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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I’m going to create a certification for an “ls” command. Sounds like a sound business opportunity [pun intended]. Just call it a “microdegree” for better marketability.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> There are 20 more that you could have named. Of course; these were just examples as the "e.g." tells. > How do you test that someone is an expert, especially if you don’t have an expert on staff? I gave some idea on http
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> There's money on the table for anyone who can improve the system, and no one has. This tells me it's hard. In other comments on this article, I wrote my arguments why I don't believe that detecting good candidates is h
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> How can one argue with the claim that every construct has a valuable hidden purpose despite evidence to the contrary? He doesn't claim that it has a valuable hidden purpose, he claims that it had (when it was constructed). :-)
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> It's the combination of a really wide range of skill and a really big difficulty assessing that skill from just the resume. If you know what skills you are looking for (hint: lots of companies and recruiters don't), this is n
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I am a hiring manager. I've also put significant thought into how we can change the hiring process, if only to get better candidates. Simple solution: Be very clear what kind of candidate the company actually needs, e.g. do you ne
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> The compelling reason is the massive success of FAANG companies. How are they making unimaginable amounts of money if their engineers are from "broken hiring"? Two possible expanations: - What works for a big company of FAANG
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> [NZ is] remote, defensible, politically and socially stable, self-sufficient in food and many materials. And easy to (mostly - except for satellite connections) cut off from internet, since there exist only few sea cables to NZ that ha
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> think fixed-instruction, l[...]. That's what RISC really means today. > No variable-length instructions. So, ARM is not a RISC instruction set, because T32 (Thumb-2) instruction can be 2 or 4 bytes long. Similarly, RISC-V has v
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Yeah, but isn't the whole point of ARM to be a reduced instruction set? It was the point at, say, the original ARMv1.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Genderized things are [...] just something else that needs to be memorized The same holds for the vocable - here, "nobody" complains that this is just something else that needs to be memorized. So, just consider the genus as
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> he failed to predict fake news In former days, "fake news" was simply named "propaganda" or "bad/manipulative journalism".
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Internet companies capitalize on this by bringing an optimized stream of stupidity for your viewing pleasure. Take a look at the front page of Reddit (logged out, default subs): Half of the content highlights stupidity of others: &#x2F
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by wolfgke 6y ago
"IIRC LOOP was used in some software for timing loops; there was (important) software that did not work on CPUs where LOOP was too fast (this was in the early 90s or so). So CPU makers learned to make LOOP slow." "(My opinion
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by wolfgke 6y ago
There is a reason why loop is (was made) slow: It was (in the 90s) explicitly made slow because it was used for timing loops. Making it faster would have broken existing software. Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/357
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> illegal as much as it is the storing of GDPR sensitive data in it (ie PII of customers and/or employees) A lot of data is GDPR sensitive. Also, if some of the data must not be processed by Office 365, a lot of the advantage of Off
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> For a small business the first thing you should be looking at is Office 365. Put it in the cloud, get rid of the VPN. In Germany, this is forbidden by the data protection laws: https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-O
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Taking those points in mind, I think there can be a lot of similarity when thinking around an equals sign and the verb is/to be. I am cautious about this: In Spanish and Portuguese, there exist two "to be": ser and estar
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Why are there expensive rewards programs? Because consumers like them! And they insist on paying with a credit card because of them. That is very US-centric - for example, this all does not hold in Germany (many people are actually sti
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Learning a language is _not_ like learning math. I disagree. As a mathematician, looking at the language learning problem from a very "structural" perspective helped me a lot to grasp languages much better. Unluckily, most la
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> You are doing life wrong if you are letting that sort of thing get you down. I am not the person who demands of me that I obey all these stupid laws.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I don't mind it as a general guideline, because it stimulates people to ask themselves whether they're the asshole - a good inroad to introspection that in many is sorely lacking. Likewise, in the context of nerds, it probabl
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Why Life Can’t Be Simpler Because of the politicians and lawyers with their complicated, convoluted laws.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Isn't Heisenberg's uncertainty principle actually some kind of DRM on the data that we can measure?
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> It's only a good alternative if you're looking to hang out with people who really like to use the n-word and who believe that everything is Jewish conspiracy. This was not uncommon on Reddit before Reddit became more streamli
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Just the one question: alternatives? Voat: https://voat.co/
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I can just picture a gaggle of google employees jumping out of their seats: "They used the wrong word for it! Their argument is invalid!". Would the "average" Google employees really care about this? I would rathe
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> However, regarding cryptography, the NSA's cryptographic expertise and resources are secret, so it's very hard to include them in a threat model. Sometimes information leaks (most well-known example are the leaks of Snowden)
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> If the NSA is in your threat model, you've lost the game. For example for cryptographic primitives, if you didn't include the NSA in your threat model, you did something deeply wrong in your modelling.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Yes, this is the monopoly part of the argument. If there is a single customer , it is not a monopoly, but a monopsony: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monopsony&oldid=9...

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