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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i feel these "fines" should scale both with the companay's revenue and how much they saved in performing the violation. so at a minimum, the fines should be at least as much as they saved and then increased even more in line
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
can someone explain to me this "trade war" between the u.s. and china? as far as i can tell, it is an entirely constructed thing (in terms of how it started) and is simply the new "war" just like we had the cold war, war
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
what does that even mean? like others said, it doesn't do the video processing itself, which is why they are able to make the battery life so long and the size of the device so small. and that's why it doesn't need or can&#x2
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
? that's not even in the same product category. the maschine requires constant connection to a computer. and none of the maschine line is the size of a tv remote with a long-lasting battery. in addition, the op-z is not just a sequence
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
just as a note, the original post is discussing the op-z and not the op-1, although responses to criticism of both instruments is usually the same in that they do way more than people think. :)
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
what is a competing device that says this price isn’t justified?
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
what a strange stance. what would you have them do? and if you want an open source “portable keyboard thing”, then there’s already the organelle. it is no surprise it isn’t much cheaper and isn’t as well designed, for both hardware and soft
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
c# is one of the most popular languages in the world. what are those people using?
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> But that’s completely at odds with how most software engineers work these days. Most software is grounded in an open source development and deployment tool chain. There is a market for proprietary developer tools, but it had been dwind
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Just being able to put an image in a comment explaining your algorithm into your code would be huge improvement i do this all the time.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
this is one thing i hate about hacker news' policy of editing (and thus editorializing) titles and links. for one, nobody knows what you two are discussing because no one knows what the original title was, what the original change was,
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
amazon is on a downhill decline for me. their scale and automation of both humans and machine yields a disconnected service. a large percentage of books i receive from them, which is substantial, are damaged upon arrival. but what do they c
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it’s not just pr reasons. they tried to hot patch this airplane design with software, and now they are hot patching that fix. it seems it is a fundamentally flawed design that they tried to hide and get away with rather than doing the right
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
the fact that people find make acceptable in any way, shape, or form makes me wonder if i even belong as a software engineer. and your points sound like you're just describing a dsl in lisp/scheme.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it would be much better if the djvu format, wholly superior to pdf for large files, wasn't locked behind a license.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
text is terrible for communicating high-level structure and data flow in programs, as well as asynchronous and parallel programming paradigms. it’s clear that if programming is a way of thinking as much as telling a computer what to do then
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i guess i’m not a programmer copying all these pictures, diagrams, and comments with arrows anchored to the relevant code portions. (yes, i am able and do do this.)
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i asked: > of today i am aware of kip thorne and his relationship to john wheeler, and while certainly awesome, he is retired and hasn't advised a ph.d. student in over a decade.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
john wheeler is one of my favorite physicists. one thing i have wondered is: where and who are the john wheeler's of today? that is, who are the people who are well suited to advising and mentoring students and generating a lot of acti
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
he has an autobiography: geons, black holes, and quantum foam: a life in physics https://www.amazon.com/Geons-Black-Holes-Quantum-Foam/dp/039...
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it certainly is possible. in the old days, the elite kept power over people using things like religion, and still do although to a lesser degree. however, now the internet has provided the power to control and manipulate like no other thing
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Fact is, with low level languages, you can write software which consumes less resources. This won't ever change. and you'll be much more susceptible to bugs and schedule elongation and robustness issues. that won't ever
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
that isn’t true. you can go install it now on linux, mac os x, or windows subsytem for linux, and it runs just fine. and it still gets some updates.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Apple did not get big chasing quarterly profit numbers, it got big releasing game changing products and product improvements at the right time. they released those products over a decade ago. they got big because they took the momentum
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> developers keep wasting that on inefficient languages like javascript, python, java, etc > For fast, efficient software there will always be low level languages such as C, C++, etc. this sounds like every "low level developer&q
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
how can you claim that? more than waymo? that would be extremely doubtful. google has been driving around cars with sensors and cameras for over a decade.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
regarding their familial bonds, they are one of three mammals to undergo menopause, the other two being humans and pilot whales. since orca pods are matriarchal, this further indicates strong bonds and the fact that the older female orcas r
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
and just to elaborate on that specific technique. they will often have an orca coordinate it, likely an older female. that orca spyhops to see the target prey and then signals to the other orcas when to charge the block of ice in formation.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
is this a joke? the article and nature says the opposite. it is great whites who avoid orcas.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
those are likely fish eating orcas who specialize on a single species of fish. i wouldn't try that with mammal eating orcas.

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