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by dpark 5d ago
You take a picture of your wife with your phone. You show it to a coworker. They tell you that your wife looks like a reptile wearing a rubber face mask. Your reaction is? a. “Yeah, the slight over processing definitely turned my wife into
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by dpark 6d ago
> Your odds of hitting it randomly are tiny, and it will probably the damage the port with enough repetitions of ramming it into the floor. Why would it be random? The scenario here is self driving cars. Suddenly we are talking about r
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by dpark 6d ago
I suspect a lot of management have been sold on scrum because they see it as a way to micromanage employees rather than manage change.
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by dpark 6d ago
It’s definitely a trade off but both options have a lot of real world concerns. If safeguards on the wireless pad fail you could easily cook an animal or start a fire. The bottom of the car now needs to be metal free to allow this to work.
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by dpark 6d ago
“Start your own company” in this industry seems to generally mean “spend your time begging VCs for money”.
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by dpark 6d ago
> Most scrum shops would not permit this level of backstory anymore … not much supervision If someone needs close supervision to ensure they don’t get stuck like this and spiral, they probably aren’t ready to be a senior engineer.
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by dpark 6d ago
> What's insulting about overprocessed photos? This is a heavy walk-back from reptile wearing a rubber mask. It should not be hard to understand why that statement can be seen as insulting. > You can clearly see that the arbit
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by dpark 6d ago
The point wasn’t that my robot vacuum is handling large current but that “moving device connects to power” is a solved problem. A car capable of driving itself onto this pad could as easily drive itself to a spot to plug in. Extendo-arm fro
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by dpark 6d ago
> what's with the downvotes? Presumably because others disagree. I also do not see it here. Zooming in there are clear pores and skin texture. Is it somewhat smoothed? Yeah, it has that feel. Does it look like a cheap rubber mask?
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by dpark 6d ago
I don’t know. I’ve stopped using my wireless phone charger because it’s spotty. Sometimes it charges. Sometimes it doesn’t (or barely charges). Sometimes it wakes me up at night because it’s glitching in between charging and noncharging sta
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by dpark 6d ago
> the video on the linked post The 3D rendered video of a car driving over the pad doesn’t really show anything unlocked. There are a lot of possible ways to build automated charging stations. This is not necessary tech for that scenar
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by dpark 6d ago
I have a robot vacuum that manages to do automated direct contact charging just fine. I don’t understand why wireless would be any easier. It seems more complex and less safe than a direct wired connection. I also have a lot of trouble beli
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by dpark 7d ago
“I can tell because I judge that my judgement is correct.”
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by dpark 7d ago
> claimed a real Monet painting was an AI generated imitation This is like the transvestigator creeps who think they can tell with 100% accuracy who is trans but they are regularly fooled by pictures of cis women when seeded with the n
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by dpark 7d ago
I don’t have visibility into what happened with the Windows Phone team, but Android from what I understand saw immediately that they needed to follow Apple’s lead and pivoted (originally they were building something closer to a BlackBerry).
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by dpark 8d ago
Windows Phone 7 didn’t ship until 2 years after Android. 2 more years later Windows Phone 8 was released and it was a legitimate option but just too late. Pre-7 was just not an operating system that anyone except the geekiest of geeks wante
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by dpark 9d ago
My dude the question is not what danger a ring poses but why tungsten poses a higher risk. The flesh on your finger is much softer than a normal wedding band. Again, Jimmy Fallon is an excellent example of this. He fell in his kitchen and h
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by dpark 10d ago
The additive part on the iPhone was: 1. A screen that covers the whole device. 2. A device that doesn’t suck for touch. The loss of the physical keyboard was indeed actually a loss, but was offset by meaningful improvements. My problem with
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by dpark 10d ago
Tungsten also shatters. It doesn’t crush. That’s actually how a tungsten ring that’s stuck is removed. You break it with a vice.
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by dpark 11d ago
Why would a tungsten band increase the chances of degloving your finger? A tungsten band is a lot harder than a gold band. But a gold band is already way harder than your flesh. Jimmy Fallon was wearing a traditional platinum band when he n
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by dpark 11d ago
This is the fundamental problem with all of these hypothetical new devices. If you assume you can come up with some new UI or innovative interaction model, maybe it’s purely voice or whatever else, then you have to ask if this could just ru
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by dpark 12d ago
It’s talking about physical safety. Not ethical safety. The concern here is robots physically colliding with things.
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by dpark 12d ago
If fairness this article is poorly written and doesn’t explain what they actually did at all.
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by dpark 12d ago
That’s not what this is about. This is an algorithm for giving a model more freedom while nudging it in the right direction. It’s not about what tools are available.
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by dpark 12d ago
I’m pretty sure this is just a poorly written article. HardFlow seems to be a strategy for nudging the model in the right direction while giving it more freedom. Only applying the constraints at the end is a mischaracterization from what I
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by dpark 12d ago
Fair. The kids are buying dad shoes from 20 years ago. On looks like dad shoes from right now.
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by dpark 12d ago
> we can pass those savings on to customers Did they ever say that? I have trouble imagining any exec at Nike plan for passing savings onto consumers.
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by dpark 12d ago
It went great because they started it in the pandemic when essentially all shopping shifted to online, and at that point, why not buy direct from Nike vs online from Macy’s or whatever. I totally see why they thought the strategy was a hit
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by dpark 12d ago
> it looks like shoes for retirees This is in style now. My tween daughter and her peers all own shoes that look geriatric to my eyes. I see teenagers walking around in New Balance shoes that look like my dad would have owned them 20 y
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by dpark 12d ago
Can’t speak for worldwide, but in the US Nike decided to aim for exclusivity and basically pulled their shoes from a ton of retailers. It went… not how they hoped.

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