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by wolfgke 7y ago
> To be honest, I always kind of lol at these kinds of rants. Wishing for the "one true payment system" is like thinking that everyone will switch over to speaking Esperanto in the near future. There always exists cash (excep
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Even alone having to implement this (and perhaps become sued if there is a bug in the code) is a massive liability for the business.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If you cannot state your need without judgmental comments (blaming others, etc), you are not going to get far in solving the problem. Your problems are valid, but you have to be able to communicate them in ways that don't trigger
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by wolfgke 7y ago
2^32 ms is about 49.71 days ( (2^32)/(1000 * 3600 * 24) ), so less than the reboot cycle of 51 days.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Below UEFI is the BIOS, or the firmware formerly known as the BIOS. Source? As far as I am aware, UEFI is a replacement for BIOS.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I am a bit shocked, because that seems like a really dishonest way of doing things. “Surprise! Actually, I am not talking about Cauchy sequences, but only computable Cauchy sequences.” Rather: If countability is important to you, you
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> There are uncountably many Cauchy sequences of useful reals. You can’t write them all down. This does not hold if you demand that, for example, the map k -> a_k that represents the Cauchy sequence, is a computable function.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> "I got a counterfeit product on Amazon, therefore I won't trust AWS". This is actually a good argument. I can easily imagine that this could become a problem for Amazon in the future.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Here you are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14319133
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Microsoft already has x86 emulation working in Windows for ARM, anyone know implementation details of that, or even publications? It seems to depend on a feature that is specific for Qualcomm processors: https://news.ycombin
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> One day they _may_ be sufficiently better than Intel that Apple could pull a “Rosetta” a second time on the Mac, translating apps from x86 to ARM at the software level. Emulating x86 on ARM is very hard because x86 has a strong memory
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> How many civil engineers are building bridges on the side? Why has it become the "norm" that CS students pay tons of money to attend universities that leave them ill-equipped to find a job in the real world? The problem is r
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If you group it more closely to creative fields like design or writing—both fields where portfolio reviews have been standard hiring practice for decades—then it makes sense to expect to see projects. If you view it closer to a profess
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Programming, much more so than accounting/law, is an activity that many more people like to do for personal "fun". Because of this, it's inevitable that some employers tend to want to identify them and prioritize th
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Many Germans say that the fact that manufacturing it still rather strong in Germany is only a carryover from the decaying momentum of a much more glorious past (Wirtschaftswunder ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Your snarky remark carries much more mathematical depth than it appears on the surface. There exists a 3-manifold that is homologous to a 3-sphere but not homeomomorphic to it; the so-called Poincaré homology sphere: > https:/&#x2F
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by wolfgke 7y ago
It is quite plausible that cruel psychological experiments, that were carried out on Ted Kaczynski, turned him into a terrorist: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard...
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> PC VR is a dead end for anything outside of creative tools, very few adults want tower PCs in their homes anymore. When I demoed my Rift to friends they were completely blown away and the first question was "Can I use it with my M
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If software could help you hire candidates that [...] stay 25% longer This is a very cultural thing. For example, in Germany it is frowned upon to switch companies too often. If your CV shows that you switch jobs every few years, this
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I mean a lawyer is a professional and they can probably do fine with a 2014 Air. Perhaps we should replace "professional" by the more clear term "power users" to avoid this nitpicking. Clearly, a lawyer is a profess
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I had been told that the reason the US added fair use exemptions was to make sure our copyright laws were compatible with the first amendment Copyright and free speech contradict each other - copyright is a fo
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> iMX6, for example, can boot with no closed blobs at all. vote with your money Side question: Are already SBCs with the i.MX8 available that have a price that is suitable for individual customers; let's say: < 250 EUR or USD?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The sad thing is that there is so much NIH around MLIR. The infrastructure investments in LLVM are massive, but now lots of people are rushing off to reinvent the world rather than bringing the ideas to LLVM itself. What if your idea i
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I want to quote Brooks's lawv ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brooks%27s_law&ol... ): "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later".
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Of course many YouTuber creators are in the video creation domain. So why view reviews on YouTube instead of reading reviews that are published in text form?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> There's no API for controlling them apart from a CAN bus which is barely documented, not wireless, The fact that the CAN bus is not wireless is rather a feature in terms of safety.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
The class of machines with the ‘(but obviously with a machine-bound tape)’ are even weaker than finite-state machines (because the number of states is bound by a fixed constant instead of "just" assumed to be finite). So if you ar
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> There is an article floating around (posted here multiple times) that says MOV is turing complete [0]. Don't believe this claim - any computer has only access to a finite amount of memory while a Turing machine needs an infinite
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> They'll just lobby the government and say such a thing would make it "too risky" or "too hard" to enforce copyright. Any sensible person should counter that argument with the argument that it is currently &quot
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I often write here on HN: Make the laws so that companies who claim false copyright infringements receive the same punishments and (financial) penalties as you would as if you infringed the copyright. Also the entity falsely accused of copy

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