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by wanderingstan 1y ago
This was just an acquaintance some years ago in SF, but I recall it was fancier with conveyor belts and a protocol for the robot to communicate the size and weights of the packages being delivered.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
There are several “last meters” delivery robots developed. Short range drones are being used in Australia. And I heard of at least one company working with apartment architects to standardize a “port” on the building exterior to which a tru
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
More than that, I think the ride-hailing business is just the fist volley in the self driving vehicle space. It’s a short jump from there to self driving trucks, self driving package delivery, self driving private vehicles, and on and on.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
This is it. All matrix codes are now commonly referred to as “QR Codes”. I’ve noticed this especially at airports where both passengers and gate agents refer to the “QR codes” on boarding passes. (Which are IIRC Aztec codes)
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
I’ve known many people caring more weight that speak without issues. Are you speculating?
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
This is a case for their being two slide decks. Or rather, that slides can be used as a shareable graphic-heavy document OR as an aid to giving a talk, but the same deck can’t be good at both purposes at the same time.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Yes. Log scale seems like a poor choice, given that the point is to show the relative size disparity.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
To anecdotally support this, a neighbor of mine likes to play their bass super loud at night sometimes. But what’s strange is that the sound is louder in my house than if I go out in the street to listen. Seems like the sound waves go throu
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
> People hate small talk because it avoids [vulnerability]. The purpose of social conversation is to connect but talking about the weather or the latest sportz ball result reveals sh!t. I’m a defender of small talk. It’s the MVP of conne
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Concur. I was a young programmer and could only afford the first book. (or maybe it was volumes 1-3 together?) In any case, there were features I left out of my programs simply because I didn’t have the documentation. It really was a differ
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
I concur. Same thing in many UI frameworks where you’ll have a Boolean “isHidden” to control visibility. Makes it so hard to reason about.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
This is a very clever hack, exactly the sort of thing that belongs on Hacker News.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
My memory was that the weight API was made private because they didn’t want people using iPhones for drug deals.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Note that OP didn’t say anything about “close to no developers”, only that they could tell they had become more productive. I too know I am being more productive. The most concrete examples for my work has come from the ease of prototyping:
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Thanks for the tip! It seems obvious now, but its been interesting for me to realize how much of human history can be understood as a quest for energy, full stop. Even going back to the invention of farming, which at its core was way to rel
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
I think you might be in agreement with me in the main, just quibbling on the timing? The US's addiction to "fat oil profits" goes back over a hundred years, and that's what the NYTimes author argues is driving the curren
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
“The Innovator's Dilemma” by Clayton M. Christensen described how big companies fail when against new startups because they can’t let go of their fat margins for a new technology that (at first) appears to be inferior, even a toy. (Hi
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Interesting! The z80 card in my family’s Apple 2 would render “^” as “↑” and I always wondered the connection. I guess they were using the original spec.
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
As with many areas, it’s easier to recognize “correct” than to generate “correct.” When I lived in Germany I would often use the early online translation tools to help refine my written German and it was useful to see how they corrected it
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Feature request: option to select a year so you can get retro startup ideas from e.g. web 2 or crypto-mania eras!
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Counter to Freakononics, my friend’s daycare in SF right now charges parents $2/minute for being late. So it seems to work for them. (Or it works because the cost is relatively high?)
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
The relevant scene: https://youtu.be/hNuu9CpdjIo
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Not based on a true story, but anyone familiar with computing history will see how real-world events were turned into plot lines; e.g. Compaq’s reverse engineering of IBMs sdk, the competition between directory-based index of Yahoo and algo
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
“Better” is always task-dependent. LLMs are already far better than me (and most devs I’d imagine) at rote things like getting CSS syntax right for a desired effect, or remembering the right way to invoke a popular library (e.g. fetch) Thes
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
There is something sobering and humbling at “seeing” 2 people die every second. To realize that entire lifetimes of memory and experiences are disappearing so quickly. Though I’ve probably seen that stat before, the site does a good job of
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Stack overflow never owned the content, it is and was Creative Commons: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
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by wanderingstan 1y ago
Negative only for Zuckerberg. The implication is that he was so arrogant and incompetent that he made a mistake (writing) that monopolists in other fields knew to avoid. Incriminating talk “should” happen only in person or on the phone if y
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
There will also be Jevons Paradox happening: LLMs reduce the “cost” of writing code, so more code gets written. I already find myself building prototypes that I never would have attempted previously; it’s just too easy to have the LLM whip
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
The author left out my favorite example: that you are mathematically more likely to be the slow line at the grocery store (or the slow lane on the highway). It’s not just bad luck! > you actually are, on the average, in the slower lane,
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I hadn’t realized it, but you are right. - Orbit height: 20,200 km - Earths diameter: 12,760 km https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/space/ https://science.nasa.gov/earth/facts/

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