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by devy 8y ago
Automobiles nowadays are more like electronics with more sophisticated ECUs and drive-by-wire technologies on throttle, breaks etc. With self-driving on the horizon, they are going to be more compute intensive and be more powerful in comput
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by devy 8y ago
> The average mainland Chinese person who attended their public school system will simply not be aware of a great many historical events, such as: > Tiennamen Square (they'll know it exists as an innocent landmark in the capital,
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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)(programmingisterrible.com)
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by devy 8y ago
On a related note, I found Bruce Barnett's sed tutorial is one of the best Sed guide out there: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
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by devy 8y ago
> This kind of breathless reaction is what makes people skeptical of the entire concept. That's your opinion. There are people who believe we need to curb the carbon based energy consumption and try to reverse the negative impact of
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by devy 8y ago
Multiple reposts from the last 2 days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18726441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18729284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18725828
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AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones(fiercewireless.com)
521 points by devy 8y ago|308 comments
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by devy 8y ago
In grand scheme of things, these don't matter when the sea level raises 2 meters and 2/3 of coastal population and civilization got wiped out post-2040.
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by devy 8y ago
> In all seriousness I don’t think this is the worst thing for any of the three countries. I don't think you are being serious. The fact that humans are still exploiting fossil fuels in an accelerated pace is the worst thing could h
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Inside Shenzhen’s Race to Outdo Silicon Valley(technologyreview.com)
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by devy 8y ago
Mod, please add a (2017) date tag. This was not recent.
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When will electric airliners make sense?(arstechnica.com)
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by devy 8y ago
This reminds me of Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer. [1] And he gave a talk at Google about his book [2] [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-BS-Fixing-Workplaces-Caree... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by devy 8y ago
I’ve reconnected with a few old and very qualified friends and gotten to know the best young minds in our industry that have fresh, truly innovative perspectives. Together, we are building the best self-driving stack
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by devy 8y ago
Who is the author Sam Hawkins?
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Planning to give 23andMe or AncestryDNA kits this Christmas? Read this first(chicagotribune.com)
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by devy 8y ago
China doesn't need to export EVs to make their EV industry profitable. China is already the biggest auto market in the world, with strong government mandate, it's biggest EV market as well, with the help of Trump administration&#x
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by devy 8y ago
The site is https://visalist.io/
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Google to invest $1B in new campus in New York City(cnbc.com)
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The Visa Requirements for Every Country(lifehacker.com)
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by devy 8y ago
Yeah, I was hoping to find a CVE number but couldn't
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by devy 8y ago
Fukushima is bad press and also Fukushima was designed and constructed in 1960s, that's Gen I design and let alone they cut corners in safety. Like I said, Gen IV is much much safer and produce much less radioactive wastes. Also nuclea
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by devy 8y ago
> It is largely a national pride project It's much less a pride than a survival instinct. Just think about it, Beijing was under siege of heavy smog for over a decade by now. If Washington D.C. was like that for since Trump became t
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by devy 8y ago
Nuclear fusion is probably still decades away. But I am going tangent here, nuclear fission still have great potentials. Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory actually helped China to built Molten Salt reactors in the 70s durin
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by devy 8y ago
If important zero-day affected by Adobe software causing rippling effects perhaps they will care more? At this quality and enough time, it probably is bound to happen.
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by devy 8y ago
Honest question: why can't Adobe hire product security engineers to do this kind of vulnerability discoveries or even hire 3rd party consultants to fix bugs/vulnerabilities before they even get into production? Every CVEs exposed
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What Happens When 25,000 Amazon Workers Flush Toilets?(nytimes.com)
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by devy 8y ago
According to wikipedia, On2 Technologies, formerly known as The Duck Corporation... So it all makes sense now and all the conspiracy theories about Google's ownership proven false. And kudos to Google for transferring a high va
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Hertz plans slightly speedier rentals using facial recognition and fingerprints(theverge.com)
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by devy 8y ago
Yes, most of factors for lock-in are from features and ecosystem and replacement cost. But in licensing negotiations, license up-sale, auxiliary products & services are definitely making the lock-in tighter - since you've just made

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