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by zwieback 4y ago
Resounding yes for getting an education. Learning to think and being thrown in with random other people will serve you well. I agree that learning a hands-on skill adjacent to whatever you study is valuable.
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by zwieback 4y ago
"Driver" and "passenger" side for cars. Oh wait, doesn't work in England etc. I guess for ships there is no variation between countries? Starboard is presumably where the wheel was so everyone must have left it on t
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by zwieback 4y ago
The zero interest rate and quantitative easing was available to non SV companies, though, and they went through much milder bubbles. There's definitely something specific about tech mania. And now AI company will hoover up the talent,
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by zwieback 4y ago
So from 86000 last year they'll be going to 60000ish this year? That is pretty severe. For those of us in mature industries cyclic layoffs are just how things are but 25% shrinkage is scary.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I think early Borland container libraries had a "Object" base class for everything, pre templates. All that went away as C++ compilers started supporting templates more. I remember this era as always making tradeoffs between code
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by zwieback 4y ago
I thought the original OWL with the proprietary syntax for event handlers was great but by the time the second version came around we'd grudgingly switched to MSC++/MFC.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I think that's where the craft of programming comes in. I feel like after 30 years in the field I have a reasonable idea how and when to optimize but it's not something I learned from classes or textbooks.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Exactly. I loved poring over the ROM listing and circuit diagrams of the Apple ][
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by zwieback 4y ago
I had an Apple ][ in my youth, I still feel that that was the last true Apple. I do admit they did an impressive thing or two in the meantime but nothing compares to the ][
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by zwieback 4y ago
I've worked on firmware for mass-market consumer products and one point the article doesn't raise is that firmware often supports company intellectual property such as specialized hardware, ASICs and other custom circuitry. I&#x27
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by zwieback 4y ago
The age of CEOs that recently got washed to the top saying dumbish things is just starting, though.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Very satisfied, a few years from retirement, debt free and good salary, still in good health (mentally and physically). I think a key thing for me was realizing that I liked doing hands-on stuff at work and actively resisted getting promote
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by zwieback 4y ago
It's an emotional thing. The German Green party founding ideology was built around stopping nuclear power ("Atomkraft nein danke!"). I remember having discussions about the logic back in the 80s with my German compatriots. Al
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by zwieback 4y ago
I work on inkjet nozzles. One of our drops is maybe 9 nanograms. According to Wikipedia that's about 9e-9/2.5e9 = 3.6e-18. No problem, we'll start specifying our drop weight in atto swimming-pools.
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by zwieback 4y ago
For me it's a mixed bag. On the plus side streaming services that I can pause/unpause at will. On the negative side is the fragmentation of quality media where the subscription is just high enough to scare me off. NYT, WSJ, Econom
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by zwieback 4y ago
creepy and awesome
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by zwieback 4y ago
It's not all one or the other, I'm more of a layer-at-a-time developer and within a layer development can be inside-out (start with an algorithm and add an interface) or outside-in (start with an interface and mockup, then add the
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by zwieback 4y ago
Queued up some Minutemen on Spotify. I'd heard of the band but never really listened before.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I think it's a life well lived if you have the personality for it. I know a lot of people agonizing over "making a difference" or the "meaning of life". At times I feel vaguely guilty for not feeling those feelings
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by zwieback 4y ago
Good idea, solar panel for trickle charge. Could power a few other things like a wildlife cam and weather station.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I grew up in Germany (this was the 80s) and one way my dad encouraged us to learn English was subscriptions to various US magazines, one of them was Mad Magazine. We loved it even though we missed a few cultural references. The fold in was
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by zwieback 4y ago
What are the tradeoffs, does it taste as good and is the yield ok?
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by zwieback 4y ago
Not just for highly computerized cars, I have a 97 Ranger where literally everything is manual and I don't even have a dome light anymore. There's a parasitic drain I can't quite figure out so I just make sure to start it eve
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by zwieback 4y ago
Gorgeous. I like how Timberline has a smoking Mt. St. Helens.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Glad to see C++ remains strong. I wonder if AI and graphics heavy work contribute the most. I used to architect general purpose applications in C++ but now mostly use it for number-crunching.
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by zwieback 4y ago
My code editing style definitely has changed since the 90s when one-file-at-a-time without Intellisense was the norm. Jumping to compile errors was about the only automated thing. Now I just expect my IDEs, be it VS, VSCode, Eclipse to do a
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by zwieback 4y ago
So true. As engineers we take all the art and some of the science out to make things super predictable.
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by zwieback 4y ago
.. and those who can't teach teach teaching
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by zwieback 4y ago
Since most of us don't design CPUs or micros, does it matter much whether it's RISC-V vs ARM? In other words, is there any way to contribute in the RISC-V space and gain an advantage? I can see how it could work out for Intel or N
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by zwieback 4y ago
Oh, I didn't know that. So those services where you send an email to an address and it shows up as an SMS are not generally open? Yeah, I guess that would move it into the proprietary column.

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