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lp0 on fire
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I include \latex in my resume under "skills" for this reason. But I agree, it's hard to tell.
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As a technical person who hires people occasionally, the one guaranteed thing that will make me read a resume is LaTeX. I dislike profile pictures because it causes me to have unavoidable bias. Just a data point
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Besides NPR obviously having an American bias, I tried to find a funding source breakdown. Best I could find was from wikipedia: "ESA is contributing about €300 million, including the launch. The Canadian Space Agency pledged $39 milli
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By which time an American company will have copied your business model and plow 10x anything you could ever dream of raising in Europe into dominating your market.
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There's a quote I'm trying to find the source of, maybe someone can help me out. "The problem with the Chinese is not that they make cheaper stuff, it's that they make better stuff", or something similar. Thanks
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Cows have bacteria in their rumen which produce methane. As a curiosity, I ddg’d “do pigeons fart”, and according to pigeonpedia they do not because they have short digestive tracts lacking gas producing bacteria. https://pigeonp
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I think this xkcd sums it up nicely: https://xkcd.com/1338/ Humans are good at cultivating farting animals.
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I had a meeting with a CIO plus team who had booked me via Skype for business. Most embarrassing call of my life. Had to dial in via shitty audio and had to send a ppt out-of-band via email. This was probably a month into the pandemic, and
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Economists use number of patents as a measure of innovation, and my reading of the abstract was basically "piracy increases innovation where innovation = patents". I think a more interesting study would compare software innovation
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blueatlasrobotics.com | Software Generalist | Denmark | onsite Blue Atlas Robotics builds underwater robots that autonomously survey ships and other large underwater structures using computer vision as primary navigation. We are looking for
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The DARPA model which does out relatively large grants for risky ideas is the way to go. Avoid the European model, where government pork is the norm and fed through a massive meat grinder feeding a self-serving bureaucracy that wastes innov
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The safest and most straight forward is to use an umbrella company. I have friends who work for SV companies (they actually relocated from SV to overseas) in both Europe and Japan. This was the solution they chose and it works. The overhead
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To go back to Apple, in second year university (back when Apple made the best laptops for running Linux) I bought a high end MBP that fried its main board literally 2 days out of warrantee. Luckily it has been serviced by them the week earl
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I had a flying instructor that had an early serial Bose X-20 headset, the predecessor to the Bose A-20 which has sort-of become the dominant high end aviation costing $1000+. He sent the X-20 in for repairs one day, and a brand new A-20 cam
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Replace atoms with bits of quantum information and you'll get a more or less equivalent upper limit. Even if your economy is 100% information based, you still need to store/transmit that information. If a bit of data could be stor
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Approval of specific airframes and engines through STCs (Supplementary Type Certificates) is slightly misleading. In the same way, regular unleaded gasoline is also approved through STCs for many airframes and engines. This isn’t the silver
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My housemate is an organic chemist and from a past conversation apparently there is a cautionary paper regarding a grad student who lost a hand due to delayed amputation of a finger after similarly being jabbed with some nasty chemical. Can
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https://youtu.be/pCkgAelO3og
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There is a lot more nuance than that, and the danger is more about well placed nationals who can be recruited than government trained spies. This is what risk assesnments are for. The consequence of every piece of gitlab hosted code, much o
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I have to disagree with the idea that it's not a solution, governments refuse to hire foreign nationals all the time and even regulate the private sector through things like ITAR. Now I agree it's an unfortunate solution in some r
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Theres something different in my head between Branson and Bezos, it's likely just much better personal branding from the Brandon camp. One thing, though, is that Virgin never ran a monopoly, but a series of successful (and many failed)
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Ultimately gitlab has a duty of care to the customers whose code they host. If most of your customers are in the West, and there are persistent security and IP threats from certain national governments, I don't see an alternative here.
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Nanocar Race: Molecular racecar competition(en.wikipedia.org)
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Oh man, this brings back memories using SCAR as a kid to automate RuneScape. That was my gateway drug into computer vision.
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In old English man was gender neutral. Wer, as in werewolf, was the masculine. World comes from Wor-old, or literally, age of males.
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No, society already compensates for this with higher salaries for tall people.
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I have used 15x7 bitmap fonts for so long evolving over progressively higher resolution screens that I can comfortably read what others perceive as impossible being tiny. The amount of screen realestate this gives is awesome, a 1080p laptop
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Statistics for sure. But i don't really find myself using analysis on a day to day basis
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Learn linear algebra properly and this will ring true. If you know the math, it's trivial to pick up control, computer vision, back propagation, optimization, I'm sure many others.

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