smilekzs

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by smilekzs 6y ago
A truck driver's job is more than, uh, driving the truck. Inspection of the cargo and the conditions of the truck are things unlikely to be automated any time soon even if feasible (there will be regulation resistance at the very least
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by smilekzs 6y ago
Even if they are deliberately parked there, I don't think the fact that they are owned by Zoox makes any difference to the ego vehicle. It's likely they did it just to introduce this scenario predictably during the videoshoot. The
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by smilekzs 6y ago
> how far behind they are from competitors like Google Zoox run their tests in San Francisco, a city known for chaotic traffic conditions. They do so rather successfully (see their YouTube videos). This accomplishment alone means they ar
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by smilekzs 6y ago
(IANAL) If bought at 1B, which is roughly the amount of VC money they took, the employee pool will be roughly worthless.
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by smilekzs 6y ago
Having to pay US Dollars can still be a big hurdle
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by smilekzs 6y ago
Venturing a guess, a possible way for #1 to hold true (in some sense) might be the maturity of camera-based object detection and classification, which even the most risk-averse industrial robot builders might have justified to adopt in thei
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by smilekzs 6y ago
Non-paywall: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-repor...
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by smilekzs 7y ago
> Last question, is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce? GP answer is a valid example?
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by smilekzs 7y ago
> fuck.me is a > premium domain name > ...but it could be yours!
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by smilekzs 7y ago
> The UX designer probably work in a cushy Amazon corporate office with free snacks and drinks You might not believe it but Amazon does not offer free snacks or drinks (at least not in HQ)...
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Except that eInk has been around for decades without much breakthrough you'd see in even LCD/OLED technologies. This cannot be easily explained off as lack of R&D investment. IMHO the scalability is the biggest hurdle. That, a
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by smilekzs 7y ago
I'm in a mid-sized startup with headcount in the mid hundreds, and my mental model is like this: Say you have a batch of 100 ppl applying for the generalist SWE position, among which you can only afford to bring onboard ~10. So you nee
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by smilekzs 7y ago
> is just PR I would not dismiss the tremendous engineering + coordination effort required to pull this off as "just" PR.
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by smilekzs 7y ago
There was this idea of breaking "Big Tech" apart floating around a few months ago. It was probably over-zealous as it was proposed, but I now honestly believe that it's a good idea to REQUIRE (by regulations) the major (again
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by smilekzs 7y ago
I disagree. A raffle system, while inevitable in some cases (H-1B lottery comes to mind), is totally inappropriate when applied to a standardized test. Quite on the contrary, a standardized test aims to measure capability (however abstract
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by smilekzs 7y ago
OneNote has been around since 2003. I have been using it since 2004. Not 20 years but close.
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Years ago I tried an early adopter's unit. While I was impressed by the "feel", ultimately the lack of color was the deal-breaker for me, as I love using colors in note-taking + PDF annotation. Ended up sticking to my Surface
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by smilekzs 7y ago
How?
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by smilekzs 7y ago
> lenders use i.e. when you take out a loan. This is the key difference. So far none of the free credit scores I've been receiving match the number pulled when applying for a loan.
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by smilekzs 7y ago
> i was surprised at how seldom “junior” was written, e.g. “jr developer.” either employees stick around awhile before calling it quits on San Francisco, or they lie about their job title. Because "Junior Software Engineer" is
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by smilekzs 7y ago
My understanding is that "tech lead" as a role in Big Tech is more of a gateway position to bridge the gap between IC and management roles, a transition for a well-performing engineer who otherwise has no experience managing a tea
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by smilekzs 7y ago
A restaurant benefits from the economy of scale --- preparing food for a lot of people amortizes the effort spent on upkeep and $ on equipment. Also there's a team, vs. just yourself when you cook yourself, and specialization increases
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Ethernet is isolated (transformer-coupled). USB in its most common form has shared ground.
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by smilekzs 7y ago
C++ lambda has explicit capture list as well.
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by smilekzs 7y ago
Capital "Spice" refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melange_(fictional_drug)
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by smilekzs 7y ago
+1. The serviceability of ThinkPads had always been a great (if not hidden) feature, almost allowing Ship-of-Theseus-ish rolling upgrades like a desktop. Even though the build quality has generally declined since the T410 era, this at least
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by smilekzs 7y ago
wrt. Cars, there's a whole can of worms which IMHO matters to every car shopper (whether they think they care about it or not): Ergonomics. Every driver may have their own preferences on where important controls (pedals, steering, AC t
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by smilekzs 7y ago
It does. It's a special case of reservoir sampling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
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by smilekzs 7y ago
(I added "Pony.AI" in title) Alternative source: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/hyundai-kona-electric-sel...
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Hyundai and Pony.ai Launching Southern California’s First Robotaxi Pilot Program(forbes.com)
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