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by planteen 10y ago
Looking at Dow returns since 1975, you have about a 40% chance any given year of getting < 5% return.
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by planteen 10y ago
I thought the same thing. My strategy was just to pay down loans as quickly as possible before putting money in stocks outside of retirement accounts. A flat year in the market doesn't make the OP's strategy worth it, not to men
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by planteen 10y ago
Cool article. Another things worth mentioning is that lots of professional photo & graphics people have been using the Adobe RGB color space for almost 20 years which is "wider" than sRGB.
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by planteen 10y ago
For other spacecraft, the Voyagers will hit 40 years this year. There are computers on them. If I remember correctly, they even updated software mid-mission to switch the forward error correction to Reed-Solomon for the later planet encount
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by planteen 10y ago
Awesome, thanks so much!
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by planteen 10y ago
Does anyone know of a link to the conference paper about this?
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by planteen 10y ago
I'm also systems/embedded and the OP made me a bit nervous. I have been primarily writing C (with some C++ and other languages) for my career of ~8 years. It seems like there are enough jobs available. Certainly not as many as web
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by planteen 10y ago
Some books will remain relevant. A quick glance at my bookshelf of old but relevant books: K&R The C Programming Language, Programming with POSIX Threads (it's from the 90s but pthreads really hasn't changed), Algorithms, and
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by planteen 10y ago
I'd love to work in an underground hard rock mine. Being under the surface has always fascinated me. One of my favorite hobbies is caving. I live in Denver, so the Henderson mine isn't too far away...
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by planteen 10y ago
Just curious - what's the use case for 144 Hz? It's a multiple of 24 but not 30. 120 Hz is a multiple of both.
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by planteen 10y ago
Is the thread sanitizer caught up to where valgrind (helgrind) was for detecting data races? I know a while back it wasn't but things may have changed.
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by planteen 10y ago
Based on my quantity of down votes, I don't think many people got it. That will teach me to joke about Tesla on HN! Or maybe it just wasn't funny.
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by planteen 10y ago
I wondered the same thing. There's a Wikipedia page about it that is less fluffy, but it still isn't clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1 "Tesla had said that the factory will be up to 10 m
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by planteen 10y ago
Where do you live in Colorado? I've had good luck gardening in both Boulder and Denver. High altitude gardening (e.g., in the mountains) is difficult, but that is more due to the short growing season than the soil.
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by planteen 10y ago
Very cool. When I was in high school, I tried my hand at developing Game Boy games using a C compiler. Lots of good memories. Really hoping they do that Super Nintendo talk next year.
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by planteen 10y ago
Does Vanguard offer Admiral target date funds? Something like an Admiral version of VFIFX would be nice. I don't see anything on the web about it.
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by planteen 10y ago
It's more than what you said. Apple is a solid supply chain company and they understand quarter-to-quarter demand changes. It turns out that their Q1 estimates were too high by 10%. The initial estimates already accounted for the cycli
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by planteen 10y ago
> This means I'll never really be able to use the service I think you mean "This means I'll never really want to use the service."
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by planteen 10y ago
> Think of it as a scaling problem. Scaling is all about software. Interesting. But to me, solar feels like a utility (water, sewer, power, gas), which scaled before digital computers or software.
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by planteen 10y ago
It doesn't seem like there is a ton of need for software in solar, but I could be wrong. It seems to me that solar technology is mostly in line of something like a power semiconductor. You need lots of people who understand semiconduct
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by planteen 10y ago
Were power bills at some point sent in units of horsepower hours?
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by planteen 10y ago
I agree with what you are saying about not having too many eggs in a basket. I have seen many variations on ESPP: 1) You can buy the stock at market value on some set date by paycheck deductions (but you avoid that commision!). Worthless, n
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by planteen 10y ago
Ouch. Did they reach $100MM valuation or were they below that?
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by planteen 10y ago
Yeah, I agree, that is a good way to put it. The K-1s were such a mess... I think I got 15-20 pages worth of complex tax documents. It was especially messy since we had a part ownership of another company in a different state. I don't
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by planteen 10y ago
Keep in mind when you say "stock options," it can mean different things. The first thing that comes to my mind when you say "stock options" is options trading on publicly traded companies. That is buying and/or sell
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Satellite internet provider OneWeb gets $1.2B in investment(spacenews.com)
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by planteen 10y ago
I think OP meant jam. I believe at some point in the discussions about the Galileo frequencies that the US threatened that they may need to use an ASAT weapon on Galileo spacecraft if they believe the system was being used against them. Tha
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by planteen 10y ago
For example, Ecuador uses the US dollar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador
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by planteen 10y ago
Is there a simple algorithm for Latin letters to Arabic ones (meaning logic input letters, not shaped ones)? Or are there lots of complexities? My understanding of the Arabic language is that most vowels are omitted in writing, but that mig
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by planteen 10y ago
Has anyone ever tried writing English in Arabic script? From working with complex text layout, I know Arabic letters have 4 forms (isolated, initial, medial, final). It would be kind of cool if I could spot check the shaping engine is worki

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