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by rurounijones 5y ago
This may be offtopic so feel free to ignore but: When you say "working on your EU license" is this something that is an extra steo due to Brexit that would have been automatic before? (i.e. you would only need one license for UK a
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by rurounijones 5y ago
I think this comment points out that this may not be accurate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28873133
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by rurounijones 5y ago
Not the US, but in the UK which I think is comparable: * https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/28/many-hsbc-cust... (I believe this one was caused by firing greybeards who understood a certain very
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by rurounijones 5y ago
GamersNexus on Youtube have a great video detailing all the issues with processor naming with regards to sizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxKGFxmwcDo
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by rurounijones 5y ago
You are making the assumption that the people who run the company _must_ be wealthy which is not something that has to be so. Take Japan Airlines CEO. Certainly well paid but does not earn the crazy amounts that western CEOs of large compan
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by rurounijones 5y ago
I think the middle ground is something like https://wudl.co.uk/ where your house is essentially put together from smaller modular pieces. This allows pre-construction and the efficiencies in "mass production" whil
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by rurounijones 5y ago
Because Tesla owns the car (It is a leased car) and want it fixed according to the manufacturer's specifications (which happens to be them). It is not an unreasonable request. However I completely understand the complaints people are m
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by rurounijones 5y ago
Is anyone aware of some event that kicked off this posting? Has a particular game misused the symbol badly? It all makes sense but I am not sure if it has been submitted in response to some recent egregious misuse.
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by rurounijones 5y ago
> Do people actually think the listed requirements are really requirements when applying for a job? When there are two lists in a job description named "minimum qualifications" and "preferred qualifications" I think a
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by rurounijones 5y ago
> I still might sometimes put a funny/lighthearted twist on debugging logs that nobody outside the company would see, but I never put in swear words, condescending things, or anything else I wouldn't be okay with if it was acci
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by rurounijones 5y ago
Out of curiosity and If you are familiar: Is this the same Signed Distance Fields used in Star Citizen for their shield tech [1]? Or is it a different thing with the same name? [1] https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum
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by rurounijones 5y ago
To be Devil's advocate. OP was talking about a VGA camera API only and what an example of a battle-tested camera library already does. I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting the thing should run android. But if you are writi
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by rurounijones 5y ago
... You would hope so but honestly I wouldn't be willing to bet money on it.
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by rurounijones 5y ago
They studied a different subject. Remeber in large traditional japanese companies you don't apply for a job, you apply for a well-known company and then they assign you a role that may or may not have anything to do with what you did a
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by rurounijones 5y ago
Don't forget that the training of the new people is done by the managers, i.e. the people with 3 years experience before they stopped learning and practicing themselves. "Blind leading the Blind" in many cases.
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by rurounijones 5y ago
Physical engineering is a much older discipline and has/had (this is 7 years ago in my company) much more respect as a "real" career socially in corporate life. Makers of physical things tend(ed) to get more respect. I don&#x
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by rurounijones 5y ago
The stuff did get built in the company, usually half by contractors and half by the internal staff developers under guidance form the aforementioned managers. It was just build very slowly and it was held together by sticky tape and dreams.
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by rurounijones 5y ago
As a further example: In my last full-on japanese company it was basically impossible to find any developer with more than 3 years experience by accidental design because: 1: No applicants studied computer science in university so they s
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by rurounijones 5y ago
I think the problem is that Tesla went all-in on optical sensors and relied on software instead of something "simple" like sticking a lidar on the front of the car. I am assuming a simple modern lidar and software package with a
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by rurounijones 5y ago
Problem is the EU is not as "united" as the above examples. Which country gets the fab (and reaps the benefit) if the EU provides subsidies (Paid for by all)?
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by rurounijones 5y ago
You might find a more willing-to-listen audience if you lay of the "You people all worship Elon like a god" angle.
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by rurounijones 5y ago
> Why, 70 years on, does this one cultural event – first proposed in 1943 as a commemorative rehash of the Great Exhibition (with a not-dissimilar mix of industry and imperialism) – endure in the national imagination Am Brit: Know of The
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by rurounijones 5y ago
> Japan has nothing to gain by canceling Japan has not paid 100% of the costs already. Cancelling will avoid throwing good money after bad. If we are _only_ thinking about finances then the question is if Japan will make more money from
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by rurounijones 5y ago
"The box that changed Britain" is a good BBC documentary on the subject as well if you can find it online.
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by rurounijones 5y ago
That isn't useful when you have a reported bug and need to investigate and debug. Which is the scenario I am assuming this "quickly and easily copy prod to ephemeral test environment at the press of a button" setup is designe
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by rurounijones 5y ago
How do you deal with replicating customer data / data the developer / tester should not have access to? Do you copy that into the ephemeral test environment as well? How are permissions managd for accessing that data? Does it hav
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by rurounijones 5y ago
> possible national security applications I wonder how much of a benefit that would be. To have an entirely separate instruction set and all the hardware / software that builds upon it that is only really used in your country _soun
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by rurounijones 6y ago
"Legal Eagle" youtube channel covers this in some depth: https://youtu.be/GuYd4RP0_qk Highly recommended to understand the legal aspects of this case and will probably cover any legal questions you may have about
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by rurounijones 6y ago
> It would be amazing if they could turn Flight Simulator into a "game engine", so that other developers can build specific scenarios/games on top of it! Something _similar_ happens for Digital Combat Simulator in that thi
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by rurounijones 6y ago
These "hard" questions like vague "What about storage?" are asked and answered so frequently I assume either someone asking them is either not doing any basic research or not asking in good faith. Especially when the que

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