michael_miller

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Amprius launches nanowire li-ion batteries(electronicsweekly.com)
2 points by michael_miller 13y ago|0 comments
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Talking Cars with Consumer Reports: Tesla Model S(youtube.com)
1 points by michael_miller 13y ago|0 comments
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by michael_miller 13y ago
We do, in some sense. The <video> tag is hardware accelerated on many platforms. It's not a direct "decode this frame using the hardware" API, but if you're trying to serve up a video, it does the job. Is there something specific yo
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A longer life for lithium-sulfur batteries(fraunhofer.de)
3 points by michael_miller 13y ago|0 comments
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by michael_miller 13y ago
Cryptography solves the problem of spying on or altering the communications, but not the problem of blocking them. If the US was engaged in a conflict that China didn't like, they could theoretically cut off satellite communications, render
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by michael_miller 13y ago
The most experienced people won't necessarily derive the most value from WWDC. My personal experience is that each time I've gone to WWDC, I've learned less. There's a fixed amount of new tech that's created each year, and a large amount in
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by michael_miller 13y ago
This is an amazing app, extremely underpriced for what it delivers! One thing I'd love to see is the ability to do profiling, so I can see exactly how much time was spent in each function invocation.
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by michael_miller 13y ago
The "Get it now page" is https://trace.gl/getitnow.html for me, which works fine.
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by michael_miller 13y ago
Acronyms don't have to be positive to be successful. CRUD is an example of this.
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by michael_miller 13y ago
The most compelling use case for excess energy is to store it. There's a big research area in developing batteries for temporary grid storage. Compared to standard batteries, the goal is to trade off weight for cost, so that it's practical
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Designer Carbon Provides Longer Battery Life(technologyreview.com)
3 points by michael_miller 13y ago|1 comments
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by michael_miller 14y ago
How are ILS frequencies policed? Does the airport have receivers in multiple locations which automatically detect a failure, and notify someone in the tower?
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Wow, you used to work on avionics software? What was it like? Were the software development practices different? Did you use any static analysis / verification software to prove correctness? What were the software people at your company lik
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Large IT departments are really conservative for good reason. Hypothetically, consider that a company maintained a web app that accountants used to track revenue. Now, consider that the accountants needed to input interest earned from inves
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by michael_miller 14y ago
If price is an issue, consider the freeware version: [1]. It disallows commercial use, and lacks recent features, but it should be great for a hobbyist. If you need more than this feature set, $1199 is a bargain for what you get with IDA Pr
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Technology has a way of feeling incremental. Think about this past year, what really happened? We got a slightly faster iPhone, Facebook did some interface tweaks, Microsoft released a new version of Windows. These seem like really small im
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Very well said. At the risk of taking away from your original point, going into academia (especially a non-engineering field) can give you a very different perspective and release you from the tech mindset. As an example, the CEO of Palanti
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Will you be interning in Seattle? If so, you're likely getting an equivalent deal to $8.5k in the Valley. Washington has no income tax and a way lower cost of living. Even if not in Seattle, the difference between $6k and $8.5k is negligibl
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Just want to emphasize my point on money not being a factor in your decision. Consider you could be getting paid $8500 by working for <big company x>. That's $9000 over your summer, peanuts compared to your life earnings. Don't swea
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I believe (but am not 100%) that the companies listed pay at least $7k not including housing stipend. I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me.
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by michael_miller 14y ago
$7k is actually on the low end nowadays :). I was as surprised as you, but talking to my friends, salaries seem to have shot up this past year. Dropbox, Google, FB, all pay over $7k, some well over that amount.
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by michael_miller 14y ago
This is a great resource, I wish I had this when I was interning. A couple tips from someone who's done this a bit (3 times, 2 years full/part time intern at Apple, 1 summer at FB): - Yeah, you get paid a large sum of money, but it really d
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by michael_miller 14y ago
The target was set in a shareholder letter, so if Tesla intentionally mispredicted the target, they would likely be liable to a shareholder suit. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that the target reflected all available information at the ti
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by michael_miller 14y ago
It will be interesting to see if anyone is successful hacking the Model S. I assume that the software is signed with Tesla's private key, and verified by the car. If someone finds a way around this without requiring local access to the car,
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As Market Heats Up, Trading Slips Into Shadows(nytimes.com)
2 points by michael_miller 14y ago|0 comments
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Presumably, game developers would serve up the game to the browser via localStorage. This would make the experience very similar to Steam today, where you download the game, then play it.
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by michael_miller 14y ago
To play devil's advocate: - Can't failures be counteracted by having failsafe measures? For example, if the market goes down more than 5% in a few-minute period, the market temporarily shuts down for a cooloff period of several hours to dia
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by michael_miller 14y ago
My guess is that the first customers for this cable will be in the finance industry. A 30% improvement in latency doesn't matter much for the layman, but in finance, it can mean significant amounts of money. Already, an enterprising trader
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Another way to look at this is that the US is subsidizing the world's healthcare. Take the example of drugs in the linked article [1]. Given their pricing power in the environment, the article asserts that we pay 2x what other countries do
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I don't think we'll see big companies throwing their weight behind iOS-quality web frameworks in the near term. It would be misaligned with their incentives. When Apple develops UIKit and the associated development tools, they convince deve

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