gotstad

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by gotstad 4mo ago
If Microsoft was really ambitious about building a product truly competing to the Macbook Pro, they would need to ship it with a radically different version of Windows. Microsoft cannot just throw upgraded hardware after the Surface, and ex
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by gotstad 2y ago
I owe my whole fascination with programming from childhood to Visual Basic 6. I was 11 and I could hardly read English, yet VB6 with the WYSIWYG-editor and an introductory book by my side was intuitive and rewarding enough for me to learn t
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by gotstad 2y ago
I think you might be underestimating how many potential customers are unwilling to buy from Tesla after Elon Musk decided to openly support the MAGA wing of republicans. Not sure why that makes you more inclined to buy a Tesla or flip someo
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by gotstad 2y ago
Well, in many safety-critical industries (e.g. manufacturing of medicinal products) you actually need to maintain objective evidence of its validation.
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by gotstad 3y ago
I feel like the “investing in the customer” part always seems the case with HP. The products never work properly unless you are willing to pay them more money or live with the extreme amount of bloatware in their PCs.
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by gotstad 3y ago
Designing a prototype car for trials vs mass production are two different things entirely. Those lidar sensors will become far less intrusive once a car is designed for mass production. Most likely, the existing Waymo cars have their LiDAR
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by gotstad 3y ago
No, and must likely the ethical committee review would reject the use of a placebo group in the study.
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by gotstad 3y ago
It is a reflection of exactly that, but this completely dismissed all the risks: - Maybe new ml-tech is invented that does not require as heavy equipment. - Maybe AI does not grow as fast as expected. - Maybe a competitor comes along an
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by gotstad 4y ago
No-code and no-specification is confused all the time.
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by gotstad 4y ago
That needs some nuances. There are some processes that are just well-known by research to be standardized - like supply-chain, regardless if JIT-style or forecasted stockkeeping. SAP does not need to touch the "unique" detailed pr
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by gotstad 4y ago
That's neither feasible nor required. Copenhagen still has cars in city centre - personally I drive my bike 95% of the time, but sometimes I need to use my car. However, I much prefer my bike because it's faster, less troublesome,
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by gotstad 4y ago
It is actually not only because Keto is calorie deficient, but also because it encourages ketogenic metabolism, which means that while you are calorie deficient you are more effective at burning fat. Compared with a standard calorie deficie
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by gotstad 4y ago
Yes, that would be a nice future. But how do I get to the office, now?
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by gotstad 4y ago
But the discussion of whether something is renewable is also a complex topic that is only true to some extent. Renewable energy sources (Wind and Solar) are technically not renewable - the production of the equipment uses raw resources that
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by gotstad 4y ago
You could. You might even say it's difficult to make any project estimate without your plan being waterfall. Planning and execution are deliberately two very different things, and convincing the customer - or the steering committee of
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by gotstad 4y ago
You don't have too, but it is very common to fall into the trap. If working within a safety-critical industry and wanting to do Agile, typically you'll break down high-level requirements into sw requirements while you are developi
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by gotstad 5y ago
The historical analogy in Microsoft is more correct than one might think. For Microsoft, it was a question of relinquishing control (e.g. going from proprietary to open) that helped them grow so much again. They are in many ways, a wholly d
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by gotstad 5y ago
While those are important costs to consider, there is no way people will agree on how to measure such things in comparable terms.
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by gotstad 5y ago
That does not strike me as the right direction of progression. We should become better at in-space assembly, not creating larger payload fairing.
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by gotstad 5y ago
Well it's anecdotal, but yes, our company fits directly into that space. You might ask why we don't want to just have the hardware in-house, but since we're developing Software as Medical Device products for iOS, we'd ra
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by gotstad 5y ago
It has been claimed for years that some day in the future "everyone will have to learn how to code". While I don't really disagree with that statement, I am much more inclined to believe that it will be tools like these that
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by gotstad 5y ago
Adding to this, we should view raw materials used in production as something we "borrow" from the earth that must be returned. And the cost of returning them - through disassembly and recycling - should be reflected in the price o
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by gotstad 5y ago
I will never buy a Dell XPS laptop again. The exterior build quality seems very good, but the internals are such a mess. I cannot count how many times I have been biking home from work and heard in my headphones "Two devices connected&
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by gotstad 5y ago
Perhaps reflection from other bodies? Or simply some kind of radiation emitted from the jets?
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by gotstad 5y ago
It has this setting and defaults to using your phone as the proximity device. Not sure why else I should BT pair my phone with my PC.
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by gotstad 6y ago
I wonder if this would happen to me as an EU subscriber. There is a law (source unknown) that requires cancellation of services to be “as easy” as subscribing to it.
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by gotstad 6y ago
I had this very discussion just a few days ago. Agencies like the EPA cannot satisfy their objectives by advising alone. Administration and case-handling is the bread and butter of executing any strategy, and laws alone won’t cut it. It is
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by gotstad 6y ago
I don’t fully understand your argument. Are you saying that a full crypto inplementation would entirely rid the World of the need for military, police, lawyers etc. or what?
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by gotstad 6y ago
Well trickle-down was always a matter of how much, not if. And yes, it seems pretty much established that it is a lot less than what we usually plan for when using it as argument in an economic plan.
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by gotstad 6y ago
I am not sure you were ever looking for evidence in the first place. WSL and .NET as open-source? Their R&D budget in 2019 was twice that in 2010, meanwhile sales and marketing budget increased by 30%. Their Productivity and Business Pr

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