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by wbraun 7y ago
I interned at Meraki summer of 2017. I have never heard of a company poaching employees as viscously as Samsara is from Meraki. Based on that I would say that Meraki is on the loosing side of "cool". I also wonder if Cisco would h
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by wbraun 7y ago
I don't understand why the BDS movement against Israel gets so much attention when stuff like this, or worse, regularly occurs in China. I have been making an effort to reduce what I buy from China recently, which is difficult in elect
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US House Okays Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act(scmp.com)
5 points by wbraun 7y ago|0 comments
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by wbraun 7y ago
I fully share this cynicism about recycling things that are not aluminum or glass. It also seems that by making people feel better about generating nominally recyclable waste they are encouraged to consume more. I am at least familiar with
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by wbraun 7y ago
My first though is who would populate these cities. Secular society does not seem capable of reproducing at above replacement rate and global population is expected to peak and start declining this century. Would people start having more ch
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by wbraun 8y ago
Copper Vapor / Copper Halide lasers have been around for a long time. I was interested in making one when I was in high school and went to the library at a local college and photocopied a whole bunch of old books/articles on the t
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by wbraun 8y ago
Is there any reason to avoid the USDA intake of 1200mg instead of the WHO 500mg? Is it a health issue? A taste issue?
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by wbraun 8y ago
The article talks about how it can be used to send messages but my first thought is that it could allow tracking of receivers. A scary thought if it does achieve widespread adoption.
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by wbraun 8y ago
I once found a development motherboard for the RAW processor at a MIT loading dock ( https://flic.kr/p/Fw8cKb ). I always wondered what happened to the project. Thanks for the full history!
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Gear Review: Wahoo Elemnt Bolt(joshua0.dreamwidth.org)
168 points by wbraun 8y ago|39 comments
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by wbraun 8y ago
KiCad 5 is an exciting release. Most notably over kicad 4 it allows arbitrary placement of vias not attached to a PCB trace. It sounds like a small change, but it was really one of the last big features that other EDA programs like Eagle or
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by wbraun 8y ago
I rarely, if ever, go to McDonald's at home. However, I realized that the kiosks in foreign countries allow you to order in english. They are quite convenient if you want food quickly but don't want to deal with a language barrier
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by wbraun 9y ago
The amount of brigading by IOTA community also shows how toxic it is. Just look at the comments on the ieee article. Or the some of the tweets. They were also spamming the /r/MIT subreddit about the DCI. Just watching this all unf
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by wbraun 9y ago
I have considered this in the past. The issue is that the kraken order books are rather shallow. Someone could intentionally cause a flash spike and force liquidation of any shorts rather easily, so its far from risk free.
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by wbraun 9y ago
Is this article satire? How is blatant corruption like this a thing?
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by wbraun 9y ago
A similar analysis has been circulating mailing lists at MIT over the past few days and all the grad students are already freaked out by this. As someone who is in the process of applying to phd programs and has already made peace with the
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by wbraun 9y ago
This analysis has been circulating various mailing lists at MIT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3oIk8AO9F_UL98z5cieKha1V5e... As a summary, a RA at berkeley would experience a ~60% increase in federal taxes wh
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by wbraun 9y ago
In other news, water is wet. Actually though, does anyone have arguments in favor of the management engine? I would be curious to hear.
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by wbraun 9y ago
So I guess this is the first product shipping with Windows 10 S. Is anyone else scared as much by Windows 10 S as I am? Given that it will be the cheapest option for OEMs I can envision it shipping on the majority of laptops. Being limited
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by wbraun 9y ago
Ah, finally a reason for the ever slimmer apple products. A closed loop system where only iPhones are recycled to make new iPhones necessitates that each iteration uses less material.
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by wbraun 9y ago
I own both the headphones and the speaker mentioned in the article and have the app installed. It's a sad reflection on the state of privacy, but my first reaction to reading the article was getting excited about possible class action
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by wbraun 9y ago
The Propeller seems like a really cool chip from an architectural perspective and I have seen it used in some personal projects / kits, but does anyone know of it being used in a commercial product? It must have achieved some degree of
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by wbraun 10y ago
I think thinkpads of that generation had RF shielding issues. I had a W520 that would crash whenever it was moved across a table or removed from a backpack. Turns out the shielding on the RAM door was faulty and the static charge generated