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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Here's why I have absolutely no sympathy for Google in this situation. They hired Gebru as a professional thorn in their side. "Come up in here and be a pain in the ass! Tell us what we're doing wrong!", they said. &quot
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
"Doubts are growing about one of the first and most high-profile efforts by Google owner Alphabet to show that it can be more than an advertising cash machine. Loon, a decadelong project to provide internet to rural areas and islands a
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Alphabet’s Internet Balloon Subsidiary ‘Loon’ Hit Financing Turbulence(theinformation.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 6y ago|1 comments
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Indeed. Wave your magic wand and replace every car in America with a helicopter, every garage with a helipad, and while you're at it, throw in free fuel. Why not? What results? Most likely, huge increases in accidents and fatalities.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
That essay is 60 years old. A lot of these ideas have been developed further and thoroughly tested. We now have extremely ridiculously high resolution lithography, using electron beams and ultraviolet light. We have atomic force microscopes
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
> True nanotech, he says, was killed by federal funding. Uh, no. Drexler nanotech was "killed" by being a completely impractical fantasy. "True" nanotech is chemistry and biology, fields that are both doing just fine,
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
The processors on ARM SBCs are mostly industrial or automotive designs and feature sets lag behind the consumer laptop/desktop market. Many of those processor families don't yet support NVMe, or just started supporting it recently
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
I'm based in the US, it is really cool to learn so much about the Indian automotive market. Thanks for an interesting discussion!
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Correct, this was my (apparently very widespread) misconception that I just corrected with a bit o' googlin'
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Great article. He sings the praises of Linux memory management and virtual memory, which are unavailable on a microcontroller. Would be interested in comments on the downsides of swapping in a system with a small amount of onboard Flash tha
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Sounds like a nightmare. At a casual glance it looks like your products are mostly [processor] connected to a network of CAN and/or 4-20mA devices. Not possible to back-port newer control modules to older product lines? That said, impr
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Yes, this is pretty funny to read! I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has been using Windows since 3.1 and Linux since 2.0.x (early Debian). Nothing in this article is exactly "news" at this point in history.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Product page https://ouster.com/products/es2-solid-state-lidar-sensor/
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Startup Has a Plan to Build the Missing Link for Self-Driving Cars(forbes.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 6y ago|1 comments
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Have you ever worked at a really big company? If you're in the under-performing division, you already know. You've already accepted that you work there. You feel it in your bones.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Both the geophysical climate and the regulatory climate are favorable in AZ. https://azdot.gov/motor-vehicles/professional-services/auton...
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
I recently learned that USB3 is not only badly designed, flaky and unreliable, it is also an EMI/RFI nightmare. This is woefully understated in the article when it says: "It's hard not to generate harmful interference."
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
This looks like complete BS https://blokable.com/solution/ The construction of hotels and apartment buildings is already very well understood and highly modularized. Nobody needs this pie in the sky solution.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Best part IMO is the notion of LARPing your job on Slack, which is a reference to this 2015 piece https://www.theawl.com/2015/04/are-you-just-larping-your-job...
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Good old micropayments. Now's our chance to make a hojillion dollars! https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/22 (2001, parody of http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/icst&#x2F
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Upvoted for the headline before I even read the post; and in full agreement after reading. I'm somewhat inspired to keep a similar diary of techno-suck moments... but there would be so many!
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Additional details from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/business/nikola-trevor-mi... Mr. Milton said in a statement that “the focus should be on the company and its world-changing mission, no
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
"Nobody cares" because they were solving the wrong problem. Existing wind turbine designs work just fine and they are cheaper and far more reliable. https://despair.com/products/mistakes?variant=2457302467
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Looks like they are working on a relaunch (re-relaunch?) https://mobiusmobility.com/ I think unfortunately the main reason the iBot did not originally succeed is that it was too expensive.
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Move Over, Sustainable Travel. Regenerative Travel Has Arrived(nytimes.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 6y ago|1 comments
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see whether similar problems occur with Boom's supersonic all-composite airframe.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
Nice article. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on ROS 2, I haven't tried it out yet. Good luck with your consulting business! Not a fan of that fake soldier-robot video that keeps popping up on HN. I think it misrepresents the
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
> All current Luminar holders will roll their equity stakes into the combined company , Luminar said. Does this mean nobody is actually selling any of their shares? Edit: Ah I got confused because this is called an "acquisition&quot
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
While this is delightful, my favorite method is to make banana bread, and make peanut butter sandwiches out of it.
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by jpm_sd 6y ago
One word I am surprised the author did not use in this article is patience. Successful people are used to being in a hurry. It takes practice to have patience with yourself, and patience with others. Another problem that I struggle with, an

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