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by jsharf 6y ago
Esp8266 is a microcontroller which is incredibly popular in the maker/hacker movement for it's low cost and wifi integration. You can add a relay to this microcontroller and put it on your wifi network and use it to switch applian
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by jsharf 6y ago
Wow, it's cool to see all of the collective knowledge that people bring to hackernews comments. Very interesting questions! Hope Emrod answers them.
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by jsharf 6y ago
Oh, I love Dear Imgui -- it's very simple to use and has a nice... "engineering"/scientific aesthetic. Good to hear it's been ported to python. If you're looking for an end-user product, this may not give you t
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by jsharf 6y ago
You can't just buy more wind farms -- the wind in an area is correlated. That means if one wind farm isn't producing power, the wind farms nearby aren't likely to be producing power either. But nuclear power plants? Completel
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by jsharf 6y ago
It's very easy to choose these trade offs yourself by modifying the kernel and creating your own version. Linux gets far higher real world use, meaning that even if there are errors, they will be patched upstream and you can integrate
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by jsharf 6y ago
haha, point taken. But I'd say it's good that they care. Developers are in a different income bracket. Concern is far better than cold indifference, which is what usually happens...
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by jsharf 6y ago
He doesn't actually say anything negative about the runner -- he just pointed it out to say that there's two kinds of people doing ultramarathons. (1) Professionals and (2) people who are chasing a high and don't care about t
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by jsharf 6y ago
Christmas feels weird to me -- It feels vaguely exclusive.
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by jsharf 6y ago
I think that your definition of "NP-Hard" is incorrect. It would be better to instead say "Exponentially bound in required training data size" I say this because having a solid model of these terms is required when makin
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by jsharf 6y ago
It's a data entry script. If it fails they just do their job the old way until the guy fixes it. It's typing text into forms. Just make everyone do things the "old way" once a week so they still know how to do it if the
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by jsharf 6y ago
I think there's some really invalid assumptions going on with the reasoning here. I don't have an exact answer, but I can challenge these assumptions. You don't leave a "virus cloud path" behind you. It just follows
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by jsharf 7y ago
Yeah, but as soon as they were aware of a single case on board, everyone single person on the ship was informed, told to stay in their room, and became paranoid about further transmission. I don't know if we'll have similar levels
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by jsharf 7y ago
This is actually a very American misconception of public transportation. If you're in an area with excellent public tranportation (London, Barcelona, Montreal), it's actually much faster (I've traveled to these places and tri
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by jsharf 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken, most of the value of the home in places like the Bay area is not the house itself, but the land it sits on. In that case, it's super reasonable to expect it to appreciate in value, just like any other commodit
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by jsharf 7y ago
I think YIMBY is about city restrictions and ordinance. This sounds like the private building developers just wanted to save money and cheaped out on building additional parking space. Unless the city itself imposed a restriction on parking
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by jsharf 7y ago
This is a horrible "experiment". Duuuude I was just asked to stay at home for 2 weeks because I might have coronavirus (I was in Shanghai "recently"). Sure as heck I'm not going to be productive. (I'm a softwar
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by jsharf 7y ago
It's possible for past hardships to leave you emotionally messed up for years, which could make it harder for you to deal with future hardship. I don't think there's a hard rule on this, and it depends on the mentality of the
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by jsharf 7y ago
seconded, it was well written
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by jsharf 7y ago
I feel like usually the pessimistic complaining posts like this in hackernews are much more negative. It feels like there's a lot of hesitancy in this one and it's much more accepting/positive because you're afraid of be
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by jsharf 7y ago
Yeah but kids can smile and bond with you. Computers can't. It's hard work, but it's a bad idea to compare the two either way. One might come naturally to some people, even if they're ( gasp ) computer programmers.
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by jsharf 7y ago
It seems like this one is really easy to test, like via the clothing example the top comment mentioned -- just see if the person can reliably differentiate between them
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by jsharf 7y ago
This seems pretty formal/professional for an HN comment. Is there some reason you're writing summaries of HN posts with this degree of effort? Also, thanks.
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by jsharf 7y ago
Google search "lkmpg pdf" It's part of tldp (also google searchable)
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by jsharf 7y ago
Too easy to fake. Maybe instead base it off of fuel consumption. At the end of the day, they can't fake a full tank of gas -- Require it to be documented when they buy fuel and use that to approximate what they're using for a cros
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by jsharf 7y ago
I'm not the same person, but I have a small notebook and pen. Any time I think "Shit, how am I going to remember this if I get interrupted right now?", I quickly scribble down as much as I can and continue working. This is in
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by jsharf 7y ago
That's mostly used in Taiwan for typing, I don't think it's really common in China. I could be wrong though. Also, I think it would be weird to have a name made of those characters. They're strictly phonetic -- I've
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by jsharf 7y ago
Why are there so many fixit events in Europe and so few in the US? Northern California should have no shortage of tech workers with the skills necessary to fix devices. We only have a single event? And China isn't even on the map, in t
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by jsharf 7y ago
There's still generic variation to the point where for some people this isn't a drive. Sure, it's a trait which self-selects itself for removal, but it's likely polygenic, which means it is much more likely that it can p
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by jsharf 7y ago
I'm not sure when the last time you tried the assistant was, but Google's speech-to-text is getting ridiculously good. I think most of the time, it would be able to get even complicated orders correct. Anyways, I'm sure that
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by jsharf 7y ago
Perfectly true facts can still create bias, by selectively focusing attention. None of this needs to be wrong or distorted.

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