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by frankchn 8y ago
Keep in mind that the iPhone XR launched on 10/26, a month after the iPhone XS on 9/21. What Greg Joswiak says is likely true, but you have to account for the fact that peak demand for the XS has already passed by the time the XR
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Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods(cloud.google.com)
105 points by frankchn 8y ago|38 comments
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by frankchn 8y ago
Like with anything to do with security and convenience, there is always a trade off (longer passwords are more secure but harder to type, etc...). I don’t think this is a big enough security issue right now for car manufacturers and insuran
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by frankchn 8y ago
It is a convenience feature -- you don't have to fish your keys out of your pocket/handbag and press a button to unlock your car doors or to start the car. So long as you have the key somewhere on you (bag/handbag/pocket
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by frankchn 8y ago
Uh, no? When you touch a door handle when the car is locked, the car will try to detect a keyfob near the door and then unlock itself when the keyfob is detected. The car won't unlock if a keyfob is not detected.
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by frankchn 8y ago
At some point, shouldn’t his manager fire him if he is unwilling to write code in an “acceptable” language? Also, since he is a junior dev, why is he given any latitude at all in choosing what language or framework to use?
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by frankchn 8y ago
I might be in the minority, but I usually take a look at Seat Guru or read one or two trip reports or flight reviews before buying an transatlantic or transcontinental airline ticket, just as I would with any other $500+ purchase.
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by frankchn 8y ago
The evacuation test configuration is be the densest possible configuration - the aircraft will be certified to carry that many passengers based off this test. For instance, the A380 evacuation test had 873 people get out in 90 seconds ( htt
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by frankchn 8y ago
It is even worse than that for Kodak -- Steven Sasson actually created the first digital camera using a CCD sensor while working at Kodak [1] and Kodak owned the patent for a digital camera [2]. [1]: https://www.seattlepi.com&#x2
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by frankchn 9y ago
I think AVX units on Intel cores have always been separate (i.e. not shared). AMD Bulldozer processors have a shared floating point unit and some early pipeline stages like the instruction decoder per pair of cores. AMD Zen processors have
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by frankchn 9y ago
It depends on whether you see Tesla as a software company or a car company. Car companies seem to launch and deliver new models of cars profitably and on schedule with regularity.
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by frankchn 9y ago
Even in your example, the barrier or entry is still so high — I can buy a very nice new x86 machine for $10k, instead of a 2 year old POWER system. I am interested in the POWER architecture, but not buy $10k worth of old hardware interested
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by frankchn 9y ago
According to RFC2119, which defines these terms, "should" and "should not" are recommendations with the caveat that individuals not following said recommendations need to understand the full implications what they are do
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by frankchn 9y ago
BMW actually puts out a press release every month detailing the exact number of cars it sold in the preceding month broken down by model: https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/usa/article/attachment/T02776... Other
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by frankchn 9y ago
The annual fees to use the algorithm is probably not substantial and a quirk of the agreement, and the substantial part of the licensing agreement is the 1 million or so shares that they received. The share grant must have been fairly early
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by frankchn 9y ago
According to [1], Stanford received 1.8 million shares of Google stock (I'd imagine for PageRank and other rights), and they sold it over time for $336 million. [1] http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/31848
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by frankchn 9y ago
Fair, I misread your "I agree entirely" as you agreeing with immgrnt's view that the rumored proposal is a step in the right direction.
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by frankchn 9y ago
The rumored proposal is exactly proposing that the affected H1B workers (mostly Indians) should be "expelled after a short period" (of 6 years) and have no opportunity to get permanent residency, given that the path to permanent r
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by frankchn 9y ago
Sure, if there is comprehensive immigration reform that removes the queue for Indian-born applicants. Doesn't sound like that is what the current Administration is planning though. I think at least some people on H1B like their jobs an
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by frankchn 9y ago
I am curious, can you give an example where that happened? In any case, I don't think that the current Administration is planning to overhaul the H1B system, given that a change in that visa policy requires legislation, and I don'
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by frankchn 9y ago
I am guessing you are an Indian national currently on a H1B visa (given that you are apparently on an H1B visa and have been in the green card queue for 10 years). If this comes to pass, you will either (a) be transferred to another country
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by frankchn 9y ago
The Department of Labor does (here is one for Software Developers in the Bay Area: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=36084... ) and requires that H1B applicants be paid at or above market rate for a give
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by frankchn 9y ago
No one is being forced to remain on H1B visas for any length of time, you can always quit and leave any time. This affects individuals who have green card applications pending and are being granted 1-year extensions while their applications
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by frankchn 9y ago
Is there a large difference in viewfinder design nowadays? I wear glasses and use a Canon 1DX2 and have tried out a Nikon D5 — if anything the Canon is more comfortable for me to look through. The specifications bear me out: Nikon has a 0.7
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by frankchn 9y ago
Multiple manufacturers have the technology available in production cars today. Here is a demo involving a Mercedes coupe: https://youtu.be/eMUmI6LeZ_8?t=10m
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by frankchn 9y ago
> Basically, Mt. Gox would be operating with fractional reserves. I would not call what happened to Mt. Gox "operating with fractional reserves." In a normal financial system, fractional reserve banking means that a bank retain
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by frankchn 9y ago
I suspect the Arri Alexas are not on the list because they do not have "a true 4K sensor (equal to or greater than 4096 photosites wide)." The SXT has a 3404 x 2202 resolution when used in open-gate format.
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by frankchn 9y ago
I don't think that's entire true, since both mirrorless and DSLR live-view still suffer from shutter slap unless you enable electronic first-curtain shooting, which may or may not degrade image quality a bit.
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by frankchn 9y ago
I agree for street and some kinds of landscape photography that the more compact mirrorless bodies have an ergonomic advantage. However, for things like sports, events, and weddings, where you are carrying the pro f/2.8 zooms (which ar
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by frankchn 10y ago
I would have preferred the Microsoft naming convention of "Titan XP SP2"

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