pranavjoneja

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by pranavjoneja 3y ago
He mentions in the video that he saw the idea in "a math exchange post" and he also has a link to the exact post in the video description. Doesn't that count?
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by pranavjoneja 4y ago
I only have experience working in the robotics field as it exists today, so you're right that I am probably unaware of how things are done in the software world. (I mean I read HN so I'm at least somewhat aware, but I don't h
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by pranavjoneja 4y ago
I work in robotics, I understand that every robotics company builds substantially similar core autonomy for different industrial vehicles, so I definitely see the value of what you're creating. However, every company needs to figure ou
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by pranavjoneja 4y ago
not totally clear if this is the point you’re trying to make, but the US today fits that description exactly > killing/imprisoning a lot of your own population the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world > creating an
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by pranavjoneja 4y ago
Your link says Autopilot, not FSD. Autopilot is highway autonomy, which is vastly easier and you can rack up many more miles very quickly. This is not at all a relevant comparison.
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by pranavjoneja 5y ago
How is this a moat for BlockFi? Why can't a competitor do exactly the same thing as BlockFi without paying the $100M fine? Asking this question earnestly because I actually want to know more.
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by pranavjoneja 5y ago
where's Plowy McPlowface? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mcface_spoofs
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by pranavjoneja 5y ago
This is a civil case. Juries are only for criminal cases.
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by pranavjoneja 5y ago
Bloomberg's Matt Levine has an interesting take: > Here’s another thing about being a private company. What if this had worked? What if Goldman hadn’t noticed anything unusual and had coughed up the $40 million? Wouldn’t Goldman hav
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by pranavjoneja 5y ago
GDPR is about privacy and security, not interoperability. It was (and still is) a very controversial set of regulations, so shoehorning in more requirements would have made it even more unpopular.
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by pranavjoneja 5y ago
Energy is not Watts per hour (Watts/hour), it's Watts times hours (Watt-hours). Sorry for pedantry, but the units are the topic of discussion here.
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by pranavjoneja 5y ago
Just because it's being sold today doesn't mean it's actively manufactured still. They could have stockpiled the older processors or have spare inventory to continue meeting demand
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by pranavjoneja 6y ago
Yep, I've been a helper for 2 years now and I've only received 2 calls
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by pranavjoneja 6y ago
ASICs only make sense if you have high volume. PCI-e takes a lot of resources/space. The sweet spot for FPGA-CPU hybrid chips are embedded devices that are latency sensitive. For example, time-of-flight sensors and specialty cameras.
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Covid vaccine stored incorrectly potentially due to Celsius-to-Fahrenheit error
3 points by pranavjoneja 6y ago|1 comments
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by pranavjoneja 6y ago
> Pfizer is bascially responsible for the oxycontin epidemic. Their reps bribe doctors into pushing their drugs. That was Purdue Pharma, not Pfizer.
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by pranavjoneja 6y ago
I agree, a typeface for numerical use should pay attention to that! I like the typeface used in new versions of JetBrains IDEs like Pycharm. There's special attention paid to disambiguating 0 from O and also ; from : and many other det
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by pranavjoneja 7y ago
There is a little 'x' button in the top right of that sign in wall modal
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by pranavjoneja 7y ago
Yes! I posted in the threads on Jan 1 and Feb 1 of this year. I was contacted by a cumulative total of 14 companies, of which 2 were actually interesting to me. I'm a mechanical engineer working in robotics hardware, so that's a l
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by pranavjoneja 8y ago
Location: East coast, United States Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes I currently work in mobile robotics for mapping and inspection. I have experience in mechanical design/prototyping and testing in the lab including vision systems,
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by pranavjoneja 8y ago
Location: East coast, United States Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes I currently work in mobile robotics for mapping and inspection. I have experience in mechanical design/prototyping and testing in the lab including vision systems,
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by pranavjoneja 8y ago
Location: East coast, United States Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes I currently work in mobile robotics for mapping and inspection. I have experience in mechanical design/prototyping and testing in the lab including vision systems,