PostOnce

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901.
by PostOnce 8y ago
I forgot about LIDAR, in that case, my estimate was too low. LIDAR stuff is expensive, even the lowest end stuff is thousands.
902.
by PostOnce 8y ago
I think the parts are probably at least 20K, and the software is the proprietary effort of many, over a decade or more, so the homebrew version will be incomparably inferior, to the point where it's not really "the same thing&quot
903.
by PostOnce 8y ago
the Nao robot was over $20,000 -- how much do you think this will cost? Pepper is $7,000 and it has no legs. One arm and no navigation skills is $8000, two arms is $25000 from rethink, right? I'm guessing it'll be over $100K
904.
by PostOnce 8y ago
I worked on js and php once, and now I work on AI. The tech market in NZ is very limited so I imagine anyone working for Xero in NZ has better-than-average odds of being there just because its a job, rather than because thats all they know
905.
by PostOnce 8y ago
too late to edit four days later, but I forgot to point out it is free.
906.
by PostOnce 8y ago
"Business expansion" rather than "business growth". I agree. They're expanding. They're not profitable, they expanded, the expansion incurs more loss , what they're doing is digging a deeper hole. If you
907.
by PostOnce 8y ago
I wonder if this is in fact even worse, keeping people "occupied" in money-losing companies, where if the company went under they might (especially in tech) find something productive (in the literal sense of producing something of
908.
by PostOnce 8y ago
All this to "close the gap to profitability", which, after the migration, they still will not have done, they'll still be in the red, after more than a decade. It makes at least some bizarre level of sense that a social compa
909.
by PostOnce 8y ago
The desktop (and laptop) is still my focus, too. It's where I do all my work. I'm glad someone still gives a damn. I'm glad not everyone is chasing the crowdsourced social-mobile-AI-blockchain. Not all tech has to point in th
910.
by PostOnce 8y ago
The Long Peace means there have been no wars between major powers since 1945, we fear nuclear weapons. All wars now engaged in by great powers are asymmetric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Peace also see http:&#x
911.
by PostOnce 8y ago
http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python/ This is the best totally-new-to-programming book I've ever read.
912.
by PostOnce 8y ago
"without you all this killing cant go on": It's impossible to disarm, because it's impossible to prove the other guy (russia, china) is being honest about disarming. The long peace has lasted 50 more years since that son
913.
by PostOnce 8y ago
If you want peace, you have to be prepared for war. We're currently the better part of a century into The Long Peace, something that has never happened before in human history, and it came about in part because of weapons development.
914.
by PostOnce 8y ago
There's more to life than money (like getting to work on cool stuff), plus you know the government isn't going to shut down in 9 months like every startup, or get acquired, or "restructure" your job to puff up the number
915.
by PostOnce 8y ago
castle doctrine as I understand it means your home is your castle -- you have no duty to retreat from your own home, if someone has broken into your home, the odds of something going wrong and you ending up dead are high enough that those s
916.
by PostOnce 8y ago
Many people believe it shouldn't be possible to be employed full time and still require food stamps -- that the minimum legal wage should be a living wage that covers the average price of food and rent in that area, at least. So, it fo
917.
by PostOnce 8y ago
Rosa Parks, I would argue, was limited to a particular sphere of influence (civil rights), whereas the president's wife may have his ear directly, every day of his entire career, in every field, from diplomacy to economic development t
918.
by PostOnce 8y ago
Stick a play button or mp3 link for the latest podcast on the landing page; it might help your bounce rate. (instead of me having to subscribe via something or navigate the RSS)
919.
by PostOnce 8y ago
If everyone you hire in every department is "not eager to do the work under the timelines you need", then perhaps your timelines are not realistic and you either need to adjust them, hire more staff, or both? A commander can blame
920.
by PostOnce 8y ago
It doesn't take a lot of genius, time, or money to set a link w/ url parameters or use a standard html form for e.g. upvoting or comment submission, and then override that with javascript for fancier UI / AJAX / avoid re
921.
by PostOnce 9y ago
I read it, but I thought it might be contextual. You mention things you do that other rich people can afford, but haven't tried, whereas you don't mention the things everyone has, since everyone has them.
922.
by PostOnce 9y ago
Maybe he was put on guard by the guy mentioning his driver at all? It might be suspect to mention your driver at all if it is in fact a normal occurrence.
923.
by PostOnce 9y ago
Perhaps it (Cell) would not have been a "dud" as you put it had IBM not been a morally bankrupt villain. I've read that Sony was under the impression that the licensing agreement meant that IBM would market Cell tech to other
924.
by PostOnce 9y ago
Dell, HP, and Apple all manufacture devices (laptops) used extensively, even primarily by many, for pirating movies and games, and even facilitate the piracy of games on other platforms (console flash carts etc). I don't think Kodi&#x2
925.
by PostOnce 9y ago
I don't mean general purpose hardware, I mean specifically neural hardware, whether that means GPUs (as we know them), GPUs with special hardware like the "tensor cores", TPUs, "neuromorphic chips" whatever that is,
926.
by PostOnce 9y ago
check the "kate" samples: https://github.com/Kyubyong/speaker_adapted_tts This is with 1 minute of audio and 10 minutes of training, which is crazy to me. Maybe it's not "as good", but it'
927.
by PostOnce 9y ago
Am I wrong in thinking that the cost of generating (realistic-sounding, learned-model) speech on commodity hardware will be near-zero soon, largely negating the value of a SaaS? I've been waiting a long time for decent sounding open so
928.
by PostOnce 9y ago
Pragmatic for the rich only. The disadvantaged party now has to foot the bill for changing names and thereby losing customers who may not again find them. Why should a society give that sort of obsequious deference to the wealthy? What bene
929.
by PostOnce 9y ago
Well, suppose your site is "foobar.de" and you have been running a business from it for 10 years, and tomorrow, a rich man spends 100 million euros on advertising his new business Foobar Inc, and is overnight the better known part
930.
by PostOnce 9y ago
I'm losing a lot of karma out here, but it's worthwhile, staying silent facilitates the corruption this sort of shit begets. Remember cash for kids ? The answer to your question is just one word, and that word is greed .

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