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by udba 4y ago
Apple employees don't put cases on their phones because they can easily get a new phone if their phone breaks.
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by udba 5y ago
Certainly the naming of the language as "Serbo-Croatian" or "Croato-Serbian" happened in the Socialist period, but the Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, etc. etc. languages are really variants of a polycentric lan
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by udba 6y ago
Nikon FM2. I like that it's fully mechanical and built to a higher standard (and with higher quality materials) than cameras today. I enjoy film photography because it imposes a constraint on the creative process and makes you consciou
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by udba 6y ago
A high power workload on a phone might require ~5-10W over 100ms, i.e. ~0.5 joules. At 4V capacitor voltage, you would need ~30mF capacitor. Not likely to fit in a phone. This assumes you’re powering the phone solely off the cap. Even with
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by udba 6y ago
They say the goal is to help as many people as possible, and that this principle has guided their development and pricing of the drug. How do they reconcile this principle with the huge price difference between the USA and the rest of the w
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J-1 visa program suspended for 60 days(state.gov)
2 points by udba 7y ago|0 comments
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by udba 7y ago
Like someone in this thread said: "Medical care really is one of those things that no person should have to beg or borrow for, in a civil society." There's nothing I can do for you if you think that access to health care shou
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by udba 7y ago
> If someone wants an idea for an app or website - a way to lookup local ERs by price would be great. > lookup local ERs by price Incredible. It's absurd that an idea like this is a reasonable suggestion.
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by udba 8y ago
I agree with your sentiment, the car industry in its current state is getting pretty ugly. I choose to avoid these trends entirely, and I'm happy to keep driving my 2.4L naturally aspirated, 5 speed manual, touchscreen-less shitbox unt
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by udba 8y ago
I agree with the author. Often I find it refreshing to step away from the absurdity of software development and go work on my car. Working on your car exposes you to the fruits of a bona fide engineering process: objects that are carefull
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by udba 8y ago
Ironically this describes most of Silicon Valley.
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by udba 9y ago
I find this hard to believe. I recently worked at a firm that is making top-of-the-line cell phones in the United States. Even if you took the LRIP BOM cost, quadrupled the cost of parts and then doubled it all for good measure you still wo
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by udba 9y ago
The UI being 1999 is a positive. The website has nothing it doesn't need. There's a Dieter Rams quote on this topic. As an example, switching between folders in the source tree feels faster than it does using Explorer. This is wha
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by udba 9y ago
Typical of SV to focus solely on the business viability of a firm to the detriment of everything else. I’d like to work somewhere knowing that I have a clean conscience. Why not add: Where do you get your data from? If your data is sourced
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by udba 10y ago
The Ehang seems interesting, but ultimately it's limited by battery tech and the fundamental inefficiencies of the design which makes it more of a gimmick than anything else. There's enough open source information laying around on
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by udba 10y ago
I agree, supporting Trump doesn't look like the only reason he got booted. Let's not forget that YC has a Trump-supporting "part time partner" on staff.
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by udba 10y ago
I'm currently applying for co-op jobs (internships) and while trawling the university job board I've seen many positions requiring big data this or machine learning that. What's not clear to me is why companies who don't
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Deep-Fried Data(idlewords.com)
560 points by udba 10y ago|140 comments
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by udba 10y ago
Which is an absolutely awful system, for a multitude of reasons. One of the biggest faults that looks like it might be replicated here (the article does not specify) is that once employers (VCs) rank students (startups), the students can&#x
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by udba 10y ago
Thankfully so, I've been eyeing a co-op with them.
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by udba 10y ago
Most of the students that do leave for the US would be more than willing to stay in Canada, even if they were not paid as much. It's a familiar culture, the cost of living is cheaper, and in many ways Toronto is a better place to live
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by udba 10y ago
As an engineering student at UWaterloo it's pretty depressing to watch most of the best upper year engineers finish their studies and then abandon Canada for SV. There's logic in it for them: American companies are offering huge
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by udba 10y ago
The Hot Zone is another great book about biological warfare. The first chapter detailing the life of Ebola's Patient 0 from the moment he contracted the disease to when he dies is blood-curdling.