SirWart

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by SirWart 2y ago
Why should California taxpayers subsidize other Californians to buy EVs that are made in other states? Like if you care about emissions aren't the cars made in California using California's relatively green electricity, higher wor
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by SirWart 2y ago
There are a couple of arms commonly used in research around the $10k mark, namely the Franka Emika and UFACTORY xArm 6. The ALOHA project uses the ViperX 300 6DoF, which is around $6500 but uses higher quality dynamixels with aluminum parts
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by SirWart 3y ago
Sorry, my use of "intelligent" here was imprecise. They can clearly learn, but seem much less intelligent than other animals that we commonly eat, and not anywhere close to the same level of intelligence of animals that we general
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by SirWart 3y ago
I visited an experimental octopus farm in Hawaii once, expecting to come away feeling guilty about eating octopus since I had heard so much about how smart they are. It ended up having the opposite effect, since I learned that they only liv
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by SirWart 3y ago
As noted in the quote, the CommonCrawl WARC files don’t contain images themselves, LAION used those files to find img tags and downloaded them themselves
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by SirWart 4y ago
I actually did have a check for AWS keys earlier today, but as far as I can tell all the AWS keys with well defined prefixes are key IDs and not true secrets. It will still pick up AWS keys with the random string detection.
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by SirWart 5y ago
lidar isn’t able to read the state of traffic lights as far as I know, and I believe lidar based systems detect the location of traffic lights from maps
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by SirWart 6y ago
I've been trying to not take my M1 Air for granted and keep it fast, so I've been using dbxfs instead of the official Dropbox client. I hardly notice it running and still have access to my Dropbox files when I need it.
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by SirWart 6y ago
The most successful I’ve been at this is clever uses of position: sticky. You have to fall back to absolute positioning and scrolling the fixed headers in JS on browsers that aren’t as advanced in their position: sticky support though.
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How neglected is the Mac?(sirwart.com)
2 points by SirWart 10y ago|0 comments
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by SirWart 10y ago
I got bit by this the other day when returning a nil pointer to a struct as an error. It was incredibly frustrating when I finally figured out what was going on, and I'm curious if there's a good reason to distinguish between thes
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by SirWart 11y ago
Plus, the world's poor stand to benefit so much from climate change!
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by SirWart 12y ago
One thing that I've appreciated now that I've spent a decent amount of time writing Go as an individual developer is that it's much easier to jump into open source code and make small improvements and fixes because the langua
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by SirWart 12y ago
I loled at the yoga mat comparison because unless I'm mistaken no one is eating their yoga mats
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by SirWart 12y ago
I don't know where people would have gotten that idea from: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
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by SirWart 12y ago
Having worked on mobile code sharing a lot at Dropbox, I would say that the bridging overhead may not be a huge issue depending on how you structure your code. The approach we took was to keep all the UI completely native in the platform&#x
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by SirWart 16y ago
Just to clarify things (I work on the iPhone app), the only thing being transmitted in plaintext are the names of the files, not the file data or username/password, and because we are using OAuth, no session cookie is getting sent so you ca
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by SirWart 16y ago
To me, the more interesting part about minecraft's success is that it gets a lot of people doing things that look like work to me for fun. Also, it does this with a high learning curve and without using any kind of reward schedule mechanics
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by SirWart 16y ago
Maybe it's just overzealous copywriting, but it seems like all they figured out is that a low GI, high protein diet is better than the other combinations they tested, and are far from solving anything rigorously.
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by SirWart 16y ago
Based on the little I know about this, it probably beat being almost any employee. With $6 million invested, sold for $50 million, wouldn't you need more than a 2% stake to earn a million on the sale? Could someone more knowledgable break d
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by SirWart 16y ago
It's strange to me that you use Guns, Germs, and Steel as an example of the virtues of wheat, when Jared Diamond called agriculture "the worst mistake in the history of the human race." (The article itself supports the basic idea that hunte
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by SirWart 16y ago
Apply saying you're just curious and you'll be approved within a day. We're looking at getting rid of the approval step for sandboxed API access but for now it's faster to just apply.
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by SirWart 16y ago
For those interested in the API there are also official bindings for ruby, python, java, and objective-c.
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by SirWart 17y ago
If his full-time job was writing essays then I'd hope he charge for him. edit: After reading it again, I think this is a poor retort. Paul's essays on entrepreneurship are better written and more insightful because he's actually been an ent
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by SirWart 17y ago
I really like the idea of adding additional value to the archive. Right now it's just a really long alphabetical list, but it would seem more valuable if it was categorized by the type of advice/information in each interview so you could li
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by SirWart 17y ago
With the general level of discourse on the internet, it's hard to be sarcastic and not be taken as a troll. There are subtle intonation cues when speaking face-to-face that can't really be translated well to text. So I would say that the sa
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by SirWart 17y ago
He actually mentions at the end of the slides why Haskell doesn't work. I would phrase it as "Let's take these really good ideas from Haskell and move them into a more mainstream language."
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by SirWart 17y ago
If you are looking for a quality coffee, I would walk the extra block to Vivace. If you are looking for convenience, I agree that friendliest baristas is probably the deciding factor.
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by SirWart 17y ago
I was a little confused about why they had to reject gambling cheating apps, given that I could use safari to create an app with identical functionality. However, Apple is also selling the app and charging the customers credit card, which m
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by SirWart 17y ago
That makes sense, but for me it would be more convenient if I could wear glasses while using the computer and not while doing other activity, which hopefully will be possible with the research that's going on.

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