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by vegetablepotpie 7y ago
The world was outraged at one man dumping 100 tons of iron sulfate into the ocean? Where was the outrage at dumping 9.575 billion tons of CO2 going into the atmosphere that year [1]? Where was the outrage at Exxon spending $12,970,000 on
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by vegetablepotpie 7y ago
I work at a defense contractor. One of the guys in my row of cubicles has his wall plastered with political cartoons mocking welfare, social programs and anyone who thinks the government has a role to play in reducing poverty. Every-time I
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by vegetablepotpie 7y ago
Not OP, but land use due to animal feed is relevant to mono-culture because reducing land use for animal feed would free that land up for other uses (besides soy beans), either for other crops or to leave the land unutilized and left to nat
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by vegetablepotpie 7y ago
I'm working on a research paper, I'm pursuing a coursework masters and I am not required to write a research paper, but one of my professors liked a paper I wrote in his class enough that he wants to go through the process of publ
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by vegetablepotpie 7y ago
> One victim claims to have figured out that the hackers aren’t actually deleting the code It looks like the hackers are making a commit to a repo where they delete all the files. That isn't a problem because they're not deleti
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
The leverage interviewers have is that they know if the candidate can't find a job, that at some point the candidate won't be able to afford rent/mortgage, food, clothing etc. That's a desperate position for a candidate
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I follow a plant based diet, although I eat only a small subset of the foods on the list I think I can answer some of your questions. > how do you not feel hungry? Lots of starch. Carbs and eating more volume vs. when I ate meat is what
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
That's an interesting point. I actually talked to a lawyer at my company 6 months ago about contributing to FOSS and their answer was that my work may be owned by my company if I did the work on my own time outside of working hours and
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I think Fission would be great if we had somewhere to put the waste, if it didn't cost $10 billion dollars to set up a plant and people weren't phobic of it. Overall Nuclear makes more sense than coal and arguably more sense than
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I read Robert Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil". The book takes place in 2015. In one of the chapters there were characters who were looking for a freshly dead body and one of the characters suggested they could search compute
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
The only time I haven't seen shabby code with caked on layers of features has been when I had the fortune of working on a development team that was trained to write software. I've seen new languages and new development methodologi
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I'm intrigued by your sign of burnout. I have over 100 hours of vacation time left that I need to use before 2018 ends. I've been indecisive on how to use it. I don't know if it's because I'm a workaholic, unimagina
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
That's really cool. I've been wanting to delve into the inner workings of ciphers for some time and I think this will make it easier.
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
My first startup failed because of doubt I had in the product and because of poor coordination with my co-founder. My finance co-founder and I wanted to make an IoT device for kitchens. I made a prototype with 3D printed parts and an Arduin
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I disagree because part of the job of engineering is stake holder analysis, where engineers consider all the groups that will be affected by a system before developing requirements of the system. This is one of the things that differentiate
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I think you make an important point. The media got into a frenzy over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and we continue to get reports on it, yet I haven't seen many follow ups on Equifax. This is despite that having your SSN, DOB, Addr
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
>programmability remains the big problem for FPGAs I agree because there's added levels of complexity with HDLs that SW doesn't have to deal with. What would be nice is if there was a tool that you could declare your problem (f
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I can think of two possibilities: 1. Hardware accelerated custom crypto algorithms. 2. Specialized co-processor. You could implement an exotic processing architecture on the FPGA to off-load computations to, like a complex number processor
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by vegetablepotpie 8y ago
I doubt that storing digital representations of sounds on the cores and then stroking the cores would result in any modification of the data. You could run a wire with current next to the cores to induce bit flips, but what happens to the s
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by vegetablepotpie 9y ago
I'm curious to know what version control system they settled on.
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by vegetablepotpie 9y ago
>when I was fresh out of college all the entry positions I saw required several years of experience Same. That struck me as particularly BS'y. I asked career counselors at my school about that and they said to "embellish"
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by vegetablepotpie 9y ago
This reminds my of my job search 5 year ago after I graduated college. It took me 8 months to land my first job and I was living with my mother. I did work on some side projects to build my knowledge on some technologies. When my mom asked
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by vegetablepotpie 9y ago
Question, I read that fabs use specific, proprietary technology to produce ASICs and this technology is protected by NDAs and Trade Secrets. Some components require intimate process knowledge, which may never be open. Why wouldn't thes
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by vegetablepotpie 10y ago
Enjoyable read, it points at the veneer we've placed over our industrialized world and calls it dishonest. Ironically I think if you were to heed its argument and work counter to the Hamiltonian forces it would be futile. Imagine if yo
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by vegetablepotpie 10y ago
Why is that? I think that the revenue stream from distribution has degraded so much that the 20th century journalism business model is not sustainable. Technology disrupted this business model. Instead of a media utopia where gate keepers a
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by vegetablepotpie 10y ago
The Diane Rhem Show did an episode about this topic last year ( http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-07-13/the-americans-w... ), I recall one of the guests saying “you can make your own website accessible if you t
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by vegetablepotpie 10y ago
On face value this story seems ironic, but there’s a lot of questions in my mind. What is the skill set overlap between an Apple engineer and an Apple genius? Although Mr. Scheinberg’s experience may be useful in addressing technical issues