Lramseyer

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by Lramseyer 7y ago
I have thought about this myself too, so I'll offer my two cents: Spreadsheets are really versatile, but they're a victim of their own versatility. You need to build something that is similar enough that people understand the conc
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
I'm going to try to name some less mentioned predictions here: - Smartphones/Tablets doubling as low power desktops/laptops will gain traction - ARM and RISC-V will gain influence in desktops and servers, not that it will mat
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
This makes me wonder how falling battery prices will affect the cost of used electric vehicles. On one hand, the replacement battery costs will go down, and in turn should make for better resale value (since the replacement cost of a wearab
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
I don't think it's necessarily about using an FPGA on the cloud for your crypto miner as much as it is about reducing the costs (not specifically monetary) associated with hardware design in general. As the blog states: "Acce
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
One thing that's very important to keep in mind when looking at air travel emissions is how fuel efficient planes actually are. The math works out to around 100 miles per gallon per passenger. And at an underwhelming 2.5% of global emi
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by Lramseyer 7y ago
That was what I thought! I’m a pretty anti-Facebook person, and I don’t have a profile anymore. But facebook has data on you both explicit and implicit. They can predict your mental health state, socioeconomic status, and they have tons of
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
Not to downplay the issue, but global warming is a much more urgent issue. It's expected to cause far more disasters a lot sooner than any potential disaster from our nuclear waste. To answer your question more practically though, our
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
I really like where the writer is going with this, and I have had similar thoughts on the matter. I believe that a good user experience streamlines the flow of attention and tries to reduce "attention turbulence" for a given task.
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
> upper middle class Americans favor endurance sports as a way to demonstrate "moral character, self-control, and self-development, rather than physical dominance." As an upper middle class runner, I can definitely agree with t
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
Serious question - How do the previous employers find out when an employee breaches a non-compete agreement? Is it usually word of mouth that makes it's way to HR/legal? or is it registered through someone's SSN? Because I kn
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
> Most of US engineers chase easy money in web technology etc. Same concern was raised by Peter Theil about VC investing not in hard tech. Ycombinator is also classic example of investing tons of money in only short term tech. Most of si
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
From my experience in the HDD industry I remember that a magnetic bit of data is about 13-15nm long and about 40-60nm wide (narrower tracks for SMR.) The length of a bit is constrained by the grain size of the magnetic media. However, the w
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
I personally think there are 2 really difficult pills that the incumbent media giants need to swallow: 1. The younger generation (myself) does not like commercials, and are willing to pay a subscription fee to remove them (ie Pandora one, H
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by Lramseyer 8y ago
How about the option to remove the dock entirely? Spotlight and Launchpad are preferable alternatives for opening apps, Mission Control works way better for switching between apps, and the list of running apps can be stuffed into the top
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
This definitely looks like something that has the potential to be really useful, and gives the example of replacing gorilla glass. While I get that this is a very tough glass, I did not see anything about it's hardness in relation to g
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
> Second, while Apple's mobile processors are currently the best in ARM world, for "pro" desktop computers Apple needs desktop-grade processor. Making something comparable to i7 isn't such an easy and cheap job. Qualc
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
If you remember back to the mid 2000's when Apple switched from PowerPC to (Intel) x86, the higher end machines still ran with PowerPC chips in them while the mid-low end products had x86 chips. All of the old applications that weren&#
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
Not really. On a battery unit, the time and number of charge/discharge cycles [wear] can be measured and used to calculate the depreciation of the battery during the time it spent in any particular car. The user can then be billed on a
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
I was a little disappointed by the lack of explanation on how light refracts. It references Snell's law and mentions how light travels slower in water, but it did not go into how it's an effect of parts of the wavefront changing v
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
I worked in the HDD industry, doing signal processing for a few years. HDDs are pretty much magical. It's insane how delicate, yet robust it all is. But to put things into perspective with some numbers, the write heads on a modern HDD
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
This is pretty cool! I know it's new and all, so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself when saying that it would be nice if it supported other languages aside from Python. I know that iPython supports Ruby, Perl and Javascript, and th
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
This is fantastic for AMD! Intel has the largest market share for GPUs with integrated graphics. While I haven't looked into it too much, it sounds like an opportunity for Intel's market share on top of what they already have. Let
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
I hope Intel does step up their game, but assuming that there's healthy competition with good ARM and AMD chips. Competition is good for the consumer. But I also want to see ARM based laptops from both Microsoft and Apple (Though Intel
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
Or you know, move away from it entirely. But in all seriousness, I actually really like Atom as a text editor, and wish it didn't consume so many resources to run.
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
This may sound like the most ridiculous criticism, but I was really disappointed that the iPhone still uses the lightning charger port and not USB-C. Every other device charges with it including Apple's own laptops. Though seeing how l
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
"If your processor has an errata in it and you update the documentation to allow that errata, is it still an errata? I think it is, but apparently it's allowed in the newest version of the AMD manuals" [37:48] I don't un
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
Not to mention the amount of CO2 emissions that would be reduced from drivers having to stop and re-accelerate fewer times. While I don't know if it would make much of a change during heavy traffic, I think it would make a huge differe
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
Pretty much all of the major car companies are making fully electric vehicles with ranges comparable to Tesla. (I know about Ford, GM, and Volvo.) However, a lot of the hype with electric vehicles is centered around Tesla right now, much li
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
While I think that what Tesla is doing is very exciting, I think the statements in this piece are way overblown. A war? How about healthy free market competition. I too am happy that Tesla has a very different take on the way we buy and use
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by Lramseyer 9y ago
Yep! I still have my i7 2600K running at 4+ GHz and Ryzen is the only thing that has made me even consider upgrading. You know it's bad when the Dow Jones Industrial Average is outperforming desktop Intel CPUs in annual gains.

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