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by wolfgke 7y ago
> “32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.” DOS was a 16 bit operating s
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> but the linux kernel is some gazillion lines of code, because it has to work with reality Rather: Because the kernel developers care far too little about keeping it small and minimal.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> A bunch of non-lawyers taking a tiny chunk of law in isolation and speculating about whether something "seems illegal" based on it is really, really useless. To me, this is rather a sign that the law is far too complicated an
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> And this is an even bigger issue because several popular benchmarking tools were compiled with ICC, skewing CPU reviews in Intel's favour. A benchmark whose speed also depends on a compiler is not a benchmark of the CPU, but of a
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> So should Apple have kept the silicon required to support 32 bit apps in their ARM chips forever? Yes. That is why x86 became so successful and why Windows is so much loved by big corporations. Microsoft and Intel care(d) a lot abou
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> One of the hardest issues with real time computing on x86 is... SMM. One of the easiest ways to bypass security on x86 is... SMM. The workaround for "securing" SMM is to sprinkle virtualization on it (STM: because more virtua
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Only give loans if you have sufficient trust in the person not to cheat you.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I don't think so. A large number of small loans from family/friends/acquaintances also totals a decent amount of money.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Also, wealth from family of origin allows risk taking, funding for law or medical degrees, which for lower income students represent a huge risk so they go to safer less lucrative fields. Why not make an agreement with acquaintances th
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Being unable to view female coworkers as you do any other coworker is misogynistic, whether it's intentional or not. Indeed: gender quotas and "positive" discrimination is both misogynistic.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> This is awesome!!! (Ultra)SPARC CPU's are a joy to code for in assembler, Dr Jack Whitham disagrees: > https://www.jwhitham.org/2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-hav...
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> My brain obsesses with ideas that you would put more in the category of philosophy. It's what you think about when you have nothing to do or start daydreaming that's probably where your brain is best at. I never asked people
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Honestly the most depressing part is hearing all these older guys talk about the really cool problems they worked on during the dawn of modern computing, knowing I'm just gonna be writing shitty business apps till I retire You can
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> What's depressing about the current world of software? For example the insanity that it is impossible to understand what actually happens below the surface. The ideal that I have in the back of my mind is that a highly gifted pers
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Could it be that people who see the world Realistically, get depressed? This fits my experience quite well. To give a software development analogy: The more you learn about deep, esoteric details of various parts of computers (i.e. you
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> One aspect is failing to break out huge problems into manageable pieces. Isn't this rather a sign that the world is simply too complex and should be simplified?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
While I am not currently looking for a job anymore (as I wrote: I found a job in a completely different sector), I nevertheless tried to find out what the company langsys is doing (since it is not unccommon for me to meet other people who h
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The things recruiters told you ("not sufficiently pragmatic" or that you belong in academia)... they didn't tell you this to talk down to you but to give you hints. I would have loved to stay in academia. The problem, wh
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Solving hard algorithmic problems in a job interview is a very uncommon interview practice in Germany. In all other job interviews that I had, the programming questions were ridiculously easy. UPDATE: I actually got rejected in one job inte
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by wolfgke 7y ago
That is why I wrote "(to put it in mathematical terms)": also Grothendieck and his scholars solved hard problems. If you compare mathematical style of the mentioned Alexander Grothendieck and Paul Erdős, you will sense that they r
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I hardly ever get messages from recruiters on Xing (let's say: once every two months).
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by wolfgke 7y ago
If you are talking about think-cell: about 1.5 years ago, I applied, but was rejected after the programming test (even though they liked my CV and had to admit that the C++ code that I sent in was of decent quality). Let me put it this way:
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I think I know quite a lot about C and C++ (which means Modern C++ (currently C++17)), but have also worked in a lot of other programming languages (including Python, Java, JavaScript, Erlang (additionally, some further ones for university
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> In general, software developers have no problem at all with finding a job (or clients as a freelancer). I was looking for a job in software development for a very long time (region: quite everywhere in Germany or Austria). As of today,
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by wolfgke 7y ago
In Germany (where I live), the job market for software developers is not that you can arbitrarily choose for whom you want to work; you have to take the job that you can get (and I know quite some people (in Germany) who work in software de
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> This is really a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation. Why? Simply, when setting up the device/browser, let the user choose what safe browsing API the browser shall use (both, one of them, or
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Isn't it kind of pointless anyway: a large corporation with vast resources creating a cryptocurrency, why don't they just make their own bank? Because Facebook senses an opportunity that in the long-term they could make a lot
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I have quite some difficulties with the mentality of first very publicly announcing that you will join the project, then very soon realizing that it might be a bad idea, and then (also quite publicly) exiting the project. Why not evaluate t
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> What about using your money electronically without permission from a large organization? Does Libra solve this problem?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> especially today where your self-worth can fluctuate based on the amount of likes your last Instagram post got. Simple solution: delete your Instagram account.

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