beltex
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
The elephant in the room to me is that companies talked a ton about creating spaces that are conducive to great work. The design and architecture of an office matters. Not all have it right, but for those who do, it goes a long way. See Pixar as an example. But all of a sudden everyones acting as if none of that matters, all because we get to skip a commute and sit in our pyjamas?
You truly don't know what you've got till its gone...
Comment · 8 years ago
About the 2016 tag that was added to the title. While the header does say 2016, I think it's that the file wasn't made open source by Apple till this weekend.
Aside - explicit reference to Raspberry Pi here:
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-4903.221.2/osfmk...
Comment · 8 years ago
Credits for the find: https://twitter.com/s1guza/status/1071951039115464704
Comment · 8 years ago
Project page - http://rapids.ai
Comment · 8 years ago
May he rest in peace.
Glioblastoma is particularly awful, even in the realm of cancer. Two books I found quite interesting on neurosurgery and cancer as a whole.
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
and
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Comment · 8 years ago
While were on the topic:
USENIX talk from VP of software at SpaceX (2016)
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16/conference-program/...
(Speaker was concurrently interim VP of Autopilot at Tesla for a bit as well)
Few interesting bits:
- Speaker’s background is SRE at Google
- Engineering culture: Authority, autonomy, accountability. Blameless postmortems
- High Integrity C++ & MISRA coding standards
- The spacecraft has multiple onboard computers, all running Linux
- Tripe String Architecture, 3 redundant computers, whose results are cross checked with majority voting before being applied in real time, given radiation tolerant over radiation hardened hardware
Comment · 8 years ago
Indeed. Given the number of down votes, either folks didn't catch that, or it's all the short sellers :)
Comment · 8 years ago
"Tesla Goes Bankrupt
Palo Alto, California, April 1, 2018 --
Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt. So bankrupt, you can't believe it."
- Elon Musk
— George Orwell, Animal Farm
I understand the moves by Stripe, Twitter, and co. However, I would argue that the long term implications set by this precedent are much worse. When the Snowden story first broke back in 2013, many on HN argued that, hey it's all good, I have nothing to hide, and I trust our President. Three short years later, who took the office? Would you have every imagined that? The same goes for this. Think five minutes into the future if you will.
If the leader of the free world can be banned from all social media and co, who are based in the very same nation, and who are monopolies, then what hope is there for the rest of us?