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by gusfoo 13y ago
> What could a camera+CPU do better than the human eye? Machine vision is already widely used in manufacturing processes to check many parts of the process. There are also machine vision based robots for pick+place operations, camera pos
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by gusfoo 13y ago
Flying may be easy, but I'd challenge anyone to say the experience of getting off at JFK and finding a place to stay for the night is anything other than brutal. For such a cosmopolitan city as NYC to have such a decrepit main airport
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by gusfoo 13y ago
> With them being for profit, they have lost their credibility. Why? Their software automates a repetitive and complex task thereby saving money. Some of the money saved goes to paying Ninite but everyone still wins.
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by gusfoo 13y ago
also export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth so that repeated commands are only stored once. Handy for those, like me, who reflexively type commands like "ps aux" when thinking about what to do next.
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by gusfoo 14y ago
The SIM is actually a little digital fortress. SIM Toolkit Applications are quite secure and it's not just a matter of intercepting the air-interface data and breaking A5/1.
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by gusfoo 14y ago
> This is why we have agricultural derivatives, ...and, indeed, many other financial derivative products. They have a terrible reputation but smoothing the curve between boom and bust in commodities is a very useful service.
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by gusfoo 14y ago
Because of the volatility of returns there is a minimum amount of money needed, sums below that minimum are just going to get wiped out before they have a chance to get a buffer added. 10K lower limits are there for good reasons.
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by gusfoo 14y ago
"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" -- John Maynard Keynes, also attributed to Winston Churchill ... that's the take-away from this. There is no way at all we can have opinion X about the future and then stick t
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by gusfoo 14y ago
Because the tech industry, like all others, has a large element of fashion - and a lot of people (like it or no) are followers of fashion. The New New thing, etc.
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by gusfoo 14y ago
10% is hardly "razor thin", it's quite respectable in a lot of industries.