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by ricw 11y ago
That's a bit of an overly broad sweep against the car industry. Technically, those emission standards are achievable and many cars do achieve them without cheating or the like, including diesel cars. If you want to be sure to not be af
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by ricw 11y ago
Just to clarify: this is to enable programs to have more a more direct and faster interface to data, while retaining data consistency and safety that typically would be managed by the OS?! Is this not just another form of DMA (direct memory
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by ricw 11y ago
This argument is one massive false assumption. Renewable energy sources are becoming cheaper and are already cheaper than coal and nuclear. Cheap means they will become pervasive and replace the majority of existing sources. There is techni
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by ricw 11y ago
Up to €30 million repayments since 2012? Is that it? these companies have billions of revenue and yet that's all they have to pay? How about fining them and the countries for doing so? This just seems wholly unfair. This may be a small
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by ricw 11y ago
This is exactly what is happening in Europe and in the US. Successive euro norms (known as euro 4/5/6) are forcing cars to have cleaner emissions.
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by ricw 11y ago
From wikipedia's caffeine article: "Caffeine can increase blood pressure and cause vasoconstriction.[37][38][39] Long term consumption at sufficiently high doses has been associated with chronic arterial stiffness.[39] Coffee and
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by ricw 11y ago
By far the most exciting news here, to me, is PEP 484 typing module. Typing support would eliminate one of pythons biggest weaknesses. Furthermore, having it optional means it can remain as easy play and prototype with while becoming "
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by ricw 11y ago
37% of 16gb iPhone 6 users are unable to deal with it. So good for you being able to deal with it. A large amount of users can not.
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by ricw 11y ago
Very interesting as it entirely contradicts apples recent statements in interviews that 16gb is fine as a base model (Tim Cook, Phil Schiller and Jonny Ive stated this if I remember correctly). This is clearly not true if it means that 17%
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by ricw 11y ago
It's actually not only austerity. It's reforming their economy that they haven't delivered on, unlike all other euro countries that needed bailing out. 8% of Greece's population still works for the state. I don't bl
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by ricw 11y ago
That's besides the point. Even if Greece would have all its debt cancelled (hypothetically), no one would trust it with more money. Debt is about trust, and after five wasted years of crisis and not delivering on its promises there is
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by ricw 11y ago
The interesting take away here is that Chinese web services deliberately delay/don't patch their services to accommodate Chinese spoofing. In this case the JSONP vulnerability from 2013 allows them to hack a users computer, thereb
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by ricw 11y ago
We have "badges" for all kinds of things, ie free range eggs, organic produce, electricity usage etc. why does something equivalent not exist for flavour? might be a tad subjective, but certainly doable. Might be because a lot of
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Ask HN: What project and resource management tools do you use?
2 points by ricw 11y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 11y ago
Boston, MA, USA: Software / Robotics Engineer at LabMinds Boston, MA, USA: Instrumentation QC Associate at LabMinds https://angel.co/labminds/jobs "LabMinds Revo will revolutionize one of the most thankless b
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Apple's digital crown mess(ricw.svbtle.com)
5 points by ricw 11y ago|7 comments
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by ricw 12y ago
Unsure. Two years ago we bought two zenbooks and two MacBooks. Two out of the four are still working, two don't. The broken ones are not made by apple. This also happened to the two Lenovo workstations we bought. Needless to say we&#x2
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by ricw 12y ago
It would make more sense to have 15.01, i.e. YY.MM. Works perfectly fine for ubuntu and would likely not break the numbering scheme..
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by ricw 12y ago
Labminds - Oxford, UK Full Stack Software Engineer LabMinds are building a sophisticated software platform that can drive & manage highly complex instruments deployed in laboratories worldwide. We have instrument control software, user
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by ricw 12y ago
"Want to use Javascript to power your robots? Check out our sister project Cylon.js"
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by ricw 12y ago
ROS has an entirely different target group. You'll never be able to run ROS on a traditional robotics / IoT framework. We're talking KBs of RAM; kilo/megahertz CPU speeds; minimal power consumption.
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by ricw 12y ago
This is very exciting. They seem get the core right. First impressions: 1. Use of a modern programming language that is designed to solve embedded / concurrent tasks and doesn't have a crazy (relative) footprint. Still curious wha
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How did Apple forget to focus its product line-up?(ricw.svbtle.com)
10 points by ricw 12y ago|6 comments
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by ricw 12y ago
Wow. I was wondering how the last couple of months had fewer and fewer articles by anand himself. And how they also became less and less relevant to what I'm interested in. I've been particularly interested in their / Anands
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by ricw 12y ago
Shameless self promotion: Our startup is working on exactly this product, though currently launching for a subset market niche.. Www.LabMinds.co if anyone is interested
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by ricw 12y ago
Those vendors will follow. As they have previously when they transitioned from powerpc to x86. Games is a good point. But this is not a big thing on MacOS (as yet) anyways. If it saves hundreds of dollars per machine, its a no-brainer for t
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by ricw 12y ago
You're making the incorrect assumption that apple would in fact emulate. As they control the whole stack, they can (relatively) quickly switch architectures. They'd lose the market that does in fact install windows on mac hardware
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by ricw 12y ago
You're actually wrong with regards to the branch prediction. the A7 is (according to anandtech [1]) closest to the "big processor" designs that intel makes with aggressive branch prediction (massive issue width, huge branch p
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by ricw 13y ago
DMA has security modes, implemented by pretty much every standard baseband chip in use today (Qualcomm, Infineon, you name it). In the oldern days baseband exploits were used to crack iPhones. As far as I'm aware of, this hasn't h
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by ricw 13y ago
This is all a bit over the top. Yes, the baseband may be compromisable, that doesn't mean that the operating system is. Your photos, data etc should be safe as long as there aren't further exploits (which of course exist). Further

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