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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Oops. It just served me up “undefined” as a word that doesn’t exist. (Not an error message - it literally gave me “undefined” complete with definition after generating a few good ones) Interesting nonetheless.
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Michael Pollan's "How To Change Your Mind" Jocko Willink's "Extreme Ownership"
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
And as a more useful follow-up, I'll jump in and suggest Annie Duke's "Thinking In Bets" (subtitle: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts)
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Looks like Ayn Rand was listed almost an hour ago (relative to your post). There may be others, that was the first that I searched for, figuring it would show up, and yep...
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
> Software estimates are notoriously hard to get right and it's not uncommon for them to be wrong by several orders of magnitude OK now hold on there just a sec... I've seen estimates off by 20%, 50%, even 100%. I'm sure
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yep, pretty much extortion with a gun to the head: https://imgur.com/a/OER5oxZ
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Appreciate the candor. Can I ask — what does it take to get banned by Uber?
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
> The total velocity of our <x, y, z, t> vector will always be equal to the speed of light constant, c. You can think of something that has no physical movements as moving forward in time at the speed of light. As x, y, or z increa
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Way way back, when Amazon got bigger than just books, my motivation for using them was a) very good selection (in one order, I can order bagel chips, wiper blades and a router?) and b) price. Implicit in this was authenticity and good cust
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yes that's correct. I think of it just slightly differently -- 256 bytes, 2048 bits -- so 2^2048 (same result as your 256^256). To give people (who don't spend time with these numbers all the time, I do b/c of cryptography):
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yes there is some math experience assumed. I know your question was about recommended pre-requisites, not alternatives/supplements to this book, but let me just provide you with a few alternates that are a bit easier to step into. 1)
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
100% feel you. Last time I worked at a big company, there was lots of dead wood, but one guy in particular was just a massive liability. Nice guy, tried hard, but utterly incompetent, and (I think there is a term for this?) he was unaware
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Thank you. I used to design microprocessors (a LONG time ago) and TIL that there are CPUs that can operate at 225°C. Wow. And even limping along at 300°C? Wow wow. BTW, I can't stand the 8051 architecture, but that's really of
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by thr0w__4w4y 6y ago
Yes exactly (I've lived in Germany). And where I live now in southern California, thank goodness, it's actually against the law to "solicit door to door" (I think that's how the law is written). Before I lived &quo
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
I've often wondered -- and perhaps you don't know the answer, or there is no one typical answer -- but, do these companies in Russia, China, etc., that one pays to break the chip, promise to not re-sell the extracted chip contents
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
My brother and I (both Portal listeners) were trying to recall & enumerate Eric's terms; we got the DISC, GIN, and EGO acronyms; I didn't remember that IDW was his term but that sounds right. Maybe the new one is GUT?
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
Ooops. That sounds like it's going to hurt. If not, it sends the message "Hey, say you're HIPAA compliant, but it doesn't matter if you're not (wink wink)" I develop electronics and firmware for medical devic
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
It's been 20 years since I worked a corporate job, but a good friend and brilliant colleague / friend told me about his own horror story with Accenture / Chinese consultants. He told me the English skills and attitude of the
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
I wish I could remember / find it right now, maybe it was my Witopia VPN? Need to check... Anyway, I've had at least one application that said to remove it, first delete it, AND THEN EMPTY THE TRASH (?!?!) and maybe even reboot.
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
Instead of 1ms, try running the math if the tick rate instead was 1.024ms, (1024 usec). These things are often driven with a 32.768 MHz crystal, in case anyone's wondering why not just a nice even 1.000ms. On another forum I talked abo
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
I've had exactly the opposite experience -- I've found state machines to be "spaghetti code reducers" -- no longer checking a "bag of flags" to decide how to respond to the event. For example, the "up&quot
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
I remember a lot of this from when I lived in Germany. I also seem to remember -- can you either correct me, or confirm this -- in these same companies that expect the photo resume, don't they expect your full salary history as well? T
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
Let me just add (in addition to what you wrote, all of which I've experienced) that I literally (using the term correctly here) had to /beg/ them to take my money ($7500, I think). Very long story, but long story short, I nee
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
This is great news, and a kind gesture of the ACM. I used to be a member, fell off years ago, but this might inspire me to re-join. I'd been thinking membership was >= $199, maybe it used to be? but now @ $99 it seems worthwhile.
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
This is a 100% serious question: I see that your statement is simply stated (and it's a fair representation of what China is saying as of /right now/), but I get the feeling you either agree with it and are applauding China,
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
> He doesn't look like your typical engineer Can you elaborate on that?
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
So, I can only say this. I teach very technical material, and when I'm teaching, students nod their heads, "Yes, yes, makes sense..." But then when I give them an exercise and say "OK, you all told me you understand this
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
Ha ha, no one brave enough to take on C++. Many years ago I worked on a C++ compiler, and this was during the C++03 days. The language and standard (now C++20) is // so much larger // than it was even 15-20 years ago. I
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
Quora used to be OK, many years ago. I wrote a few detailed technical answers about C, C++ and embedded programming. Then it basically became GeoCities or MySpace or whatever. Garbage, filled with ads and posters shilling their services an
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by thr0w__4w4y 7y ago
Can someone either explain the use case for this to me, or explain what I'm missing? Too small to be of any use to me, no street names... maybe it's just a "cool" thing you put on a mug or get printed on a T-shirt? I&#x

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