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Neat that they prioritized etiquette and autonomation [1] over automation. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomation > “ Coding an AI in a conventional racing video game to drive hard but fair is a tremendou
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Sony’s Gran Turismo AI thrashes the world’s best drivers(polygon.com)
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Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems(arstechnica.com)
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“I don’t start projects with a direct goal.” These are hobbies that fail as “projects” because they aren’t projects (it sounds like they were actually successful hobbies). Here’s the PMI definition of project: > All projects are a tempor
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Two techniques I’ve found that are helpful… 1. Make sure to find a launch customer. It’s easy to get stuck in endless trade studies without a real customer. Real customers bring real constraints that make decisions easier. 2. Focus on impro
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OpenWRT is a good community. I made a garden sprinkler controller using OpenWRT and an Arduino Yun a few years back. Seems like OpenWRT has since added support for a few mesh standards. Another mesh community is Thread, which seems to have
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I’m creating a set of hands-on learning activities for high school students that use the Donkey Car (donkeycar.com) AI self-driving platform. Each hands-on activity teaches a lesson about engineering or machine learning. This is a not for p
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This is a great project. Orbi systems are so expensive. Are you basing your work on any open source mesh projects? Do you have a project site or GitHub where people can follow along?
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Thank you for sharing your reply.
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In general, arcades are just fun. They’re a place to go outside the house. But, arcades also get to experiment with unique hardware & interfaces that a home console or PC can’t match. Sega Joyopolis in Tokyo was a next level experience.
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> This is incredibly valuable because a good testsuite lets you check your specification. Could the test suite actually serve as the specification?
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What’s the next Burning Man?
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Thousands of nonprofits survive, according to the data. https://nccs.urban.org/publication/registered-501c3-private-...
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For those wondering which animals… > They found such vocal play behavior documented in at least 65 species. That list includes a variety of primates, domestic cows and dogs, foxes, seals, and mongooses, as well as three bird species, inc
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Very, very few things survive long-term. Experiments fail, projects fail, market leaders change. I know talented people who have worked long careers & never seen a product ship. Clayton Christensen made an academic career at Harvard res
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Retiring on startup stock at 30 is as about as far from normal as possible.
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Developing an app on the iPad in Swift Playgrounds from start to finish(cephalopod.studio)
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As a thought experiment, could it be a units translation issue? A person who lived 175 seasons (each 3 months long) would be 44 years old. A person who lived 900 moons would be 74. It’s happened to spacecraft, http://www.cnn.com&
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Maybe just an optional second cli for git that improves usability? If it takes off, switch it to default. Are there any examples of a cli tool with multiple, user selectable cli interfaces? Edit: to answer your question, there’s a lot of va
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One way to increase the number of conversations like this is to say yes to other people’s line of thought. I learned about “yes, and” in an improv class. Have fun with the idea, build it, explore it… try not to shoot it down or debate it. I
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You’re making the argument that if the web has a payments API/protocol then the community building the web can’t simultaneously aspire toward a future of abundance. That doesn’t make sense. Some items, like tickets to the World Cup, ar
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Tim Berners-Lee, “The Many Meanings of Open”, https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Open.html > “The World Wide Web turns 25 next year. We have come a long way, but we must all continue to push for these various forms of
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One reference is “Free” by Chris Anderson, https://www.amazon.com/Free-Future-Radical-Chris-Anderson/dp... DHH has written about abundance as part of his approach to Rails, https://world.hey.com/dhh&#x2
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> None of this is about giving power back to individuals Artificial scarcity is the aspect of web3 that bothers me most. The web is all about abundance; reducing the marginal cost of software and information to zero so as many people as
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Licenses actually mean a lot and are integral to many industries. Software isn’t traditionally regulated because society still doesn’t understand the danger of defective software. Buildings, electronics, phones/radios, vehicles, food,
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For single language projects that seems like a clear choice. I’m more curious about multi-language projects… For example a project might mix Java, JavaScript, and Python. Should the project use all three package managers? When should the op
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How come there is so much fragmentation in package managers? Is the on-boarding experience for dev contributors bad for existing options?
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When preparing to present to a remote audience, check how the slides will look for people connecting with a phone. When recording a demo video, try to record at a lower resolution like 720p to save bandwidth and make it easier for people wi
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Trying small displays is essential! My software engineer teammates get specially approved 4K displays and “engineering” laptops. People who use the apps are often restricted to “business” laptops. Conference rooms still use old projectors t
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Cesium Sandcastle has a number of interesting 3D map examples, https://sandcastle.cesium.com/ . Best to use a desktop browser. Their mapping library is focused more on 3D.

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