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by Tarragon 4y ago
But it's not. The article did a crap job of explaining this. You buy the battery for the same $69 that an in store replacement costs. You then get a $24 credit when you return the old battery. Apple covers this shipping cost too.
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by Tarragon 4y ago
In fact to the speed point I've had a dream that working autonomous vehicles would reduce average speed. This improves efficiency and safety across the board. Don't laugh, it could work... When your car is an extension of your liv
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by Tarragon 4y ago
It actually has to actually work to have a chance to solve these. Then... * Breathalyzer - I'll give you this one * Seat Belt interlock - seatbelts save lives just as well in an autonomous vehicle * Speed - Speed kills passengers and p
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by Tarragon 4y ago
The article above is the general link to the center. I particularly like this interview with the director: https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/06/10-1-interv...
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International Center for the History of Electronic Games(museumofplay.org)
9 points by Tarragon 4y ago|1 comments
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by Tarragon 4y ago
It's mentioned heavily in the article but I want to emphasize... Preview is the easiest way to slice up and merge PDF files.
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by Tarragon 4y ago
SOFIA gets above most of the water vapor in the atmosphere allowing it to do IR astronomy that ground based telescopes can't. SOFIA is accessible in a way that space telescopes aren't. This allows switching instruments, upgrading
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NASA’s New Material Built to Withstand Extreme Conditions(nasa.gov)
2 points by Tarragon 4y ago|0 comments
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by Tarragon 4y ago
Barbecue Pit Controller. Controls a temp sensor and fan on a smoker to maintain temp. I do embedded HW all day and just kept thinking, why buy this I can make this. But I never made one. So I finally bought one and it was the best value f
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by Tarragon 4y ago
Sure, I'll believe that an ammunition fire on the Moskva is what sank it. Hower that fire was caused by... Top contenders are missile and inept crew. Looks like Russia would rather we accept that the crew was inept than it was sun by a
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by Tarragon 4y ago
"due to damage to the hull received during the fire from the detonation of ammunition" The Ministry of Defense didn't clarify whose ammunition it was that exploded. More seriously that was the flagship of the Russian fleet in
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by Tarragon 5y ago
Such a vivid line of description in both interpretations but also a radical change to interpretation.
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by Tarragon 5y ago
Its existence was reported widely on major news sites, even Boing Boing!. There's a ton of reporting right now easy to miss important while trying to drink from the firehose. I first saw it when a friend sent me a link to this twitter
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by Tarragon 5y ago
At least a couple that I know of. There's RoboRace: https://roborace.com I don't know much about what they are doing now but in 2020 they got some coverage for an issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by Tarragon 5y ago
There is a portion of the article and video discussing the work they did after it was too much of a jerk in order to make it drive with sportsmanship. It's very high level so there are frustratingly few details. In the video the develo
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by Tarragon 5y ago
The video this article is based around is: The Making of Gran Turismo Sophy [English] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l948hMaTPuo
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Sony Trained an AI to Be So Good at Gran Turismo It Started Driving Like a Jerk(jalopnik.com)
27 points by Tarragon 5y ago|6 comments
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by Tarragon 5y ago
Good point. There's a whole bigger world of contracting that I never saw. I should be absolutely clear that my experience has been in small contract engineering firms. All of them were less than 20 engineers total and large projects we
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by Tarragon 5y ago
In the contract houses I've been in the vast majority of contracts were repeat business. A good contracting house won't pull this kind of thing because the company doesn't survive if they piss off clients. I'm out of tha
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Effect of Partial Automation on Driver Attention: A Naturalistic Driving Study(researchgate.net)
2 points by Tarragon 5y ago|0 comments
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by Tarragon 5y ago
Regarding #3: We had an FPGA that is normally in stock or at most a few weeks lead time push out to a 56 weeks lead time. (Side note: This is for machine used to in chip manufacturing... uhm, oops.) What happened then is that the vendor pri
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by Tarragon 5y ago
> they "don't allow" you (aka will boot your app if they catch it) to flow content smoothly around the notch. I don't understand, details please.
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by Tarragon 5y ago
That's a good point. It's very much talent pipeline. I guess that implies trying to get a sense of how what the candidate wants to do long-term aligns with the work we have.
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Ask HN: Performing Interviews for Intern Positions
1 points by Tarragon 5y ago|2 comments
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by Tarragon 5y ago
There are hardware limits that will make this less compelling than you imagine. I'll give 3 reasons. Note: Magic Leap specs are from a quick google search and may be out of date. Even improved they'll have the same issues to a sl
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by Tarragon 5y ago
Well probably not. Note that it's the same price as the USB-A port and cheaper than any of the others. Also the base of each of those modules is USB-C > Do I need to have a USB-C Expansion Card to charge the Framework Laptop? > T
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The “Lab-leak” inquiry at the State Department(christopherashleyford.medium.com)
2 points by Tarragon 5y ago|0 comments
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by Tarragon 5y ago
The state department memo disclosing the sick researchers story isn't anywhere near as strong as the article implies. It's not US original reporting and there is disagreement about how strong the unnamed sources really are. I&#x27
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by Tarragon 5y ago
You don’t have to give them the points card. Also, I know an engineer that was inside a monstrous grocery chain many years back. Back then the payment and loyalty systems were separated by technical measures and firing level policies. If yo
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by Tarragon 5y ago
> bout of cluster headaches (you don't want those!) Oh, now you tell me... "Cluster headache is among the most severe pains known to mankind." [1] Cluster headaches to generally thought to be neurological compared to migra

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