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by mikestew 1y ago
https://archive.ph/dgZpq
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by mikestew 1y ago
More flammable than gasoline? I’m not buying this one at all.
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by mikestew 1y ago
I'm not sure if Bezo's plan is outright sabotage of a venerable media outlet (how did we go from Bernstein and Woodward to the current editorial train wreck?), or if he got a new toy and never knew exactly what to do with it and w
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by mikestew 1y ago
https://archive.ph/z0vJW
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by mikestew 1y ago
Over 25 years ago MSFT was doing the same thing. Amazon, Google, and Facebook didn't yet exist, so we were losing candidates to Oracle because MSFT paid so little. When Microsoft finally wiped the sleep from their eyes, my next revie
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by mikestew 1y ago
Well, maybe not so great for ex-workers . Current employees still have RSUs and employee stock purchase plan, so those shares are making bank. OTOH, my Microsoft-employed spouse also says "no significant pay raises this review period&
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by mikestew 1y ago
10 minutes? Always walk. Walking then becomes a known quantity, unlike your bus, and your health will benefit. And, yeesh, it’s only a ten minute walk.
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by mikestew 1y ago
“Real life experience” tells me I’ll run any dog into the ground if it’s over 50F. Cooler than that? The dog still better be part of a trained sledding team.
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by mikestew 1y ago
It’s a press release for a patent with a lot of “robot arm could …” and “once $THING_THAT_HASNT_HAPPENED happens…”, and the topper: “ Before the robot can be deployed on farms, the computer vision and positioning technologies that would le
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by mikestew 1y ago
It has been my observation that no-income-tax states make up for it in sales tax and/or property tax. Government is getting its cut one way or another. Of course, retirees will want to skip CA altogether with their income tax and rid
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by mikestew 1y ago
As an owner of a Kickstarter edition (and a few more after that one), I am also at a loss. One can get an Amazfit for $80 that does all that and more, and it apparently has multi week battery life as well. I’m not saying the price is everyt
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by mikestew 1y ago
I'd normally say such a comment is in bad taste...were the answer not two friggin' sentences into TFA.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Google should have bought the company. They didnt. They basically bought the employees. They call it a "acquihire". That's just called "hiring". In order to "acquire-hire" employees of the target company
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by mikestew 1y ago
One could say that about any company (because "fiduciary duty", amirite?). "Don't let Toyota's 'reliable car at a reasonable price' marketing fool you, they're all about money." Yeah, but does th
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by mikestew 1y ago
It's proprietary... Eh, depends on "proprietary", I guess. In the PLC world, using an RJ45 for a variety of serial uses is not uncommon. I've never touched a Cisco router in my life, but I've got a few things like
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by mikestew 1y ago
At the bottom of the home page: “Made with Alto”
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by mikestew 1y ago
You were looking at it: “Made with Alto…”
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by mikestew 1y ago
remember, your regenerative braking comes at cost of tire life. No, it doesn’t. The tires don’t care if it’s the car’s motor slowing things down, or some friction material grabbing a disc.
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by mikestew 1y ago
I think one must first argue why it is a good idea. “It is already being done through back channels” is not an argument I find compelling. In some respects it strikes me as keeping the casino open longer.
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by mikestew 1y ago
https://archive.ph/0PPOh
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by mikestew 1y ago
What you replied to…wasn’t really investment advice.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Again I don't expect people under 45 to remember how easy it was to develop a user interface that reacted to user actions. This recent HN submission gives a pretty good idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44621
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by mikestew 1y ago
Whoops, I’ll update my spiel. And you can do it online now! Why, back in my day…
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by mikestew 1y ago
You need not suffer spam in your mailbox if you’ve got $4. Lest I repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131222
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by mikestew 1y ago
…saying he is "looking forward to being able to speak to Apple about it." No, dude, at this point you need to “speak to a fucking lawyer about it”. You are way beyond talking your way out of this one.
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by mikestew 1y ago
Looking it up, it seems this was a fairly common phrase applied to many cities over the years. It’s not like there was a “Paris of the…” certification process. If Detroit was, it was well before my first visit 50 years ago. As another com
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by mikestew 1y ago
Ninja’ed (by a measly few minutes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573512
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by mikestew 1y ago
I’d be amazed if the use case were exactly the same, such that low bandwidth communication were equally useful in both cases, yes. Beside the fact that Voyager 1's 160 bits/s would be luxury for an underwater craft using VLF or EL
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by mikestew 1y ago
“Communication” does not mean “can be used for command of a remote device”. The bandwidth is so low as to make it impractical (bytes per second or minute (in the case of ELF)), in addition to being one-way comm. You’re not remotely drivin
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by mikestew 1y ago
One would think the U. S. would have learned from the late-70s and 80s when their auto industry got pummeled by the Japanese. Instead, we not only cede the international markets to China, we think we will be just fine selling fossil fuel-po

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