hotdog97

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by hotdog97 8y ago
The MiSTer FPGA project is fun and easy to get started with. You need: 1. The FPGA board from Terasic (Linux ARM host, has USB, HDMI) for $130 https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/terasic-inc/P0496/.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
You really wish for a paranthesis counting pen when you have to write pages and pages of LISP (I think it was Common Lisp in our case) on paper for an exam.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Oh, you mean like 1) Skype: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/17/12951996/skype-london-off... 2) Nokia: cruelly killed-off for no particular reason.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Feel free to point out actual instances, or even better, trends backing up that statement.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
So, I assume everyone else's first thought after reading this was: Let's build a vanilla flower pollination robot using deep learning to process RGB camera images and help guide the robot actuators. Startup, anyone? Edit: turns ou
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Sure, statistically speaking well-informed guessing at an industrial scale, but still guessing.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Maybe let the voters decide policy and the tech companies deal with the tech?
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Extrapolation = guessing.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
On the upside for Swedes, routing between europe-north1 and Stockholm seems good. Typically around 10 ms for a roundtrip.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
I was misinformed (or remembered incorrectly) about the founding/media blitz sequencing. Thanks for informing me.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Here's a light-hearted comparison between the airline and PC world: Motherboard/integration - Boeing/Airbus - a bunch of Taiwanese conglomerates, but the core design comes from Intel OS - Boeing/Airbus - Microsoft/A
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by hotdog97 8y ago
The truth is that in the alternative timeline where Theranos had a male founder they would never gotten their initial founding. Holmes and Theranos rode the perfect wave built by the media being thirsty for a young, smart (blonde) female. I
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Addendum: Platforms are because of the market dynamics remarkably long-lived. In the case of iOS, the APIs date back to like 1985, with Next Inc. In the case of Android, back to 2003. The platform-level APIs and frameworks tend to be grown
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Based on your description on what you like/hate I think you should go for something slowly changing, like ObjC/Swift or Java/Kotlin. Something were mastership is rewarded as opposed to just copy/pasting sort of working c
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by hotdog97 8y ago
> They didn’t have lawyers actually advising them? They just unilaterally shut off access to millions of people out of an abundance of caution? Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. I think they did have lawyers who advised th
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Well, if a particular news site blocks europeans I would guess they are not expecting any kind of revenue from there. I find it hard argue against a service that unblocks this kind of news site for europeans from an ethical POV. Copyright l
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. Seems like it's 3h 55m now; when I did it was at least six hours, I think. I hope you don't miss out on seeing the incredibly scenic Bavarian landscapes and villages. I could do without looking at
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by hotdog97 8y ago
That site does work great with WSJ.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
I was thinking of creating something similar for all of those US news sites that have blocked EU-based readers from accessing their sites out of a mostly unfounded panic. (PS: love your HN username.)
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Is there a list of which paywalled sites this awesome tool is capable of handling? (Seems to be the same as archive.is)
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by hotdog97 8y ago
I rode that train (Munich to Berlin) after I got stranded in Munich during the 2014 Bardarbunga, Iceland volcano eruption. It was kind of slow for an ICE at the time, and quite expensive (IIRC like 150 EUR in second class). It was one of th
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by hotdog97 8y ago
I explicitly wrote that I did not mean that , thinking that someone would inevitably misunderstand.
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Ok, gotcha. I'm also kind of shocked by that kind of behavior by Google. This goes against so much of their employer branding that they've spent so much on. (Was it in Ad sales? - I guess I could see that unit being run in a more
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by hotdog97 8y ago
Let me answer this with a counter-question. If you're pregnant and somehow hiding it really well, do you think it makes sense for you to job-hunting six weeks before you're due to give birth?
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by hotdog97 8y ago
How many days/months/years between a) joining the company and b) informing of the pregnancy? I know the law doesn't care, but I care. There's a difference between informing your manager one month after you're hired
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by hotdog97 8y ago
So I just had to Google this. According to https://newsroom.inter.ikea.com/news/ikea-develops-a-veggie-... "The hot dog at IKEA has a long history: In 1981, and true to his vision for IKEA to be affordable for the