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Bay Area robotics company comes out of stealth(youtube.com)
4 points by bbulkow 4y ago|2 comments
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by bbulkow 4y ago
Op has 0 percent is how I read it. Op has options.
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by bbulkow 4y ago
You are not a co founder, you are an employee. hint. founders get shares, employees get options. you are now in the situation of whatever you can bargain for, you can get, whatever you can't bargain for, you don't get. Dealing wit
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by bbulkow 4y ago
Your credit score matters far less than you think. Your credit score is maintained by a bunch of goons in a protection racket. 'Shame if anything would happen to that fine credit score, let me 'protect' it for you". Unfo
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Redis loses data, it has to be a cache. And it range scans only on individual machines. Eg, it doesn't scale, you have to scale it. Foundation is transactional correct on a cluster, and supports range scans.
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by bbulkow 5y ago
It is a reasonable shorthand to say the only interesting transactions are multi row, and thus big table doesn't support transactions. More correctly, the only transactional guarantees are single row, sure. But saying it does support tr
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Why would it matter how they do it under the covers? You see correct transactions. The interesting tech in this space is aws redshift, in my testing a few years ago they dominated in price performance when you used the then new node types.
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Bittorrent clients for windows and mac are generally malware infested pits of adware. Wherever i try to be virtuous and use one, i have to clean whatever i installed. I am sure i am not the only one. Why not build your own install using the
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Google maps results are on their way to death. I was recently doing a search having gone down to a three block area, did not show the result - Google pulled out a few blocks and showed a category result there. There was a higher ranking cat
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by bbulkow 5y ago
While building all of airbnb is hard, let's look at a clone like outdoorsy, which is airbnb for rv's. It was very functional a year ago, and i doubt if it took a decent team more than a few months. The lore of how to build for sca
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by bbulkow 5y ago
On the other side , not annoyed. I transitioned from free gsuite to paid a few years ago. For my twelve (12) bucks a month, i get 2tb of storage, great mail services, all the docs i can write, etc. When i compare to individual apps wanting
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Yeah, and more importantly, was the equipment designed to exist with that much guard band? And isn't the cell equipment specified to throw off only a certain amount of harmonics, or whatever the out of band noise would be? This seems l
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by bbulkow 5y ago
The only real question, imho, is why this wasn't understood when the frequency was auctioned. If we needed more guard band, we needed more guard band. If antennas point to the sky, don't use the close frequencies. Any answers?
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by bbulkow 5y ago
California state offices have term limits, i voted for them, and they are terrible. No one can make a living as a legislator, so we have beginners and they are getting steam rolled by lobbyists. There is now a revolving path of moving from
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by bbulkow 5y ago
There is a critical element the post doesn't state: a successful small project has (has) very limited scope of customers and use patterns. That is where complexity in writing databases arises: limited scope databases are far easier.
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Definition of arbitrary: 'based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.' (Google) Being first is not arbitrary. It is hard to achieve, and valuable. It is a reason. There were networking systems before
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by bbulkow 5y ago
I fought in the networking wars. Implemented a lot of protocols and a lot of protocol gateways. Calling the reason for TCP winning 'arbitrary' or even softening that to 'not based entirely on technical merit' does not do
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Maybe hard for surveillance though? A single railcar of liquid is 100 tons (I don't know if liquid methane is shipped, this is just a way to visualize - and this is a rough number. Methane is about 12 pct lighter than water.) I wonder
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by bbulkow 5y ago
I left out JavaScript. It is not a simple language, with it's service heritage. It is bound up in the node runtime in a way that doesn't really work right for data processing.
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Another way to analyze the problem: what other language would it have been, given the moment ml hit? You say compared to other scripting languages'. Let's list them. Ruby: no numeric support Go: unnecessary typing, modest numeric
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Very nice to read a balanced paper, but a hospital might very well ( and, I think, illegally ) give some transplant people priority. Isn't that what happened to Steve jobs? No one is supposed to jump the queue, but he did. If 'que
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by bbulkow 5y ago
This post is quite nice in naming the people who did all the improvements. During this time, I was at a company trying to fit browser tech into consumer electronics, so we had to build the technology to run on actual inexpensive and cheap s
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by bbulkow 5y ago
The author states repeatedly that 'media' is trying to control 'us', but not what this media has to gain by mask wearing. The more likely goal is to continue spending money (or eyeball time / clicks ) on media. Yes,
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by bbulkow 5y ago
'Mandatory medical treatment' sounds like a big deal, but the tragedy of the commons happens with every vaccine. No one benefits much from their own vaccination, we all benefit must from others'. Which is why vaccinations alm
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by bbulkow 5y ago
One US carrier has global roaming data same as in county. Pre pandemic, it was super amazing.
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Don't forget the lost business because you will force business travelers to check bags. Literally everyone would have to check a bag, so you can't charge extra for it. And, no mobile boarding passes. And no move to bring-your-own-
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by bbulkow 5y ago
'25mm'. If we are being that picky, my main dev board is the esp32picod4. It measures as 20mm longer than the tinypico and about 2mm wider, not 25mm. I just checked. the picod4 is $11, doesnt have any flash problems, is made by es
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by bbulkow 5y ago
The second core is not trivial to use, and espressif 's freertos port has real peculiarities in scheduler issues. Spoken as someone who resolved an issue with led buffering interacting with the network system on the esp32.
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by bbulkow 5y ago
Since you are replying to my comment, the $11 espressif made dev boards flash perfectly every time. The 7 buck Amazon ones don't. The 2 dollar esp8266s don't, but that project we only needed one good flash, it was for real live ar
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by bbulkow 5y ago
I pointed all that out, thanks for pointing out it is 2.5cm instead of 1cm. Battery and size are where tinypico shines, and I mentioned the psram. If you are plugged in and 2.5 cm doesnt matter, I recommend espressif parts. Esp32 is very co

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