roel_v

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811.
by roel_v 8y ago
"I have long thought that there is an opening for local grocery stores to take a lot of this market." I have talked with a local specialty supermarket owner about this, and basically it's too expensive to do at small scale. F
812.
by roel_v 8y ago
My children are in a primary school level 'English as a second language' program in Australia right now, and my son got a 'Spot's first Christmas' book to take home to read yesterday. So then I had to explain what &
813.
by roel_v 8y ago
Look at this from an economics perspective, do people in this sort of positions get paid more than comparable positions in other fields? I'd never heard of legal liability for software engineers. Has anyone ever been convicted or other
814.
by roel_v 8y ago
The article says 800. I can't imagine what it would be like, to be part of a machine of 800 people basically set up to cater to the whims of one overlord.
815.
by roel_v 8y ago
If this is the same video we're talking about, he 'just' melted down the beer cans into a block of aluminum and then machined a lower from it, right? (and he also made a video where he melted down spent brass and machined an
816.
by roel_v 8y ago
At work so can't watch videos on rifling a barrel, but can this tooling also be DIY'ed? I imagine rifling is 'just' a matter of using a very thin, very long cutter on a suitable lathe, but then I would think it would be
817.
by roel_v 8y ago
Sometimes I think 'hey, I had a pretty interesting childhood', and other times, I read comments like this one.
818.
by roel_v 8y ago
"Under FTPT, the people..." You probably meant 'FPTP' there ('First Past The Post')? If not, what does this stand for?
819.
by roel_v 8y ago
"To me, this indicates that much of the current ML research fails to generate true insight." I don't think anyone who knows what they're talking about would say otherwise.
820.
by roel_v 8y ago
Apart from the 'duh' factor about someone in their 40's with a whopping 5 first author papers not getting a tenure track position, and not just any, because she refused one in Hungary because 'it didn't fit in her l
821.
by roel_v 8y ago
Of course, because here in Lake Wobegone, everybody is above average!
822.
by roel_v 8y ago
While the Wikipedia article for 'limited liability' somewhat hints at NY being the first place where 'limited liability' was a legal concept accessible to all (although I'm not sure why that article does that - it&#
823.
by roel_v 8y ago
'Chapter 11' is not really bankruptcy. Well it is in the US legal sense, but it's not really in the common use sense of the word.
824.
by roel_v 8y ago
No they're not. The first 'corporation' as we'd recognize it today was the Dutch East India Corporation, which was founded before the US even existed. It already split liability of the corporation from that of the office
825.
by roel_v 8y ago
Yeah but what I meant is that having different ssids doesn't buy you much from a security pov when all traffic is still commingled on the router. But if you can get vlanning for 'free', then all of a sudden it starts making a
826.
by roel_v 8y ago
Oh that's cool. I have a ~5 year old 'prosumer'/small business AP (don't recall brand) and it doesn't let you do that (it's probably different with anything you buy new today). I spend ungodly amounts of t
827.
by roel_v 8y ago
But what's it like surfing the web on 56k6 nowadays? It was painful 15 years ago, doesn't seem like it would be feasible today. ('feasible' as in 'would actually use this for something', not as in 'technic
828.
by roel_v 8y ago
"This was in reference to having a dedicated "IOT" SSID in your home." In what way does that matter? Can you vlan them directly on the wireless router that way? Or are these devices 'all in one' routers (i.e. b
829.
by roel_v 8y ago
shrug I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Of course nobody wants to build the single most important part of a company around a single person. My point is that for some deep niches, building entire teams around it, and pul
830.
by roel_v 8y ago
Some technical roles require deep understanding of an extremely niche thing. It just doesn't make sense to have such a person supervise 10 junior and senior people, they wouldn't be able to do any more work than the one guy. For e
831.
by roel_v 8y ago
How does anyone quantify the value from something as generic as switching programming languages/frameworks to a number as specific as '8mm'? It could just as well have grown by that much even if there had been no switch. When
832.
by roel_v 8y ago
Sure, I'm not saying it's easy, but still out of all other things they'd be up against, it'd be on the easier side...
833.
by roel_v 8y ago
Just serving up a bunch of maps and satellite imagery is probably one of the easier things to replicate though.
834.
by roel_v 8y ago
The goal is to let the Uber app do (or at least suggest) the mode choice for you. So instead of thinking 'hmm, I'll use PT, now I need to open app XYZ', you could be 'I want to go from point A to point B. Let me open the
835.
by roel_v 8y ago
That's not the same. What you are talking about is an 'insurance' where you, when you get into legal trouble, are reimbursed for (some of) your legal costs. That's not what the GP meant.
836.
by roel_v 8y ago
Wasn't that one of the main MOP's for Russian infantry to attack German tanks in WW2? Run up to it, stick a grenade in a weak spot, run away as fast as you could? I assume modern tanks would be quite different from WW2 tanks, but
837.
by roel_v 8y ago
I know some people who moved from the 'infosec underground' in Western Europe to the Middle East 10-ish years ago, nowadays they mostly don't have contact any more with anyone from 'back then'. But I've wondere
838.
by roel_v 8y ago
Because it's so trite and obvious.. Oh really, support, geez why didn't I think of that? This discussion has been going on for 20+ years and the conclusion is simple: OS is not a viable business model in the vast majority of cases
839.
by roel_v 8y ago
My strategy is to be a screen addicted zombie to the point that my children will hate phones so much they run away from them. Seems to be working so far.
840.
by roel_v 8y ago
More work put into implementation, better (more optimized) libraries, some additional functionality that lets you do things faster in some circumstances. Cuda doesn't have to care about anything but nvidia gpus, opencl needs to run on

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