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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I'm terrified that I'm going to end up the same way. First off - we don't know that guy's life situation. That is, what did he do after graduation? Or - maybe he was successful, and does delivery just to have someth
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Does the https://gigatron.io/ come close?
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> deserts where nothing grows anyway I live in Arizona. I've also driven many times through the Mohave desert. Stuff grows there. You'd have to be blind not to see that. There are whole ecosystems out here in our deserts. I ima
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'm surprised they aren't using some of the tapped-out deep pit mines here in Arizona (southern area, mainly around Bisbee). Some of those holes are huge! Then there's that old diamond pit in Russia that could be filled in (t
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Tea came in chests, sugar and potatoes in sacks, there'd be large jars for the shop owner to measure out from. Most things went to the shop in bulk. It also allowed for easy adulteration of products (ever read old formulary books
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by cr0sh 8y ago
There exists aluminum bottles - Coke at one time sold their soda in them (I think it was some kind of commemorative edition or something like that). That would have the same benefit as bottles: The ability to drink only part of the contents
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by cr0sh 8y ago
It's a funny thing - manufacturers of products want to "stand out" from competition - so they use unique shaped containers for their products... ...the same is true for the container companies! The want to stand out from thei
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> You can do it the Japanese way and collect different kinds of wastes, in a periodic (say, weekly) rotation, placing the burden to sort and bag them correctly on citizens. What happens to the others during a cycle; ie, let's say yo
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> How difficult of a challenge is it to build sorting machines, anyway? Machine vision and learning, conveyor belts, lots of delta arms - seems doable to me. Heck - maybe we need something akin to the whole "smart car" thing in
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by cr0sh 8y ago
If I were doing this, the first thing I would do is consult a lawyer, giving them whatever contracts or other paperwork you signed with your old company, along with (possibly - if you were allowed to keep them) your old employee handbooks f
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by cr0sh 8y ago
At one point, on the last level it let me play (or-gate) before going to the KS pitch - I had components on the screen, and I was able to move them around without the wires following. It was moving two of the components around (even though
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Using an MBP here - not having any problems with it... EDIT: This might be my mistake - I am using a mouse, not the trackpad (hate the thing) - so that might be a different experience?
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by cr0sh 8y ago
It took a bit to get going and understand what was wanted, etc - but once going, it feels pretty fun. Reminds me (to an extent) of the old games Rocky's Boots and/or Robot Odyssey.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I bet if somebody held a gun to my head, and I was at least allowed to dial in via modem to a *nix server with node.js on it - I could probably do my current job, to a certain bare-bones level... ...using my TRS-80 Model 100. Don't get
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by cr0sh 8y ago
This is kinda recursion - stackless, though - so it doesn't work right (and honestly, I don't know if it would work properly on actual BASIC from the era or not; it would depend on how the GOSUB/RETURN stack worked - I don&#x
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by cr0sh 8y ago
It doesn't have functions they are normally thought of - but most BASIC languages of the era (generally Microsoft derived) did have simple "DEF FN" style: http://www.antonis.de/qbebooks/gwbasman/deff
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Gotta also mention QB64 here: https://www.qb64.org/ Same thing - free, open source, multi-platform Also - a couple for Android: Mintoris Basic - http://www.mintoris.com/ (not open source) RFO BASIC! - http
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> My concern is that they will work just fine: this would bring the domestic costs of warfare to near-zero As an adjunct viewpoint to this - what happens when such weapons are available to regular people? In theory, that's possible
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'm not sure that this would be useful to you, but have you seen or played with VPython? https://vpython.org/
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> He'd be full blown "iamverysmart" if he were not actually smart. I'm not sure that is necessarily a disqualifier for that particular subreddit; I feel that you can end up as a posting on that for the lack of self-aw
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I sometimes have the feeling that each person reads ANKOS in a different manner; that is, it is almost like the work is a different book for each reader. For instance, there has been a lot of criticism of the work that nothing in it was par
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Ask HN: Whatever Happened with Black Annex?
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I got the impression that they might be some old dirt ore from the 1950s - back then, there were a ton of articles in magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics (check 'em out on Google Books and the like) about the "new
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> shouldn't it be still a goal for us humans to try to use materials which do not radiat at all? At this late stage, that is probably an impossible goal to meet.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Lucky thing some kid walked around with a geiger counter. He recorded the levels, so the numbers that officials are hiding, he knows them. His counter can be tested Neither the linked article nor your's said anything about what ki
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I noted this on the other thread about this discovery: I wonder if this might be a basis for a biological means for "backpropagation"?
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I know it's early stuff, and I am not an expert on this by any means, but I wonder if any of this would be something applicable to a biological means for "backpropagation"? Just to clarify: As far as I am aware, there hasn&#x
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by cr0sh 8y ago
What I have come to believe is the "Tragedy of Systemd" - and if I am wrong on this, please let me know - is that it was a virtually unilateral decision to make the change, by one person, without any input from others. It was like
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I like the idea of working with milling, threading and cutting metals as well as welding. I do this as a part of one of my hobbies (robotics). It's really not that fun: It's dirty, smelly, hot, and sometimes can be dangerous.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
As an employed SE (been at it for 25+ years), I actually enjoy programming at home. But the key is not doing it with the idea that I will make money from what I am working on, or attempting it as some kind of "side gig". My progra

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