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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
To the degree that anyone thinks this is about any particular event in recent history, my humble opinion is that you are missing the point. The point, as I see it, is that it doesn't matter if people have the internet, or the microwave
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
I hope they cast Al Pacino in a good role when they make this period piece in a couple of decades. He's got pretty good experience from his previous role as Michael Corleone. Corleone goes to Cuba just before the Castro Regime takes o
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
Iot is only the latest in a long chain of previous buzzword heritage. Telemetrics, M2M, etc were also hammers in search of the elusive nail. I posit that the main difference this time around is the democratization of marketing the internet
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
When a company is named after the crystal ball an evil wizard uses to spy on his enemies in The Lord of The Rings, and that company's founder was the first large investor in Facebook, and that same founder is able to fund company endin
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
Seeed studio's beaglebone green wireless is the real sweet spot for me. Right around $50. Wifi and bluetooth working OTB. I have no need for HDMI, or Ethernet, so giving these up is a win win for me. I am with you as a fanboy of the
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
To stay in our abstract mode of thinking, does this effectively kick off an arms race? Lets assume Bob has bad intentions, and wants to rule the world to benefit himself at the expense of others, and Alice has good intentions, and wants to
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
I can see healthy discussion abounds on HN. As I understand it, Machine Learning is aiming to create computer systems that can learn from a set of training data. The machine starts out like an infant, with no experience, and no knowledge,
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
Hallucinations can be induced through LSD, or psylocibin, or just being in the middle East over the last century. Perhaps you should ask yourself if you've gotten good at parrying Russian troll accounts in the last couple of weeks, or
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by flyingcircus3 8y ago
Who decides what is the correct information to learn? What will prevent a bad actor from providing subject material that teaches people to bring harm to themselves or others. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder sounds, at least to the layman,
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
Hacker News commenters are not the ones making baseless claims about how their product is better than the current market dominator. Hitchens Razor is working just fine in these comments. It reminds me of NFL fans. No one talks trash about
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
"Senator, while I agree in the general sense that Fuchsia is not Linux, It appears that in this specific case, its just Yet Another Linux." How is this not the latest iteration of not invented here syndrome? Any system like Linux
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
I literally put my foot down with one of my fellow developers about a year ago, because we kept wasting 30 minutes everytime we'd discuss some bug, because he'd be referring to SD132v2, SDK11, NRF52832, but since I was developing
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
As an embedded developer that has done contracting for people with all of the capital, and none of the misunderstanding of electronics, I'd like to offer a thought experiment. I realize that Amazon has all sorts of guardrails in place
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
What do we want? Change. When do we want it? As soon as we can be convinced we need it. The next evolution will be "you know the integrated home is great, but everyone's wifi still goes out every once in a while. wouldn't
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
Believe me, I stick with Nordic, and I think they stand the best chance at success. My overall point is that the system is basically at the point where it is nearly impossible to be a generalist, and very painful to be a specialist. So wh
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
Well, I kind of think of it as a distribution, just like debian, or mint, or whatever. Even though they all say their the best Linux, as if that is somehow tautological. The nRF52832 can do both Bluetooth and ANT, because they share commo
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
I believe thats on HBO ;)
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
The entire bluetooth ecosystem is an enigma, and I say that as someone that has spent the last couple of years professionally developing embedded systems primarily using Nordic Semiconductor parts, one of the flagship companies of the indus
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
I got a hand me down IBM PC jr in 1988, when I was in elementary school. 5.25" floppy, no hard disk, RAM measured in Kilobytes. It came with a spiral bound manual that taught GW-Basic. I didn't learn a damn thing at the time, I
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
Start with the Manhattan project, and work backwards from there. Operation Paperclip may have been a failure, but that was after the war. Any modern electrical engineer's professional lexicon is dripping with the names of the titans
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
Another obvious tell is that the two technicians operating the multiplane camera have absolutely zero stage presence when they are demonstrating the actual operation. It is plain as day that they have practiced their lines, and not for ver
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
As a second order to this effect, I've noticed a general "clumping", so to speak, of timeless machines and designs in general, that seem to originate in the late 1940s, and the 1950s, likely due to the unprecedented rise in t
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
Do I interpret your comment correctly as saying there is some redundant system that is specifically looking for anomalies in sensor readings? Would a top of the line lidar system be able to "understand" that its current inputs we
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
About 10 years ago, I worked on a project that used triangulation to measure distances with a laser. The specular reflection is falling on a pair of photodiodes. The relative amounts of light on each diode is indicative of the distance to
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
They use a slipring. In some ways, its kind of ironic, because these are now most prevalent in brushless DC motors. Slip rings work in the same fashion as brushed motors. To achieve continuous rotation in a brushed motor, there are carbo
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
With the latest Tesla crash in the news, seeing the point cloud got me thinking. Since mirrors do not create the specular reflections required for LIDAR to work, does this mean a box truck covered in mirrors would be able to render at least
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by flyingcircus3 9y ago
There's also a company called Scanse that has a very affordable LIDAR unit, and a ROS driver. Not open source hardware, but at $350, a pretty good deal. They use the Garmin Lidar Lite v3, which has an I2C interface, and all measureme