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Aurora to acquire Blackmore, industry-leading Lidar company(medium.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
The historical context portion of the article is interesting and well written, but the critique of the open-concept layout at the end seemed rushed and unconvincing. Anyone here who lives in a modern open-concept house care to comment? I cu
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-10-12
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
I think the original article title, "How Contemporary Art Became a Fiat Currency for the World’s Richest" is actually quite informative
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Not to be all capitalist-reductionist about it, but I think this is really a case of over supply - an English major bubble bursting - that will result in a new equilibrium. Not an extinction event.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Good. It's become an over commercialized, over crowded mess.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
It's really cute, but it looks sort of fragile and underpowered.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Here's an open source project you can sink your teeth into: https://www.imx6rex.com/
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
The same method of altitude control, using a compressor and an internal "ballonet", is used on Google Loon.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I love listening to goofy podcasts that are just a few friends shooting the shit. Middling-to-low production value is part of the charm. One of my recent favorites is The Greatest Generation [0], which is about Star Trek, mostly. https:&#x
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Tesla's "maybe someday it will be capable of full self-driving" computer is now in all new cars. Also, Full Self Driving is a marketing term that may or may not ever mean Level 4 or Level 5 autonomy.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I live in a relatively wealthy neighborhood (Alameda, CA) next to a relatively poor neighborhood (Oakland). Lots of LFLs around. Recently we've had an issue with people raiding the LFLs - taking all the books at once. When confronted,
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
You are semi-correct. The tail sitter design was abandoned because it was too difficult/unstable to control while using the winch. The core team that started Wing quit X awhile back and formed a new company, Skydio, which has built an
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I was hardware lead on a system that was the 2013 revision to an existing ISA-bus blade PC architecture. We threw it all out and switched to an off-the-shelf DIN rail PC from Beckhoff with snap-on EtherCAT modules. It took a little extra de
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I am surprised that there is no ultrasonic method of measuring AoA.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
People in the sixties: "I better not say that or the government will wiretap my house." Today: "Hey, wiretap, do you have a recipe for pancakes?" https://twitter.com/andreacoravos/status/9997616
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Humanoid Robots Are the Wrong Answer to the Right Problem(medium.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
The main downside of the Hackerspace is the tragedy-of-the-commons aspect. Lots of tools and toys just asking to be lost or broken. Tends to create lots of rules and dampen the social atmosphere a bit.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I've worked at two startups, then a BigCo, and now another startup. The wearing of many hats was definitely a leveling-up experience, but I felt that I plateaued in just the way you describe. Equity from both of those first two startup
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How we get to the next big battery breakthrough(qz.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I'd describe it as a kind of "constructive nihilism", which some authors argue is near-identical with Existentialism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism Nietzsche was kind of a nut, but h
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
I also have found the combination of personal environmental impact reduction combined with a sort of "Pale Blue Dot" nihilism helpful in my everyday life.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
This is (2006). Thirteen years later, getting a proper PCB prototype made has never been cheaper. Turnaround direct from a factory in China can be less than a week if you're in a rush! You can still save a lot of money by hand solderin
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Other attempts to get at some of the same issues: Lovegety and other "proximity matchmaking devices" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovegety Online questionnaires for couples that only yield matching answers:
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
In my experience, OKRs should be set, in part, by negotiation with the other teams who are interdependent with your own.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
One way in which I've seen OKRs used effectively is as a defense against the type of middle or upper manager who is constantly coming up with new ideas or tasks. But what if we did $shiny_thing!? Sorry, that's not in our OKRs this
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Very clever, but if it has battery issues it's going to fall on its face. An automated forklift seems a bit safer in that scenario.
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
This sounds insane to me. I will never hire another PhD if I can possibly avoid it. I would estimate that I have worked with around 30 PhD-holders in my career. Consistent issues: no ability to hit deadlines, no sense of the big picture, ea
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by jpm_sd 8y ago
Once a technologically advanced product becomes truly useful and reliable, it's not a "robot" anymore. It's a dishwasher. It does one thing and does it well. General purpose robots are fundamentally too expensive to be m

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