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Thing is, nobody wants that effect. We want the PhDs. What we do not want it companies that bring in cheap barely-qualified labour for cost-cutting. This hurts the people brought in (they are stuck in…

Thanks to FB, it is now such in every language :)

to actually execute any commands or do anything you need to get "validated" which costs $3 by paypal or $1 + postage by us mail

Precisely because it is a market segmentation tactic, they do allow ECC on lower end chips which they do not see stealing marketshare from Xeon. My home media center PC / NAS runs an i3-4370 CPU …

When did the transition occur from success and profit mattering to $$ raised being the most important metric? So many startups today brag about $ raised before they even mention what they do. Is this …

The operating costs of a VLJ are still insanely huge. Example: a piston plane - SR22 can fly 200mph for 1200 miles on one tank of fuel. Approximate cost of that flight including amortised repair and m…

Wonderfully put, especially this sad tidbit: I tried to capture a movie of myself scrolling through the Verge Apple watch review, but failed. The graphics card on my late-model Apple laptop could lite…

In EU and USA, flying a passenger aircraft requires reserves of 30 minutes minimum (more in some cases, never less) if your flight time is 20 min, you cannot legally take off if your flight time is 31…

1. Helicopters (multi or single rotor) are significantly less fuel efficient than planes per distance and per time 2. Electric planes are just barely approaching the flying time that is anything beyon…

This! 1000 times this!

On Android on most phones Chrome does not come preinstalled. Samsung, LGE, etc all ship their won browsers. Users must actively seek out chrome and install it themselves... So no at all like IE/M…

> Rust is the new kid on the block. > It supports a wide variety of platforms, > and might even run on that microcontroller > you think can’t run anything but C. Hahaha. Oh, you're se…

How do you know this and how did you find that?

Software is almost a perfectly open market. If proponents of rust really think their preferred language is better in every way, they are free to rewrite the world in rust, and see the adoption numbers…

The problem is places like support forms. If you go to my site, click on "contact us" and fill in your message and email, you did not directly email me, as per boxbe. So if I honestly try to…

The more bits you're willing to lose during quantization, the more zeroes the resulting bitstream will have, the better it will compress. The more bits you lose during quantization, the more ring…

Cool, but neither the article nor the paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04416.pdf ) mention just how much slower it is.…

How fast could you then fire them? How much money wasted on that and onboarding? Compared to the risk of missing out on that one person who cannot whiteboard but is otherwise brilliant? Quite a gamble…

Worked with a guy once who was a pro at this. Every day he did nothing, but when higher ups asked the team what was done and how, he managed to take credit and explain how things worked well enough to…

I agree it is not ideal, but the counterexamples I provided do explain why other suggested methods are too simple to fool.

And how do you know that they did not farm it out to rentacoder.com?

Devil's advocate: How else will you prove that YOU shipped those things over that period? * Github account? Ha, my code is on github in many places, mostly without attribution, none of them upl…

Modern CPUs heavily cache (in L2 & L3) the page table entries (some even speculatively load them into cache), so actual DRAM accesses are rarely needed.

No I do not. Code is fine. Comments in code are cut off mid word. PixelXL. Chrome.

Website is unusable on mobile. Text falls off right side, horizontal scrolling disabled. How is this still a thing?

In that case please stop driving (go fix public transit), eating at restaurants (go fix soup kitchens), using Lyft (go fix cabs), etc... (The point is: the people providing alternatives are under no o…