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by piyh 6y ago
90% of low tech corporate business users with bloated spreadsheets and resource hogging antivirus. Anyone doing virtualization/containers.
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by piyh 6y ago
Smart assistants need to be able to bind predefined activity to clapping. The clapper had the UX nailed. "Alexa, ask phillips hue to turn on the living room light" vs clap clap
483.
by piyh 6y ago
When would knowing that they're an approximation ever be inadequate compared to knowing why they're an approximation in the real world for the simple masses? 99.99% of cases the decision goes "floats are fast and memory effi
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by piyh 6y ago
No new medicines, but way more biotech tools. Higher yield GMO plants, foundational research into disease, science backed recommendations for lifestyle changes to avoid disease that previously eluded us, some crazy stuff happening in anima
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by piyh 6y ago
Shorter and at a level the simple masses of programmers will likely work at - https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html#tut-fp...
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by piyh 6y ago
My car unlocks keyless, but needs a key and immobilizer chip to be present to drive. Anyone can break a window to steal your stuff, getting a duplicate immobilizer chip is hard and usually requires an inside man in a dealer network.
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by piyh 6y ago
Why do you need to sell it? If you're the type of person to steal a car vis bluetooth, you can buy a cell jammer for cheap and have a new to you tesla, or drive it to your chop shop. Not every thief has the same motivations. This guy
488.
by piyh 6y ago
Starshade is a crazy concept that could do more for the search for life than any previous approach by allowing us to block out a star to directly view its planets. https://youtu.be/-jA2ABHBc6Y?t=3652
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by piyh 6y ago
I bought an S50 from China and it constantly errors out on carpet. It seems to be a common thing, I guess China doesn't do full carpet like we have in the US so it's something they didn't test for on my version. The lidar is
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by piyh 6y ago
It bodes really well for future chips with higher power budgets. The Pro seems a bit underwhelming for what it could be though.
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by piyh 6y ago
I read stuff like this on HN and feel like I'm an child watching dad work on a car. Except papa Godel was younger than me when he wrote his paper.
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by piyh 6y ago
I'd imagine the average googler isn't going to be easily bribed compared to the alternative of finding some darknet service to figure out how to trigger an automatic ban by uploading malware to the site.
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by piyh 6y ago
Fahrenheit 451 "wall" family and the movie Her are futures I see from this. The paper also lists stuff like better auto complete.
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by piyh 6y ago
A Chinese room can still be an interesting conversation participant
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by piyh 6y ago
2 minute papers has good videos on neural nets learning physical modeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bw5f4vYL98
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by piyh 6y ago
I tried manjaro after living on debian based distros for most of my life. I somehow ended up in dependency hell after only a month.
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by piyh 6y ago
As a noobie, Eloquent Javascript was much better for me than The Good Parts. The Good Parts was a book of how not to program, followed by the right way of doing it. Eloquent was a guided path to understanding the language without being sho
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by piyh 6y ago
Really you'd need a duplex connection, so double the accelerators and detectors.
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by piyh 6y ago
You can't buy company culture either, but that could have been built 40 years ago
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by piyh 6y ago
Tom Cruise and presumably at least one camera person for a movie on the ISS
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by piyh 6y ago
Space as a destination in itself seems fine to me. On the other side of it, what's the point in making a space hotel if you have to pay the Russians an exorbitant amount of money to get 3 people into orbit? Now we can put 7 people up
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by piyh 6y ago
My company uses it for batch file processing. The CIO demanded we use it instead of something like FTP, but didn't understand the software patterns it was built for. We now have a very overly complex file transmission system and a new
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by piyh 7y ago
> everything is a drug except my drugs
504.
by piyh 7y ago
We've moved on from amphetamines to modafinil
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by piyh 7y ago
We also had China set the tone with the largest quarantine in history. Leaders are looking at the precedent on how to act.
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by piyh 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Investor_Protection... If covered by SIPC, you get up to $500,000 back.
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by piyh 7y ago
where coalesce(null_column,'') = '' shortcuts "OR is null", works within functions.
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by piyh 8y ago
time to register geographicIP.app
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by piyh 8y ago
I think you'd need to account for some behavioral economics in assigning positive or negative dollar values to free services
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by piyh 8y ago
I feel like at least one reaction would be to try to steal your shit while you're blinded.

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