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by pritovido 6y ago
I don't see the problem if rate of accidents and incidents are way lower, and they will be. If rate of accidents and incidents gets to 10 times less, the price of insurance will drop 10 times. Claims go to manufacturers? Manufacturers
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by pritovido 6y ago
In my experience working with critical hardware and software with sensors, I believe this is pretty much settled, because those components are fixed and well known. We know with precision how to maintain those, the rate of failure and audi
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by pritovido 6y ago
Of course the customer cares about fast, powerful and efficient things they can use. What happens is that most of the time making something fast, powerful and efficient implies so much resources that the ambitious engineer can not complete
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by pritovido 6y ago
Because it takes tens of millions of dollars to replicate the functionality of the Ipod-Iphone. Chinese do it in a completely different way, using prefabricated components. Secret services can not use prefabricated Chinese components becaus
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by pritovido 6y ago
You should have programming pals you can network with. You should have entrepreneur friends you can network with. Alone you are going to make bad decisions, if you have friends you can learn from THEIR mistakes and bad decisions, and their
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by pritovido 6y ago
Well, he has been elected, people has chosen to use facebook. I don't use facebook because I don't want all my private info controlled by an external company. But most people has chosen to use it, and have chosen to continue using
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by pritovido 6y ago
I don't use reddit, twitter, facebook or instagram, but HN is super important for me. It makes me more efficient because it gives me the knowledge of the community. HN gives me a treasure of information in so many areas I have found in
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by pritovido 6y ago
We use "dear imgui" for fast prototyping, some of those prototypes got to be production software. At first we were worried about the screen always updating and consuming so much energy, but reading the code it became obvious that
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by pritovido 6y ago
He gave those $22 million away. That is the point.
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by pritovido 6y ago
Derek did not became wealthy. He gave the $22 million dollars he got from selling his company to a fund, and gets over $1000 each month, hardly "wealthy". Derek has worked in a circus and knows how to live cheap enough. He also ha
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by pritovido 6y ago
I can also view it in Spain.
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by pritovido 6y ago
>ARM is far, far higher volume than x86 due to its ubiquitous use in smart phones Smart phones, tablets, TVs, projectors, routers and also refrigerators, 3D printers and ovens. Their volume is 10x to 20x times bigger than PC and laptops.
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by pritovido 6y ago
I have experienced creating products. For me, "just ship it" is a totally wrong advice to give, in the same way as "we will ship is when is ready"(and never is ready). You have to plan ahead, know your limitations and sa
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by pritovido 6y ago
You can consider Europe and Asia the same portion of land, aka a continent, hence Euroasia as a continent, because it is, there is no big amounts of water in between. This is used in Archeology because humans could travel easily across the
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by pritovido 6y ago
When they talk about "tropical home", or "tropical rainforrest" they are making the assumption that the weather was the same 48.000 years ago, which was not. The last glacial period goes from 120,000 and 11,500 years ago
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by pritovido 6y ago
Spain had one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe AFTER doing almost nothing to stop spreading the virus for a long time. They only reacted when there was no alternative. It is not just bigger than Sweden, official deaths in Spain are 27.0
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by pritovido 6y ago
I had exactly the same thoughts. "Simplicity. From the creators of <<in order to create a text editor, let's create an OS first>>" BTW, I love and hate emacs at the same time.
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by pritovido 6y ago
Putin is hated outside of Russia but is loved in Russia, because he cares about Russian interest first. Russia is the biggest country in the world. Has so many natural resources so has always been coveted by Empires: The French one and the
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by pritovido 6y ago
There is the related story of "Amundsen vs Scott" race to the South Pole. Amundsen had studied human behavior and efficiency under stress. He knew a constant pace every day was way more efficient than doing epic effort. So he will
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by pritovido 6y ago
Yeah, I read the article long ago and the picture was different. I believe it was a seagull shadow on the beach or something like that.
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by pritovido 6y ago
You should explain it clearly on your page, not here. I also was confused by the model. The model you try to use is obvious for you but in order for people to understand you need to make an effort in communication, because most people are n
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by pritovido 6y ago
The problem is in who owns the mass media. Newspapers are bankrupt, specially the NYT,that earns more money in real state(newspapers own properties in the center of cities that are very expensive) than with journalism. Newspapers gold days
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by pritovido 6y ago
>Have you ever met someone who can do 0(ish) delay translation between languages? With no accent? I have met quite a few professional translators that work for the European Union and all of them add a significant delay to translation. An
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by pritovido 6y ago
Because Apple's business is not doing "their own thing". Apple's business is taking something that already is proven to work, and integrate it into something that makes money. ARM is proven to work. It was designed for p
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by pritovido 6y ago
This is for common coronavirus but something very important must be remembered: The reinfection is not the same. The first time you face a new virus, you don't have antibodies. You also have no information to generate them. Generating
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by pritovido 6y ago
Most of the Wealth the West has comes from industrialization, and industrialization required a lot of capital in order to happen. It happened in England powered from the money of traffic of slaves in the Atlantic. Those slaves went to the S
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by pritovido 6y ago
What a sectarian article: So there is a distressing symbiosis between religion and violence but the Cultural revolution was a "mistake". So the most violent and murderous event in Human's History was just a mistake. Communism
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by pritovido 6y ago
Applying self-improvement takes time, work and effort. You are applying it when you change as a result of reading and specially using what you learn. Change is essential, if you do not change anything you are not using it. It is easier to j
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by pritovido 6y ago
No, it is not a subset, unless you are talking about drawing textures. Those libraries use GPU rendering using textures, like distance fields(Qt) or simply calculate fonts in 2D and draw it on textures using the GPU, like Apple or cairo usu
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by pritovido 6y ago
I don't think so. People only listen to people they admire, they don't listen to people they do not. If nobody listens and respect you you can't be a good coach. This happened in Real Madrid with a coach that had been a medio

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