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by weland 12y ago
> it's not unreasonable to say that there are parts of California that are one order of magnitude worse than areas of India. OP was talking about Rwanda, not India. 60 minutes per year, as disastrous as it sounds for California, is
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by weland 12y ago
You have no idea how hard it is to resist posting a snarky comment here. For the love of McCarthy's parentheses, there's at least an order of magnitude of difference in terms of duration between the two!
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by weland 12y ago
My initial reaction was similar. There are some fine pieces on the website; but then why the fuck is raspberry pi listed as a platform, along with iOS, Linux and Windows? Why is Arduino there? If someone decides to do something on a MegaAVR
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by weland 12y ago
> So you basically define an entire group of people based on only the ones you've met. Even then, you admit that none of them are good. Thus, all "software engineers" are bad? No, sorry if that's what ended up being u
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by weland 12y ago
I am a programmer who previously wrote scientific software, as a scientist. I can confirm the author's impression: the worst code usually came from the people with more "software engineering" expertise, but there was a catch:
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by weland 12y ago
What was the question? I don't see any question mark in the posts above. And how exactly did I redefine it? I pointed out that this is wrong: > Cray didn't need to bother with parallelism to get the best performance possible at
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by weland 12y ago
> By committing to using ECL logic (read: cost is basically no object) I don't disagree with your assessment of ECL, but I think you're holding the historical account upside down :-). > Cray didn't need to bother with
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by weland 12y ago
I'm a tea junkie myself, although unlike the pretentious tea junkies I don't pretend to be insulted at the sight of a teabag. I'm ok with the normal bitterness of the tea; what troubles me is that it does occasionally happe
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by weland 12y ago
It's a wonderful drink. I've been hooked up on it for many years now and it's the perfect hacking companion. I still get my morning resurrection from coffee, but abandon it afterwards. Mate doesn't give me the jitters, d
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by weland 12y ago
I'm not arguing that either, it's the nonsense about ECL and CMOS above that I can't understand.
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by weland 12y ago
I...I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but it feels rude to downvote based on it. Can you elaborate on that, please?
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by weland 12y ago
> Given the tremendous value of an engineering degree, especially as a guaranteed high level of income, it makes sense practically minded managers would prefer such a safety net. Practical experience (of a practicing engineer) shows that
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by weland 12y ago
Linux is a generic-enough name that you might actually be running a well-rigged flavour while they aren't.
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by weland 12y ago
> I don't want to use a standalone RSS reader any more than a standalone email client. There's a reason everybody switched to webmail. I do use a standalone client. IMAP is nice enough with the messages and I don't mix my
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by weland 12y ago
> Most computer users forget that they have years and years of experience with computers, because they actually played with computers for their own fun for years. The fact that pretty much any user who reads RSS feeds uses applications t
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by weland 12y ago
Ah, yes, this is nice indeed.
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by weland 12y ago
But setting up an RSS reader is no different from installing any application. For crying out loud, that means going to an app store for much of the RSS-reading Internet or clicking next, next and finish for the rest of it. I know I sound li
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by weland 12y ago
> Unfortunately Google Reader was the gateway into the RSS realm for those folks who just wanted a quick way to keep track of their news I confess: I literally cannot understand this. There must be a thousand RSS readers, many of them al
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by weland 12y ago
> Could you skip everything in the middle, since request latency is correlated with system load? You have to load the server in either case, so both are active attacks. I think the problem is that latency is so variable due to Tor itself
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by weland 12y ago
Albeit barely :-).
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by weland 12y ago
This crosses my mind every time I hear about the MHz free lunch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBegD7k2wvo , 02:20. JS and WebGL, which seem to be all the rage nowadays, would smoke the shit out of my i7 doing that. In ca
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by weland 12y ago
This kind of article is honestly insulting to the intelligence of anyone who has written more than a dozen lines of code. It literally says nothing while "magically" hiding the fact that "services" are just "softw
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by weland 12y ago
> My email is in my profile if you want to chat more about this stuff! Coming up :-). Cheers!
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by weland 12y ago
Indeed! High-end CPU design is often literally done for a process that does not yet exist, which makes measurement rather difficult :-).
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by weland 12y ago
As an EE working as a, and with other programmers, I hear a lot of these arguments whenever the matter of "why CPUs aren't evolving" comes up. There's a lot of misconception here. > Hardware design is still in pretty
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by weland 13y ago
It's how my children are going to be treated this way by anyone who thinks that this kind of behaviour is acceptable. I'd much rather have my children think for themselves and know how to deal with people who behave in a way the
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by weland 13y ago
Got it. Thanks!
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by weland 13y ago
I don't know it's a matter of men and women being "wired differently" or not, what I'm implying is that seriously, this site, while tasteless and of questionable educational quality, is really no more sexist than yo
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by weland 13y ago
Mine complained they don't have a version with male hotties, too. FML.
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by weland 13y ago
Much like Teasenews is porn-themed journalism and Game of Thrones is a porn-themed entertainment. Bodies naked to various degrees are pretty much omnipresent today. Not necessarily a good thing, but it's not like you can step away from

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