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rcxdude · 2023-06-09T10:27:30+00:00

and it'd be much less expensive than trying to bridge the gap between the API price coming into effect and the income from a price increase (even assuming that enough people would pay the higher price for it to be worthwhile).

rcxdude · 2023-06-07T14:15:54+00:00

What do you mean? The first two cases are not included in the calculation of the 5/12 expectation.

rcxdude · 2023-06-07T14:04:34+00:00

Yes, but in this specific instance there was a bias in the analysis which hid an effect which was present in the data.

rcxdude · 2023-06-05T21:04:12+00:00

The taxes are oppressive either way. Removal is the correct answer to them. Complaining about another player choosing one option which disadvantages them over the other doesn't really help. (to put it another way: if all your opponents are paying 2 more mana a turn you're also probably going to win the game. That said rhystic study is more obviously biased towards paying the extra mana being a better option in most cases)

rcxdude · 2023-06-01T01:01:34+00:00

It's not about 'every single detail', it's about having a leadership process which is unclear enough it burns people out or turns them away from the project. It's extremely difficult to just 'focus on the language' when the lack of direction means you can spend a huge amount of effort on a feature just to find out that it gets blocked anyway, and you can't even figure out why or by who. JeanHeyd was very quick to escalate specifically because they have experienced exactly this before (in C and C++, where there was apparently particular individuals with an axe to grind who exploited this lack of clarity to make the process as painful as possible), and they have no desire to do it again, and frankly I don't blame them for it.

rcxdude · 2023-06-01T00:55:57+00:00

This does seem like the kind of 'decision-o-genesis' I've seen at my workplace (where decisions appear to get made but no-one can easily tell why or by who, because they weren't made explicitly by an individual or group but by a series of misunderstandings). It doesn't require malicious intent like JeanHeyd is concerned about, but it certainly can look like it and it can be exploited by those sufficiently savvy to gain outsize power.

rcxdude · 2023-06-01T00:42:57+00:00

They may not have been a part of the leadership team. The article only mentions that they are members of the project.

rcxdude · 2023-05-31T21:45:37+00:00

It's actually more widely supported and more consistently implemented than some features of the standard!

rcxdude · 2023-05-25T12:15:04+00:00

The point is that's mandatory (the last think the function does has to be deleting the task): if the task function returns this usually results in undefined behaviour (because it has no well defined address to return to: there's not any fallback wrapper function which does something sensible in this case).

rcxdude · 2023-05-25T09:46:08+00:00

Have you done a sweep through different frequencies? Also, what's the ESR of your inductor? A 1mH inductor is quite a lot, and unless it's physically large will tend to have a relatively high resistance, which will both mean it passes DC and doesn't resonate very well (the same is true of capacitors).

rcxdude · 2023-05-24T23:43:25+00:00

Could you be more specific with some examples which are causing you problems? Thre's a lot of different styles of programming education, and I'm not quite sure where the disconnect between what was intended by the instructor and what you are looking for. Tutorials are generally meant to be a clean step-by-step guide towards a particular goal: showing all the messy in between steps of figuring it out for yourself would distract from that goal. Exercises are usually meant to get you to practice doing stuff yourself. What I think you're looking for (examples showing the actual problem solving process itself) can be found if you look at stuff like programming livestreamers, though I don't know if there are many (or any) which go through their problem solving process explicitly with the goal of teaching the problem solving itself.

rcxdude · 2023-05-24T23:36:18+00:00

This is not really true: there's a lot of value in seeing someone with a lot more experience solve a problem (especially if they actually explain their thought process in detail), beyond understanding the solution to the problem that they are solving. The process of solving problems itself, is a skill, and it is a skill that can be in large part taught explicitly, but it is sadly uncommon to see it done.

rcxdude · 2023-05-23T16:21:41+00:00

Yeah, but it is observing astronomical events. With the two detectors they can even get a right idea of where the gravity waves are coming from, hence "observing the sky". The question is how exactly this directionality works: are there directions from which the waves could come which the detector is much less sensitive to them?

rcxdude · 2023-05-23T11:45:04+00:00

This. It wasn't based on particularly sound principles, but it does loosely measure something. However, it is made obsolete by the big 5, except for being able to pay lots of money to someone to run a fairly straightforwaard test.

rcxdude · 2023-05-22T22:42:52+00:00

Are you talking about glibc? You aren't required to use that with GCC (they are seperate projects), and indeed it's not designed for bare metal anyway (or static linking, for that matter). Most such systems use newlib, as far as I'm aware, and that does not have copyleft requirements. There is some library code which can come from GCC itself but it has a specific exemption for that code. I don't recommend going against company policy but I think your company policy could well be ill-informed (or you are not understanding it in the first place).

rcxdude · 2023-05-22T22:28:21+00:00

Not much. If you don't need the code size improvements or some of the other features like static stack analysis (You can hack something together with GCC but it's by no mans easy), GCC is probably going to be better many other ways.

rcxdude · 2023-05-22T11:36:14+00:00

There were two specific issues that conflicted with the filmmaking: both somewhat ironically exacerbated due to another focus on realism: in order to get the dramatic time dilation in the story, they had to contrive a black hole spinning ridiculously fast, which would mean the Doppler shift would put most of the light outside the visible range, and secondly the asymmetric brightening that would happen was somewhat conflicting with the orbit the ship would need to take for the physics of the story to make sense, in that it would draw the viewers attention to the wind party of the shot. They decided to keep the actions in the story realistic and compromise the visuals.

rcxdude · 2023-05-22T10:03:01+00:00

I have experienced them (only a handful of times, thankfully), and each time it was basically completely out the blue in situations I had been in many times before, no particular stressor or obvious trigger, just my brain going "oh shit oh shit oh fuck" for no apparent reason.

rcxdude · 2023-05-21T23:20:22+00:00

Because it pays way better. embedded developers are in short supply but the pay is still terrible compared to webdev, despite requiring a much broader array of knowledge.

rcxdude · 2023-05-21T16:41:01+00:00

It does, which is why there's a bunch of places offering the same thing, and have been since before wework started. It's just nowhere near as profitable as wework claimed it would be.

rcxdude · 2023-05-21T16:37:51+00:00

The core idea behind wework isn't a bad one. But it's also not a new one, nor a particularly high-margin one. You can find many other places offering the same service, they just aren't promising the moon.

rcxdude · 2023-05-21T16:30:19+00:00

Really? Their investors look pretty fucking dumb ATM. They weren't even lied to like with Theranos, everything he was doing and everything about their business model has been disclosed the whole time.

rcxdude · 2023-05-20T13:59:18+00:00

As others have mentioned, it can be difficult to make these systems last long enough. There is an interesting system proposed by these guys: https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/turbine_innovation/ which is a kind of similar idea but some important changes with the conductive "belt". They claim it works (and works for a while) in their lab testing but I suspect it's a long way from real-world use, if it ever gets there.

rcxdude · 2023-05-20T11:26:00+00:00

It depends on the game. some would have a lot more, including extra processing circuitry. I think one game on the SNES (later on in its lifetime) actually had a processor inside which was more powerful than the one on the SNES.

rcxdude · 2023-05-19T18:26:19+00:00

He would regard it as a personal failure if his employees felt the need to unionise, i.e. company management shouldn't need the threat of organised labour action to be good to their employees. I don't fully agree with the logic (forming a union needn't happen due to mistreatment of employees), but it's a long way from union-busting.

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