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by xondono 6y ago
“They do not buy new cars” is a great way for car manufacturers to lobby for more benefits. Looking at sales numbers, “they don’t sell as much as they used to” is waaaay more accurate.
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by xondono 6y ago
I didn’t imply that they made cars for poor people, I implied they don’t make cars for rich people. There’s a lot of people that are neither poor nor rich, that people keep thinking in those terms baffles me.
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by xondono 6y ago
Exactly, you get rich by doing what the rich want, not what most people want, that’s why Lamborghini owns Volkswagen! Wait..
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by xondono 6y ago
Why would you assume that I’m assuming everyone is evil? I’m just assuming that people generally follow incentives and thus averages will reflect them. If you need any evidence for “People follow incentives”, we have full branches of studie
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by xondono 6y ago
Would you sacrifice all humanity for that knowledge? Since I’m guessing your answer is “no”, then there’s obviously a maximum price (even if my bound is ridiculously off)
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by xondono 6y ago
I’m with you. Not only the job didn’t seem to match the prospect, the “large organization politics” drove me away pretty quickly.
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by xondono 6y ago
Not necessarily. That the additional income is “nice” means that you personally think it has improved your wellbeing, not that it has. I might think that bacon makes me feel happier, until I need a bypass 10 years later.
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by xondono 6y ago
My point is that reported data is generally very unreliable, since there’s all kind of incentives that bias the results. As for that generating happiness, think of drugs for instance, that you personally want them doesn’t mean they’re goo
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by xondono 6y ago
Better reported wellbeing is not that important. I would also report being happy if I think saying the opposite could cost me this nice additional income.
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by xondono 6y ago
I’m sorry but the “day-to-day doesn’t let me learn” always sounded like an excuse to me (not implying anything personal). It can be true for some time, but it’s always a temporal situation. Adquiring skills has pretty much nothing to do wit
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by xondono 6y ago
How recent was that DDR3 design? Last time I checked length tunning on kicad was a nightmare to get to work properly. If they’ve improved it I might give it a chance
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by xondono 6y ago
KiCad just drags stuff from very old days. The concept of having split tools for schematic and pcb just doesn’t cut it any more. Nowadays most companies have transitioned or are transitioning to do layout inhouse, because modern products ar
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Ask HN: Tools for Managing Client Information
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by xondono 7y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that all the problems cited in the article are too much people with only a hammer seeing only nails
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by xondono 7y ago
As someone who knows some of the challenges of this project closely, it’s amazing to see it coming to fruition
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by xondono 7y ago
Alice and Bob just need to agree before hand on the proper distribution of 1s: Alice will set the combination 100 if she was assigned either the first or the second rows, and the 010 if she is assigned the last. Now Bob knows how to win if
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by xondono 7y ago
Like most nations, they don’t need nearly as much, but they’re a popular way to sell jobs programs
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by xondono 7y ago
The main problem with all this kind of testing is how little precision there is. “Double the energy limit” sounds a lot, but for a lot of these labs that’s inside of the error range of their equipment.
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by xondono 7y ago
They mean that because that’s what they were designed to do. In big corporative networks it’s the non tech-savy users that are the weakest link in the chain, and TPM is a way to provide guarantees. One of the drivers of all this technology
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by xondono 7y ago
I think F1 is a leading indicator here. At the beginning F1 was decided mostly by the pilots skills, then increasingly by training. Then technology took the spotlight and was the way to have an edge, and now finally it’s the best lawyering
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by xondono 7y ago
It would be amazing to have a collection of guides like this sorted by country!
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by xondono 7y ago
We do learn from past mistakes, paraphrasing Friedman: “We won’t make the same mistake again, but we’ll find another new way to fail”
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by xondono 7y ago
Profit in infrastructure is a delayed indicator, it talks about how the company was doing, not how is it doing now.
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by xondono 7y ago
My feeling is that rewrites simply don't scale well. To make them work you need resources, good planning and motivation from everyone involved. As the number of people increase the probability that any of them made a mistake estimating
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by xondono 7y ago
I do the same, you might find givewell.org interesting.
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by xondono 7y ago
A lot of embedded systems use file storage even while not having an OS. A very cheap way to add storage to low volume productions is to add a microSD card. At that point it’s easier to go for something like FAT and work with that
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by xondono 7y ago
One of the big caveats is that embedded engineering is very location dependend. Barcelona (where I live) has big demand for web/app software engineers, but embedded engineer jobs are way rarer. For embedded engineers getting >40k€ i
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by xondono 7y ago
From a spaniard perspective, the fact that he started with no experience making double what I make now (10y) blows my mind. I know outside of Spain is different and all of that, but man it is depressing
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by xondono 7y ago
The only feature that I use google search for nowadays is extension filtering. Ext:pdf is great for finding about technical topics
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by xondono 7y ago
I find this kinds of keyboards very interesting, but doing CAD work seems like a pain. The biggest problem I find with all of this is that most of my software has locked down (or crappy systems for changing) shortcuts, so it would be painfu

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