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by andor436 3y ago
Can confirm. (I am 50% of the original engineering team. @tashian is the other/smarter!)
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by andor436 6y ago
Oh wow thank you, I’ve looked for this for years. I am pretty sure this story and King’s Quest are the two major reasons I ended up in computer engineering.
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by andor436 6y ago
[edit: already answered in the parent thread!] Wasn’t there an old Nova episode about this on PBS? I vaguely recall it, and have always wanted to rewatch as an adult. Just a fantastic (real!) story.
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by andor436 9y ago
Hm, this is not Velodyne's first announcement of a solid state lidar breakthrough. http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sens... Several other companies are working on these (Quanergy, Black
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by andor436 10y ago
And it helps address the racism issues they've been having trouble with.
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by andor436 10y ago
I'm a host as well, and their new stats section breaks down the reviews in detail. You can see who left what stars. Don't know if this works the same for the traveler.
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by andor436 10y ago
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this! My company currently employs a brilliant, in my opinion, Argentine scientist. We'd love to bring him to the US periodically, but he can't get a visa as he owns no property in Argentina, isn't
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by andor436 10y ago
As usual with AWS (or anything I guess) there's more than one way to accomplish a particular goal. How much of Amazon's Elastic Container Service is replicated by Docker for AWS? I'm currently using ECS + Docker but this look
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by andor436 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEz03Z8azc
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by andor436 10y ago
Step 0: Don't call your employees "remote." You're either a distributed team, or you're not really trying.
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by andor436 11y ago
That's not quite what the wholesale rate means in the US; we have what you describe but it's typically referred to as the spot market. The wholesale rate when used by politicians and the media here usually (as far as I know) refer
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by andor436 11y ago
While you wait, check out http://stackoverflow.com/a/23500670/229006 My plan is to rely on these functions for now, and switch to the native implementations once 9.5 is production ready on RDS.
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by andor436 11y ago
For me it shaves several minutes (about 80% of the total time) off a build/deploy cycle, which is huge.
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by andor436 11y ago
The water sources themselves are ok. (They could be much cleaner of course.) It's the aging and decaying infrastructure that brings the water from the source to a Flint homeowner's sink that is causing the issue. Lead is not in th
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by andor436 11y ago
The State DEQ applied the wrong federal standards: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/10/top_state_...
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by andor436 11y ago
Don't forget that it was a State-appointed emergency manager that made the water source switch (from Detroit's supply to the Flint River), and the State DEQ that didn't enforce the correct Federal EPA guidelines for water cor
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by andor436 11y ago
Excellent. I also enjoyed Brian Greene's visuals on the Late Show recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jjFjC30-4A
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by andor436 11y ago
However, there's a big difference between electric resistive heating (generating heat) versus electric heat pumps (moving heat around.) The latter can be 3x or more efficient than the former.
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by andor436 11y ago
Heat pump! You can get wall mounted units that work just like an A/C (but in reverse of course.) Efficiencies have gotten pretty good in the last decade. Check out units made by Daiken, Hitachi, Mitsubishi for example. I know they make
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by andor436 11y ago
Something's wrong here, because the out of pocket max for a year (which for BCBS of MI is not the same as the deductible) cannot exceed $13,200 a year for a family. By law. See https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary&#x2F
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by andor436 11y ago
I've been to plenty, and at the national level there is ample patriotism for one's country, regardless of nationality. I do agree with your point. I just don't think it's quite as clear-cut as you suggest.
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by andor436 11y ago
For the Twitter-inclined follow Emily Lakdawalla [1] - she is usually mere seconds behind the actual data, which is pretty amazing. [1] https://twitter.com/elakdawalla
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by andor436 11y ago
Have you never attended a European football match?!
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by andor436 11y ago
Social security, tax benefits, death benefits (including child custody), health insurance coverage, legal (marital communications privilege) There are probably thousands of these baked into our state and federal laws. Check out https:&#x2F
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by andor436 11y ago
I don't know. They had to start by striking down the federal benefits part of DoMA, and then return the issue to the lower courts to build up sufficient decisions (and precedent.) It takes time to do this. Frankly I'm astonished (
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LightSail Sends First Data Back to Earth(planetary.org)
90 points by andor436 11y ago|13 comments
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by andor436 11y ago
As a software engineer with the same career length as the author, it really hurts to read things like this and realize our respective pay is so different for what feels like arbitrary reasons. I'm a part owner (one of hundreds!) of a b
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How Many G’s Would You Feel in the SpaceX Capsule Abort?(wired.com)
1 points by andor436 11y ago|0 comments
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by andor436 11y ago
This isn't bad: https://smartasset.com/infographic/startup Although it's not as clear as a spreadsheet would be, I think it's easier to start with.
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by andor436 11y ago
Good point. It's unclear to me though. In some places (Hawaii, California, Germany) where there's huge acceptance of renewables and much shorter payback periods I believe a PV system would add value to a sale. Here in Michigan it&

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