jpm_sd

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by jpm_sd 9y ago
There's approximately one per floor, and they often sit idle.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
BTC is far more likely to hit zero than to outstrip gold.
843.
by jpm_sd 9y ago
But... when does it run? How do you trigger it? How do you step through it with a debugger? How does one program call another program? This seems like a lousy metaphor.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
In the past it has been proposed that a dense mesh network of FSO links could deal with interfering weather by dynamically routing around it. But that's a lot of lasers on a lot of moutain tops.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
"Hand-crafted" body welding is VERY different from hand-crafting a truck-sized battery pack that contains thousands of small cylindrical cells. The Tesla battery design has used automated cell welding for many years now.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
The photo of a single lithium-ion cell getting a tab spot-welded on by hand is worrisome. That is very-early-prototype stage kind of stuff. If they want to "beat Tesla to market" they should have a fully automated battery producti
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The Things We Carry(hillarypredko.com)
162 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|50 comments
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Large-scale industrial farming (hyper-competitive, boring, "work") vs. small-scale hipster farming (microgreens, heirloom vegetables, heritage breeds, "lifestyle")
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
You think you're too good for a job, hence, you are unemployed.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I assumed that was in reference to the mode of a distribution - the most common type of employee?
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
>Companies find it incredibly hard to reliably staff positions with hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances. This is not the modal employee, including at places which are justifiably proud of the s
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Competition is a wonderful thing. I might never need to buy another car!
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Which model do you have?
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I think this is a pretty good overview. In my last job I joined a team of 25 that grew to 250. In my current job I started on a team of 8, we just hit 35 and we're in that "30 to 50 employee" awkward zone. I'm much more
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Ah, but Rome was not built in a sprint! I think the main point is that fancy IoT gadgetry counts for very little compared to the things that really make a city work: infrastructure for power, water, sanitation, and transportation; places fo
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
More recent books are no slouch in this department; there are vivid descriptions of all kinds of goodies in the Harry Potter series, and the "Redwall" books are so well-known for their evocative culinary imagery that the author ha
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I wish someone would do a proper job on the Earthsea novels. Netflix, are you listening? LOTR is a bit played out, the Hobbitrilogy kinda beat it to death.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
It can read street signs, even hand-held STOP signs in the hands of construction workers. And the cars are continuously mapping their surroundings. But they ALSO use a shared, extremely high quality map database for first-level path plannin
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Airships are mostly disappointing. High drag, so they get thrown around by the wind - and leaks are a constant problem.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
All absolutely true. I worked on an orthopedic surgical robot and hospitals got excited about it ("Advanced!") but surgeons hated it (slow, cumbersome, reduces "patients fixed per day" metric). Mostly a waste of money.
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$1000 smart teapot discontinued(boingboing.net)
1 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I wish there was a text explanation, I don't have the patience for video most of the time. How does this technology compare to already-commercialized nickel-iron batteries? [0] https://ironedison.com/ [1] https:/
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Three years from now, Google will have gotten distracted by other shiny things, and the "smart" features of this neighborhood will abruptly stop working when their backend services are shut down.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Those rules have nothing to do with 9/11, they are based on risk of fire due to manufacturing defects.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Since the linked site contains almost no information, please read the Bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/saudi-ara... "Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
So far, the balloons are not doing a great job staying in the service area: (from flightradar24 on 2017-10-23) https://imgur.com/FdqTrQ7
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
It's a custom LTE base station.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
You are definitely asking the right questions. It is way too easy for Google to declare victory here without any meaningful level of service delivered. "At least one of the balloons managed to station keep for a while" =/= &q
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Very enjoyable book reviews. Loved his critique of The Secret Life of Trees, I couldn't even finish that book.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
This is pretty alarming and suggests that soaking agricultural land in insecticides might be having some far-reaching side effects.

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