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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I laughed at "old-ish" but then I had to look it up. Intel introduced NGFF / M.2 in 2012 - ten years ago! I've been tinkering with PCs for >30 years and thanks to subjective time dilation, if I'd had to guess, I
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Rats with tiny backpacks could soon save the lives of earthquake survivors(nypost.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 4y ago|1 comments
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Yes, you are accurately describing the Harvest Co-op which operated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and failed to thrive. Aka "the People's Republic of Cambridge"? I dunno, maybe it was mismanaged due to excessive ideological co
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Given that Harvest shut down "after years of financial instability", what's the strategy for this new co-op to survive? If you can't run a successful co-op in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where can you?
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I have a W550s that I've been using for work since 2015. Still going strong! In that time, I have: - replaced the battery - upgraded to 1TB SSD - upgraded from 8GB to 16GB of RAM Never had a laptop from Dell or Asus that was this rugge
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
My sympathies. I am fortunate in that my wife and I are in agreement that we want to stay far away from Venmo, Zelle and similar services. Our kids deal in cash or nothing. As for services: cash, check, CC or GTFO. I also (so far) have been
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Air travel 2x/week goes from glamorous to miserable very quickly.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Yep, I think it's more accurate to call them the next Nikola - another vaporware effort with "superior technology" supposedly waiting in the wings
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
How do endpoints find each other?
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Completely acceptable as a clever hack, or for real production designs?
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
The RP2040 is an example of a "microcontroller", a low-power processor with onboard program storage (typically Flash these days), and a bunch of handy peripherals (UART, I2C, PWM etc.) in a single small package. This is a modern t
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
This lays it out more explicitly: https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/microchip-to-develop-next-ge... "NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected Microchip to develop the High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPS
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
SiFive is fabless. Looks like they will be collaborating with Microchip on actual production. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-next-generati... https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologie
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Yeah people don't seem to realize that Lawrence Waterhouse is kind of an unreliable narrator. Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books, but I also once described it to a friend as "one very long dick joke".
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I think you'd really like the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian. Surprising amount of history-of-science in his historical fiction. For straight up history of science, Simon Winchester is pretty great.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I reread Cryptonomicon every couple of years. It's so very 90s, so very startup, I revel in it every time. It's delightfully appealing and appalling
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
> Your chat history should be a valuable knowledge repository No, no, no. Anything important needs to go into a document with some kind of shared permanence. Chats are not not not documentation! Have been burned by this too many times.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I'm not sure the author should be quite so proud of the results of his hard work (i.e., the Facebook user experience). And indeed, my own startup experience has shown that the "move fast, break things, ask forgiveness not permissi
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
> the company was itself a kind of Segway. It was too easy for them; they were too successful raising money. See also: Google X
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I just started listening to "Hardware To Save A Planet" but it's pretty pop-sci press-releasy.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
If you like Star Trek and dumb jokes, I enjoy: The Greatest Generation https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/greatest-generation/ The Greatest Discovery https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-greatest-
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
My experience has been that this architecture is really overrated. Sure, you can make an "instinctive" robot, but does it do anything useful, or just zoom around randomly like an insect? Robots are built to perform useful tasks th
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Seems like a very doable design problem. The angle of incidence of the sun varies quite a bit with the time of year, however, so if you can model accurately that's going to be a more effective use of your time.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
We have a 2022 Leaf and use it almost exclusively for outings that are <200 miles round trip, so no need to charge anywhere but at home 99% of the time. In fact most trips are probably well under 20 miles. So if you have a garage and are
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California’s strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?(latimes.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 4y ago|1 comments
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Hands-On with Tilt Five Production AR Glasses(youtube.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 4y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
This type of move is often a signal that the internal effort is not going well, so upper management has decided to acqui-hire a team who (supposedly) knows how to do it properly.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
I'm an EE and I do a lot of my own supply chain management. Some suppliers are saying 2024 while others are refusing to answer the question at all. Not encouraging.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
Every dedicated Olympics complex built in every host nation? Sure, they get a little bit of use afterward, but not nearly enough to justify the expense of construction.
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by jpm_sd 4y ago
The US having our own hypersonic missiles is not actually a defense against this scenario you have outlined?

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