illumin8

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by illumin8 11y ago
Unfortunately, I think my first chatbot that I wrote about a year ago, and named Jarvis (based on Hubot by Github) will be cloned by a million of these projects... I admit, it's not the most creative name; I just thought it would be co
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by illumin8 11y ago
I actually just bought the Rain stand for my rMBP a week ago, and have to say that I'm impressed with the industrial design. Sure, it's just a laptop stand, but it's solid aluminum and has solid design principles - it's
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by illumin8 11y ago
The problem is that your use case (retina + 16GB) is easily satisfied by the 13" rMBP, and the vast majority of Apple's consumer customers will not need more than 8GB of RAM for the next few years. Apple made the design decision
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by illumin8 11y ago
Any Macbook has a default ignore all inbound traffic setting on their firewall - provided reasonable use of SSL services (Gmail, Google Apps, Dropbox, etc) and good web hygiene you would be totally safe surfing random insecure public wifi
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by illumin8 11y ago
Exactly, it's just a tough problem to solve. As you so eloquently stated, the server-based solutions all introduce a terrible amount of latency (500ms-1 sec+ round trip) so they're not a silver bullet either. The impressive thing
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by illumin8 11y ago
The client would still need to send the full size stream to every other client "when talking" so you have the same problem if the client's upstream is < 5 mbps.
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by illumin8 11y ago
I use a magic trackpad and find it very good at giving me the best features of a mouse/pointer interface and a touch interface combined. You can do things like two-finger scroll in any document and 3 finger swipe between desktops mino
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by illumin8 11y ago
One of the fundamental limitations of WebRTC is that the protocol is by nature peer-to-peer, so group video chat is a many to many (every client sends their video stream to every other client) network bandwidth hog! I am extremely impressed
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by illumin8 11y ago
It could also be due to the fact that New Yorkers tend to walk much more than populations in other areas. My theory is that just walking a couple miles a day between subway stations is a great benefit to an aging population.
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by illumin8 11y ago
If you truly run multi-threaded applications all the time, it's an amazing value right now - ~$70 for an 8-core CPU with a huge chunk of cache.
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by illumin8 11y ago
To me, containers seem to be a perfect way to have a reasonable contract between Dev and Ops. The Ops team just has to maintain a secure, stable, and performant infrastructure that can run containers, and Devs can put whatever they want in
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by illumin8 11y ago
DevOps is the anti-silo... It's funny and a bit ironic that traditional corporations have heard some vague information about DevOps and immediately decided that they should create a DevOps silo/team, while apparently missing the
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by illumin8 11y ago
I can appreciate that you had a great environment with an older brother and father that encouraged you to participate in technical activities with them, but not everyone has the same environment. I think the sentiment the author is sharing
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by illumin8 11y ago
Correction: every car they sell is profitable, but they've chosen to reinvest those profits to increase future manufacturing capacity.
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by illumin8 11y ago
You're comparing a Mazda 3, which is an economy car, against an entry-level luxury sedan. This is a bad comparison. Mazda doesn't even have a car in this segment. You should be comparing it against a BMW 3-series, Audi A4, Acura
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by illumin8 11y ago
How is repairing any new car an economic tragedy? I bought a Hyundai in 2008. Since then, I've only had to pay annual maintenance costs averaging $200, and the powertrain has a 10 year 100,000 mile warranty (I'm only at 75,000 m
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by illumin8 11y ago
Yet again, you're parroting the "I can fill my ICE vehicle in < 5 minutes" as the only viable argument against EVs. 98% of EV commutes end at the home charging station, so this argument is getting pretty old and tired. Wh
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by illumin8 11y ago
I've never had a rear window or sunroof get a rock chip on the highway before, have you?
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by illumin8 11y ago
Correction: the bolt only seats 4 adults. Specs aren't everything - you can bet the Chevy will have cheap plastic parts, and resale value will be atrocious due to poor build quality. From what I've seen, Tesla vehicles have bett
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by illumin8 11y ago
Tesla is claiming they'll be able to produce 500,000 cars a year by the end of 2017 when the cars are finally available. This is a very agressive goal, and I'm not sure they can meet it, but I'm fairly certain their productio
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by illumin8 11y ago
Tesla vehicles are almost solid state devices, with relatively few moving parts compared to an ICE equipped vehicle. I have an electric leaf blower, that never requires maintenance, lubrication, oil changes, etc. My next door neighbor has
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by illumin8 11y ago
If you want to build truly autonomous cars, data capture and analysis of the data that is gathered will be mandatory. Provided Tesla performs a reasonable job of anonymizing the data and not storing personally identifiable information, I&#
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by illumin8 11y ago
The $35,000 model will go 0-60 in less than 6 seconds, which is pretty respectable. They will definitely sell models that are faster, but to balance range and battery life with performance requires that you don't put ludicrous mode in
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by illumin8 11y ago
They've written about this on their blog: https://www.teslamotors.com/node/14147?no_cache=1459519432 The eventual goal is to have the car be able to open your garage door, exit, close your garage door, then drive
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by illumin8 11y ago
215 miles is the starting range, and its likely that they will have battery upgrades available that increase this.
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by illumin8 11y ago
The mortgages themselves weren't the problem - the problem was the way they were allowed to be bundled into mortgage backed securities, which created a firehose of investment money piling in from Wall Street to the mortgage market, whi
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by illumin8 11y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by illumin8 11y ago
AIG insured the mortgage backed securities that caused the crisis.
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by illumin8 11y ago
To be fair, Clinton only signed the law - it was created and voted for by a Republican majority congress. Look at the votes - every Republican senator voted Yea and only one Democrat voted Nay: https://www.govtrack.us/cong
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by illumin8 11y ago
It's fairly common in the US for people under threat of prosecution to turn into states witnesses to get a reduced sentence - "rat out your manager/boss who ordered the crimes and we'll let you off easy." Is this un

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