erobbins

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by erobbins 10y ago
> people who get rich are the kind of people who can't stop working, even if/when they can. Other people would totally stop working if they got rich but it's hard to prove, because they never do get rich That's exactl
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by erobbins 10y ago
I did the same thing. I didn't miss "work" in the slightest.
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by erobbins 10y ago
It's not rare, and it shouldn't be rare. At the same time I'm tired of being lumped into the "privileged white male" group when being white is literally the ONLY advantage I've ever had. I've never gotten
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by erobbins 10y ago
Wow, you've lived a privileged life.
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by erobbins 10y ago
They are not the only player, but they probably have the most accepting user base. They don't have the largest user base amongst the AR players though.
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by erobbins 10y ago
If you read the article, you'd have seen that they trained on their own time then took 2 weeks vacation from their regular jobs to go do this. These guys aren't (don't appear to be?) trust fund kids galavanting around the wo
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by erobbins 10y ago
Why does anyone in tech use their own creations? They should know better by now :)
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by erobbins 10y ago
Yep. I had a friend who worked the Super Bowl, his only job was to detect and locate (and handle) rogue sources of RF energy.
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by erobbins 10y ago
The statistics say that ALMOST EVERYONE survived. That's the point here. It's very much like terrorism.. hardly anyone dies from terrorism statistically, but some people live in fear of it for no reason.
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by erobbins 10y ago
> The worst thing of all (in my opinion) is the fact that the open office culture is simply accepted there as being the best thing for all concerned. It's like a theory that cannot be challenged. The introverts basically don't
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by erobbins 10y ago
I worked at a company where there was a combination of team rooms and offices... but all the walls were glass. You had the benefit of being able to see if Julie was at her desk so you could go ask her a question, but not hear Bob next door
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by erobbins 10y ago
The true key to success is doing something that other people find difficult/objectionable that you are good at and can enjoy or at least tolerate doing.
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by erobbins 10y ago
and you need to play 23 dimensional chess! I actually think this is 100% correct. Goals are nice but you need a system to achieve them.
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by erobbins 10y ago
I grew up in SD too.. employment opportunities in general outside defense and tourism is not great. Neither is the pay. As the old joke goes, they pay you in sunshine.
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by erobbins 10y ago
yeah, but we have an ice cream shop.
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by erobbins 10y ago
I'm over 40 and haven't experienced any problems. I don't know if I'm lucky, good, both, or just average and only the outliers are the ones having difficulty.
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by erobbins 10y ago
Really neat to see these.. just reminds me how humans have been intelligent for many tens or hundreds of thousands of years.. we just didn't have advanced technology or large numbers until recently. We had to work with the little accum
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by erobbins 10y ago
Because it brings accountability.
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by erobbins 10y ago
the one exception that I know of is president Ford. 2 different women tried to assassinate him!
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by erobbins 10y ago
I really hate this association of aircraft and car autopilots. Aircraft operate in essentially empty space, and barring major mechanical failure the pilots typically have tens of seconds up to many minutes to act to avoid disaster. In a car
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by erobbins 10y ago
I saw this helmet for the first time about 3 years ago at a hardware meetup in SF. I thought it was a sure thing at the time, pretty surprised that it's gone belly up. It's unfortunate.
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by erobbins 10y ago
That would be a terrible argument, but ok.
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by erobbins 10y ago
The difference is when a plane's autopilot goes wonky you typically have minutes to realize it and take over manually. In a car you often have less than a second. Pilots also are highly trained and rehearse emergencies. Drivers put on
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by erobbins 10y ago
if I could rent a jet + fuel for the same cost as say, a first class ticket? yes, I would.
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by erobbins 10y ago
I would love a completely autonomous car that I could get into, enter a destination, and read a book while it takes me for a ride. I am TERRIFIED of the "semi autonomous" cars that require the driver's attention to take over
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by erobbins 11y ago
I'm in the top 25% of quite a few things, and I'm not spending weekends on my 100 foot yacht in the caribbean... probably because I'm in the bottom 25% of motivation. It's good advice, but just a piece of the puzzle.
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by erobbins 11y ago
I remember watching the first Jarvik 7 transplant on PBS as a kid, thinking that by the time I was an adult it would be a routine procedure and how amazing that was. Reality kicked in of course. It's always surprised me that an artific
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by erobbins 11y ago
Or export restricted things like anything covered by ITAR, which is not always classified.
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by erobbins 11y ago
It's also ineffective for true autonomous drones that are flying a preprogrammed course with no input. Interesting idea, but easy to avoid.
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by erobbins 11y ago
frequency hopping spread spectrum radios do have a pairing that results in the transmitter and receiver sharing a PRNG key, and switching frequencies at a high rate. They can still be jammed with broad spectrum high power transmissions, tho

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