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by xt00 9y ago
The Mac mini from that time period is probably slow as a dog.. if you replace the hard drive with an SSD (super obnoxious to tear apart typically), it is more useable. Install Linux is a good idea on the Mac mini. My suggestion for MBP woul
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by xt00 9y ago
Economists are for anything that says the free market solves the problem and governments are not the solution.. in this case, the main people who want to get rid of net neutrality are big corporations who want to charge people for the right
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by xt00 9y ago
Amazing, an account created 5 days ago posts something about net neutrality.. shocker.. who's behind this account called "please_choose" ?? ???!?
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by xt00 9y ago
Anybody who can read the actual PDF -- is this at room temp and no large magnetic field? Those two things seem to be the big stumbling blocks for these types of quantum computers..
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by xt00 9y ago
Yea I can agree that 100k is very much not what it used to be 10-15 years ago.. the main difference is that a “cheap house” in many areas that are doing economically well on the West Coast like Seattle, Portland, Bay Area, LA, are much more
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by xt00 9y ago
Yea at startups you often have way more flexibility to grant larger options blocks or a bit more equity to rockstars to bring them in while the salary is closely eyed by the investors to keep burn rate low. So startup salaries are by defini
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by xt00 9y ago
I think it’s great that the author did this as a learning experience. It seems like soldering on a few wires could have saved you like 3 weeks.. but anyway, the ESP8266 is a great platform. Super cheap, minimal components, easy to program,
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by xt00 9y ago
Yea I'm hoping somebody can provide a list of various manufacturers and part names similar to the article..
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by xt00 9y ago
Now if somebody from China can make a list of the cheap micros under 1-2 RMB, now that would be a nice list for super low cost stuff.. that I'd be very interested in...
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by xt00 10y ago
So the basic premise of the article and this movement is that people assume that the default is for virtually everybody to be underpaid. So since there is obviously a Gaussian or poission distribution in salaries, then obviously some people
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by xt00 10y ago
The smart thing that Intel is doing is making stuff that they know big cloud providers like AWS etc. will pay crazy amounts for and buy in huge volumes. The "use it as RAM" is incredibly valuable -- especially to bring down costs
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by xt00 10y ago
TLDR; not exactly.. they didn't figure out how to upload knowledge, they figured out that if you stimulate certain parts of the brain associated with learning certain tasks while you are trying to actually learn how to do that thing th
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by xt00 10y ago
I remember reading about people years ago who went around suing various restaurants and businesses because they were not ADA compliant (ramps and a handicapped parking spot type of thing). So they would sue them and show they had standing (
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea seriously, coding schools are not gonna happen for many people with not the best education.. I mean I know tons of smart people who don't want to write code even though they could do it. So the trade school thing can be economicall
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea I'll have to find some term sheets laying around, but I can't remember seeing the 90 day exercise being explicitly written into most term sheets. I only have seen it written into people's offer letters. Does anybody know
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by xt00 10y ago
Good point. My thought is that to compensate the people who stick around you have to combine two things: 1) vesting period (already happening for virtually everybody), and 2) a predefined plan to give people increasing amount of options for
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by xt00 10y ago
In my experience most people at startups who leave end up not exercising their options due to the cost of exercising them coupled with the fact that they may be underpaid due to the assumption that their options may end up quite valuable. S
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by xt00 10y ago
Companies on the west coast in US generally are becoming pretty soft on marijuana due to the recent law changes, but things like opiates or meth definitely they are screening for. There definitely are instances of risk of injury with equipm
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by xt00 10y ago
Very true. It's definitely now a situation where we are dealing with the fallout from years of not dealing with the problem. Yea I recently read a story where a factory tried to hire around 50 people and could only hire a small number
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by xt00 10y ago
I grew up in a small town with some people like this and I think what you are observing is actually a hindsight view of the situation. The vast majority of the people were unable to get a job for some reason and then moved back home to ya k
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by xt00 10y ago
One big issue with this problem is that these men are not all in the same location. Many of them are distributed through the so called rust belt areas -- I've seen maps of this previously. So simply creating a few factories here and th
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by xt00 10y ago
It seems like the Akitio Thunder 3 would work -- did you try that one? I guess you would need a MBP with thunderbolt 3 then.. so 2016 models from like 3 months ago then?
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea totally agree in general -- in this case I just mean that its so obvious right now how much focus Apple puts on their money making products that engineers at Apple would see the writing on the wall and they too would not be that interes
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by xt00 10y ago
Seems like almost assuredly they will just drop it.. basically I can't imagine any engineer at Apple that is or was working on it is super excited about something that probably made a grand total of like 50 million USD during the mac p
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by xt00 10y ago
For the external GPU route on a mac, does anybody know how fast the bus would need to be? Like could you use two USB-C ports in parallel on the latest and greatest mac or something??
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by xt00 10y ago
Yes good point. That would be super obvious that they stole it then.. "yea, could I order the BA33525 part that you custom built for somebody else.. yea I know its undocumented, but I know you have it somehow...."
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by xt00 10y ago
Wow apparently they never fuzzed their input and looked at the output. A malformed html input should be about the easiest possible thing to try... yeouch...
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by xt00 10y ago
I'm sure it doesn't sit well with google that a group of guys left and started a self-driving company that very quickly was acquired for a ton of money.. Most likely google wants to get a piece of the action since essentially they
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by xt00 10y ago
Yea that's incredibly bad if that's what that guy did.. in general for EE designs, the schematic/layouts are not that hard to deduce how you would do it if you are in contact with the company that makes the LIDAR device (the
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by xt00 10y ago
Places like google give you a guide on how to prepare. So it consists of stuff like algorithms and data structures. I do wonder sometimes how much it is tailored to getting people who are fresh out of college rather than more experienced. M

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