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It was much easier then to become experienced in programming because it was way less to learn.

I got the feeling from: >lonely life >he’s kinda lost at sea >next to a lanky guy >I began to wonder, “How could anyone spend their whole life doing this?”

and details, like him having a tiny cabin (you're on a boat).

And of course the fact that he published what seems to me a candid conversation in such a light.

Operating Systems Design & Implementation

The book is about MINIX operating system, a operating system without hacks, to showcase the concepts.

Linux is a fork from MINIX.

So basically the guy has ~1m followers on instagram, is helicoptered from yacht to yacht and gets paid to hang out with rich people and wear expensive watches, in the most beautiful places.

He also seems like a nice person.

In contrast author looks like a douchebag, portraying him in a bad light, as a lanky lonely person, whose financial security is at the mercy of instagram.

To me author looks like a petty jealous person who wants to gain by undermining others that are successful.

>Using parallel loops running on many cores yields a factor of approximately 7.

That depends on the number of cores.

Think this way: You html is a tree of tags. You have to layout this tree.

Each tag is a box that can contain other boxes. Learn about the box model to understand the properties of a box.

How do you display the boxes inside another box? Learn about the display property.

How do you position the box inside another one? Learn about the position property.

Well I am not sure. It's a good story to tell if the person is someone important in the community that has for example written important books or invented something that is useful.

If it's just worker-bee man-hours I guess it would be better value-for-money to buy a seiko and tell the story of the factory and how it's made using such complicated processes and optimizations (not sure assumption about seiko factory using complicated processes is right).

Why would I manually do the pieces of a clockwork? It's been done manually countless times. Maybe If I would be in metallurgic industry it would make sense to do it as an exercise.

You can watch reviews of printers online, and they show quality of print.

Here is a picture of the building in the article https://i.imgur.com/1BW2j35.png

To me it looks like an old beach resort.

Let me voice my negative opinion: To me it looks worthy of a hobby, but to praise this as something exceptional it's kind of overstretch.

The time required is very long to make the pieces by hand, but I feel any sharp person could do it. Nothing groundbreaking.

So I don't understand people that find this fascinating, inspirational. Just buy a usual watch, and it will have the same pieces.

It's cool that he makes new designs, however make a good market out of that and the chinese will do it too, at better prices.

You should provide the map on the homepage in real-time, otherwise I won't believe it

So when it detects a lens, it shoots light to destroy the photo.

If the detection is not ideal, it could detect eyeglasses and shoot light into people's eyes

This are called false positives and are a normal occurrence in the life of a software developer. That's why when testing the root-cause you should test for a false positive as well.

Mercantilism not only targets exports. It also tries to halt all non necessary imports, so the country retains as much value as possible.

They are nationalist, and want to gain things at the expense of others all the time (I don't have first-hand experience but I believe it to be so).

So when I say China is mercantilist, I am referring more to their approach to relations as a zero-sum game.

There is only accumulation of power.

I believe China to be a mercantile culture, that was helped by the more developed states. But instead of valuing the relations, China only values them if it can see profit.

Also China values the relations if the profit of China is bigger that the profit of the other state.

In the mercantilist others must be loosers, as opposed to mutual benefits when all play nice.

Restoring original Apollo AGC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU&index=1&list=PL-...

I don't understand who upvotes this articles, propagating them to the front page

Why is this BS article on the front page. The author doesn't understand concepts of demo, proof of concept.

A decentralized social network protocol is needed (ActivityPub is something like this), data stored in a neutral way, and the software. When exchanging data between users, you exchange only data, and you see it based on your software (protocol implementation).

The software would ideally be hosted on the cloud, so it's always online. You log in your software and see all your updates/interact with others.

The issue is that you can't interact between profiles, or if you interact it's centralized. Looks like there is existing a decentralized social networking protocol: ActivityPub, having the features of social media (as mentioned in related comments).

That's a good idea. We need a decentralized facebook, where everybody hosts and shares their data.

It would need a registry or identity provider for the initial contact, but then it should replicate facebook functionality in a decentralized way. If you want to see posts in a group (like facebook group) - you query online members part of the group for their data, and download/share the latest version.

Reminds me of those public "do not call" lists. Guess what - they get called more often.

I think google.com also associates your queries with you account/location/fingerprint.

I think the issue it that it provides API for the government to process this data.

Yes it makes it clear (but they can "commingle" the same product from different sellers, as said in the related comments).

However let's say you want to buy a product. But the reviews are mixed. Some are 5-star reviews, but there are 1-star reviews as well. And there are 5 sellers. From which one do you buy? All the reviews are mixed.

Perhaps a bad review is caused by a seller sending fake product. But perhaps the review is a valid review and it highlights a defect in the original product. You can't know.

The same product can be sold by both amazon and 3rd party. The reviews will be mixed together.

Ex: amazon sells tshirt. People post reviews. 3rd party sells tshirt with the same product page as amazon's and the quality is poor. Reviews are mixed together and you can't see the seller on which the review is based.

Presentation is the process. You can have a presentation without using a deck.

The term you are looking for is Slideshow.

> what the value proposition of a swarm of robots is over one large robot?

Doing complex detailed work which could innovate the way farming is done ex: 1)not using chemicals, by killing weeds/bugs using robot/symbiotic approach 2)plant plants together (symbiotic plants, complementary vegetables: roots and plants) 3)using the land to plant more crops more densely

> Given the large cost of repairs, can a swarm of robots compete on cost? If my one big robot breaks down, I fix it once and it's good to go. When my swarm of robots start to break down, I have to fix the same thing n number of times.

I think cost will be an issue this swarms being much more expensive. However they won't break all at once ant you would always have a working fleet. Also the quality would be better, because the same unit would be used everywhere small scale and large scale.

>How about transport? Lots of farmers around here have farms which are 50+ miles apart. Right now they can hop into their one robot and drive it to the next farm. Does the swarm need to be loaded onto a trailer and trucked to the next farm? Autonomous on-road operation on country roads definitely isn't coming any time soon.

I think that this "startup" will have the logistics sorted by having a large area of land in one piece

>Don't get me wrong, the idea is neat. But it has to actually be better than the alternatives to see adoption.

Definitely. And that would require a very advanced robot. And maybe we already have the technology. But it would need enormous resources poured into it to make such an advanced product that offers all the benefits. And I don't know if the benefits are real/worth it.

If you want feedback, the header is distracting and takes focus from the content.

I was thinking about swarms of small robots that use machine learning to do intelligent work and come with innovative solutions, like the ones in the article:

Use of lasers to kill unwanted plants instead of herbicides,

Planting symbiotic plants near each other,

Providing a interface "like farmville" but the actions are executed by robots, on a real farm