xigency

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by xigency 9y ago
Eliminating out of order execution completely would result in much more than a 15% performance reduction.
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by xigency 9y ago
Well, critical applications, like flight systems, run on a different ecosystem and are verified. (And it costs a lot.) But my usecase might be a physical computer that isn't networked which does data science with some programs and prin
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by xigency 9y ago
What about users who only execute trusted code? All of these attacks assume you are running something you don't trust on your CPU, whether it is another user's program, a non-root executable, or a JavaScript program from a website
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by xigency 9y ago
The ads look like this, hilariously stupid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjulAWmLmx0 [0] https://www.ftcollinspriorities.com
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by xigency 9y ago
That is an amazingly bad design.
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by xigency 9y ago
Binning CPUs on clock frequency or number of functioning cores is a bit different. If you compared it to a precious metal, the higher price CPUs have fewer imperfections, therefore they cost more. The fact that they carry different product
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by xigency 9y ago
> Both transportation and renting are regulated markets for a reason: because we already have experience that infrastructure related markets without regulation will be abused. While that's true, that experience comes from a differen
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by xigency 9y ago
Good point. It's just a bit strange that there was less protest from the giants this time than in past Net Neutrality battles. It's beginning to seem like a number of these large web companies have become ambivalent to the issue.
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by xigency 9y ago
Huh, wonder why they didn't make that clear leading up to today.
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by xigency 9y ago
Try selling something on ebay and see how much money you get back.
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by xigency 9y ago
Ah, yes, Safari. The only web renderer allowed on the platform. They may hold 20% marketshare but it's an important 20%. Trusts and anticompetitive practices have multiple forms as well.
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by xigency 9y ago
I agree. The laws themselves read very anachronistically and I can only hope over time they are rolled over to have a much smaller scope. i.e. the government can require specific well-labeled qualifications for its own projects. There are m
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by xigency 9y ago
The problem I see with that law, and I believe it is possibly the same issue in the U.S. with many state laws is that, as well defined as it is, if I mix and match the terms from the definition then someone with an economics degree from an
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by xigency 9y ago
The suit isn't about money. It's about having the law removed as being unconstitutional.
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by xigency 9y ago
I'm interested in this because I know PE exams exist and there are licensing bodies for engineers. But what I've heard from most people is that they are a waste of time and money for someone holding an engineering degree unless yo
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by xigency 9y ago
So it's a corner case?
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by xigency 9y ago
Because maybe you had to pay to access the network and part of that involved binding your mac address. For example, calling the hotel desk to get your device to work.
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by xigency 9y ago
See Ken Thompson's award speech where he talks about the original C compiler backdoor: http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack http://vxer.org/lib/pdf/Reflections%20on%20Trusting%20Trust....
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by xigency 9y ago
I generally agree, but I was involved in an internal hiring interview where a candidate was extremely qualified. In that situation, I was able to ask a hard and open-ended problem about graph traversal on the whiteboard. And it was fun to s
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by xigency 9y ago
The test is the ability to apply knowledge, which is probably the only thing they need. The commenter did say it was mentioned in the job listing.
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by xigency 9y ago
And down the road they need zero generalists? I think the important takeaway is that they were 100% rejected. Maybe they need fewer people who are framers or founders as time goes on, but to have none sounds risky. As you said the founders
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by xigency 9y ago
Home Depot's website can actually show you where items are on a map. I discovered this because my local Home Depot used to be a KMart and has the most bizarre layout I've ever seen.
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by xigency 9y ago
I wouldn't say this is a conclusive debunking. According to your source from 2012: > So why is this a myth? It's certainly true that Monsanto has been going after farmers whom the company suspects of using GMO seeds without pay
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by xigency 9y ago
> Note that there's a female only version of Code Jam That proves that it isn't always zero-sum. They've opened up more spots by creating an additional event for women.
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by xigency 9y ago
- Family courts While I would have thought that these would weigh in favor of women, in my experience I have actually seen the opposite. There are many family judges and lawyers that are incredibly sexist and will screw over women
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by xigency 9y ago
That's doubtful. In 2015 they called me back to clarify my college GPA after an onsite interview. The next week they gave me a rejection.
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by xigency 9y ago
A big thing for me is the difference between offline and online speech recognition. This really ties in with the last point, advancements need to be efficient in order to be used. I'm not sure how much work it would take to scale down
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by xigency 9y ago
Sure. I feel like this discussion has drifted away from the original comment and reply. Great vent, mediocre article.
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by xigency 9y ago
Yes, I understand the acronyms, but they are being used as jargon, not in a instructive way. If I were to talk about a web framework and say, "we've got our JSON files wrong and our package configs are cluttered, and don't ge
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by xigency 9y ago
The article isn't very concise and is actually quite repetitive, it uses a bunch of jargon (without any description), and shifts blame around. The topics are interesting and the opinions are there, but it certainly could be written bet

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