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by egd 6y ago
Location: US, Currently West Coast, likely East Coast Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Remote Only Technologies: Python, Rust, Swift, JS, Docker, Bash, Linux Systems Résumé/CV: https://egd.im/resume.pdf Email: hn@egd.i
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by egd 6y ago
A few reasons! First, the field is absolutely fascinating - the complexity is incredible, and I'm really enjoying learning about it. It's also clearly "What's Next" - the synbio space in particular has a real "
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by egd 6y ago
Location: US, Currently West Coast, likely East Coast Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Remote Only Technologies: Python, Rust, Swift, JS, Docker, Bash, Linux Systems Résumé/CV: https://egd.im/resume.pdf Email: hn@egd.i
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by egd 6y ago
It's understandable. Bald Eagles sound genuinely hilarious for a bird that big.
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by egd 6y ago
This is similar to the Hygiene Hypothesis for allergies and autoimmune disorders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis Nassim Taleb's Antifragility concept is relevant here as well: https://
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by egd 6y ago
I'm a fan of James Mickens' "Mossad or Not-Mossad" internet threat models ~essay: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
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by egd 6y ago
This is great - wonderful sense of presence, especially with the road noise mixed in. It would be really fantastic in VR. (Also, 50 different cities and a couple stations for each? That's no small amount of work!)
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by egd 6y ago
> but it is hard to say that in the end, consumers are on the loosing end. Consumers are actual humans with complex lives that often also include producing things. Every seller that Amazon drives out of business is a consumer (or consume
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by egd 6y ago
This is the cycle with Intel, though. They innovate, blow out the market, and then stagnate until AMD or someone else comes out with an architecture that's a category improvement on whatever Intel's offering. This looks like they&
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by egd 6y ago
You may never actually need all 100,000 pages, but you don't know in advance which pages you will need, and you'll definitely need that page when you need it.
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by egd 6y ago
Have any of them stood out to you? Is there anything you'd consider a reasonable consumer device right now?
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by egd 6y ago
The basic problem is that without high fidelity & a wide FOV, there's nothing that sets MagicLeap apart from any of the other companies that have been able to create AR headsets for the last ~decade. AR right now is stuck because t
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by egd 6y ago
At a previous gig, we had a lot of systems named after animals, and I'd joked about wiring our alerting system up to emit the animal sound for the system that was paging, but I think I'm actually going to do that at my next gig. O
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by egd 6y ago
>Clothes change much slower than software updates, I change my clothes at least once a day and add to my wardrobe on a ~weekly to ~monthly basis. Having been party to large system upgrades at even a reasonably competent company, I'd
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by egd 7y ago
I'd want to check this before committing, but my understanding is that e-ink is cheap power-wise because it doesn't require power to maintain the image - actually changing the image, though, is more expensive than LCDs or OLEDs, s
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by egd 7y ago
Someone I met tried to figure out how to actually legally stream the NBA playoffs recently - apparently there's basically no way to do so without an existing cable subscription or without paying for the entire season. I'm guessing
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by egd 7y ago
> Even if it weren't his property, if you were in the public aren't people legally allowed to take photos of you and upload it wherever they want? If it weren't legal there wouldn't be paparazzi I would think. This is
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by egd 8y ago
I'm not a network engineer, so take this with as much credibility as you'd give an explanation after a few beers: Most network providers have peering agreements to handle reciprocal traffic flows. In other words, if you're Co
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by egd 8y ago
Sources?
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by egd 8y ago
If the outcome of widespread machine translation is a whole new generation of poets, I'm all for it.
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by egd 8y ago
They're not an ad company though - what are people going to do in their cars? Probably use their phones and tablets, and if Apple's got a lock on that, then who gives a damn about the car? It's the same reason there's no
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by egd 8y ago
Honestly, I agree with @saagarjha further down thread - I think things like AR and personal assistants are much closer to their core model. Grant the MP3 comparison, though - and that's why I'm trying to understand this. They&#x27
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by egd 8y ago
I genuinely do not understand Apple's move into this space. They've made a trillion dollar business out of small, high-margin electronics that consumers replace every couple year. Most of their products serve to enhance this busin
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by egd 9y ago
> Fashion really has no place in computing. These are tools and we should treat them as such This is a remarkably limited perspective on a set of devices that people spend almost every waking hour using.
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by egd 9y ago
Typically pieces written directly by experts - instead of by journalists interviewing experts - are placed in the opinion section. The author of that piece is a historian from Georgetown who wrote a book about the region.
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by egd 9y ago
In a way, this is similar to the argument the FBI made to assert that GPS trackers didn't constitute a search because they could just follow someone around and get the same data. The argument against that, and this, was that the techno
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by egd 9y ago
So where the folks who haul the garbage get to live?
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by egd 10y ago
Twitter | SF, SEA, NY, BOS, Boulder | Sr. Software Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE OK My team at Twitter is hiring software engineers to help us build the stack that manages Twitter's server fleet. Our systems manage over 100k physical s
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by egd 10y ago
Oh that's much better. How'd you do the conversion?
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by egd 10y ago
I read a great comment once in response to a post about parental advice - roughly: "When I was young, my father said to me, 'Son, don't be an asshole.' Since then, before doing anything, I ask myself, 'Would an assh

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