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by blacksoil 5y ago
I was using this a lot. Pretty good and no-nonsense :)
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Robotic Camera Backpack for Cockroach(washington.edu)
1 points by blacksoil 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 6y ago
> However, it [Typescript] does not actually ensure that the data you are manipulating corresponds to the type that you have declared to represent it. For example, the data might contain additional fields or even incorrect values for dec
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by blacksoil 6y ago
I'm really curious how performant Rosetta translated x86 applications would be, especially considering Transmeta's non-succesful attempt of doing something similar. It sounds like the key difference is that Rosetta would do it ahe
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Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful(theverge.com)
2 points by blacksoil 6y ago|2 comments
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by blacksoil 6y ago
I'm very not comfortable with camera-only and no-sensor approaches in self-driving cars. While they can train a neural network with millions or even billions of sample images from real-life tests, I do think they're still bound to
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by blacksoil 6y ago
Not exactly a lie, but I guess a drawback: while having a source code is nice in a way people could know that the program is safe, in the same way open source is also more prone to getting hacked. The reason is because potential hackers cou
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Interactive Programming in C (2014)(nullprogram.com)
3 points by blacksoil 6y ago|0 comments
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Read_once and Write_once in Linux Kernel(github.com)
3 points by blacksoil 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 6y ago
There's also a white paper describing what they plan to do with it in more details: https://pages.ubuntu.com/rs/066-EOV-335/images/Cloud_Gaming_...
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Anbox Cloud: Scalable Android in the Cloud(anbox-cloud.io)
1 points by blacksoil 6y ago|1 comments
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by blacksoil 6y ago
Researching LKML contributors is a really good idea. Thanks! Yeah Linux kernel positions seem to require extensive experience. Do you have any suggestion on what would be a good way to bootstrap such experience? Would making contribution to
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Ask HN: Moving into System Engineering
4 points by blacksoil 6y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Moving into System Engineering
2 points by blacksoil 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 7y ago
I had been using Pencil on Linux. But lately I have been using Figma on Windows. I like the interactivity aspect of Figma where I could build an interactive demo real quickly to showcase an idea
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Facebook Container for Mozilla Firefox - Limit Facebook from Tracking You(addons.mozilla.org)
2 points by blacksoil 7y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 7y ago
I think you should definitely reach out to those startups to see if they'd be interested to buy it. Maybe you could package it more as a software consultancy service where you'd customize the code to fit their needs. Since lots of
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IRS Followed Bitcoin Trans, Takedown of the Largest Child Exploitation Site(forbes.com)
2 points by blacksoil 7y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 7y ago
4 years ago I cold emailed and phoned you to ask for advice regarding PhD program. I followed your advice and ended up not pursuing a PhD. And yeah, I think you're totally right :) so yeah, thanks again for answering my cold-email and
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by blacksoil 7y ago
I was thinking of getting a PhD 4 years ago. I applied and got accepted to CMU master's program in robotic vision. I planned to go through the program and worked my way to get into a good PhD program because I didn't have enough c
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We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone(technologyreview.com)
6 points by blacksoil 7y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 7y ago
Would the author be in trouble by posting this? I really hope he would not.. I'm just afraid there's some sort of clause upon registration against this sort of hacks..
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by blacksoil 7y ago
While it's true that training a new DL model requires lots of computation power, I personally feel that such activity mentioned in the article is more of "application" of ML instead of "research". I personally think
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by blacksoil 7y ago
Good example. I think this should be handled by whatever data store is being used, though. In case of SQL, transaction.
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by blacksoil 7y ago
The problem on the article is because the author seems to be using ORM as a complete replacement of SQL query. When it's used like that, for sure it's gonna be a hindrance. How I use ORM is to help automating some of the things, w
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by blacksoil 7y ago
Although there are lots of cases where React is overused, for example in mostly-static pages that don't really benefit from automated state bindings, there are situations when React is nice. I just recently came back to Android develop
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How NVIDIA Started (2013)(youtube.com)
2 points by blacksoil 7y ago|0 comments
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Advice from Steve Jobs(youtube.com)
2 points by blacksoil 7y ago|0 comments
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by blacksoil 7y ago
This is really cool! Kudos! I know CS is a great way to help improve underprivileged kids' economic status. As long as the person has certain kind of "wiring", is willing to work hard, and not giving up easily, it can bring a
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by blacksoil 7y ago
Considering the launch of Mac's App Store, the move to using LLVM IR-based distribution, and this, it sounds reasonable that they're trying to build an ARM-based MacBook! And considering the present state that OSX performs much be

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