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by dgregd 7y ago
> thanks to Poland and Czech Republic's love of coal Do you really think that people in these countries _love_ burning coal? Does this attitude help solve the problem? Poland does not have nuclear power plants, therefore it has a bi
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by dgregd 7y ago
Why is nobody talking about Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo? They have majority of Indian market. Together with Huawei they might create an alliance and create a Chinese fork of Android. If they give access to intel data to other countries then it can b
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by dgregd 7y ago
So war with Iran is inevitable? Even if majority of Americans don't support it?
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by dgregd 8y ago
> Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store ecosystem How about ISPs? Maybe they also should get 30% commission from all music downloaded through their networks? After reading Steve Job biography I read now the Jony Ive boo
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by dgregd 8y ago
I would say this is ordinary politics, an obvious calculated provocation we see every day. What is surprising is a such dump FB reaction. Why such inteligent people make such dump moves? Are they really that arogant? Maybe that arrogance is
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by dgregd 8y ago
It seems that texture detection is for NN the simplest and easiest way to recognize objects. I guess early animal vision system used to work this way. Then predators and prey developed camouflage and mimicry, to fool texture detection NNs.
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by dgregd 8y ago
As far I know Gnome 4 constraint-based layout [1] is still in planning phase. So how devs are going to build responsive UIs for different screen sizes? PS. I work on a Ubuntu laptop. [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/
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Do Neural Networks Need to Think Like Humans?(youtube.com)
1 points by dgregd 8y ago|0 comments
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by dgregd 8y ago
Two weeks ago I bought a small Zotac box with Intel Celeron N3060. The whole system with 4GB RAM and SSD drive consumes 8W. It is good for backups. It runs Ubuntu 18.04 w/o any problems.
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by dgregd 8y ago
> Under Windows 10 the new precision drivers are fantastic So it would be reasonable to limit that new Linux driver to support only Windows Precision compatible touch-pads. It seems that variety of different touch-pad hardware is causing
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by dgregd 9y ago
I deleted the old comment because I thought it was connected to another deleted comment. You can check your web server logs and see that I deleted the old in the same time I posted the new one. And I think that the comment is very relevant
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by dgregd 9y ago
My old comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15076613 So much talk about LIDAR and other sensors. Why nobody talks about obvious idea of Road Object Message Bus? ROMB is a protocol where each road object (a traf
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by dgregd 9y ago
During communism in Poland there was 1 hour of religion classes per week. Classes were run in Catholic Church buildings. Now there are 2 hours of religion classes in school buildings. Pupils who do not want to go to religion classes can hav
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by dgregd 9y ago
The only solution to tax / accounting law and software problems is to create a reference accounting system and set it as a applicable law. In other words, to describe the law in unambiguous language. Do we really have to write a law in
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by dgregd 9y ago
> One level is the superficial "we are a family, community, we are not evil, making the world better". But that's the trap to catch all the naive people and extract extra work hours from them Wow, your answer also precisel
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by dgregd 9y ago
I have always wondered why evolution has allowed such a defect. Maybe this is the effect of crossing with Neanderthals.
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by dgregd 9y ago
This scrap is not flying. French army has them and 75% of them are broken. They don't repair them because of high maintenance costs. https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/aeron...
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by dgregd 9y ago
I'm an Android developer and a few times in 2017 I confused a Corodva app with a native app. With Chrome 63 and customized over-scroll behavior Twitter PWA is really impressive, no reason to install native Twitter app. 2018 might be br
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by dgregd 9y ago
He proposes a soft version of Socialism [1]. You can own a company but you will have to pay additional 20% income tax or 20% VAT (I am not sure how to gather in taxes 20% of GDP). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socia
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by dgregd 9y ago
It is also worth to try East European wines from Hungary and Croatia.
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by dgregd 9y ago
> Like many others - I dropped Cordova and Ionic in favor of React-Native. Few years ago PhoneGap apps were really slow and ugly. So I built native Android app. This year I started building hybrid Ionic 3 app because it has to work on An
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by dgregd 9y ago
How Stencil will change Ionic (Angular) apps? As far I understand it will add real lazy loading, which should greatly reduce startup time. What are other benefits? What about Ionic v4 apps? Will Angular still be used? How we are going to wr
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by dgregd 9y ago
So much talk about LIDAR and other sensors. Why nobody talks about obvious idea of Road Object Message Bus? ROMB is a protocol where each road object (a traffic light, a sign, a car, etc.) can transmit info about itself. A car could broadca
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by dgregd 9y ago
Let's say your car ROMB received info about the white truck, while your car cameras and vision recognition systems see just a cloud and any truck in 100 m range. ROMB purpose is not to replace cameras or LIDARs, but to extend gathered
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by dgregd 9y ago
So much talk about LIDAR and other sensors. Why nobody talks about obvious idea of Road Object Message Bus? ROMB is a protocol where each road object (a traffic light, a sign, a car, etc.) transmits info about itself. A car could broadcast
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by dgregd 9y ago
After hours of bug hunting I can spend a few minutes to share my solution on SO. Documentation writing is so much different task. Additionality for many people English is a foreign language.
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by dgregd 9y ago
> the goal in question is explicitly Orwell-style surveillance Because that's the only politically correct thing they can do.
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by dgregd 9y ago
> But still every politician demandes MORE surveilance Because that's the only politically correct thing they can do.
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by dgregd 9y ago
No driver display in model 3? This will be a big disappointment for many people.
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by dgregd 9y ago
China doesn't import that much goods from the west. So crisis there shoudn't have big impact on US and Europe. Except real estate market. It seems that US, European land/houses are the only thing Chinese are interested in.

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