wolfgke

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by wolfgke 8y ago
> They have kids. Developing a sentient being is a higher priority and more difficult than developing React Redux. This is like saying: "I have a time-intense hobby that I prefer over working too much for you.".
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by wolfgke 8y ago
"Easier interview questions are also less stressful, which is an important advantage. Stress causes candidates to under-perform. But, on the other hand, when candidates are more comfortable, they perform their true best, which actually
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> they stopped using the text because some forum campaign that promoted typing cursewords instead of the unkown word. they probably started showing cursewords on the rendered search highligths on google books. If I remember correctly, Go
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Sorry that I don't know the details. But here is a list of the private institutions of higher education (private Hochschulen; note that the term "Hochschulen" is hard to translate into English since the term "Hochschule&
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> What happens when someone blames the banking system for oppressing the poor/minorities/whatever by denying them a loan and thus not providing opportunities for advancement, while leaving out the fact that they applied for a d
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> According to many on HN, your college education shouldn't be about finding a job. "It isn't vocational training". It's about expanding your mind and becoming a well rounded citizen of the world. In Germany, the
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> How much did college cost in Germany? Most universities in Germany are public and thus quite cheap. But note that while they are quite good in terms of quality of education, there is hardly any handholding offered. Many Germans say tha
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> In Germany you typically don't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for your education like in the US. If you don't have well-off parents you pretty much have to go into debt. Indeed there exist good public universities i
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> You’re saying that children basically barely out of high school need to make decisions that are very high cost and impact the rest of their lives, then held accountable for them when they make a mistake. Perhaps I am too German to unde
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Right, but with RISC-V you can actually have some competition to implement RISC-V between multiple vendors, hopefully driving prices down. I am not convinced that competition is always a good thing here: lots of competitors lead to shr
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It needs to have a better performance per dollar I am not sure whether this will ever come.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> There are lots of things that cost money in hardware design, and ISA licensing is a very small part of them. Indeed - and this is exactly the point of ISA licensing (and IP blocks): to make it sufficiently cheaper to just license the I
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> But looking at the $35 raspberry pi with a license-bound ARM ISA and a supposedly open source board for $1000 it looks like HiFive is playing by intel's or ARM's rules. No chance for risc-v adoption with this ridiculous overp
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That's why I said tries the second time around, not succeeds yet again. OK, point taken. But do you have evidence that AMD has plans to do a second attempt?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> because when AMD tries the second time around [0] to do a pin-compatible RISC (maybe this time it's one of the Zen 4 platforms or whatever), [...] > [0]: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/181867-amds-pr
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If you email any author I guarantee they will send you a PDF of the paper. So let us create a website that for a given paywalled URL automatically emails the authors for a PDF. ;-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Sci-Hub is not a legal alternative It is just one criterion among the many criteria that you use for your decision process.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Open source means that the source code is available, not that you can get the product for free. But open source means that the work can be copied freely - which leads to marginal costs of near 0 €$.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The funny? thing is that IE has become better than Chrome for a lot of stuff because Chrome keeps dropping support for things that it used to support. This is something that I often wrote in the past also on HN: businesses desire stabi
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Not with the gender of the word. The last noun counts. OK, then I misunderstood - you were talking about this elementary grammatical rule and I was talking about the origin of the word "Logbuch" (the latter is something that
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> What bugs me with German inability to reliably form plurals As a native German speaker, this is one of the few complaints about the German language that I can relive. This is really ugly.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Don't loanwords auf Deutsch tend to end up with "das" as the prefix? Das Restaurant etc. No. For example "Kiwi" originally comes from Maori language. In German, it is "der Kiwi" (the bird) and "d
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Oh and "Das Logbuch" has nothing to do with "log" but everything with "Buch". "das Log" is a device for measuring the speed of vessels: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Probably it's good to know that it doesn't matter, just so that you feel less fearful and tend to speak more, even wrong.... Native German speaker here: I disagree with all the sentiment of "less fear". Better conce
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I fail to see how having a clean looking store alienates anyone. I do not claim that. But it is a strong sign of the direction that the Raspberry Pi Foundation might want to target in the future. And this direction has a potential to a
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I really wanted the dream of an affordable computer for kids to be a reality but at the end of the day when the $35 just isn't as performant as a budget tablet around the same price then kids are going to just end up with tablets
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The "RPi is for nerds" shtick is specifically what they're probably trying to get rid of with that store. Companies should be very careful not to alienate their core audience that made them big. In the past, lots of comp
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Employers aren’t wary if a 30 year old man is as likely to leave for 6 months as a woman is to leave for 12. Orgs don’t avoid hiring all 30year olds out of fear they might become parents. If you don't know who will leave, just do
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It also seems to be popular for countries playing catch-up on that whole "we can make our own computers from grounds up" metric - both China and Russia make their own MIPS CPUs, mostly for military use at the moment. I am no
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by wolfgke 8y ago
If you don't have any idea how to solve your hard problem, just claim that magic exists and call this magic Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Neural Network to make it sound more scientific.

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