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by xondono 3y ago
Most people over estimate how effective CE marking is. For example, CE only prevents people from selling products. For example, I’ve done pilot tests (city wide installations of urban equipment) with devices that, while I knew they’d be c
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by xondono 3y ago
No, but devices have strict regulations and paperwork intended to keep people safe . Keeping people safe when it comes to software means first and foremost having good security.
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by xondono 3y ago
They are, but both were born out universities not companies, so I’m not sure how this goes against my statement.
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by xondono 3y ago
I very much doubt it, and it’s probably going to do the opposite. CRA just brings the kind paperwork that physical products have always had to be licensed in the EU (CE marking) to software. Have you seen european companies investing in Ope
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by xondono 3y ago
It’s a problem of how book publishing works. Most of these self-help books are made because publishers can sell them, mostly on the name of the author. At the same time, most authors could condense their “insights” into a 3-4 page article.
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by xondono 3y ago
>What else can be done? This isn't a meritocracy, it's just capitalism. What an absurd take. Just because it involves money doesn't mean it's "capitalism"s fault, for starters because this has way more to do
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by xondono 3y ago
> recognize the political reality that almost no one is willing to suffer a substantial downgrade in standard of living. “Downgrade” is an understatement, people always idealize living “in the field” until they need an emergency surgery,
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by xondono 3y ago
Python wins because it’s the lowest common denominator. We have a bunch of people programming, most of them scientists. Even if Python is poorly suited for us, it’s pretty much the only thing everyone can work with.
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by xondono 3y ago
What I understood is that the author is not happy about the “Open Core” model and would prefer truly OSS, but the real deal breaker is maintaining Gitlab. My experience self hosting Gitlab was pretty terrible, it requires a lot of attention
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by xondono 3y ago
There’s a world of difference between moonlighting and having the company you’re leading buy a product from another one of your ventures.
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by xondono 3y ago
Like GP, I’m not sure I find it very surprising. Presumably chatGPT has not only lots of typos in it’s training data, but also even nearly scrambled text with things like Pig Latin. In a sense being able to process scrambled text is an ov
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by xondono 3y ago
Kind of, but it did hallucinate an extra p for “pretty”
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by xondono 3y ago
> There's no phased array antennas anywhere near even today. Wait what? Where's your source for that? Because phased array antennas were used on lots of 4G networks and are one of the cornerstones of 5G. There where some PAA in
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by xondono 3y ago
> can be up to 50%. An you can make up to 200% a year trading stocks! “Up to” is doing a lot of work there. > In _general_, science is a good investment. Citation needed. Most calculations of ROI that I’ve seen show that publicly fund
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by xondono 3y ago
> This is not true. Pretty much all BSC activities are EU funded. > Why are you harsh? Where is the harshness? Asking “What’s the plan when the gravy train stops?” Is a perfectly valid question. > Science is a good investment Some
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by xondono 3y ago
Wether you like the origin or not (I don’t particularly care), I think it’s fair to argue “Chad” is pretty much common parlance on the internet at this point.
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by xondono 4y ago
> These guys aren't looking for intelligent people. Never said they were. They’re likely looking for men, specially young (but old enough to have some savings), middle class (so you have a high enough paying job), preferably single,
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by xondono 4y ago
I’m guessing you are relatively young, because what you are seeing isn’t a significant change on society, but rather a change in yourself, or to be more specific a change in how others perceive you. In fact I’m willing to bet you’re ~27-2
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by xondono 4y ago
I think the author is unaware that “anti-trust” has been used for decades as a bargaining chip, where big companies trade gestures for barriers of entry with the political establishment. The only reason the internet has been the biggest gr
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by xondono 4y ago
I don't get your argument, something tells me we are talking past each other.. If you are using a model from Raspberry from which they have a margin (essentially all the things on the Compute Module line), that's fine by me, it&#x
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by xondono 4y ago
> The private companies are funding the foundation. Except that if you look at their financials, it’s clear that they make very little on them. The sales of Rpis are not how they keep going, it’s all the other activities around it. >
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by xondono 4y ago
> OEMs use RPis? It is used in a lot of products, specially legacy products that have been given a “facelift” to switch from buttons + screen to touchscreen. I’ve been always against it when it comes to the non-CM versions. The foundatio
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by xondono 5y ago
> The post's title isn't clickbait. Debatable, it’s definitely written that way here on HN because not knowing what’s about triggers our curiosity. Is the educated version of “You won’t believe what happened next”.
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by xondono 5y ago
I still have no idea what the title is about. The “clickbaitiness” of HN posts is increasing, and I don’t like it.
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by xondono 5y ago
The main difference is that Europe education also comes with thousand of strings attached. In Spain for instance, it isn’t really free (though it’s cheap compared to the US, around 2.8-3k$/y) but you absolutely get what you are paying
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by xondono 5y ago
> could be prevented by designing streets to control speed and improve visibility And if you make school tests easier, everyone will get a passing a grade, but that’s not the point. The point here is that responsibility is not an area sp
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by xondono 5y ago
Didn’t even know about it. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
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by xondono 5y ago
I’d say it depends, I run my own on prem server and gitlab was a PITA. Too many moving parts, updating took too much of my time, and I never felt “safe”. Moving to gitea solved all of those issues for me (thus far), now I’m looking into add
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by xondono 5y ago
“in Catalonia around the time of that province’s comical attempts at independence in 2017[…]” If the author wanted to look like an asshole, I guess mission accomplished? Also, it’s quite ridiculous to claim this was somehow just a matter of
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by xondono 5y ago
They had an AI that looked for safe drugs by minimizing an estimate of lethality, changed it to ‘maximize’ and the computer spewed known nerve gas agents.

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