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by blihp 5y ago
There are downsides with the cheaper boards, in addition to size, such as idle power consumption which is typically hideous. Virtually all of the inexpensive boards are just warmed over (or exact copies of) reference designs. He actually
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by blihp 5y ago
It did fall short of what they wanted to deliver as a device probably because it was far too ambitious... but they accomplished quite a bit due to that ambition. Consider that it was conceived of in a time before inexpensive laptops were a
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by blihp 5y ago
SQL and Prolog have a large area of functional overlap as they are both based on predicate logic. However, SQL more naturally aligned with the database-centric worldview of many business systems and offered a more natural way (for busine
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by blihp 5y ago
Replacing SQL is a tough sell because at its core, it really does work pretty well for what it was designed to do . (i.e. not most of the things they've bolted onto it and the corresponding databases this century) But it's not a
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by blihp 5y ago
It generally has been a net negative over a sufficiently long time horizon in the tech industry. Intel is slowly being eaten alive from all directions but is currently so dominant in their markets (from a business standpoint) that it&#x2
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by blihp 5y ago
Not the longest running show... soap operas, and possibly some news programs, hold that title. For example, the soap 'Days of Our Lives' has been running since 1965.
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by blihp 5y ago
Working hours wouldn't matter. Steve was a very well connected CEO and probably better connected than most re: Japan. Canon was a significant partner with and investor in NeXT, for example. So it's not a stretch to imagine he k
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by blihp 5y ago
Sure, but that's a different end of the issue than I was referring to. I was pointing out that just taking code off of github wouldn't avoid the use case. Any published code from any public source is likely to eventually be used
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by blihp 5y ago
robots.txt is a convention for those who want to be good 'web citizens' rather than legally binding. It does absolutely nothing to stop someone who ignores your wishes. For example, there are tons of bots that ignore robots.txt
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by blihp 5y ago
Anyone publishing anything on the Internet should expect this type of use case. If it is removed from github and republished via another site, there is absolutely nothing preventing another service/company from doing the exact same th
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by blihp 5y ago
It's too small a market for even mid-sized manufacturers to care about. Even if they did, the major SoC vendors aren't open enough currently ( the major limiting factor) to make this viable. So for the time being, we're l
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by blihp 5y ago
I generally think of a 'developer' as someone who can deal with more of the software development process (i.e. identify the requirements, break down the problem, define the tasks, perform the tasks) while a 'programmer'
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by blihp 5y ago
One problem with that entry: the PS/2 only ever had a minuscule share of the market. In the clone world, which was the lions share (think Dell, Lenovo etc of today), resolutions were all over the place. So 800x600 was often the mini
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by blihp 5y ago
It may be definition differences between the two companies but here's the first thing that came to mind: by any chance is your new employer a much larger organization? In smaller companies you get to wear many hats and typically have
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by blihp 5y ago
USB 3 can provide orders of magnitude (how much depends on which rev) more bandwidth. This device provides slightly more bandwidth than an RTL-SDR stick over USB 2.
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by blihp 5y ago
Both Smalltalk and Lisp are still actively, though not widely, used. I think those of us who still use them, and a handful of other languages, just got tired of the language wars and inevitably making the same old arguments vs whatever the
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by blihp 5y ago
That's a function of the state of the SoC options currently. There are very few options for an open source phone design to choose from that have sufficient public documentation. The ones that do tend to be several generations behin
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by blihp 5y ago
Won't fit within the stated budget and too risky. Better to stick with something safer like bombarding yourself with gamma rays.
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by blihp 5y ago
GPT-2/3 is at the high end in terms of size. There's a whole universe of problems, and most of the market, below it. A great many business/research needs for at least the near future would fit into a CS-2 quite nicely.
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by blihp 5y ago
The infrastructure needed for this is now fairly mature: you can rent botnets rather than build your own, infecting devices is relatively plug-and-play, device security has only improved marginally and for a shorter timespan than the useful
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by blihp 5y ago
Is their claim about electronic components 'origin declaration'[1] credible or is it just marketing sleight-of-hand? Aren't they just buying the same components made in Taiwan/China/wherever from a U.S. distributor
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by blihp 5y ago
Yes, they are well-founded as has been shown time and again. But the article is about copyright assignment, not changing the license. The debate around copyright assignment is whether there's any need/benefit to have a single en
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by blihp 5y ago
You're taking the desktop metaphor too literally. It wasn't primarily about storing everything to the 'Desktop', it was that the UI represented the capabilities of the computer in terms of everyday terminology and thing
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by blihp 5y ago
That policy assumed good faith on the part of the consumer. The original thinking was likely 'OK, if they return it after <timeframe> it's because it was a lemon/never worked right/etc' rather than for abusiv
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by blihp 5y ago
Probably not much practical use, but that's not really the point. Some may learn from it, some will draw inspiration from it, some just want to support the author and some probably just think the world is a better place with projects
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by blihp 5y ago
If you could slowly dial up the ads while retaining most of the users, probably a decent amount as a small business. However, this approach has been tried and failed repeatedly. Strangely, open source folks often see this stuff coming a
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by blihp 5y ago
Set up a support / resources landing page on your web site and set the IRC topic to point to that. People who connect to freenode will figure it out pretty quickly. Generally a good idea to always have a pointer to a page you control
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by blihp 5y ago
Without moderation, chat often turns into a spam sewer. The ability to run your own server isn't the problem, the ability and willingness to moderate it is.
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by blihp 5y ago
Don't throw away your phone every couple of years and that phone case will last many, many years. Think of anything plastic that you throw away. The items you list are durable goods and are likely environmentally better and less toxi
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by blihp 5y ago
Yes, for typical corporate development tasks which is the bulk of the tech job market. As long as they are reasonably seasoned vs what you need done and you don't throw them in to the deep end on day one. Every language has quirks an

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