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by jwatte 9y ago
The touch bar was the death knell for me. Unusable. I had OK experience with Razer Blade 14 if you need high end GPU, and good experience with Dell XPS 15. The Razer and MacBook don't go higher than 16GB, the feel lets you put in 32GB
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by jwatte 9y ago
They did it twice (once in BIOS) and I care. Never again Lenovo!
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by jwatte 9y ago
The machine that turns CO2, sunlight, and water into sugar and oxygen is already invented. Unfortunately, we're poisoning the most important instance (in the oceans) and clearing another (in developing countries) wholesale, leading to
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by jwatte 9y ago
I am a little bit bored with these GAN style attacks. They show that the networks haven't yet generalized well enough. They don't show that the technology, or even the approach, is broken. Personally, I think the main problem is s
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by jwatte 9y ago
Titanium isn't worse to machine than stainless steel. Sure, it's not as straightforward as mild or annealed steel, and not as buttery as aluminum, but the "hard to machine" rep is fairly overstated. Titanium stock is at
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by jwatte 9y ago
Better product, cheaper, with less people exploitation, is a win for everybody on Earth. Except the old cartel. (Which, btw, artificially limits supply of mined diamonds) There were attempts to do the same in the US fifteen years ago -- see
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by jwatte 9y ago
What if a drunk drives the car into a pedestrian? Not much content there, either.
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by jwatte 9y ago
There are tons of physical processes that aren't explainable. Most current petrochemical plants have inner workings that are only half known, at best. What are we doing about it? Modeling the failure, and engineering a solution that no
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by jwatte 9y ago
Humans don't explain themselves particularly well, yet they thrive.
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by jwatte 9y ago
Minimal code delta means the isolation of any bugs is much easier than if you have to read through six months of patches. Ability to get user or system feedback on code today, rather than in three months, is often quite helpful. That is, if
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by jwatte 9y ago
Continuous deployment means you are never in a state where you cannot deploy. Yes, this requires significant effort. API agility, schema agility, cache agility, ... Lots of things need to be solved! (Imagine storing a serialized cached enti
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by jwatte 9y ago
He's missing the third foundation: Have sufficiently good monitoring to support your frictionless deployments with an immune system that can automatically roll back deploys that seem questionable, and easily diagnose the cause of chang
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by jwatte 9y ago
Privatize profits, socialize costs. Works as intended!
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by jwatte 9y ago
As a previous C++ and Erlang programmer, polymorphism on return type was the hardest thing for me to internalize. Like, I could repeat the words, but I didn't "grok" it for the longest time. I wish there was some standard way
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by jwatte 9y ago
Open source is much older. I remember contributing to nethack 30 years ago, and rogue was older than that. Saying ESR defined open source is giving way too much credit.
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by jwatte 9y ago
Because wasting time on transpiration also kills, small slices of lost life in parallel. Traffic had long hanging fruit for saving lives for sure -- mandatory daytime running lights come to mind as a zero cost improvement -- but the speed e
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by jwatte 9y ago
Whenever you have a real customer service problem, send a written letter, registered mail, demanding a specific action or written explanation why the action cannot be taken, sent to you within 30 days. If it doesn't clear itself up, co
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by jwatte 9y ago
The real problem is that there isn't enough "top off" outlets at shopping centers, work places, and parking lots. It's actually cheap to put in regular outlets or 220V J1772. In some northern states, they actually have t
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by jwatte 9y ago
J1772 was fine until they added IP networking. I do not want a physical network connection between some unaudited charging station code and my likewise unaudited car control code. I don't even want to turn on telematics, until the car
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by jwatte 9y ago
Most electric car owners never charge other than at home, while they are sleeping. The "I need to take my car across the country on a whim" theory of car ownership isn't /actually/ a thing for most people, and &quot
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by jwatte 9y ago
4500 queries per second per node doesn't sound like much. "100s" of linear polygon scans could likely turn into a few, plus a quad tree or spatial grid hash lookup. I don't quite understand why those approaches are consi
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by jwatte 9y ago
Many games and engines do this. Including Roblox!
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by jwatte 9y ago
There are a number of abortion deniers whoop would disagree with you on "murder" and "death."
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by jwatte 9y ago
The NSA needs educated smart people. The president has denigrated education and smart people. NSA employees work for the president. Reap what you sow.
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by jwatte 9y ago
The whole problem of the main thread is that people seek entertainment (dopamine.) This is mindless and not constructive. If the alternative was watching TV, yeah, Reddit isn't that bad. But if the alternative is exercise, or serving h
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by jwatte 9y ago
Separately, the distribution will never be that narrow in practice. Once the highest rater reaches 7, NPS will start improving. The author even states herself that the input has noise, so the "everyone's a 6" argument is a st
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by jwatte 9y ago
I believe the NPS mechanism of "6 is bad" intends to capture more psychology than the statistical analysis on the article gives it credit for. That being said, I agree that a three point scale would be better in most cases. The fo
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by jwatte 9y ago
I've mentored people into their sixties. It's mainly about finding the right relation. Nobody wants to mentor someone they don't see something good in. Most will mentor someone who "gives back" through aptitude, att
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by jwatte 9y ago
Add YouTube red (free with Google play music) for the family, and some NPR presets on the radio, and the worst you'll hear are the terrible underwriting credits... It's been great!
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by jwatte 9y ago
Check out donkeycar.com for another fun application of Keras on a raspberry pi 3!

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