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by jozzas 9y ago
I really don't bundle Tesla in with Waymo, Lyft, Toyota, Uber that are trying to build ground-up self driving cars. Are Tesla actively testing self-driving cars on public roads yet? Are their included sensors even up to the task? I did
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by jozzas 9y ago
Waymo actively test edge cases like this both in their test environments in the desert and via simulation, they have teams dedicated to coming up with weird edge situations like this (pushed bicycle) where the system does not respond approp
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by jozzas 9y ago
Directed Acyclic Graphs / block lattices in Cryptocurrency, like those used in IOTA and RaiBlocks: https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper__English.pd...
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by jozzas 9y ago
Mesh networking apps get around this, and there are a few of those available now. Signal even has an offline mode that does this.
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by jozzas 9y ago
My employer's AWS footprint is 5000+ EC2 instances. We use CloudHealth for: - Reserved Instance recommendations & purchasing - typically 12 month partial upfront - CPU, Mem, Disk stats pushed up for EC2 & EBS to identify wastag
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by jozzas 9y ago
nothing at the moment, it's being used as a speculative investment. I imagine in time the volatility will reduce as other cryptocurrencies become more mainstream and actually used for real-world purposes.
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by jozzas 9y ago
> If you buy stock in a random Fortune 500 company and nobody wants it, you can take possession of a bunch of desks or factories or inventory or whatever their deal is Not really, the value of the stock approaches zero, and when the comp
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by jozzas 9y ago
Bitcoin is becoming a value store. With slow transaction confirmation and high fees, what are the real-world applications for Bitcoin supposed to be now? And for those applications, are there not other cryptocurrencies more specifically tar
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by jozzas 9y ago
Stellar ( https://stellar.org ) - is trying to solve real problems: low-cost cross-currency payments, micropayments, enabling mobile bank branches, mobile money and services for the underbanked. Their tooling for integration with
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by jozzas 9y ago
Most houses burn down due to embers igniting in the roof, subfloor or against the side of the house. You need to actively protect the roof with sprayers. There are systems that already do this, as well as ember-proof subfloor vents.
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Ask HN: Who will win the driverless car race?
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by jozzas 9y ago
> It will probably soon reach the point where the car will intervene to prevent an accident. I expect even this to be cautiously adopted as there is a massive product liability issue here. Volvo already have this with auto brake and pede
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by jozzas 9y ago
This is literally the point of the Model 3. They need 500,000+ cars on the road in order to move the dial on petroleum dependence. Other car makers need to copy Tesla because electric cars are better and cheaper to own, etc. We're not
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by jozzas 9y ago
No. Batteries can be recycled, as can the aluminium that makes up Tesla car bodies. You don't get anything back from 30 years of ICE emissions.
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by jozzas 10y ago
Biggest pesticide and nutrient culprits are bananas and sugar cane.
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by jozzas 10y ago
The QLD government is doing some good work on water quality - particularly engaging with farmers, reducing pesticide and fertiliser runoffs, and reducing erosion. But it's all underfunded and therefore not coordinated or widespread eno
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by jozzas 10y ago
There are some excellent scientists and programs attempting to improve water quality (particularly catchments that flow into the reef) and the crown of thorns starfish. Unfortunately these are badly underfunded, not coordinated at a nationa
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by jozzas 10y ago
At this point it's a pattern of behaviour and not a mistake. He doesn't need leadership training, he needs a personality transplant.
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by jozzas 10y ago
Camera permissions only, no storage? Unless they take a photo of a photo
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by jozzas 10y ago
I'm highly skeptical that they'll ever be able to differentiate extremely similar targets, at distance, with a relatively cheap camera, working in the visible spectrum. I'd love to hear their tricks to getting that to work. I
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by jozzas 11y ago
My employer (large financial institution, 15000+ employees) uses confluence and jira enterprise-wide, as well as others that are more developer-centric. I'd say we're paying some of their bills on our own.
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by jozzas 11y ago
I'm a Software Engineer. It's printed on my undergraduate degree, it's on my business card, and it's recognised by the engineering association in my country. So no, I won't. "Traditional engineers are regulated
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by jozzas 11y ago
Pretty much, but large multinationals are the only ones that own the mainframes, and it's only cost-effective to have a few very large providers. That's the way it's all moving.
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by jozzas 11y ago
Like you, I can't see how they'll compete on price if they own their own hardware. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook have all been working on this stuff for years. Even adopting Opencompute or similar, they will have comparative
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by jozzas 11y ago
Yeah, I must be missing the point as well. "Upthere says it plans to offer an API in hopes that developers will make it the default storage solution for their own apps" So... how is that in any way different to using the AWS API t
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by jozzas 11y ago
You can't start a startup on Android because you've got to purchase 500 devices for validation. Nonsense. https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/device-list/ if you really need to test across a range of de
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by jozzas 11y ago
" If you prefer using highland under the name _ like is done in the examples below, you can then simply use: var _ = highland" No. No, no, no. Goodness me.
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by jozzas 11y ago
Getting paid to develop product features is the best way to do it!
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by jozzas 12y ago
It's even Ctrl-Shift-N in Windows. I use that command almost every day.
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by jozzas 12y ago
Is this somewhat similar to how Audyssey's MultEQ (which my surround receiver has) works? What is your opinion of that product? I can't imagine it uses a very expensive microphone. The receiver was only about $500.

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