chrisatumd

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by chrisatumd 6y ago
It looked interesting - is it really $400 a month for access to the course, or is there some other way to just take the course without some kind of certificate?
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by chrisatumd 9y ago
This letter gets posted time to time. Definitely one of my favorites for explaining the rationale on spending money pushing boundaries when there are plenty of things that money can do to help people in need now. http://www.lette
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by chrisatumd 9y ago
One of my co-workers has put together a Clojure plugin for VSCode - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jamesnor... Another co-worker is the one who put together proto-repl for Atom so you'll see a lot
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by chrisatumd 9y ago
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-e... Has this been superseded by a new policy?
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
> There is noone who can decide to work one hour more at his workplace and get paid for it, then donate the money to charity. There are plenty of people that can make this exact choice. I'll work extra hours on occasion when my job
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
Not trying to upset you, just trying to help you see that the story is not crazy. I'm not sure if you've tried trading futures or options before. I've never traded futures, but I've seen with the amount of leverage that
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
I just want to jump in and comment that 30x gains in a year are not really that crazy with out of the money close to expiration options. I've had 2 different years in the past with better than 30x gains (and years where my options acco
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
I had no idea this was out there. I found a bunch of old projects out here from a program I work on in the realm of Earth Science. Things from 2002 and 2004 that have probably not been used in over 10 years (and some from the same time fram
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
Video is up: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/743602894226653184
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
We've tested out DMS to migrate from a 3 node Oracle RAC to Oracle RDS, and I was incredibly impressed. They list a bunch of limitations in their documentation that you should look at first. It migrated our roughly 1 TB database in two
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
Musk video talking about batteries - says they are tracking 60 different battery improvement efforts. https://youtu.be/sTIH6ncIXYc?t=1563
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
They announced three products initially. Two Powerwall products (7kWh daily cycler and 10kWh emergency backup) and a grid scale product called Powerpack. The product that was canceled was the 10kWh emergency backup. They are still selling t
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
I haven't heard this before, can you provide a link?
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
SpaceX is competing with ULA for U.S. Government Agency launches but I don't think they could drive SpaceX out of the commercial launch business.
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
I saw a discussion about a supersonic jet company on HN not too long ago. http://boom.aero/ Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329286
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by chrisatumd 10y ago
There's an index.refresh_interval setting. It defaults to 1s, so by default your data will be available for querying within one second after being indexed.
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Six Micro-Robots Pull 4,000-lb Car(news.discovery.com)
2 points by chrisatumd 11y ago|0 comments
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by chrisatumd 11y ago
The idea that exponential growth has been happening long before Moore's law is one of the main themes of Ray Kurzweil's book "The Singularity is Near". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_I
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by chrisatumd 11y ago
Great comment which really made me think. You are right that unmanned projects are a no brainer. I would argue that both are important, and even with the budgets we have, we have been able to do both. You made two assumptions that I would n
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by chrisatumd 11y ago
It sounds like they might try to show the landing attempt live this time. Can anyone confirm?
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The huge political horse trade that will change where the U.S. gets its energy(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by chrisatumd 11y ago|0 comments
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by chrisatumd 11y ago
I found an excellent book talking about realistic sustainable solutions. It is from 2008/2009 and so solar costs are already dramatically less, but is still a great read. http://www.withouthotair.com/