MrMorden (u/MrMorden)

MrMorden commented on Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? semiengineering.com/can-a... · Posted by u/stn8188

jvanderbot · 25 days ago

How does one pivot? It seems to me the job market demand is probably even more concentrated than the software market?

MrMorden · 24 days ago

Getting an EE degree is always an option — but since CS isn’t an engineering degree getting a second bachelor’s will take four years part-time.

I’m doing that now at ASU and the total requirement for me is 71 semester credits. Maybe I could have found a program for which I only needed 60ish, but that’s the only program in the country with part-time remote classes that will cover what I need (antennas and RF). Someone who is interested in digital design will have more options. (And I haven’t really looked at other countries so YMMV considerably outside the US.)

MrMorden commented on Rich Hickey: Thanks AI gist.github.com/richhicke... · Posted by u/austinbirch

nunez · 2 months ago

It's worth mentioning that AI in its current form was not AT ALL a part of Google's corporate strategy until Microsoft and OpenAI forced their hand.

Remember their embarrassing debut of Bard in Paris and the Internet collectively celebrating their all but guaranteed demise?

It's Google+ all over again. It's possible that Pike, like many, did not sign up for that.

MrMorden · 2 months ago

How did Microsoft and OpenAI force their hand? Google could just as easily not waste money on AI, use the corresponding lack of notice-me-sempai demands from their products that their users use AI everywhere as a powerful differentiator, and deliver the difference to shareholders.

MrMorden commented on FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf] docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/Espressosaurus

palmotea · 3 months ago

> The primary goal of the Trump administration is to destroy American manufacturing. They don't want factories, hence all the tariffs.

The goal of the Trump administration is to rebuild American manufacturing, but the impression I get is the people who they have designing the polices are kinda like stopped clocks: right about how free trade dogma was wrong, but lacking the competence to effectively move the needle in the other direction (and favoring bold, impulsive, and ultimately self-defeating action).

Also, I feel like there are weird echos of libertarianism here: they've become comfortable with some long-taboo sticks, but are still so psychotically opposed to government programs that the necessary carrots are nowhere to be found. Like tariff revenues should be getting plowed back into subsidies for new domestic manufacturing in strategic industries.

MrMorden · 3 months ago

Your position assumes facts not in evidence. If the administration wanted to rebuild American manufacturing, the last thing they'd do is pile on additional taxes on manufacturing domestically—which is exactly what their tariffs do.

An administration that wants to rebuild American manufacturing would decrease tariffs, not increase them. They'd eliminate the chicken tax, the Buy America Act, the Jones Act, and every other regulatory instrument that encourages domestic manufacturers to milk captive customers for all they can rather than make products that customers want to buy.

They'd also finish metrication ASAP, increase investment in technical education, implement universal healthcare coverage, modernize payment systems, and so on. You'll note that the Trump administration wants none of the above.

MrMorden commented on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/aquir

0_____0 · 3 months ago

*conversion

Although it is amusing to imagine an ATM that accosts you verbally with smalltalk when you use it.

MrMorden · 3 months ago

Surely if the ATM were to taunt you it would use C, or maybe JavaScript.

MrMorden commented on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/aquir

542354234235 · 3 months ago

Just so everyone is aware, it is still considered a foreign transaction regardless of which option you pick. So if you are using a card that charges for that, then you will be charged a foreign transaction fee. It is a foreign transaction fee, not foreign currency fee.

MrMorden · 3 months ago

Except American Express, which does have foreign currency fees (on some cards).

MrMorden commented on FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf] docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/Espressosaurus

Espressosaurus · 3 months ago

If it was phased in and didn't specifically include allied country imports, I could believe that.

This door-slamming-shut-suddenly method says there is no plan, and given we don't domestically make most of the critical components ourselves, at best it's going to take awhile to build the factories and expertise to make up for the loss of the biggest suppliers in the market.

We'll get to pay much higher prices for much worse products while we do so.

Just looking at what's available for enterprise use (since there is no consumer-selling US drone company at this point) it looks like US companies are around a decade behind.

MrMorden · 3 months ago

The primary goal of the Trump administration is to destroy American manufacturing. They don't want factories, hence all the tariffs.

MrMorden commented on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon the307.substack.com/p/rev... · Posted by u/cramsession

impossiblefork · 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure even that is allowed, yes.

Obviously he must wear a uniform while actually conducting the attack though.

MrMorden · 3 months ago

If he wants to be treated as a POW rather than a spy should he be captured.

MrMorden commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

morkalork · 3 months ago

To be pedantic, IBM is a service company

MrMorden · 3 months ago

And IBM could have been AWS a decade earlier had they so chose.

MrMorden commented on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure sacbear.com/xfinity-wont-... · Posted by u/vedmed

massysett · 4 months ago

Why should optical fiber be standard? I want reliable, speedy network connectivity. It’s up to my network provider to determine the best means to do that. I don’t care if it’s tin can and string if it provides the service I need.

MrMorden · 4 months ago

Fiber is cheaper, faster, and far more reliable. You've already constrained the problem such that fiber is the only possible solution, and there's nothing wrong with that.