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by wegs 6y ago
Yeah. The code school route has a pretty hard glass ceiling. I'm glad I took graduate coursework in advanced algorithms, signal processing, control systems, AI, etc. which followed on a course of differential equations, advanced linear
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by wegs 6y ago
Precisely what you said: Power grid has security. Compromising 90% of connected devices with a mainstream OS would, at once: (1) Tank the economy (2) Likely, be doable with resources totaling in the single-digit million dollars Modern wars
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by wegs 6y ago
Or be an outlier. It's not hard to be an outlier, if you set your mind to it. It's a lot easier than playing the game at a sufficient level to be admitted. I was an outlier, and now I'm raising my kid to be an outlier. But ye
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by wegs 6y ago
If 5% of businesses are independently compromised every year, that's a painful but manageable drain on our economy. If the [inter]national infrastructure goes down, with the firmware on every device on every internet-connected computer
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by wegs 6y ago
I think his point was that good tools are built with deep fundamentals. * If you've mastered git commands, you haven't followed Carmack's advice. * If you've used git as a domain to understand key-value stores, Merkle tr
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by wegs 6y ago
And in banks, all your money can be frozen by a hostile government, for example. Diversification. I DO keep all my money in Western financial institutions, but that's laziness, not out of some misguided perception of stability. If I we
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by wegs 6y ago
I made an interesting transition a few years ago, and started using Unicode in my programs. (1) I have an i18n mapping which provides native support for a lot of helpful characters. Both Mac and Linux use all the keys, so in addition to the
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by wegs 6y ago
I think your analogy makes the wrong point. There are many reasons you might have something to hide, and to start with the simplistic ones your friends are presenting, among them is: 1. You did something wrong. 2. Someone else wants to do s
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by wegs 6y ago
My respect for privacy went up when I went through my first litigation. I then saw a few other people go through litigation, and learned more about the legal system. It turned out that when people are trying to cast doubt on you, frame you,
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by wegs 6y ago
No. You, as a point of fact, don't know what I'm doing in the bathroom. * I might be picking a big booger with my pointer finger. * I might be cleaning my butt in ways which are offensive in your culture, whether using my right ha
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by wegs 6y ago
For big companies, you need one whistleblower. You hire one employee over. They say "Oh gosh. We were doing the same thing." It's hard to keep that sort of thing secret. Warrants are granted to law enforcement, not in civil s
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by wegs 6y ago
The bigger problem I have is building rapport. I work with a lot of near-native speakers, where we can understand each other, but we never get to that lively back-and-forth that comes in an L1 (or a fully fluent L2). It's not a questio
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by wegs 6y ago
Which is an abuse of the intent of the patent system. The deal with patents was transparency in return for a short-term monopoly. If we get one and not the other, it's a bum deal.
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by wegs 6y ago
... I'm not so sure about that. I suspect you might have liked the way the speaker changed the sound, but you could have gotten the same effect (with greater control) with the headphones and digital preprocessing. The headphones will g
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by wegs 6y ago
At any sane price point, headphones blow away speakers. It's hard and expensive to move a lot of air precisely, and speakers are influenced by room acoustics. $5 headphones beat $50 speakers. $80 headphones beat $200 speakers. And $200
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by wegs 6y ago
Hey, this is cheap by high-income Apple fanboi prices. It's cheaper than a simple monitor stand: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand A monitor stand ... holds up a monitor. This h
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by wegs 6y ago
IANAL either, but I think, if someone were to take it to court, it would: 1) Travis achieved a market-dominant position in part thanks to widespread use by open source projects. 2) Open source projects invested significant resources into in
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by wegs 6y ago
This is exactly the case. I've got enough potential liability piled up there that I think some of these stories will only come out once I'm good and dead. Not just legal liability -- although I did sign an NDA/non-disparage -
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by wegs 6y ago
Part of the reason to make promises is that they are legally enforceable: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/promissory_estoppel.asp When I started an organization which was taken over in a rather hostile way, I
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by wegs 6y ago
From an argument perspective, consider the contradiction between "Many people live hundreds and hundreds of miles from the nearest DMV" in your first comment and "That's the thing about the country: nobody lives there. I
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by wegs 6y ago
Ummm.... I hate to point this out, but Trump's base is rural America. "Many people live hundreds and hundreds of miles from the nearest DMV" describes the Republican base perfectly. I mean, I'm not necessarily disagreein
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by wegs 6y ago
The multimillion dollar audits for $100k of corruption makes perfect sense to me. The goal isn't financial but cultural. You don't want a corrupt culture. At the time you've hit billions of dollars of corruption, it's li
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by wegs 6y ago
As someone with more money than time, if I buy an e smartphone, will it Just Work and be usable? https://esolutions.shop/ Or am I setting myself up for a world of hurt? They're not expensive either! I figured I'd
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by wegs 6y ago
With millions of videos on Youtube, it's sometimes hard to find the top 99.99th percentile, but it's there. I've posted references in other posts.
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by wegs 6y ago
Well, let's consider these one at a time: > - "Connections" used a substantial amount of acted historical scenes. Creating them in such a quality (and not some sketchy animation or a re-cut of existing work) is still a cha
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by wegs 6y ago
I see a lot of similar stuff on Youtube these days. A recent Economics Explained walked through wealth inequality in some Scandinavian countries (TL;DR: it's high). This is different from income inequality, which is quite low. It walke
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by wegs 6y ago
Nit: git is simple AND powerful. Simple isn't the same as easy. git is simple in the same way Lisp is simple, or Go is simple. git was hacked together in a couple weekends precisely because it's so incredibly simple. There are a f
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by wegs 6y ago
I was comparing specific lines of drives -- mainstream lines from a major vendor (WD/Sandisk). SSDs also go way up in size, but prices spike after you hit a corner.
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by wegs 6y ago
Yes, it is. If I sell you quack medicines for thousands of dollars, but you BELIEVE they work, am I ripping you off? Just because someone believes a con job doesn't make it less of a con job.
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by wegs 6y ago
It's an excuse to buy an SSD. And it's precisely what's responsible for falling HDD volumes and rising SDD volumes. Which, in turn, is precisely what's responsible for stagnant HDD and falling SSD prices. I can get a big

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