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by edoo 8y ago
I think you have to look at it as a journey as with anything. A good analogy is computer programming. When you first try to write a program you will fail miserably but it will be a major learning experience, with each successive attempt b
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by edoo 8y ago
I would go with a company that has a reputation. If you go find some randoms in an IRC channel they might take advantage of anything they find. A little crowdsourced service that offers rewards for finding vulnerabilities in your system m
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by edoo 8y ago
This confuses me a little. I remember when I was a kid watching a documentary about this condition. It is generally a severe danger to the person as they do not naturally learn the penalties for a broken bone or severe burn. Pain is a ve
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by edoo 8y ago
Very interesting technique. I remember when they would reverse engineer chips by grinding them down while taking nice pictures of each layer for the engineers to interpret later.
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by edoo 8y ago
Professional poker players are actually classified as athletes.
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by edoo 8y ago
If you can play a perfect game you need about $300k bankroll to earn about $60k/year on the tournament circuit. It just isn't the same any more, all the real players know the theory AND can read people.
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by edoo 8y ago
If you have ever done anything seriously with time zones you store everything UTC and must use a library to translate. The problem is it is geopolitical, so the time zone conversion result can vary based on the date itself as well as the p
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by edoo 8y ago
Does anyone remember the amazing backscatter tech by the UW kids ( https://www.jeevawireless.com/ )? I've been waiting on them for years now. They were supposed to be to market by now with a $0.25 chip that does 2.4GHz
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by edoo 8y ago
If you have a cluster at 75% utilization because the workload is fully in cache and something happens that does not allow the workload to be processed in cache and your processing speed slows by half then your cluster would immediately requ
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by edoo 8y ago
By 'wrong' I mean you have algorithm A which is logically less work than algorithm B, but algorithm B runs much faster if you are in cache, but the moment your workload doesn't fit in the cache B is running much slower than A
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by edoo 8y ago
Thanks, that is interesting. They are able to pin the processes to certain cores to keep it in certain cache blocks to avoid exactly what I worry about. They avoid my second concern by having lots of cache memory even though they technical
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by edoo 8y ago
I always found it slightly frightening when an app depends on cache characteristics for max performance. It has to be rather isolated on a machine to be able to expect it to be used. I've always found it annoying that the cache offers
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by edoo 8y ago
It is almost 2020 so it is reasonable to know what the actual error is. This reminds me of old C/C++ parsers that couldn't tell you what line was expecting a bracket or semicolon and you got to manually find the parse error.
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by edoo 8y ago
That is really cool thank you.
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by edoo 8y ago
I thought the lights were just ridiculous.
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by edoo 8y ago
To expand on the other posters, if you can do voice around the world (a few kHz bandwidth) on those frequencies you should very easily be able to do very low bandwidth modulation for data and at reduced power. It would be nice if I could d
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by edoo 8y ago
http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-turns-away-petition-to-permit-e...
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by edoo 8y ago
433.92 ISM is only EU/Africa. So yeah in the US it would be illegal to use encryption. There are quite a few lower frequency ISM bands that might offer much greater range. I'm interested in this stuff because I just started pla
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by edoo 8y ago
Oh, 433.92 is only ISM in EU/Africa.
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by edoo 8y ago
I turned down a job to create a rigged voting system in an African 'republic'. It was for something regional, not the majors. They wanted the voting system to have two lights outside the voting center, one for each candidate, wh
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by edoo 8y ago
They don't allow any prototyping or experimenting on the amateur bands either. That is why this is using the unlicensed ISM bands. I want to see it adapted for the lower frequency ISM bands. I just got into ham and SDR this last year
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by edoo 8y ago
For my home directory/active data I use 'rdiff-backup' to keep 7 days of hourly snapshots. If I screw anything up I never lose more than an hour. My bulk data gets a snapshot every 3 days due to the size/time. All tha
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by edoo 8y ago
What we now think of as "robot" companies aren't really robot companies, they are software companies. The hardware is easy and will be commoditized.
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by edoo 8y ago
Or more concisely: Someone who has learned enough to positively engineer the engineering process.
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by edoo 8y ago
There will always be tragedies with drugs but criminalization only compounds the tragedy. It is not a problem you can fix with the kneejerk violence of placing people in cages. At the root I think the problem is addictive drugs remove peo
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by edoo 8y ago
Having competing unions is an interesting concept. It may be a hard sell because technically the primary legal ability of a union is prevent competition among the workers. If you are a rock star you can't get hired at a greater wage.
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by edoo 8y ago
I've been in a union before. The work ethic wasn't good. They had seminars on how to work less and push back against complaints. They directed the members to engage in behavior that was best for the union while bad for the work
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by edoo 8y ago
For targeting general levels of physiological stimulation probably not. You might be able to get away with basic vital signs, maybe some sort of stress detection. With a neural sensor though it might be able to lead you into deep meditati
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by edoo 8y ago
I imagine someday you'll be able to tie this to a neural sensor for a feedback loop that enables machine learning to generate the exact music for the exact mood you want.
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by edoo 8y ago
I'm going to crack up if the most effective general robot hand is a flap of rubber. One potential benefit is those handthings won't be able to fire a gun or wield a sharp weapon very well. I half joke but the robot maids are pro

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