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by urthor 4y ago
The battery life is more about power management logic. I'd expect we'll be a long, long time, before Apple's power management logic is implemented.
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by urthor 4y ago
It's interesting, the ones I've spoken to are extremely suspicious. "GitHub Copilot blocks your ability to learn." Is a common refrain. I don't see ANY industry-wide consensus on whether GitHub Copilot truly help
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by urthor 4y ago
Spot on. Do you have any books you'd received recommend that have any additional tricks?
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by urthor 4y ago
Monolithic Mainframes are definitely the hip and trendy thing. You can run a ridiculously large business off a monolithic RDBMS.
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by urthor 4y ago
You can't really do Orthodox ScrumMaster 2 week, incremental continual delivery for something like this. Where are your small incremental milestones? How do you deliver working software every two weeks? This was just a big, hard, data
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by urthor 4y ago
The issue is, this was one of the only major Blockchain projects in the world that wasn't... suspect. Much harder to convince anyone to do Blockchain work now. It's a blow to Blockchain's reputation.
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by urthor 4y ago
Technology as a cost centre mentality. Time and time again, Australian non-tech companies cut technology jobs to cost cut. Anyone competent looking to build a long term career working in the corporate sector either moves to sales/marke
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by urthor 4y ago
...You can have a project with exceptional engineers working on the domain specific language, or concurrency features in Haskell/Scala. Individual engineers are not necessarily talkative types. They don't necessarily have the abil
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by urthor 4y ago
It's even crazier talking to the people involved. The project got the underlying Blockchain tech from VMware... AND had a requirement for a backup "traditional" RDBMS system. So, complete feature duplication of the core, miss
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by urthor 4y ago
Supply == The Australian Government's budget. Unlike the United States, By law, and by basic common sense, there MUST be a bill passed that contains the budget for the coming year. Otherwise no money is made available to public servan
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by urthor 4y ago
Voice to code into Scratch. Novice voice coder then debugs a scratch-like extremely easy to debug application. Voice to code into Scratch, plus 20 years of hard product development effort. I'm not saying it'll be easy or work t
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by urthor 4y ago
I forget which Pixel generation. For one generation Google I believe never shipped the ability to unlock your phone with your face. Despite having all the hardware on the phone, it just didn't have the feature. This was a serious fe
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by urthor 4y ago
I'm almost certain a trained professional is still going to do a far better job than an amateur. That part is unlikely to change much, if it all. Trained professionals will always outperform the latest fellow dragged off the street.
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by urthor 4y ago
Exactly. The crazy thing is... this probably will work. In 20 years. But, it probably will work. There is absolutely no reason you cannot use a neural network to transcribe appropriately phrased requirements into an AST.
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by urthor 4y ago
I'm absolutely, entirely sure, Apple has bucketloads of the most brilliant engineers money can buy. I'm absolutely, entirely sure, Apple puts every single one of them to work on the Apple Watch/iPhone. Not a single member of
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by urthor 4y ago
MacOS is designed for the point and click majority. You can see this in the lack of any functionality for such a simple task as window tiling. Power users should decamp, rapidly, to Vivaldi + Linux Distro.
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by urthor 4y ago
Second this. I used a time machine backup to load my dotfiles and other settings from my personal laptop to a new work machine. Never, again. I was manually scripping ACL permissions from folder after folder, reinstalling Docker, all sorts
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by urthor 4y ago
I agree fully. My viewpoint, as a functional programmer, is software is a young field. We don't know much of anything about it. We're living in the first 100 years after the Gutenberg printing press. All I know is NLP code generat
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by urthor 4y ago
> Not really? It's less about arithmetic and more about inferencing data in higher dimensions than we can understand. This is a VERY poor definition of mathematics.
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by urthor 4y ago
Not necessarily a problematic trend. It takes thousands and thousands of engineers to produce a general purpose chip. It takes... one smart lady to optimize a widely used library for FPGA acceleration.
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by urthor 4y ago
I'd cheekily argue. The video game industry has downloaded more memory leaks personal machines than all the other domains of software combined. So many lines of terrible C++ have been written... The importance of Moore's law fa
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by urthor 4y ago
Physical simulation is unique due to latency requirements. The impossibility of using the data center is the common denominator in high performance programming. In my field, Spark, functional programming for data parallelism, few if any pr
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by urthor 4y ago
YMMV. I use very, very cool language tricks in my unit tests. Not in the production code.
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by urthor 4y ago
The problem to me is that Meta is not pursuing the "Web 2.0 concept." Anyone who knows the digital gaming industry understands. Content is hard . The Metaverse seems like it has Zuc supplying a vast amount of first party content
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by urthor 4y ago
> What's great about Neovim and similar projects: there's a middle ground between a full-blown IDE and a "text-editor". That's a perfectly fine goal. I wrote the above in the context of so many comments saying &q
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by urthor 4y ago
Sadly, the Vim/Emacs configuration burden is growing every year. IDE developers just keep inventing new tools. GitHub Copilot is the latest, who knows what's next? Especially for Rust, JVM & Java. Rust without a IDE warnings
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by urthor 4y ago
Complex IDEs offer a promise (backed by $$$). Class hierarchy visualization, database schema mappings, the latest & greatest in NLP & code completion via plugins. That "just works." Ultimately, a sufficient amount of conf
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by urthor 4y ago
No 24/7 campus libraries?
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by urthor 4y ago
As someone outside the US. Academics & students who've visit always mention the obvious countermeasures to campus shootings. Far more security, sequestered academic offices, cameras. While this proposal is radical... it's not
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by urthor 4y ago
^^^ have to emphasize. 60-80% of the cost base in many F500s is bullshit (exceptions exist. FMCG, any industry where physical products make up their balance sheet. Not salaries). Any excuse to avoid returning money to shareholders. Every

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