jpindar

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by jpindar 8y ago
As an embedded systems engineer, I disagree. I have never been asked to design a circuit, or even pseudocode firmware, on a whiteboard. In the electronics manufacturing industry, interviews consist of talking, mostly about projects I'v
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Apple Patent Turns Car Windscreen into Giant Augmented Reality Screen(newsweek.com)
31 points by jpindar 8y ago|47 comments
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by jpindar 8y ago
Would you include the ACLU, EFF, etc. in your ban?
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by jpindar 8y ago
Lightbot is a fun way to introduce some very basic ideas. http://lightbot.com/
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by jpindar 8y ago
Beaglebone Blacks have annoyingly bright blue LEDs, but I find that a double layer of Kapton tape (a thin, translucent amber plastic tape used in the electronics industry) dims them to an acceptable level.
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by jpindar 8y ago
There are towns that have "no cruising" laws making it illegal to repeatedly drive around a certain area. And under certain circumstances repeatedly driving past someone's house could be harassment or stalking.
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by jpindar 8y ago
>Manchester and Nashua New Hampshire (the two largest cities in the state) are both less than an hour drive from Boston. I know Google says it's an hour from Manchester to Boston, but that must be in the middle of the night.
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by jpindar 8y ago
It makes me sad that "technology" went from rockets and robots and lasers... to web pages.
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by jpindar 8y ago
I can see a lot of individual buildings there, and I can see facets on the dome. There's even Streetview!
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by jpindar 8y ago
?force=webgl fixed it for me, thanks
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by jpindar 8y ago
What happens now if you blow all your money from social security etc.? Why would that change?
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by jpindar 8y ago
As I understood it, the Dragonframe controls the camera and the Arduino box controls the rig that moves the LED. (He describes this at around 8:08).
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by jpindar 8y ago
What do you mean by "crippling it"? Corel PaintShop Pro has raster and vector layers.
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by jpindar 8y ago
As I understand it, the "football" contains not a button, but a radio system over which the President can give a verbal order to someone at the Pentagon, as well as a lot of paper - maps, descriptions of various attack plans etc.
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by jpindar 8y ago
I wasn't thinking of anything that can connect to a network!
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by jpindar 8y ago
I live in the US and I use Twitter to find out what is going on around me. For example, when I lose electrical power, my utility company posts updates on Twitter. My local TV stations and newspapers also post breaking news there.
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by jpindar 8y ago
Not to get emotionally involved with a product that could be turned off at any time. And that just because a business is more popular and better technically than it's competitors doesn't mean it doesn't have problems behind t
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by jpindar 8y ago
I think there might be a market for a dead-man switch (no pun intended, honest), but you'd never be able to get a doctor to implant it.
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by jpindar 8y ago
Here in the HN bubble, $100K is pocket change.
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by jpindar 8y ago
Especially since diatomaceous earth is good for preventing infestations of insect-sized organisms without depending on the biochemistry of those organisms.
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by jpindar 8y ago
That seems strange to me. When I was in school (many years ago) I think I called home maybe once a week, and I don't remember talking about schoolwork much.
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by jpindar 8y ago
There are devices for scooping trash out of rivers, I don't know how well they could be adapted for the ocean. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/mr-trash-wheels-...
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by jpindar 8y ago
Try being an engineer who works with oscilloscopes and such. Some of them have touch screens with the buttons along the edges of the screen, and some have softkeys so the GUI looks exactly the same, but you press the buttons next to the scr
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A used voting machine from the 2016 election(twitter.com)
223 points by jpindar 8y ago|107 comments
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by jpindar 8y ago
This seems like a good place to mention the existence of skeptics.stackexchange.com
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by jpindar 8y ago
These are some of the most counterfeited items of all, so I'll only buy them from industrial distributors. I figure they are accustomed to vetting their suppliers and have a reputation to protect.
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A Deeper Look at Deep Fakes(lawfareblog.com)
1 points by jpindar 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpindar 8y ago
Speaking of "what could have been"... just ask anyone from New England about 18-1. Actually, don't do this unless you dislike them.
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by jpindar 8y ago
Spotify is indeed like radio - but without ads and other chatter, and with info about the song name and artist.
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by jpindar 8y ago
How can it be both hard to handle a construction zone that you need to break the law to get around and also easy to handle snow piles that you need to break the law to get around?

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