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by petra 7y ago
Video chat with eye-contact and body language. That's the missing part to create trust in remote work relationships.
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by petra 7y ago
It's not such a thin veneer if you count libraries.
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by petra 7y ago
People want cheaper engineering services, in all fields. some work and some companies are working on that. See "generative design" in Mechanical Engineering and Architecture. As for the demand for software tools ? Old startups in
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by petra 7y ago
I don't know if "software that doesn't require any tech skills to build" is realistic. But a lot can be done, much faster, with much less expertise required, using modern "low code" tools. Just a few examples f
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by petra 7y ago
Startups are experiments. Sometimes, you learn something really valuable in the process. Often, you don't.
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by petra 7y ago
>> People can master nearly anything and stand out; But a lot of it is just for show. Not really that impact-full on the work done. People do it because they get a sense of achievement out of it. But isn't the psychological sense
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by petra 7y ago
// only allow you to easily taget a subset of platforms from a subset of development environments I'm not sure the mbed is intended for products with a deep focus on price. So less hardware selection might fit. But modm.io do
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by petra 7y ago
>> The fact nobody else has bested them is a sad comment on industry. I wouldn't say nobody has bested them. The real professional Arduino is the Mbed, run by ARM. It's for professionals, by professionals, and it shows in go
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by petra 7y ago
There are many good Mbed boards available. So calling this "the Arduino goes pro" seems like "marketing".
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by petra 7y ago
Reliability is key. But is the quality of the Arduino software/libraries good enough ?
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by petra 7y ago
>> including a significant chunk of CRUD software work. Can you please expand on how that will look like ?
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by petra 7y ago
' GigaDevice similarly claims “complete compatibility” between its new GD32V RISC-V microcontrollers and the classic GD32 series of MCUs based on Arm. ' https://www.eetimes.com/gigadevice-intros-general-purpose-ri.
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by petra 7y ago
>> Gates is well known for being bad at prediction and for having no vision to imagine the future. Interesting. Got any references for that ?
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by petra 7y ago
Many world leading scientists fled Germany after 1933: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.2018092... And 15% of the scientists that we're fired from universities were responsible for 64% of
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by petra 7y ago
I find Evernote's search isn't that good, at least in the free version. Often trying to remember keywords and using Google is faster. I know about DevonThink, i read good recommendations. But it's IOS/Mac only. Any Evern
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by petra 7y ago
I'm not sure it's just about vertical integration. Amazon is trying to to become better, of course. But it seems they are focusing on things that customers notice, things that are habit forming, while neglecting other areas where,
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by petra 7y ago
What about tools for power searchers ? Google have abandoned us. Are you planning to create strong tools in that area ? For example: custom search engines, the NEAR operator, limit search to sites that don't update that often or aren&#
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by petra 7y ago
frink or this python library : https://github.com/katerina7479/python-units-of-measure
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by petra 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/
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by petra 7y ago
Have anybody found this useful for achieving personal goals?
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by petra 7y ago
// Tangentially, there was a time when I believed if you had a great idea your boss would be delighted to hear about it. Sadly, that was a long time ago. How does one find good managers(or entrepreneurs) who are really open to gre
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by petra 7y ago
With modern preservation methods, factory made food can reach very high quality. Google the french chain picard, or micvac. Maybe not for fried food, and salads(easy to make). but for most other types of food it can work.
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by petra 7y ago
>> they're not a big company, and they're not licensing it to a big company. You have to use their equipment. We're talking about 915 Labs , right ? So where's the problem - just buy the system from them - as long
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by petra 7y ago
True. The real question is: why aren't we seeing products yet ?
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by petra 7y ago
Some of those jobs are important(1), but most replacable - many people can do that job. And I'm not saying thry don't carry done value , just that raising your kids well, in my view, is much more important. (1)are all cooks and re
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by petra 7y ago
My view is that 99% of jobs are either unnecessary or replacable. Heck, even when we talk about Newton's discoveries , other people on similar stuff at the time and would have gotten there. And if it's 99%, why not let the family
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by petra 7y ago
I'm not sure . In a very large share of people work either in bullshit jobs or unnecessary jobs or are replacablable. On the other hand, if children would get more love,maybe more of them would grow to be exceptional?
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by petra 7y ago
Wow man, $10B into wework ? That's really fucked up. And you're right, about self driving cars and that i'm still living in 2005 :)
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by petra 7y ago
In 2001 Google didn't own YouTube. Today it does. YouTube profits from selling ads, that's true. Yes YouTube makes all of their money from selling ads. But it's fate is highly independent from Google search. That's dive
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by petra 7y ago
Selling ads does speak nothing of diversification. In 2001 Google probably only sold search ads. Today they sell ads on so many digital places, some of those they own. As for the question of "long term" - Google X was founded only

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