UC Berkeley's intro to computer architecture course still uses MIPS for projects and exam questions.
This was true of University of Maryland back in 2015 when I was there…
Readit Newsmarnett commented on MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture thechipletter.substack.co... · Posted by u/rbanffy
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Comcast and AT&T still exist. Kraft still turns out war rations by the warehouse. Tasteless grocery store tomatoes are still the most widely available.
This metric has very little to do with quality.
Those are horrible examples. The product lines you are discussing do not exist in any meaningful sense of the term.
Can someone tell me what the point of RTO is? These companies made insane profits during the pandemic and when everyone was WFH. Why rock the boat? Is it just corporate real estate prices? Is that all it comes down to?
Municipalities where the office is located threatening higher taxation if they don’t return to office. Mostly corporations who own their buildings are impacted.
A lot of people cite executive ego which I think is not entirely the case. But the board and execs are capitalist, and likely are financially incentivized by their holdings and portfolios to have a successful commercial real estate market and active municipal economy.
marnett commented on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood supernuclear.substack.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Small world. I’ve run by the stoop coffee and their pancake parties in SF many weekends.
Love seeing the details behind this intentional community building (:
marnett commented on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes nytimes.com/2025/02/21/up... · Posted by u/belter
> Why shouldn't the health insurance industry be the first item on the chopping block?
I don't understand this question: how can the private companies in the industry be placed on the chopping block? By outlawing them?
In the context of government it would mean nationalizing them.
marnett commented on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com/2025/02/08... · Posted by u/NaOH
I can't agree with this. At various times over the last 30 years, there has been roughly two classes of people in SF: "tech workers", and "everyone else." The "everyone else" comprises teachers, restaurant workers, retail workers, delivery drivers, and others, who cater to the whims of "tech workers." "Everyone else" works in industries subject to competition, market forces, and the ruthless demand for profitability (try keeping a restaurant open for 3 losing quarters). "Tech workers" work in an industry often shielded from these exigencies, cossetted in a pillowy cocoon of VC money. "Everyone else" serves the local community. "Tech workers", if they serve anybody, tend to be disconnected from the local economy and serve national or global markets. Relatedly, "tech workers" are paid high salaries that rise quickly. "Everyone else" is paid much more modest salaries that tend to stagnate. To add insult to injury, not only did this set of circumstances arrive in SF, it also arrived quickly, in waves, representing a series of shocks. Then came the last and possibly the most serious shock: remote work. Altogether, this is a recipe for: spiraling costs, social fragmentation, homelessness, and political turbulence.
Put another way, an ocean of money was poured into a thimble and no amount of "increasing supply" is going to make a difference. Make it two thimbles, ten thimbles, a hundred thimbles, it's still going to leave a mess.
Which of the two classes does San Francisco’s billionaire capitalist class fit into in your analysis - “tech workers?”
Equally curious which the non-working property owners fall into as well?
marnett commented on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/mmsc
It's distinct in that these groups aren't isolated from each other, there's member overlap and subgroups splintering from each other due to trying to avoid authorities.
It's also distinct in the type of crimes. Sextortion involving young kids/creation and sharing of CSAM merging with extreme political beliefs and encouraging those beliefs, with a specific focus to target young kids particularly those vulnerable enough to not have parents immediately notice. The criminals are often also on the younger side, like 19 year olds leading sex cults[1].
"The Com" goes by other names due to these groups being in a lot of different regions under different monikers and subgroups. 764 network, cvlt network, harm nation, etc. All the same general type of crime and target groups.
Here's some resources warning people about them:
https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2024/08/rcmp-reminds-canadians-about...
https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
[1] https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile...
I had no idea this darkness existed. The unicorn riot piece is well researched; how awful - despicable all of it.
obligatory citation (this was on HN a little while back)
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/11/03/metrics/
Interesting. This is such an extremely toxic post.
Peer feedback is valuable, it is important, and it is expected of senior team members. I guess it is a fun game if you have a poor manager, but the whole argument around the strategy isn't even internally logical, and if you play it out it is a poor outcome:
1. Company expects Senior Engineers to provide input on their teammates. 2. Senior Engineer has a Bad Manager, and decides to intentionally withhold feedback because "that is their manager's job, and up the chain" 3. Senior Manager (skip-level of Senior Engineer) determines that their Manager is a Bad Manager, and replaces them. 4. Good Manager joins, determines who is performing, and asks "Why did none of the Senior Engineers identify this earlier?" 5. The supposedly competent, but intentionally malicious Senior Engineer in this hypothetical is (correctly) deemed either incompetent or not believable by the New Good Manager. 6. Good Manager finds a component Senior Engineer with any sense of character to replace them.
This post is such hogwash, it is so fully of toxicity, and it is a dumb strategy. When things "hit the fan" this person is being tossed out in the regime change as well.
I would truly hate my life if I worked with people even a fraction as toxic as this.
marnett commented on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline cnbc.com/2025/01/17/supre... · Posted by u/kjhughes
Have you been to China? Know anyone from there? Or is your opinion on what they deserve based entirely on TV headlines? Do you relate to them as humans? That’s what I need to see before I take anyone’s condemnation of any group of people seriously.
I’m disputing none of the facts you raise, I just don’t think it’s reason enough to label the entire country as an enemy state and shut the door like a petulant child. Especially in light of the horrifying atrocities that we ourselves are funding.
The pentagon, not US citizenry, decide the adversaries of the state.
GP is just stating that fact. The citizens’ opinion on the matter are irrelevant - the pentagon is not a democratic institution.
Why even start with a single sentence? They're asking you to come up with excuses ("growth areas") to fire twelve of your colleagues. It's a waste of your time, and you should figure out with your colleagues and manager exactly what text you need to generate to deal with this silliness.
Why do you think this is what performance review cycles are?