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by trimbo 6y ago
What an amazing speech blending personal and technical. I wish I could have heard him actually give this lecture (is there a video? I can't find it). And a great conclusion: > In Berkeley it drizzles in the winter. Avocados ripen at
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Activist hedge fund advises Intel to outsource CPU manufacturing(arstechnica.com)
9 points by trimbo 6y ago|2 comments
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by trimbo 6y ago
> Reminds me of the "Once Linux gets a desktop it will take over the world" debate from circa 1997-today. Linux did take over the world, just not on the desktop. It was on servers and mobile, which now have more users than desk
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by trimbo 6y ago
99.9999..% of servers in the world run x64. x64 virtual machines, Docker, etc have to be supported on Apple's M chips for a long time to come. There's zero risk of this changing soon unless Apple wants to scuttle the non-iOS/
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by trimbo 6y ago
As well as Tiger Lake (though those aren't in Macs)
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Part of the acronym in spirit: Satya also has an MBA
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Microsoft took their entire userbase and successfully shifted them from DOS (and then Windows on DOS) to NT. They did it in a piecemeal fashion with e.g. Windows 95 and WIN32. What else you would call it?
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by trimbo 6y ago
Yes, of course. That's part of the cycle. Democratically elected officials are not proactive, they respond to pressure. Calling out corporations that are acting irresponsibility creates enough pressure to have democratic governments ac
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by trimbo 6y ago
Couple things always to mind whenever this article is referenced. Joel's example is Mozilla, but Mozilla ultimately became more successful than Netscape (in terms of userbase with Firefox). Was the problem really the rewrite, or that a
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by trimbo 6y ago
> I believe it's because politicians get star-struck Maybe that's part of it, but I believe it's because they know these filmmakers have incredible power to influence. Remember "Sideways"? A fictional character i
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by trimbo 6y ago
This is a truly remarkable take I've never heard before. I honestly wonder if it's true. If it's actually true--and if poor quality of work and reputation mean nothing, just leetcode--it seems like that is just a side effect
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by trimbo 6y ago
Reminds me of how Paramount claimed Forrest Gump lost money because they owed Winston Groom 3% of the profits. So they found a way to make it not profitable. https://konvexity.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/what-a
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by trimbo 6y ago
The US government has a public domain EMR system which they are in the process of replacing with a commercial system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25042125
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by trimbo 6y ago
Most UK civilians do not have guns either. The UK has ~5 guns (legal and illegal) per 100 civilians. The US has 120 per 100 civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
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by trimbo 6y ago
But isn't this just another thing people download to run benchmarks and then the result is uploaded? Anyway, answering my own question: multiple results have been uploaded in the past two days and uploaded by anonymous users. Maybe tec
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How do they have one? How do we know these are real numbers?
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by trimbo 6y ago
Same as a Cray XMP! That baby used 345 kilowatts. But comparing against 40 year old technology has nothing to do with comparing against current offerings. We'll just have to wait a week to see how it fares compiling Chrome.
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by trimbo 6y ago
As far as software success goes, all healthcare providers at the VA have used VistA daily for a couple of decades (actually CPRS -- it's like an MFC app or something on top of VistA). A relative who works at the VA likes it, and is not
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by trimbo 6y ago
It's worth noting that the VA's most critical software -- its EHR system, VistA -- is public domain with the source code available. However, despite being a critical, successful piece of open source software that had massive inves
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by trimbo 6y ago
> I really don't understand how a company can get away with using its customers as QA when they sell products that can kill people There's a term for it: "normalization of deviance"[1]. A highly risky thing is done an
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by trimbo 6y ago
This needs to happen consistently with paper titles. There's a Twitter account is dedicated to it: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice
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by trimbo 6y ago
Not too long ago, Dropbox signed the largest office lease in SF history[1]. What changes are you making to Dropbox's RE plan in light of this? [1] - https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/10&#
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by trimbo 6y ago
> I suspect the blowback from people living in these towns will effectively kill the enforcement. If insurers won't insure, that might change attitudes pretty quickly.
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by trimbo 6y ago
> They recruited 63 healthy individuals, 135 patients with mild cognitive impairment such as memory loss, and 68 people with Alzheimer's – the most prevalent type of dementia – in four hospitals in Barcelona and the metropolitan are
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by trimbo 6y ago
Consider processing two events without guaranteed ordering: - Create A - Delete A In one ordering, A is created and then deleted as expected, in the other, the delete fails but then A is created and remains.
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by trimbo 6y ago
This is worth a read. I think it applies to Chernobyl, Challenger (where it was coined) and the 737 Max. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance All three had known issues (in the case of Chernobyl, for
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911 services went down in multiple US states(zdnet.com)
3 points by trimbo 6y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 6y ago
My thought exactly. Maybe they felt they couldn't credit the video without opening up to some sort of lawsuit?
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by trimbo 6y ago
Except that cameras in stores have been used for anti-shoplifting for decades. They've been used for more subtle things like monitoring tables at casinos. I mean, I'm just asking the question how people know for sure Go isn't
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by trimbo 6y ago
Again, how do you know there aren't humans on the other side of the cameras/sensors facilitating this? At the scale they're operating at and the accuracy you point out, to me it's more plausible they're having human

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