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by larrydag 5y ago
This leads to a question. How many other smart device things have a created a mesh network without the owner knowing? Is there a way to detect such networks? I'm actually giving Amazon a break here because at least they are announcin
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by larrydag 5y ago
From article “We invented simple domain specific languages to express those things, such that other engineers in the company who are not software engineers can maybe configure it.” It sounds like they created their own internal API configur
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by larrydag 5y ago
"alarmed by" has 94k results.
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by larrydag 5y ago
Alternate questionnaire. Does your child have interests outside of sports and video games? Does your child work independently on projects? Does your child look outside the box and solves difficult challenges? Does your child question the
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by larrydag 5y ago
These lock picking tools are getting so easy. I expect new types of locks, probably electronic, will be coming out soon in market.
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by larrydag 5y ago
Does this mean that the Lunar Gateway project will be scrapped? https://www.nasa.gov/gateway
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by larrydag 5y ago
Edward Thorp used the Kelly Criterion for success in blackjack strategies and later the stock market. He has articles on his statistical methods. http://www.edwardothorp.com/articles/
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by larrydag 6y ago
So there was nothing in the "system" to check that there was an unusual amount of children passengers on-board this flight?
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by larrydag 6y ago
Agreed. I also find it amusing that there were two other brilliant minds who heard the explanation and thought nothing of it. No one seems to mention that very much. Perhaps politics and logic don't really go hand in hand.
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by larrydag 6y ago
"The mission we serve as Twitter, Inc. is to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers. Our business and revenue will always follow that mission in ways that improve – and do not detra
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by larrydag 6y ago
Also Wozniak and Apple. Netsape/Mozilla and the internet. Gates and Microsoft. This show really does bring it all to the table.
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by larrydag 6y ago
One of the most underrated shows in the last decade. This show isn't supposed to be a narrative history of a computer company. This show is to encompass the vigor, innovation, power struggle, paradigm shift of the 80's and 90&#x
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by larrydag 6y ago
Defi is an unfortunate name. I thought this article was referring to the Defi Solutions loan software. https://defisolutions.com/
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by larrydag 6y ago
ok that makes sense. I typically think of roguelike with the game engine which I immediately think top down 2d. Yet I didn't think of gameplay and outcome. Good description.
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by larrydag 6y ago
not to diminish the great creativity but why is it called "roguelike" and not "doomlike"? Aren't most FPS basically versions of wolf3d or doom?
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by larrydag 6y ago
Boardgame Recommendation Engine based on collections from boardgamegeek.com. Needs more work. Built it off of the R Shiny platform. https://larrydag.shinyapps.io/boardgame_reco/
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by larrydag 6y ago
I think the only thing reused is the engines. Granted that is a lot of the engineering. https://everydayastronaut.com/sls-vs-starship/
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by larrydag 6y ago
From Elon Musk "failure is an option". My take, if you aren't failing then you aren't learning.
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by larrydag 6y ago
I think it could be even simpler. Mobile phones are everywhere. You just need a mass of them to connect by some mesh app. For instance Firechat can be setup quickly. Perhaps integrate that with your drone idea.
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by larrydag 6y ago
BBVA USA was acquired by PNC bank in 2020. This seems to be part of regulatory or just trimming assets.
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by larrydag 6y ago
A truly free and open internet mesh network. We are so dependent on big telecom conglomerates as an ISP that run the last mile for the internet backbone. Wireless technology is simple and ubiquitous. I surprised we haven't come up w
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by larrydag 6y ago
Or in other words SEO for corporate filings
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by larrydag 6y ago
Reminds me of the Ready Player One story. The relationship between the treasure hider and treasure finder. It's about the journey and not the treasure itself.
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by larrydag 6y ago
This is really neat. So I get that booting from non-standard devices is just a matter of digital signal processing. Really interesting using an amplifier get the signal. I imagine you can do almost any sort of analog to digital method.
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by larrydag 6y ago
I used this distro to boot up an old 486 machine that I had lying around. It worked. Just did it to try it out.
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by larrydag 6y ago
I think this sounds like a ramjet or something similar
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by larrydag 6y ago
That's an interesting hypothesis. So are there layers in the Earth's mantle that are superconductors?
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by larrydag 6y ago
I have an Industrial Engineering background and have used optimality solutions. The biggest hurdle I've found with "selling" optimality solutions is explaining the benefit. While it is great to show the technical and optima
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by larrydag 6y ago
I'm in Texas. This is a big problem in this region of the USA. Texas has allowed open season all year round for hunting feral pigs/hogs. I'm curious what this has done to the population per the article. More info from Texa
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by larrydag 6y ago
You lay out some really good challenges for establishing a decent public net 1) Maintenance. What are the challenges of maintaining? Hardware? Balancing network? Software integration? 2) Speed. What are the barriers for making fast an

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