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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Wow, a 90s internet classic. "Santa Claus machines" indeed. https://www.tinaja.com/santa01.shtml His "unauthorized autobiography" was an entertaining read. https://www.tinaja.com/glib&#x2
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
This is absolutely gorgeous. Doesn't work on my mobile device but well worth investigating on desktop. Fun for me since I used to have a hobby of making various polyhedra with unit origami [1]. Apparently it's an update from this
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Horizon is developing a good reputation. I haven't tried it yet (I'm a daily Altium user) but keep meaning to give it a whirl. https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon
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Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042085
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I adored the Muppet Show as a kid. Tried watching it with my daughters this weekend, since it just became available. "Dad, this is weird. This is really weird. It's not even a show! Just weird little scenes!" ["not even
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
David Brin covered this topic in a 1996 Wired article [1] and a follow-on 1998 book [2]. So far, we're not doing great on the "Accountability" part. Bruce Schneier disagreed with him in 2008 [3] (and probably still does). [1]
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I was privileged to trek a portion of the Annapurna circuit in 2003, it's spectacular in person. The view of Machupuchare from Tatopani (or maybe it was Ghandruk?) was incredible. Nepal is a wonderful country to visit, the people were
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Try managing a team where people take last minute personal days all the time, without having to give advance notice or a reason.
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I'm no billionaire, but I am an Xoogler and his descriptions of employee entitlement and misaligned incentives are spot on.
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It was announced in fall 2019: https://www.blog.google/products/atap/smarter-wardrobe-jacqu... But really it's an incremental improvement in useless things the MIT Media Lab (and others) have been tinkering w
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The Second Coming of Star Wars(filfre.net)
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Those are called GPUs! Or, if you like, GPGPUs. Readily available in The Cloud(TM) and everything. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dlami/latest/devguide/gpu.html
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It's stressing me out. I'm an EE at a startup and I'm scrambling to pre purchase whatever's left on the market to get us through the next 6-12 months. Thank goodness I already laid in a huge stock of processors, the part
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Did you consider doing a KickStarter (or similar) for TinyPilot? Or was it unnecessary?
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I could have written this post. Same sequence of novels read, same feelings. I keep getting tempted back into the Banksiverse when his name pops up on HN, but then I remember how disgusted I was at the end of the Hydrogen Sonata.
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There's no point. Cell towers work just fine. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-loon/alphabet-sh... >>> Rich DeVaul, a founder of the project who is no longer with Alphabet, said surging de
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
I worked on Loon for about 3 years. We had a team of over 200 people and launched thousands of balloons. Resource constraints were never the issue. In fact I think the lack of constraints contributed to some bad engineering decisions. The t
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
NYT coverage https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/technology/loon-google-ba... The Information coverage (from November) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/alphabets-internet-b...
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
What goes up, must come down.
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s/monkeys/children
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Yes, I call it "focus juice". Caffeine helps me care about boring or tedious things, which means that it's quite helpful for doing my job.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
A year isn't such a long time, in the grand scheme of things. This company sounds pretty doomed, regardless of the outcome of this conflict. Take lessons learned, cut and run.
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Incredible article from 2018 about Nikon's factory dedicated to lens glass. https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2018/04/17/glass-for-g...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/upshot/the-right-to-know-... https://www.mdalert.com/article/surgery-for-torn-meniscus-in... https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog&#
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
I get all my imaginary social contact by listening to podcasts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1273792-me-irl
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Our house has two adults and three kids working/schooling from home. Lots of videoconferencing, plus streaming Netflix, Disney+ etc. to entertain the goobers when the adults are still trying to get some work done. Very thankful for gig
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Related: Kodak Is Relevant Again, or "The stock market is a video game that people play on their phones" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-30/kodak-...
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
This is a pretty good article but missed an opportunity to comment in more detail on the 2020 startup/unicorn ecosystem. "Malone’s entire strategy was built around a single fact: that you have to pay up front for cable systems, bu
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Now that Etsy is dominated by mass produced crap, Wall Street loves it! Finally, a business model they can understand.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
They also are selling their "flying taxi" group to Joby. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/2/22086597/uber-sells-flyin... Time for Uber to actually try and make a profit off of their core busine

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