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by ptero 2y ago
It seems to be that a large part of the AWS business model is the revenue received as a fledgling startup tries to grow (and ideally succeeds) into a large company. As a small tech startup, an easy button for compute needs is perfectly sens
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by ptero 2y ago
Not the person you asked, but working on remote sensing and perception I have seen (not once) the teams turning from improving use of available sensor data to things like cutting edge messaging technologies to support real-time data deliver
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by ptero 2y ago
I suspect in the US the lack of competition is due to regulation and liability, not VCs.
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by ptero 2y ago
Agreed. But what I meant is not the literal "what does typing trackers find" but a higher level surprise, as this type of tracking will scare away precisely the people they want to hire: senior python developers who can work auton
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by ptero 2y ago
I remember looking at this when I last looked for a new job. The landing page is very cool, the environment sounds great. Pay is lower than US but at this point in life it's not my #1 consideration. I was ready to apply. And then I rea
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by ptero 2y ago
Those weapons are sophisticated today because they were developed by the western military industrial complex under heavy oversight by politicians, neither of which had a need for a cheap, effective, high explosive drone. Fundamentally, thos
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by ptero 2y ago
COBOL shops are hiring, while Apple, Cisco and Google just had layoffs. This tells us nothing about COBOL technology growth and future. Ah well, I have expressed my point, it is not a popular one at HN.
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by ptero 2y ago
Manufacturers are hiring due to the workers being very scarce (older ones retiring, young ones not coming in the same numbers). That doesn't tell the story of growth or decline in manufacturing (e.g., COBOL hiring doesn't tell the
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by ptero 2y ago
> I don't think EVs are sustainable in the long-run I think EVs today are a great niche technology that might have organically grown to dominance in several decades and tech iterations, but the current policies of forcing them down
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by ptero 2y ago
Are those numbers for Germany or for the world? If for Germany, OK -- it is (still) a rich country and can pay for it's choices, including importing electricity at whatever the market prices for it. Although it's manufacturing has
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by ptero 3y ago
This is fantastic! Is the airplanes.live related to ADS-B exchange or is this an unrelated effort?
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by ptero 3y ago
That was true 10 years ago, but is no longer true today. All components, including body, motor and electronics are a few thousand dollars and a garage-sized machine shop is very capable. The limiting factor is the skill to put it together,
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by ptero 3y ago
I suspect the doctrine of nuke as a warning shot is less effective today when a small group can launch, either for own purposes or as a proxy for another state, a large group of drones to strike with speed and precision the targets 1000+ km
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by ptero 3y ago
I would not be surprised if "paid by the foot" is correct. But paid by the foot of the cable installed to an external spec, with no ability to choose routing.
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by ptero 3y ago
The title is clickbait-y. TLDR: Fourier transform is an approximation. We can come up with other approximations, for example by square waves.
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by ptero 3y ago
Can you name those towns and the approximate times it happened? I would likevto learn more.
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by ptero 3y ago
I was reading the first part with instant buy in: simpler interface, "light" mode, yes, Yes, YES! We do not need 90% of the functionality, it can go into the expert mode. And then I got to the main item of the proposal, removing d
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by ptero 3y ago
My problem with the system is the fact that merchants are prohibited from handling different cards differently, for example by passing reward fees to the consumers. If that were not the case I would be happy and let the market pick the pref
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by ptero 3y ago
Sorry, can you explain why the high spend is important? What is the benefit of a low risk buyer having a single card vs three different cards? Low risk is clear -- the lower the risk the more money is left, after handling problems, for the
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by ptero 3y ago
> Tesla has been doing self driving tech for far longer than anyone else in the space, and they're not near perfect. I suspect that Tesla made its life much more difficult by betting the self-driving farm on cameras. Which may hav
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by ptero 3y ago
Not quite. Specifically, assuming independent random tosses A and B sequences are equally likely. No objection here. But the question posed is different: given a specific sequence, how likely it to have come from independent coin tosses?
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by ptero 3y ago
> you can't teach very well if 20% of the class is absent, it just creates an absurd situation for the teachers Why is this? If true, why this problem is not appearing in private schools that pretty universally do not object to pare
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by ptero 3y ago
Do you have kids? If so, what ages? US schools have changed, a lot, in the last 30 years. Many schools now are pressure cookers on both the teachers and peer levels. So some kids stay up very late and some go on antidepressants. On the othe
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by ptero 3y ago
> What about just piling in the van and driving somewhere? What about schools not sticking their nose too far out into the parts of life that they should not control? Like where and when we take our kids on vacations. If my kids get good
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by ptero 3y ago
I envy you! Both of my kids had unhealthy amount of high school homework. I know many parents whose kids stayed up until 1-2am at least once a week. We expressed strong opinions to our kids that sleep is way more important than getting an e
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by ptero 3y ago
I think the "occasional printing will clog up nozzles" affects some printer models more than the others. As a single data point, I used a Canon i9990 for many years. It had a very irregular use -- I would print a few 13x19 photos
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by ptero 3y ago
I try to maintain a structure for important stuff (documents, photos, decades of emails, etc.) that can be copied or backed up as needed. If I find a need to create an order out of chaos (e.g., for thousands of the electronic books I have)
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by ptero 3y ago
Was there any traction on this? I cannot imagine government services being early customers. What models would the want?Military -- maybe, for simulation or training, but that requires focus, dedicated effort and a lot of time. My 2c.
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by ptero 3y ago
His larger works are getting a lot of praise (justifiably, I read "A fire upon the deep" on a friend recommendation, then everything else Vinge wrote), some of his short stories strongly resonated with me, too. The cookie monster
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by ptero 3y ago
This is not nearly as clear cut. In the real world, Jane has a much higher chance to burn out. Or mess up the team, as everyone now wonders if working long hours is Jane's peculiarity or the new normal. And if this makes people explore

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