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by zw123456 5y ago
“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what
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by zw123456 5y ago
Right. A lot of people don't like it. I am a weirdo and really enjoy it and I am better at that than other things like coding. A lot of the stuff I have come up with other people who are better at the coding do that part and I do the h
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by zw123456 5y ago
When it can do my job for me without my boss knowing the difference :)
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by zw123456 5y ago
I am a research fellow at a large tech company and part of my job is to produce a certain number of patents per year. I have used AI as an "aid" to developing a patent several times but never thought for one minute it would make s
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by zw123456 5y ago
If you have every played around with a spectrum analyzer, it is pretty fascinating to scan the airwaves. You can google it, there are tons of sites on how to turn an rpi or latop into a spectrum analyzer using an inexpensive USB device (Hac
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by zw123456 5y ago
Maybe some people don't remember or is was before their time, but for many many years, you could not actually own your own phone. You had to lease your phone from the phone company. It was not until the Carter Phone decision that paved
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by zw123456 5y ago
Nope. If the papers are out, better call Saul. There was plenty of talkie talk before that. Saul will tell you, once you've been served, No talking after that.
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by zw123456 5y ago
Yes, most correct comment. It would be impossible to convey all side of each side. Most situations relationships involve a complex interchange of many emotions and other issues. There is of course now way to explain all that here. But that&
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by zw123456 5y ago
Yup, completely confess to all. I am selfish and self absorbed. Maybe a bit of a narcissist, working on it but self aware. And yes, you are completely correct, I realized marriage was not a good thing for me (or for the other person, hehe,
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by zw123456 5y ago
I never told her specifically but she had to know, she saw how I was living after that, but she never complained about it. I mean, she filed before I found out, I checked with a lawyer, I am sure she did too. The timing was just such that 4
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by zw123456 5y ago
OMG, this reminds me so much of a very pivotal point in my life. It was way back in 1987, and I had quit my very stable job with a telecom giant (Bell Labs) to go to work with a bunch of buddies on a start up company, we had developed a ve
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by zw123456 5y ago
hehe ya, i should put it up on my github, you are getting me interested again. For authentication ya, button sequence, or another thing i was thinking might be cool would be NFC. I have a little NFC chip, could make a new version. That woul
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by zw123456 5y ago
I built my own hardware password manager years ago and it works great for me. It is based on a small microprocessor (PIC) that emulates a keyboard via USB and has a small LCD display and 3 buttons. You simply scroll through the menu that li
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by zw123456 5y ago
Thing I am curious about is the employees he bribed. I haven't seen anywhere if they got prosecuted or anything. Seems like they were also just as complicit ?
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by zw123456 5y ago
When I was doing my capstone for BSEE back in 1978, I was making an IC that would play music (ooohhh weee, ok it was a long time ago). But I had very limited die space for rom, but I was taking a Music Appreciation class (supposed easy A t
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by zw123456 5y ago
I'm all in for fan fiction effort :)
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by zw123456 5y ago
Wouldn't it be simpler to build a time machine and go back in time in the same universe to a nicer time ?
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by zw123456 6y ago
OK, I will try one more time, but this is super obvious. Simple: If you downvote you have to give a reason, you cannot simply downvote, I can write a script to downvote every post on here everyday. You have to provide a reason for the down
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by zw123456 6y ago
I never comment on HN anymore, because, ironically, a site ostensibly promoting innovative thinking actually discourages it with mechanized "group think". And ironically I am breaking my rule to never comment, on the completely of
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by zw123456 6y ago
Of course there are simpler ways of dealing with insect pests, but I love the hacker kookieness of it. But, an even crazier idea, get a magnetron from a microwave oven connect it to a phased array antenna (PAA), that way you can scan much f
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by zw123456 6y ago
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fairness-Doctrine Fairness doctrine, U.S. communications policy formulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required licensed radio and television broadcasters to pre
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by zw123456 6y ago
Spectrum reminds me very much of diamonds. It is an artificial scarcity. Except a government controlled cartel rather than a private cartel. Most of the RF spectrum is reserved for "DoD" they never use.
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by zw123456 6y ago
You're not sure I was joking around? Really?
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by zw123456 6y ago
I was there a few years back and the thing is really run down, they should really rebuild the whole thing. And those Pyramids, those things are showing their age, right ? Don't even get me started on the Parthenon.
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by zw123456 6y ago
hehe, nice. I can see I have a new way of wasting time :)
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by zw123456 6y ago
It would be fun if it could play the wave form as audio.
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by zw123456 6y ago
I kind of like this one sin(8 x)/2 x
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by zw123456 6y ago
Mercifully, there was no requisite simpleton analogy like "that is the equivalent of stacking VHS tapes to the moon" or some idiotic thing like that.
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by zw123456 6y ago
hmmm, I just tried it and it auto completed "fastest way to lose weight" maybe it is trying to tell me something.
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by zw123456 6y ago
The telcos run the 911 system for the gov. But if the telco building is down then even if 911 was up they couldn't switch the calls through to it. But agree, sounds like a major fubar. A lot of the fiber from the cell towers to the cel

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