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by spitfire 6y ago
So I'm going to have to go to the apple store for major surgery every 12-24 months? No thanks. Seriously though, we long ago reached the limits of audio and stopped innovating there. We're close to that for 2d screen visuals (8K,
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by spitfire 6y ago
Those look really cool! Amazing some of the things you find on HN.
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by spitfire 7y ago
I'm not the poster you're intending but I would definitely like some AS400 manuals. I played with it a little in high school and think we're missing out on some good ideas there. I'd like to learn a little more, perhaps
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by spitfire 7y ago
This and Hasura are excellent. What's on the more sophisticated end of the scale? Is there anything that will generate user/company role systems and bake those into the generated API? Generate client side SDK's from the API?
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by spitfire 7y ago
My god. Are you serious? TPS reports are real?
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by spitfire 7y ago
Looking for remote data science contract work. Location: Earth. Remote: Yes, remote only. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Usual data scientist stacks, Linux, AWS. Machine learning: Tensorflow/Keras, Sklearn, pytorch, Mathemati
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by spitfire 7y ago
IP address, telephone number, city and other identifying information is ALL considered PII. I work with (adjacent industry) HIPAA protected data, which is considered PII by virtue of knowing Bob Smith is in the system. If they're under
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by spitfire 7y ago
Looking for remote data science contract work. Location: Victoria, Canada Remote: Yes, remote only. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Usual data scientist stacks, Linux (since 1995!), AWS. Machine learning: Tensorflow, Sklearn, pyt
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by spitfire 7y ago
A little off topic but can we start a thread for people who have been displaced by coronavirus seeking work? There sure to be many great people who will be looking for work now, or will be shortly. I haven't been displaced, but I am a
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by spitfire 7y ago
So I’m not seeing mention of this anywhere else chloroquine is being talked about. Chloroquine used to be taken daily in many of the tropical Britain colonies suffering from malaria. chloroquine in the form of quinine is where the gin and t
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by spitfire 7y ago
IBM, other mainframe companies and some banks used to have developer training programs back in the day. I don't think they called them apprenticeships though, but clearly they were.
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by spitfire 7y ago
Probably because Jobs knew M68K already and had relationships with Motorola? Just a theory. NeXT did have a working M88K[1] system, that booted and ran. The case was a slightly taller version of the NeXTStation. Then they killed all hardwar
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by spitfire 7y ago
Oh damn you to hell! I cannot see a james Burke show/presentationwithout being sucked in and watching the whole thing. It’s just not possible. Even if I’m just walking by I get sucked in. Why can’t today’s presenters/media types b
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by spitfire 7y ago
Not just in drug discovery but in most interesting industries. Using ML as either a human/cyborg aid or ML+real world ground truth is a secret superpower that I'm surprised more people don't know about. I'm glad they don
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by spitfire 7y ago
Sorry you're right. 4K Is run of the mill now. 5K is not quite. But the point still stands, technology improves. It only needs to improve to a certain level before it goes beyond human perception. That will happen in a few years. Any e
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by spitfire 7y ago
or don't use low resolution displays. 5K displays are currently run of the mill. 8K displays are on their way and may be the end of the road for the resolution race. Printers went to what 1200DPI? How many pixels is a 0.5CM icon at 8K?
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by spitfire 7y ago
You know what goes well with coronavirus? Lyme disease.
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by spitfire 7y ago
Maybe a subgame in the genre of Porrasturvat (stair dismount) and Rekkaturvat (Truck dismount)? My 12 year old self would have loved that. IIRC they removed the crashing post 9/11. You just clipped right through buildings. Have they ad
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by spitfire 7y ago
Cyprus has been using sewage to irrigate crops for ages. What's different here is they're using to build greenways to stop desert creep. Very cool. It used to be that you couldn't even flush toilet paper in Cyprus - you had t
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by spitfire 7y ago
Exceptionally cynical take follows. Teenagers who get prestigious internships often come from rich families with connections. If they're particularly affluent/connected, the intern has a problem setup for them so they can "di
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by spitfire 7y ago
For anyone wondering what he means by /fast/. mars.com ran at 30+ fps on a 12MHZ 286 with a slow VGA video card. I still remember being impressed by how smooth it was. It was fast fast fast.
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by spitfire 7y ago
I already did, over a decade ago. I tell friends "No cloud services on this ship!". They've bought into it too, buying more CD's, records and dumb only TV's. My current setup is an old 1080P Bang & Olufsen setup
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by spitfire 7y ago
Do you know where I can find a torrent for this leak?
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by spitfire 7y ago
Have a look at vuescan. It's 64bit clean and supports scanners back to the late 1990's. I use it myself and ignore the manufacturers software altogether. Which form my scanner only supported PowerPC. https://www.hamrick
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by spitfire 7y ago
We can just go all the way and call it counter-intelligence, with a significant component of sigint. OS developers and browsers will need to emit statistical noise to mask a users identity/activity. That will mean all emissions down to
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by spitfire 7y ago
The guy may be a class A A hole, but I really like that message. Like, really like it. He's essentially saying "yes, I know the shenanigans you play, and I'm not going there." Though, I doubt it's a business that w
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by spitfire 7y ago
Ahh I was hoping for something more specific. That reads like the brochure for OR. Well known industries, mostly with relatively high startup costs for the opportunities.
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by spitfire 7y ago
Any examples of specific industries? I agree with the OR approach, I have some secret sauce which I add on top.
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by spitfire 7y ago
I see Rolex and Tudor ads everywhere. Magazines (Economist, Monocle, etc), sport(F1, St Moritz), airports, etc. Similar, but not nearly as pronounced is Rolls-Royce. It's just that these companies only advertise where their buyers are.
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by spitfire 7y ago
Very! There's a number of aircraf that are plans only. They used to be the main homebuilt aircraft around. Thankfully kit built is the major bulk of homebuilt aircraft today. If you had $20K it's perfectly possible to build a day

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