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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
It's nice work. I always thought it would be a pain to implement a Wireshark decoder but I was wrong! One other approach that could have been taken: to add the desired protocols into the camera directly. I assume you're just addin
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
In case you missed it, this is not a programming language parser/validator: it's to validate data objects in an information system. Validating a form submission would be a good example. It looks to be along similar lines to JSON s
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
"renting them out for this PR stunt just cost them the missed rental time" Because renting them out generates no revenue, right? "Maybe around 20.000" At least the article used a formula for the calculation. You just pic
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
Many companies are Microsoft shops and will use Lists even if it's inferior. I imagine the Airtable people are not at all happy about MS entering the market even though they will no doubt spin it in the way you mention.
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
"consumer spending growth from the top 10% is enough to offset loses in the bottom 90%" Bold prediction - let's check back in a year or two!
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by melbourne_mat 6y ago
It's such a b.s. article and is likely written by the nuclear industry. There are many factual problems but I'll just point out one: the idea that wind and solar will never be enough. Here's a study that includes wind, solar
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
I seriously hate open plan. Which turkey came up with that idea? I became one of the ahole's at one small office when I opened a brie and ate it at my desk. The guy next to me said that cheese made him vomit. Did he want me throw my br
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
They mention a 94% budget saving but there's no mention of the drop in accuracy (which I'm sure has occurred)?
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
I think having those capabilities is fine but I hate the endless notifications to use them from every damn web site! There should be a second and much more subtle notification system which does not obscure content or attract attention.
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
What is it with Americans and their loathing of one another? What is the problem with sitting next to a stranger? Maybe it's time for a spoonful of concrete.
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
The goals of the site builder and the end user are unfortunately not always the same. Airbnb doesn't want the user to have too much control (sorting by dollars), Facebook and Google also come to mind (being able to easily filter out ad
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
The financial problems seem to be happening at regional preprints like Indonesia or Africa. The people who run the service for them are surely using western labour. The obvious answer is for the regional preprints to switch to using local l
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
I'm going to counter the "therapists are great" theme that I'm seeing here. I think they're a waste of money. Cognitive behavioural therapy is a great tool. With practise and courage you can use it to reform the way
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
AMD has something called HIP which is a portable version of CUDA (compiles to either nvidia or amd hardware). They made a tool called HIPPIFY which can auto translate CUDA source to HIP. Haven't used it myself so I can't comment o
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by melbourne_mat 7y ago
I've been running rocm directly on Ubuntu 19.04 for a while now. I didn't have to build from source either. It's odd that they haven't updated their docs about this yet.
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
Without actually knowing the truth, my guess is outsourcing: Cisco thought it would be a great idea to save some cash on technical staff so they now do a lot of the grunt work through company X in country Y.
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
This is outstanding work. You should feel proud that you created something this complex from scratch over a number of years and did not give up! I'm in awe
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
I'm an occasional sufferer of depression and I know a few people who suffer it to varying degrees. For me there are a set of symptoms which are always pretty much the same and nowadays I notice pretty quickly when it hits me. It can de
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
I'll give you some government funded counter examples: space flight, the Internet, WWW.
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
If a company has a persistently high market share and has had for a long while, it has an effective monopoly whether or not it has ineffectual competitors. However I believe the reason nothing changes despite these obvious market distortion
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
KDE is an extreme distraction and a waste of developer man hours. Not just for the people who made it, but also for those who wrote apps for it. Imagine how much better the Gnome ecosystem would be if all that effort was channeled there ins
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
I love the cynicism :-)
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
There's no silver bullet replacement for the Google ecosystem. However there are plenty of choices for many important services such as Email, file/ photo storage, contacts / calendars, etc. You just gotta take the plunge!
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
If she goes on and on about the same thing, to me that seems like she wants your approval. Give it but also try to gently direct her to do something different?
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
"the party line"? That sort of emotive language sounds like something from Fox News or Heritage Foundation. A small number of huge American tech companies have most to lose on this. These are the ones who play fast and loose with
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
Don't make calcium supplements (ie Tums) a regular part of your diet: https://nutritionfacts.org/2018/03/22/if-calcium-supplements...
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
I'd choose a longer period than 1 year - the are always ups and downs from one year to the next. Let's take Amazon as an example: their effective tax rate from 2012 for 5 years is 12%. They can only pay that because they have arm
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by melbourne_mat 8y ago
The financial success of the titans of the tech industry is driven by monopolies and heavy use of tax havens. The salaries are generous for these reasons. Canada - and indeed any country - could easily do something about this if it had the
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by melbourne_mat 10y ago
There isn't much technical in the article, but it does remind me a bit of the adapteva epiphany.

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