twawaaay

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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that the US government notified Japanese government but nobody expected the warning to be taken seriously. I personally believe doing this is morally no different from just dropping the bomb without
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am pretty sure a lot of these positions are lucrative outside of the salary. It might be because some political force wants to have their representative in this position. Or because the person may count on future profits after they leave
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I am pretty used to people defending their blind trust in big-O notation. As I mentioned, the idea is to be open to alternative ways of thinking. Performance is incredibly difficult or impossible to generalise. I have many times worked on a
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Don't mock. They know what they are doing. More likely they already have a candidate and the advert was made so that nobody with the right mind and experience will apply and only people that do apply can be quickly shown to be unfit.
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by twawaaay 4y ago
> The article is about the same thing essentially? Decreasing number of memory accesses is the same thing as exploiting cache locality. No, it is not. For example, you can have an application that is doing a lot of memory accesses, but t
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Honestly, for a single threaded processing potentially the largest improvement come from: * Exploiting cache locality (related data in same cache line, operations hit the data before it leaves cache, etc.) * Exploiting cache prefetching (un
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by twawaaay 4y ago
As an amateur EE, I have analysed some of LEDs when I wanted to light up my kitchen counters. I wanted flicker-free LEDs with high CRI and temperature matching the rest of my apartment. I ordered samples of a lot of LEDs and found that almo
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Hand coding is definitely not becoming obsolete. But some people may need to grow up and start treating more seriously skills other than just coding. And a lot of people will lose their jobs if the only thing they can do is coding boring ap
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think what people are forgetting is that any law will most likely be tested in the future with intent to abuse it. People are still in a struggle over single words or even punctuation in the constitution written by people who had no idea
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It may be (and always felt to me this way) that technical superiority is only one dimension of the problem. For example the reason I keep using Linux on my machines is not because the OS works better for me -- it definitely does not. Things
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It has definitely NOT been dying since early 00s. The first definable moment where I think Windows started being at risk was release of iPhone and then smartphones that followed it (so say 2008). But even then it wasn't yet clear tha
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by twawaaay 4y ago
It is death of an operating system. Before our eyes. Microsoft is trying desperately to squeeze a bit more cash out of it but the failing culture within Microsoft is unable to recognise they are driving users off their own product. I alread
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think it is closer to 9-10 times (on level asphalt road on a "normal" bike) although it heavily depends on some factors like speed, type of bike and your proficiency, terrain and type of ground. Riding a bike is most efficient a
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I think we know why products are frequently returned. 1) Because some people just want to try stuff out at no cost. 2) Because some people made impulse buy. 3) Because some sellers sell defective/scammy stuff. Now, the issue is Amazon
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by twawaaay 4y ago
So would you say that writing an article about blatant racism by a government official is journalistic abuse because instances of said racism have been happening constantly throughout all of our history? How long history of rewrites a book
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by twawaaay 4y ago
So is the news true or not? It should be pretty simple in this case, because if for the news to not be true it would mean they are not in fact rewriting Agatha Christie books at all? So which is it, do you have any knowledge? Or do you sugg
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Oh yeah, and those same people later cry foul when they get robbed of their money because it was not protected in any way. Suddenly everybody wants crypto but with protections. Fools. There is a reason why money and banking is regulated --
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Nah, two different BOMs isn't making it more complicated. In the end you hold a board in your hand and have to figure out how to get from it to what you want. Or think in a different way: A board you have in your hand does not suddenly
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by twawaaay 4y ago
As an amateur EE I am looking at Arduino as an entry-level solution for people who want to learn a bit about electronics and have fun getting some results. Arduino is supposed to be simple and it is a feature, not a bug. If they start makin
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The problem is that normal people are easy to manipulate by people who know what they are doing. All our history is pretty much masses of people manipulated to hate other nations so that ruling class / political / spiritual leader
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by twawaaay 4y ago
20mA is an equivalent of a typical LED. And if that is too much for you to power a microcontroller you do what you do with a normal LED -- you do not power it all the time and instead you use it when it is needed and put to sleep when it is
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by twawaaay 4y ago
While you are partly correct, the study just "didn't measure". It means the study does not say anything about getting cancer after 49. What it does not say is that there isn't any increase after the age women typically s
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by twawaaay 4y ago
In general any type of hormonal anything is probably dangerous. Endocrine system is incredibly complex and connected in many different, mostly unknown ways. And contraceptives play with hormones that are central to what makes women women. T
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by twawaaay 4y ago
The magnitude of risk increase in percentage has to be understood in context of baseline probability. 25% additional chance of getting hit by lightning and 25% additional chance of getting heart disease are two completely different results
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by twawaaay 4y ago
As a tech lead I am tasked with finding ways of organising development process to achieve the result the best way we can. At some point this has to result with dictating how people need to behave, what is expected of them. Unfortunately, gi
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by twawaaay 4y ago
By social part I don't mean socialising. I mean multiple people working together to achieve a business result being unable to work as mere robots following a procedure but rather working together as human beings with all consequences o
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by twawaaay 4y ago
Pair programming is definitely not for everybody. Some people hate it for multiple possible reasons -- because they can't focus with other person talking, because even if they stop talking the awkward silence is distracting, because th
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I have this conversation literally every single time I join a team. (I am tech lead and/or manager and it is usually my responsibility to shape the development process). People are definitely NOT taking twice as much time per-person
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by twawaaay 4y ago
My observation is that code reviews are one of the worse solutions to the problem. They are almost never done right. People tend to treat them as nuisance and not focus or focus on the wrong things. Or people try to be nice to other people
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by twawaaay 4y ago
I know people behave very differently when within hearing distance of a higher up. Now imagine you are the highest one... every person you meet, every day, is constantly thinking hard about filtering what they are telling you. It does not m

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