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by dublin 5y ago
Totally agree. I too had the Covox voice recognizer on an SX-64 doing voice-controlled x10 (and other) home automation in the '80s. The amazing thing is that despite the fact that an RPi 4 has more power than a Cray had back then,
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I did that in the first few startups, but it's not necessary, and is a sign of a poorly run startup. Good startups may occasionally need that frantic burst of "get it done", but mostly, just have a "work hard, play ha
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by dublin 5y ago
I've been in several startups with really good product/market fit, really good teams/people, and good customers that still didn't make it. (Sometimes it has nothing to do with you, but just luck and the external world,
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My experience is quite similar (down to the robotics specialization!), but my first jobs were in big companies in aerospace, oil tools, oil exploration computation, and eventually, computer manufacturers and software. At each of these, I l
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One thing is certain - We can be pretty sure that MOST of our depictions and ideas of long ago extinct animals are scarcely any better than these. Even with the highest scientific rigor intended, they almost always do a better job of ref
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by dublin 5y ago
Just 2GB of RAM. Seriously, folks, that is NOT a slim Linux system. Linux is getting so obese that it's now considered an accomplishment to be able to run with more RAM than the biggest HARD DISKS of 30 years ago. In 1992, a typica
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Go to bed at the first hint of being sleepy. At first, if that's 8:00 PM, just go to bed and be done with it - the important thing is to get normal sleep rhythms - you can work on syncing them with activities and clocks later. After
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Yes, and it's worth noting that the FDA, CDC, NIH, as well as their international counterparts, ALL missed the quite significant myocarditis side effects, especially in younger, fitter, men. It wasn't until the DoD had crippled t
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by dublin 5y ago
As someone who understands basic logic and ethics, you have no idea how infuriating your defending the indefensible makes me! We're talking about a completely new type of "vaccine" that works in completely new and different w
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It's worth noting (READ IT!) that the court order specifically calls out that given the urgency of the current disease situation and political and public health trust issues, it is the Court's opinion that there is almost nothing
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And as mentioned above, he later clarified that he was talking about pre-Omicron variants, where that was true. It now seems possible to get Omicron more than once, but since it has virtually no impact (most people never even know they hav
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by dublin 5y ago
In many rural parts of the country (say, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, where towns are quite scarce, roads are flat and straight, and there's nothing to hit in between), even grandmotherly drivers regularly exceed 100 MPH just to get
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by dublin 5y ago
And only a few weeks ago, the "starting the car" scene in this great dystopian short film seemed like a ridiculous parody - now it's scheduled to be prescient: (Bitchute link because in another validation of its prescience, i
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why legislation needs to be fully read and debated in Congress instead of hidden deep inside 6000-page-long "omnibus" porkfests that pass in the middle of the night. (Seriously, look at how many
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by dublin 5y ago
Interestingly, it varies tremendously from device to device. I have an original FireTV box (the one about the size and shape of a CD/DVD drive) that's pretty snappy, although I don't think I've gotten an update on it in
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by dublin 5y ago
1. The Web. (HTTP, CSS, etc.) It will evolve, but it's survived nearly three decades now, and I can't see it going away in another two, no matter what improvements are made. It's also the single most important interoperabil
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Why the Hell not? Crime in an area is one of the most important things to consider in deciding where to buy a home, the largest investment most people will ever make. (And yes, uncomfortably, but truthfully, crime is correlated to racial
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by dublin 5y ago
We have long passed the point at which it was obvious we needed an open smartphone alternative, but even after years of effort, none of them Pine64, Librem, etc.) are suitable for daily use even by us propellerheads, and completely hopeless
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I'm sure China knows that if they do ever actually invade Taiwan, then there will be hundreds of agents, if not outright military actions, to destroy or sabotage the critical parts of Taiwanese industry rather than let them fall into
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That's barely broken in: I expect cars to be perfectly usable for many decades, if properly maintained. I do NOT want techo-obsolescence in a few years! My personal goal is to never again own a car with a screen (especially a touchscr
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by dublin 5y ago
We would be better off to eliminate all of MADD's current "gotcha" laws, raise the drunk driving BAC back up to something sensible (like 0.12-0.15), and make THAT a felony with mandatory jail time. But that doesn't have
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by dublin 5y ago
No, you don't get a say. Bicycles should stay on the sidewalks. :-)
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The only conclusion I can come to based on your comment is that you should never be allowed near UX design and development. Also, anyone who screws over their local restaurant by giving all the profit to UberEats, et al is a pretty crapp
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You know, there's this amazing technology called a web browser that completely eliminates the need for apps in almost every single instance... I do not want your app of crap!
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Despite all the wailing and hand-wringing, there is actually no credible evidence that sea levels are rising. (This ranges from tidal measurements to photographic comparisons of the same site over nearly two centuries!) Alarmist "cl
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Net metering is most certainly bullshit, as it selfishly and unfairly shifts the costs of both the grid's distribution infrastructure as well as the cost of meeting peak demands onto all other ratepayers.
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The economics of solar PV only work with subsidies. In addition, both the PV panel themselves as well as expensive balance-of-system components such as inverters and/or batteries have a life expectancy that is considerably shorter tha
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by dublin 5y ago
Oh, so like you pronounce "leading" in stained glass or typesetting, then? ;-)
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Interestingly, floor decks in airliners and load floors in military cargo aircraft are made from a composite of an aluminum skin and very high-quality end-grain balsa wood panels, laminated together in a huge press with film adhesives. (Us
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And yet, somehow, you seem to be saying that inflicting foreign immigrants who may or may not choose to make any effort to assimilate at all is somehow not "barbaric and inhumane" treatment to the millions of existing US citizens

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