shouldn’t let people to drive." It is difficult to decide if this statement is idealistic, naive, or written by an algorithm. I love motorcycles, as do many
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
The "To be continued..." format was not a great choice for narrative like this. So much content missing that it could be considered click-bait.
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by theincredulousk 10y ago
+1 on the Pragmatic Programmer. For anyone that is ready to stop consuming themselves with all things esoteric and start writing generally good code by default. If more devs followed the relatively simple patterns and practices in this book