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by jmole 4y ago
This may be specific to the US, but Apple still sells a majority of devices through carriers: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23505822/apple-iphone-sa...
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by jmole 4y ago
This is cool - have you ever thought about integrating it with some kind of band or sensor that tracks breathing rate? Lung diseases aside, I think many people would be interested in an app that lets them know when their breathing becomes s
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by jmole 4y ago
replacement rate is steady-state, not exponential growth. when you have a country with 80 million homes, and 50 years later you only need 30 million of them, you're basically inviting decay to set in.
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by jmole 4y ago
Not for consumer level devices. There’s an inherent tradeoff between false positives and true recognition rate. If you make the wrong choice, it means the device doesn’t respond when you say the wake word. There’s nothing that infuriates us
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by jmole 4y ago
The problem is that third-party OEMs don’t have to run AOSP, they can easily replace any and all code with malicious call-home backdoors, and still pass CTS tests. As far as I can tell, there is no meaningful protection in place to prevent
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by jmole 4y ago
“Legacy” is not a pejorative term, it’s descriptive. They have a dealer network. They have a parts counter. Their operations are the result of a 120 year legacy. Their valuation is based on longstanding economics of the automobile industry.
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by jmole 4y ago
Buying a major car company is buying a whole heap of liabilities and depreciating assets. The major value drivers (contributors to market cap) are brand, patent portfolio, and future revenues from existing capex. Tesla doesn't want to
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by jmole 4y ago
This is a gross overestimate of packaging costs, even for a MacBook Pro. iPhone packaging is about $1 all-in.
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by jmole 4y ago
Tell me you’ve never worked at a large company without telling me you’ve never worked at a large company
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by jmole 4y ago
FTA: A typical commercial toilet generates a strong upward jet of air with velocities exceeding 6.6 feet per second (2 meters per second), rapidly carrying these particles up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) above the bowl within eight seconds of t
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by jmole 4y ago
What TVs exactly?
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by jmole 4y ago
Why cant you just distill them after producing them, instead of worrying about getting exactly the right length?
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by jmole 4y ago
We don't have the manufacturing capability in the US to make use of a boatload of really good MechE's here. There's sort of 3 paths I've seen among ME's I know: 1) Product Design at large tech company who can make c
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1/150 DIY Micro RC Truck and Trailer(youtube.com)
1 points by jmole 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmole 4y ago
Contracts to fulfill
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by jmole 4y ago
My favorite thing about mastodon: I'm not asked to sign up as I scroll down the page.
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Ask HN: Most Hackable Android Tablet?
4 points by jmole 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmole 4y ago
This is a bad take - most UIs from that era are objectively worse, and most of the good ones have been carried forwards and incorporated into newer versions. With old software, you have a lot of experimental ideas that make it into prod. Wa
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by jmole 4y ago
They don't really reconfigure the circuitry, they are themselves reconfigured when a wire is plugged in. What he's talking about is similar to technology that's been in 1/8" jacks for years and years: plug detection
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by jmole 4y ago
You also don't really want to hire someone who's been completely beholden to another faculty member's whims for the past 5-6 years. That would lead to bad organizational dynamics – you want faculty who see each other as peers
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by jmole 4y ago
I bought a Pixel 7 recently. When setting up the device, I was asked to insert my SIM card. Usually, I'd have skipped past this screen, but I thought "Ok, let me swap out my SIM", since I was trading in an older device. Worst
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by jmole 4y ago
FTA [1]: "the only piece that links the authentication server to the data tunnel server is a single, public key, used to sign all blinded tokens presented during a limited period of time" It sounds like the only information Google
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Interceptor 007 Faces the First Rain Event in LA (& stops 35,000 lbs of waste)(youtube.com)
6 points by jmole 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmole 4y ago
Would be fun to watch this hardware alongside a sorting algorithm visualization like this: https://www.sortvisualizer.com/quicksort/
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by jmole 4y ago
wow, this is gorgeous. I've had similar ideas, but the execution here is just phenomenal.
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by jmole 4y ago
Neat that this is still around, I remember using this in ~2007 for an undergrad project back when web scraping was still "easy". The only site I got blocked from was Google, and they blacklisted my entire CS department IP range fo
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by jmole 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjVC6BdnKxo
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by jmole 4y ago
"NORMALIZE ALL YOUR USER INPUT" except for arrow keys, page up/down and spacebar
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by jmole 4y ago
>Question: What is the sum of all numbers? >Answer: -1 Looks like the universe uses 2's complement after all
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by jmole 4y ago
You could look at appendectomies, seen more often in younger people for no apparent cause. Granted, these days the surgery is much less invasive.

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