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by ricw 9y ago
Finally it looks like the desktop CPU market could become interesting and competitive again. Intel being pushed to release a new top of the line core i9 processor?! I cannot remember anything like this since the amd64 days more than 10 year
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by ricw 9y ago
> For the other companies just shipping 10nm, we expect what they call 10nm to have a logic transistor density measured close 50 million transistors per square millimeter, not the 100 million per square millimeter that we offer on our 10
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by ricw 9y ago
Software engineers are distinctly different from robotics engineers. To build robots, you need to be at the intersection of software, electronics and mechanical engineering. A robotics engineer would typically intersect at the software and
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by ricw 9y ago
You know farmers who worked on farms in the 1920s?
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by ricw 9y ago
Anecdotally I can only state that this can also be seen by searching for "robotics engineer" or related job openings. I was doing just that a year ago and the findings are slim. There just aren't many jobs out there, which to
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by ricw 9y ago
The couple of times I flew the Dreamliner it really wasn't much of a difference to the 777 or A330. Noise level was very similar, same leg room, same seat space. Quite disappointing. From what I hear and have read, the A380 is signific
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by ricw 9y ago
On the 7 plus you can zoom in and out with one hand by dragging the zoom icon left and right.
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by ricw 9y ago
Free means you are trading your privacy for the service. Unfortunately that is not common knowledge, but it's how the largest part of the internet works. Time to spread the word more aggressively...
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by ricw 9y ago
Can someone explain why 162 employees are needed to drive a single station?! This sounds extremely inefficient to me, particularly as it closes as night too. I'm generally curious what the break down would be.
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Google turns Raspberry Pi into a dirt cheap Home competitor(engadget.com)
3 points by ricw 9y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 9y ago
Or rather it'll happen again and again until the casino is turned into a viable and competitive economy. I wouldn't blame the Germans and French for trying to contain a crisis at its origin..
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Watch this all-electric ‘flying car’ take its first test flight in Germany(theverge.com)
2 points by ricw 9y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 10y ago
What's astonishing is that the parts he ended up using cost him $300 [1], less than half of what a new phone would cost. The parts come from recycled / broken phones, so he effectively has a Franken iPhone. I'd take it.. wond
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by ricw 10y ago
Given that we have likely hit peak demand for fossil fuel (the theory being that the demand for fossil fuel has peaked before we have reached peak supply), this is unlikely. Oil prices are unlikely to ever reach the highs of $100+ ever agai
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by ricw 10y ago
This is entirely false. Every legislation coming from the EU commission has to be approved by the parliament.
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by ricw 10y ago
The direct negative effect on the quality of life of high housing costs is astonishing. Yet there's no real public uproar. When the price of gas goes up, seemingly everyone is up in arms. But housing?! People complain, but no where nea
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That CIA exploit list in full: The good, the bad, and the very ugly(theregister.co.uk)
36 points by ricw 10y ago|5 comments
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by ricw 10y ago
Very interesting, as we're looking into doing essentially exactly the same very soon. seems even more urgent with docker just having announced free/enterprise editions. Would be very interested in a blog post / some more deta
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by ricw 10y ago
You probably don't realise how influential it is. Americans spend on average 50 minutes per day on Facebook [1]! That is a lot. It's probably the prime source of news in the western world. This is not to be underestimated. [1] ht
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by ricw 10y ago
Disallow sharing of links. Only allow sharing of personal photos and statements of the old school type "MyName is feeling so and so...". That is how Facebook started and grew big. And it's what I signed up for, not the clickb
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by ricw 10y ago
In what way is it up-to-date? From what I can tell the majority of horror stories were related to running "outdated" linux kernels, which ubuntu 16.04 fixed for us (we purposefully only started using docker with the beta version o
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by ricw 10y ago
we do. about a handful right now. it's still manageable, though automation of server resources may be another reason to use k8s?!
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by ricw 10y ago
From what I can tell this is largely outdated advice. We've been running multiple 800GB postgres instances in docker for over a year now, with not a single problem. Not one.
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by ricw 10y ago
This is nice and an interesting overview, but it still leaves me confused whether one should even use k8s. We currently use a docker-compose to set up and run multi-container services (django, celery & workers, nginx, cron/backup),
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by ricw 10y ago
Having read obamas book audacity of hope (highly recommended), I strongly disagree. I presume that what he describes in his book was what he was referring to as change: ending bi-partisanship in Washington and constructively making things b
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by ricw 10y ago
This is seemingly quite a different technical skill set to have than his previous position. I'm curious as to whether Tesla wants to also transition to swift for automotive code, or whether Chris Lattner was already involved in apple&#
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by ricw 10y ago
Interesting. I've always had a very pleasant experience with support for my apple devices. To the degree that I've had two laptops repaired for free that were out of warranty. Getting an iPhone screen officially repaired on the sp
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by ricw 10y ago
Not if they control the ecosystem (App Store, platform, hardware). They do of course have a formidable competitor in android that arguably currently has the edge..
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Russian government turns to the ghost of Nokia's mobile OS(engadget.com)
8 points by ricw 10y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 10y ago
Easily done if you have a couple of VMs, a couple of IDEs with big projects, a SQL editor, 50 chrome tabs as well as the standard suite of programs (audio, calendar, email etc). That's what I'm using right now. 16GB may be just ab

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