xigency

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by xigency 8y ago
Wow, 32K! I'm working on an Arduino Uno project where I need to squeeze some complicated logic into 2K RAM and 32K FLASH :). I haven't resorted to assembly, yet.
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by xigency 8y ago
This bar raiser thing sounds like normal hiring practice in my work experience.
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by xigency 8y ago
The part that bothers me about each of those acquisitions is that none of those utility companies are well-liked by their customers (instead being the most hated companies). The fact that they all have the ability to acquire these other lar
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by xigency 8y ago
> I don't want to write all of my backend in C++. I use Java or Python instead. Thousand reasons: maven/pip, portability etc. Is this really a good excuse with containers being used so frequently?
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by xigency 8y ago
Uber basically makes a navigation app and has a higher valuation (not on the public market) than any of those companies. Why couldn't a car manufacturer have greater market value than another manufacturer even if they sell fewer cars?
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by xigency 8y ago
The Equifax breach leaked phone numbers along with all of the other identifying information hence more spam calls from anyone (everyone) affected.
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by xigency 8y ago
If they had the same kind of investment support, hype, and customer satisfaction as Uber, they might be really successful. But it doesn't sound like they have any of them. Uber is getting support from everyone to subsidize the cost o
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by xigency 8y ago
This seems kind of moot, but is it possible to drop this type of playlist feature from VLC 3.0 and remove it from scope? If the feature has a blocking bug you could maybe just drop that feature entirely.
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by xigency 8y ago
This is maybe the most important point. This developer clearly did not know how muddy the technical stack was at this company when joining. Sure, every organization has different standards, but related to that is what the desired standards
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by xigency 9y ago
You might be able to climb the ladder with a meta-post. Just do a write-up on how to host a front page post on a Raspberry Pi and tune the headline for the right audience. "This Site Can Handle 1,000,000 Connections on a Raspberry Pi&q
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by xigency 9y ago
Two words: leveraged buyout. I'm not sure what purpose they serve other than to create debt. Working at a company that was acquired by a smaller fish with a $4 billion loan, it made things painful when cuts were constantly made to pay
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by xigency 9y ago
In the book Sapiens the author argues that life was perhaps better before the invention of agriculture, with relative comfort and less time spent on subsistence.
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by xigency 9y ago
I think the intention was to say self-driving vehicles with no passengers, though I could be wrong. The reason being that a car driving itself around with no one in it is essentially wasting resources and spewing out emissions. The example
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by xigency 9y ago
The HIBP password check API uses k-anonymity so it is secure-ish to use. It's shown here under "How It Works."
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by xigency 9y ago
The proper tool is whatever the IT department has installed on everyone's computer by default, and failing that, something simple and easily edited (like raw text or markdown). I think the proper analogy is like editing documentation i
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by xigency 9y ago
Education is a good point. New algorithms are often found in academia that aren't exactly on Hacker News all of the time. It doesn't matter which field either - micro architecture, high performance computing, UX, databases, PL, co
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by xigency 9y ago
Aye, but you probably can't code faster if you have to read a manual first? It is easy to construct scenarios where someone from a bootcamp could code "faster" than a principal, senior lead, or CTO of all things. It's ju
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by xigency 9y ago
What about cross-discipline? What if a problem comes up that would be better solved with technology Y instead of X and you are an X master but random intern happens to know Y. Are you still the fastest? What if the intern is better at makin
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by xigency 9y ago
PC building is a nightmare right now between RAM and GPU prices. It's clear that they are not a valued demographic to parts manufacturers. Anyway, I would recommend a Ryzen 3 + GTX 1050 at a minimum for a gaming computer. The performan
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by xigency 9y ago
After this deal was worked out, I could no longer fill prescriptions at Walgreens. Not what I would call an improvement.
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by xigency 9y ago
Regardless of sales, I would think damage to their image would be a concern. Maybe it's not a concern to investors because their "PR nightmare" turned out to be softball for them, and it's been hard to pin anything on In
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by xigency 9y ago
There's no reason to believe a multinational corporation can roll out a service globally and maintain it consistently with all nations's laws. See for example Google in China. They could always segment their services or be split i
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by xigency 9y ago
Performing even speculative operations on protected memory is a mistake. Part of the speculation should be to check the protection before performing operations on the data. This _flaw_ is precisely why protected information is leaked via si
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by xigency 9y ago
Moore's law works on transistor density, so adding cores to a chip can be a continuation of it. The barriers to faster single core performance are power/heat in increasing clock speed and diminishing returns in superscalar archite
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by xigency 9y ago
Meltdown is an Intel-specific design mistake dating back a decade. It is also the bigger fish. Spectre, while real, has been a gift to Intel to use as a smokescreen in PR and reporting.
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by xigency 9y ago
When not running they take up space on the device and also request updates.
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Swift, defects thereof (2016)(zsmith.co)
3 points by xigency 9y ago|1 comments
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by xigency 9y ago
Why high precision timing was ever introduced into browsers is beyond me. I don't see why timers should be more accurate that millisecond precision or why the timer should return different values when polled more than once in the same
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by xigency 9y ago
In at least one of the variants, I believe that the branch predictor is primed in the attacker program with some value, say 0x00ABCDEF by jumping there consistently in certain circumstances. Then the CPU switches to running another program
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by xigency 9y ago
Where and when can I buy a Mill CPU? This has been name-dropped in a few threads but best sources say it's been "in development" since 2003 which sounds like vaporware to me.

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