wolfgke

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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The notion that meaningful work is inversely correlated with pay is one of the most detrimental myths that prevent smart people from even starting to look for high-impact companies and roles. It's a convenient but weak excuse. &gt
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The dark ages simply refers to the loss of texts. There are few surviving texts from that period, so it is “dark”. Later the term was re-branded to mean “bad time when no new science was done” but that’s a viewpoint that doesn’t fit t
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NASA investigates the first allegation of criminal activity in SPACE(dailymail.co.uk)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> This explains the system of values that revolve around it, such as for example the notion that it's somewhat something to be ashamed of for an employee to leave its employer, while it's perfectly OK for the employer to termin
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> All decisions made 20 years ago. The future is UTF-8. As you can see in the examples, they are all (except perhaps the Joilet file system) still very actively used. I see no reason that they will disappear soon. Also the decision to us
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Everywhere[1] but in Windows UTF-8 is being used. Further popular counterexamples besides the NT kernel (cf. [2]): - Java - JavaScript - .NET - Qt - Joilet file system (for CD-ROMs) [1] http://utf8everywhere.org/ [2]
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> And what exactly do you call a machine that you are, by design, cryptographically locked out of, but a third party has access to? Not a perfect solution, but such a problem can be mitigated by a firewall that blocks such ingoing/
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> IBM is dead until it gets Z mainframes and Power servers in big a three data center (AWS, GCP, Azure). Google is using POWER9 servers in their data centers: > https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead&#x2F
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> why are you looking at a local machine at all when a cloud system may very well be less expensive to lease than to purchase and keep current, not to mention run, local hardware? Because a cloud machine is rented and not owned. And bec
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Most people won't pay that kind of money just to tinker with it. The interesting question rather is: how many of these simply cannot afford it and how many think that this is not worth it?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Would you really say just a blunt "no", or would you provide some context as to why? This reminds me of some party of math students. One math student (clearly not on the spectrum!) X asked another math student Y: "Do you
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> In the article the say accuracy is coming down to 1m vs 3-5 for other GPS In which areas?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I wouldn’t call it very realistic. The aero modeling is quite hacks/primitive and even the gravity is rather simplify... afaict they only calculate to the dominant object in the sphere of influence so you don’t get Lagrange points
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Is it really violent content when you're dealing with space ships with no humans or animals on board? If you are referring to the game example given some posts above: "Killing" means that the respective object was alive
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Too bad that evident mismanagement bringing companies to self destruction isn't as illegal as piracy, and isn't sanctioned likewise. If it was, we probably would still have Commodore and many others around along with who know
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> (which is not user friendly) For the pityful group of users who use the default US keymap.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Not for users with a US keyboard Install a proper keymap.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> For example, YouTube doesn't want violent content. Just having the word "kill" in your title can get the content demonetized, even if the content is about a video game and properly categorized as such. It's been thi
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I would actually buy and read a novel that had the plot you described. Come on, write some fanfiction. ;-)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Q'Anon is actually a defector of that group and it will eventually help us find Atlantis so that we can all share its technology. etc. etc. Is QAnon a Flat Earther? (serious question)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Speaking of GPS, I've always wondered what their explanation is for how GPS works if there's no globe to speak of. The common explanation seems to be that GPS is in reality some ground-based system (think some kind of a moder
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Just curious, do Flat Earthers never fly the earth a round to confirm? I mean, leaving from America to go to Europe then Asia then America. Doesn't have to go to the space to see the shape of the earth but just keep looping the ro
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> What is it again that Microsoft is getting such accolades for? Visual Studio Code is fantastic. Visual Studio is great.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If there was any way this was true, then people born after 1999 would be itching to play games from the 90s and early 2000s, instead of the latest thing from EA and crowd. Not necessarily. Games at that time targeted a quite very diffe
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by wolfgke 7y ago
In my opinion, simple answer why developers hate codking skills tests is: they have a huge opportunity cost ([1], see also [2] and [3] for a more humorous explanation) for the person to be tested. Or, put in more simple words: in the time t
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Read https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-29394-7
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I'm afraid it's also a battle of least ethics. Ethics can be considered in a broad sense here. Ethics is something that not everybody is able to afford. If you believe that ethics is something important, you should consider w
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> and highly trained workers such as mathematicians and physicists are being tied up in finance. The problem in my observation (in Germany) rather is: I know quite some excellent mathematicians and physicists who would love to work somew
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I forget, what does ARM stand for again? :) What do you believe is the reason that ARM does no market this acronym anymore? ;-)
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Quantum interference in the service of information technology(phys.org)
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