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AFAIK, the FCC ban pertains to particular applications (or marketing of products for such applications). It did not apply to consumer applications. "On November 25, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released new rules r
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There's a wide range of inference accelerators in commercial use. For "edge" or embedded applications, an accelerator such as the Google Coral Edge TPU is a useful reference point where it is capable of up to 4 Trillion Opera
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Many Amcrest IP Cameras are manufactured by Dahua and use localized versions of Dahua firmware. The same applies to the Lorex brand in the United States. Some things that matter when it comes to configuring your IP Cameras (Beyond security,
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A lot of the commercial-style or commercial-grade IP Cameras sold are rebadged Dahua or Hikvision products. Compromised firmware or other backdoors are a concern for a wide range of products. With IP Cameras, a commonly recommended practice
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You'll want to find an IP Camera that supports the RTSP protocol, which is most of them. If your budget supports commercial style or commercial grade cameras, looking at Dahua or Hikvision manufactured cameras would be a good starting
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You may find the MELP Vocoder and history interesting: https://melp.org/ (MIL-STD-3005) MELP targets 2.4kbps, and there are later examples for even lower bitrates (e.g. 1.2kbps, 600bps) One thing to keep in mind is that a
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It sounds like there's going to be a market for specialized AI-models to do code reviews and refactoring. Perhaps we will see new specialized adversarial models develop focused on minimizing slop output from regular generative models.
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There was a prior effort to create a Golang SDK for Apache Beam https://beam.apache.org/documentation/sdks/go/ The BEAM Golang SDK work came from Googlers working on Beam that were Golang fans, and internally
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At the end of the day, we're all pushing protobufs from place to place
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In the case of television screens, the net profit margins on sales of these devices are in the single-digit percentages. Fairly thin, around 4-7%. Higher-end products, such as cutting-edge flagship products (e.g. 100"+ MicroLED televis
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They're usually filled with something with a lower glycemic index than the surrounding rice. You can also mitigate some of the glycemic response effect of the onigiri by cooking the rice with vinegar and chilling the cooked rice (or pa
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Also... Some TV operating system manufacturers give away their OS to TV manufacturers, and in some cases they even pay TV manufacturers to use their software. Some streaming service companies pay the TV manufacturers to have a shortcut&#x2F
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Aside from not having one of these devices at all, or disconnecting it from internet access, if you have one and want to opt-out of ACR (Automatic Content Recognition), you need to make sure that you did not select to 'opt-in' to
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Systems Administration the Hard Way... it's an uphill hike, both ways, and in the snow :)
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Documenting and testing the hard reset/reboot procedure, as well as any expectations, for your colocated gear sounds like a good thing to add to this list.
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Additionally, Seaborn ( https://seaborn.pydata.org/ ) is a great mention for people that want to use Matplotlib with better default aesthetics, amongst other conveniences: "Seaborn is a Python data visualization library
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They're going to need SRE for the AI :)
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Google also has traditions that created Broccoli Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
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Same as Google. Many internal tools have painful interfaces and poor or documentation because the hiring bar was high and it was acceptable to assume that the user's skill level is high enough to figure it out. That attitude becomes a
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My opinion: Many Meta tools and processes seem like they were created by former Googlers that sought to recreate something they previously had at Google, during the Google->FB Exodus, but also changed aspects of the tool that were annoy
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Waterfall concepts were codified into MIL-STD-498 (1994) which was the basis for DoD (and NASA)'s Systems Engineering processes.
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I wish that discussions of Waterfall, "Agile," etc, and systems/software development methodologies would spend more time considering the motivations and rational reasons for why the process approach was created. The practice
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Software Engineering in practice versus the curriculum in most Computer Science programs, undergraduate or graduate level tend to be very different. If you want to become more effective as a PM through sharing a technical understanding, it
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Mid-2000s era car technology seems to have been the sweet spot across most brands for technology improvements while still having practical serviceability and maintainability.
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The dystopian future of mobility will be free-to-ride, self-driving cars operating as taxis where we have to pay to exit and are incentivized to pay to opt-out of ads.
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> Charging stations presumably would have staff and equipment to do the swaps. This is a very large assumption. Also, where will the staff come from? Will there be enough charging stations with sufficient equipment and staff?
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Those swappable batteries also need to work in a formfactor and swapping process that a regular, not fully able-bodied person could accomplish the task in a very small amount of time comparable to filling an ICE car with gasoline or diesel
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Unfortunately, EVs in the United States are prioritized for range now and range is a function of battery size, with a corresponding penalty of cost and weight. There are still a few EVs models available in the US that are relatively light c
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Agree with your question... "Older" is a relative measurement of time, but doesn't say anything about the marginal benefit or cost. An example of your question I see from Japan relates to payment systems. People often critiqu
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It could also automate ordering pizza delivery and the tipping process to "Keep the change, ya filthy animal"

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