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by ua709 7mo ago
I'm not sure the nation wide raw statistics are that reliable in the field of software engineering without interpretation. In the 90s tons of people who were de facto software engineers were listed as "Information Technology Worke
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by ua709 7mo ago
I think you forgot (d) although the initial statement seems credible, the problem is actually ill defined and under specified and therefore not solvable as originally stated. Example: our start-up plans to "fix health care"
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by ua709 7mo ago
I've been thinking about this and I definitely agree. On the last sentence, one significant difference between then and now will be the possibility of automated soldiers, which is terrifying to think about.
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by ua709 7mo ago
This was heavily debated in the 11.4 timeframe because there was risk that this version of the OS could excessively wear NVME. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1... The issue wa
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by ua709 7mo ago
I’m confused because to me that article just said the phone knows a lot about itself, things like what applications are installed, and if someone gets into the phone they can use forensic tools to know those things too. I didn’t see anythi
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by ua709 8mo ago
When politicians talk about the decline in manufacturing what they mean is jobs. I work in American manufacturing and there are tons of amazing projects happening but the decline in jobs is real. Especially low skilled jobs, This trend wi
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by ua709 8mo ago
It’s also not permanent. It’s for three years and then once off one can’t apply to the program for another three years. Reminds me of the WPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Art_Project
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Self-contained RTL to GDS flow for simple chip designs(github.com)
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by ua709 8mo ago
In this case the “useless” work is the cost of moving and distributing the threads between different compute clusters. That cost is nonzero, and does needs to be factored in, but it’s also more than overwhelmed by the benefits gained from
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by ua709 8mo ago
I think you're right that the article didn't provide criteria for when this type of system is better or worse than another. For example, the cost of splitting a work into threads and switching between threads needs to be factored
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by ua709 8mo ago
Claude Code. There are no more software engineers. Apparently...