MarkSummer

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by MarkSummer 7y ago
The sonos system is an extreme example of "engineered to fail". The only issue is lack of memory. All they needed to do was make the memory upgradable (or supply the system with a decent amount of memory to begin with). Sonos inte
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
> When you say Bitcoin "hurts the environment", what, concretely do you mean? Presumably, you mean it in a stronger sense than "using energy to produce food hurts the environment" or "using energy to run an ER hu
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
> ...and that is what they did. In fact, that is what they still do. As someone who deals with ABS regularly, it is as weird of a conflict of interest as one would think. ABS, as far as I've seen, is comprised of honest folks who t
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
...or what frabert said much more succinctly :)
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
Sure, rather easily in fact. You just need three laser diodes (Red, Green, and Blue), each pointed into the appropriate side of an RGB dichroic optical combiner cube. The cube redirects each of the three beams, combining them into a single
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
> How would you isolate something like this? On Navy ships you have a slew of EM radiating emitters, not only from your own ship, but also from other ships that may be close by. For that reason, a lot of time and effort is spent EM-harde
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
I like the idea of using a 'enter code' (where code is pseudo randomly generated) to request your number be added to the white list. This could be done for all users not in your contacts. Then, the user could leave, say a voicemai
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
> It's mostly built in for Pixel I this this "Pixel" reply is misplaced. I've been using "Should I Answer" for about a year on my Galaxy S6, and it does everything the OP was requesting and then some. I just
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
>>The order will show up in a reusable tote–designed by engineers at UPS to withstand repeated journeys–instead of a cardboard box. I've always wondered why the scalable/reusable shipping box wasn't a thing. To me, this
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
That's... hi-larious. Favorite from the Wikipedia names list: Don Black - white supremist.
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
All I have to say is that back in I worked for the Navy PEO IWS and every year they send out requests for individuals to submit concepts (i.e. needs) for warfighter capabilities for potential SBIR grants. I think it was about 2011 or so whe
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
I went from individual contributer to manager, then back to individual contributer. But I believe the decision is dependant on the quality of work and the team you're managing. For the latter transition, I got some sideways looks at fi
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by MarkSummer 8y ago
Ha, agree. This is an amazing story if you haven't read about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian The kind of thing that kind of makes you second guess the "whacky" conspiracy crackpots.
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by MarkSummer 10y ago
Here's a 'mostly wireless' open/neutral network that seems to be scaling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net
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by MarkSummer 10y ago
> We see the consequences of a non-open Internet every day where we work in Uganda. It is common there for people to have "social bundles" that only work for Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc. This is an important perspective. R
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by MarkSummer 10y ago
Out of curiosity (by someone who doesn't know exactly how it works), is there no way for society to go completely off-grid with respect to ISPs, like power customers do with solar panels? Couldn't we then people build an inexpensi