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by spin 3y ago
Yeah, I thought that was Intel's MO. Intel quit making RealSense only after a competitor (OAK-D from Luxonis) became viable. They just want to make chips. It's my impression that they only build "lower" devices as a p
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by spin 7y ago
An interesting, useful real-world example of this is Gitolite [0]. Gitolite requires no background daemons or anything -- just a normal unix/ssh environment. [0] https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html
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by spin 8y ago
Thank you for sharing this demo (and to the GP for the video with the metronomes). Very interesting; very cool.
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by spin 8y ago
I'm curious what your new bike is. I currently have a 12 year old (but well maintained) Trek 1000. I'd like to get some better derailleurs (I'm constantly having to adjust and clean mine). But maybe I'll just get a be
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by spin 8y ago
I would definitely put it under my own name, if I were you. Like another commentor mentioned: if you leave the company, you still control your own repo. Also, whenever I interview programmers, I always browse their Github (or BitBucket or
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by spin 8y ago
There are good office jobs and there are bad office jobs. There are good employers and bad employers. The best jobs I've had usually have some basic deadlines (measurable goals and results), and some basic rules (show up every day),
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by spin 8y ago
That area is prime real-estate in Tokyo. Developers have been itching to build shopping malls, etc, there for ages. It might be a parking lot during the Olympics, but afterwords it's going to be turned into something much more expe
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by spin 8y ago
I third this. I've installed/maintained and used gitolite, gitlab and gitea. - gitolite: easiest to install and manage. But there's no web interface. Your entire workflow is with git itself (and maybe some SSH/Unix t
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by spin 8y ago
I think that this is a more realistic/relevant example of "slowing down or stopping is not always the safest action": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuK-fi-D_w
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by spin 8y ago
"... outrun ... the police" I doubt that this is a use-case that legal, for-profit companies will be pursuing. For the other use-cases, you can just say: Manual driving only.
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by spin 8y ago
In my entire life, I've never encountered the Trolley Problem, and I've never met anyone who has. Most safety problems in driving can be solved by slowing down . The problem with AI is all those weird, little edge cases that huma
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by spin 8y ago
I wanted to say something similar to this. But I think you articulated it much better than I could have. I think that now, today, Linus could afford to be less of an asshole. But I honestly wonder if the project would've have succeed
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by spin 8y ago
Haha, yeah, I just read through that entire list. I'd say that more than half of those seemed very reasonable and civilized to me. But the people complaining about penis.js seemed to have completely missed the point of that whole p
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by spin 8y ago
When I was in college, I was a systems administrator for a lab as a part-time student job. After I graduated, they wanted to hire me full-time. But it was a state university, so they had to open up the job to everyone, and they had to hav
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by spin 8y ago
The Yale rare books library[0] is a beautiful, amazing building to walk around in. Most of the books are off-limits for fear of damaging them, I think. (This is what originally sprang to my mind when I read the title of this article.) [0]
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by spin 9y ago
Hmm, yeah, that's never happened to me, either. I've never been assaulted, either. I have been harassed by other foreigners though, but that's almost always in the "seedy" areas, like Roppongi or Kabukicho. I rare
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by spin 9y ago
I'm an American living in Japan (about 12 years now). Most of the stuff he's talking about is totally true. But, like some other commenters have been saying, I feel like: you figure that stuff out after a couple years and make p
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by spin 9y ago
In college I had an econ friend who said that there's basically only three ways to grow an economy: more workers, better technology or more capital. If you look at technology, then I think "yes!" it has improved the economy.
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by spin 10y ago
Awhile ago I built a little hack that allows you to run your own Signal server: https://github.com/mfassler/pySignald
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by spin 10y ago
I imagine that's for use with POS terminals (ie cash registers). A lot of those still have serial-port barcode scanners or serial-port printers.
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by spin 11y ago
I made a hack that allows you to use Signal-Desktop on your own server using usernames: https://github.com/mfassler/pySignald (it's not integrated into the Signal network, though... it's just a little hack is
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by spin 11y ago
I'm under the impression that this "backdoor" is the fact that these phones can download updates to the OS. The phone checks that the update is signed by Apple. If Apple can be trusted to keep their code-signing keys secret
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by spin 11y ago
There's an article in the New York Times which says that Apple has already been doing this [1], but they seem to have had a change of heart in the past few years. Each data-extraction request was carefully vetted by Apple’s lawye
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by spin 11y ago
Oh, hey! That worked like a charm. Thank you.
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by spin 11y ago
I totally agree. I have un-followed a few people and now I only friend people that actually want to be friends with. I try to avoid posting political or technical things (mostly). So now, my FB is mostly just sharing pics and events with
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by spin 11y ago
Wired had an article about this: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/my-life-as-a-robot-double-robot...
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by spin 11y ago
I agree with mikeash (and the gp) on this one: I'm looking to exchange money for services, not get into some kind of grudge-standoff with a stranger.
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by spin 11y ago
> and accept the cert ... sigh... Trusted encryption fail. Is there some way to verify this cert?
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by spin 11y ago
The movie companies and the record companies wanted DRM -- they were under the delusion that they could both control digital information while sharing digital information. So now Washington is suffering from a similar delusion: you can buil
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by spin 11y ago
Buzsaki argues, in this book, that brain waves are the method that the brain uses to coordinate activity in different regions of the brain. (High-frequency waves coordinate the activity of small areas, low-frequency waves coordinate the ac

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