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by akamaka 4y ago
This is exactly the answer I was looking for, thank you. This TI chip draws a little more power during computing than a calculator solar panel would provide, but it could easily work if it stayed in sleep mode part of the time.
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by akamaka 4y ago
Thanks, this is a great example of what’s possible now, since it has wireless capabilities.
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by akamaka 4y ago
How powerful of a computing device could be powered by a small solar panel these days? We had solar powered calculators in the 1980s, but with chips being so much more energy efficient now, I imagine we could build a much more impressive de
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by akamaka 4y ago
A coal plant at Fukushima would have killed zero people if we spent $200 billion on containing its pollution, which is what it will cost to clean up the radiation from the disaster.
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by akamaka 4y ago
One interesting detail of the ad is that the actor clearly has no idea how to use a mouse — of course he would have never seen one before. I’d completely forgotten there was such a time.
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Xerox PARC – Office Alto Commercial (1979) [video](youtube.com)
87 points by akamaka 4y ago|53 comments
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by akamaka 4y ago
Not sure what your point is. Anti-bribery laws are being expanded around the world. The OECD covers 2/3s of the world’s GDP, and is actively working to bring all its members up to the same standards. It’s not some “feel good” fantas
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by akamaka 4y ago
> that's that shareholder's problem Yes, and thus the shareholders have pushed forward anti-bribery initiatives: https://www.weforum.org/communities/partnering-against-corru...
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by akamaka 4y ago
Completely untrue. This isn’t some fool’s errand with the US standing alone, these laws are being expanded to most of the industrialized world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD_Anti-Bribery_Convention
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by akamaka 4y ago
Wrong. Many of the owners of the company — the shareholders — are invested in a diverse group of companies. If those companies in their portfolio are competing to out-bribe each other, there is no gain to the investor. The gains go mostly
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by akamaka 4y ago
This is a very misguided comment. Bribery is a net economic loss — the company has to pay the bribe, and there is a long-term loss as the money gets spent on yachts instead of projects that spur further economic growth. Companies and their
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by akamaka 4y ago
One thing is for sure: they aren’t going to hire someone with potential and invest in developing them up.
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by akamaka 4y ago
Original paper was posted to HN last month. Here’s the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32159891
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by akamaka 4y ago
If we’ve spent more money evacuating populations from irradiated areas than on training wind turbine technicians to use harnesses properly, does that mean nuclear energy is safer than wind power?
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by akamaka 4y ago
It’s really ridiculous to say that nuclear is the safest form of energy, when deaths at Chernobyl and Fukushima were prevented only by enormous cleanup efforts that will probably easily exceed $100 billion each. That doesn’t include the lo
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by akamaka 4y ago
What made my implementation disastrous turned out to be that there was no enforcement of string encodings, and users started to see all kinds of garbled text.
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by akamaka 4y ago
I recommend that all developers should at least once try to write a web app that uses plain files for data storage. I’ve done it, and I very quickly realized why databases exist, and not to take them for granted.
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by akamaka 4y ago
Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don
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by akamaka 4y ago
I liked his early programming-related ones the most: Chris Latner, Jeremy Howard, Bjarne Stroustrup, Jim Keller, Brian Kernighan. I actually haven’t listened the bulk of his interviews (nothing related to crypto, philosophy, history, phys
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by akamaka 4y ago
There are plenty of more talented podcasters than him, but the appeal of his interviews is that he asks simple, non-leading questions, often stupid ones (e.g. “what is a compiler”), but encourages the guest to talk and give really full answ
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by akamaka 4y ago
I think the problem is simply in the varying writing skills of academics. Of course they need to take into consideration current theory and political viewpoints if they want their work to be relevant. But it takes an unusually skilled wri
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by akamaka 4y ago
What this article misses is how most of these old designs are also unoriginal, using typefaces that were overused: - 1700s-style hairline serif fonts for fashion brands, attempting to give an aura of being an old established fashion house
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by akamaka 4y ago
It’s probably just an editing mistake. In a different part of the document, it says the same person works for Enforcement and Removal Operations in Minneapolis, which could also be abbreviated to ERO.
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by akamaka 4y ago
I think the events of this week should put an end to this line of argument, which claims that protecting gun rights will have a positive halo effect on all other human rights.
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by akamaka 4y ago
I’m starting to wonder if one of the best features of Jira is that it directs all of the developer hatred away from management and toward the task-management software. I’ve worked on projects that used Jira very effectively, so I’m convinc
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by akamaka 4y ago
I think you should ignore some of the negativity around you, like people saying you’re “stupid” or “being used”. If I were rich, I would spend my time doing exactly what you’re doing: having fun working on cool software, with interesting pe
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by akamaka 4y ago
The street dogs of India seem especially lethargic compared to ones I’ve seen elsewhere. I wonder if it’s the hot climate, the ease of finding food in an ultra-dense urban environment, or perhaps more exposure to parasites. It would be gr
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by akamaka 4y ago
To take your analogy further, the LISP masters are like ultra-fit personal trainers. When they run a bootcamp for out-of-shape people, they start off with impractically intense exercises and just make everyone demotivated.
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by akamaka 4y ago
For a good laugh, read the conclusion of the paper, which sounds like it was written in the year 1960, when inner cities were crumbing, and imagines that rural areas will get better public transit when the poor escape the cities they are “t
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by akamaka 4y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18642755

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