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neuromancer2701on What Are 'Dark Factories,' and Do They Exist?

Daemon And FreedomTM might be one of the best near future sci-fi pairings. I read them back in 2011ish timeframe and within a couple of years multiple things had some true from those books.

neuromancer2701on Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies

make all the corn fields back into grasslands that they were and the cows will help rebuild the soil.

neuromancer2701on Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

With 401k, healthcare, I have heard that a million bucks gets you 3 engineers. Or in the case of layoffs you get a million dollars worth of savings per year per 3 engineers laid off.

neuromancer2701on SpaceX Starlink Mission #17 [video]

That would mean Starship right? Because the Falcon second stage is never going to land.

What is the over/under for Starship landing regularly? 5 years?

neuromancer2701on Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: A Topical Index

Alastair Reynolds is just amazing to me.

As a side note, I absolutely love the intro The Expanse show because of the all the orbital mechanics.

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)

  Location: Central Virginia
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: NO
  Technologies: C++, C, yocto linux, python, embedded,4G, 5G TDD 
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/

  Email:king.seth@gmail.com
 Website: openrover.com

Embedded linux engineer with a passion for C++ and robotics. Jack of all Trades Master of None. Debugging all sorts of C and C++ code. Remote is what I am really targeting but I would be open to a 2-3 week integration period onsite and 1 week a quarter back at HQ. Georgia Tech OMSCS 2018

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2020)

  Location: Central Virginia
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: NO
  Technologies: C++, C, yocto linux, python, embedded,4G, 5G TDD 
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/

  Email:king.seth@gmail.com
  Website: openrover.com

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2020)

  Location: Central Virginia
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: NO
  Technologies: C++, C, yocto linux, python, embedded,4G, 5G TDD 
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/
  Email:king.seth@gmail.com
  Website: openrover.com

neuromancer2701on The Fed Will Buy Bond ETFs Now

I think it is better to say that there will be no broad based national inflation of the dollar. Cars, homes, stocks will definitely be inflated.

neuromancer2701on Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19

Netflix - created in 1997 with profit from selling Reed Hasting previous company. They IPOed 5 years later in 2002 don't see anything about VC money. Could be some but definitely not the Softbank model back then.

neuromancer2701on Jetson AGX Xavier

I thought I saw the 8GB module for 459$ but it is only the SOM so you have to purchase a carrier board as well so the 32GB Developer Kit seems the way to go.

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/900-83668-0000-000/nvidia

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020)

  Location: Central Virginia
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: NO
  Technologies: C++, C, yocto linux, python, embedded,4G, 5G TDD 
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/

  Email:king.seth@gmail.com
  Website: openrover.com

Embedded linux engineer with a passion for C++ and robotics. Remote is what I am really targeting but I would be open to a 2-3 week integration period onsite and 1 week a quarter back at HQ. Georgia Tech OMSCS 2018

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)

  Location: Central Virginia
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: NO
  Technologies: C++, C, yocto linux, python, embedded 
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/
  Email: nerd.king@gatech.edu
  Website: https://openrover.com

Embedded linux software engineer with a passion for C++ and robotics. Remote is what I am really targeting but I would be open to a 2-3 week integration period onsite and 1 week a quarter back at HQ. Georgia Tech OMSCS 2018

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020)

  Location: Central Virginia
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: NO
  Technologies: C++, C, yocto linux, python, embedded 
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/
  Email:king.seth@gmail.com
  Website: openrover.com

neuromancer2701on Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

Fibit should fit perfectly into the 99$ market for a zillion people that just want to track steps and sleep cycles.

neuromancer2701on Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track

If you really want a good AMD laptop, I would wait until Q1/2020 when the Zen2 4000 mobile chips come out.

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)

Location: Central Virginia

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: C++, C, yocto linux, python, embedded

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/

Email:king.seth@gmail.com

Website: openrover.com

Embedded Linux engineer with a passion for C++ and robotics. Remote is what I am really targeting but I would be open to a 2-3 week integration period onsite and 1 week a quarter back at HQ. Georgia Tech OMSCS 2018

neuromancer2701on The BeagleBone AI is Available

BeagleBone is dual-core A15 vs Jetson Quad A53 so that is a big difference there is processing power as well.

neuromancer2701on A Lunar Space Elevator Is Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find

This a moon-GEO elevator which may have its advantages but it does not help you get out of the planetary gravity well.

neuromancer2701on Show HN: Darklang

So what kind of prototype do you have to have to get money to work on this for 2 years?

neuromancer2701on The Next Recession Will Be About Sovereign Debt

One aspect the article doesn't cover is that since Japans has been doing this for decades they have effective run out the clock on QE.

BOJ has been buying ETFs for so long they are the majority of shareholders in a large percentage of stocks in Japan. I don't think you can do that with swaps so I am pretty sure they had to "print" money to do that.

Additionally I have heard that ECB buys corp bonds. Apple can go over to Europe whenever it wants and sell a couple Billion in debt and it will be bought immediately.

The question is when does it pop?

neuromancer2701on AMD EPYC processors come to Google, and to Google Cloud

If your code base is 1000+ c/cpp files each of these needs to be compiled into an o file so all of that can be done in parallel.

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

Commscope | Senior Software Engineer(Embedded Linux C++) | Forest, Va| Onsite | Fulltime

We are a small group of engineers working on the first digital DAS product. Our product uses a custom yocto linux build that configures 10G pipes on FPGAs that transports rf for in-building wireless solutions. e.g. Hard Rock Stadium and the Wells Fargo Center

Forest is a small town in Central Virginia. Escape the valley and enjoy the countryside and small town living.

https://jobs.commscope.com/job/Forest-Senior-Software-Engine...

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

Location: Central Virginia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Would have to be very compelling.

Technologies: yocto Linux, C++, C, python

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerdking/

Email:king.seth@gmail.com

I have been working in embedded system for 15+ years. Was able to get my Master's(in CS) from Georgia Tech last year. I have two young children so relocating to a large more costly area probably is not viable.

But I would be willing to travel to HQ once a quarter while working remote.

Hacking on a robot in my basement currently.(openrover.com)

neuromancer2701on SoftBank’s next bet: $940M into autonomous delivery startup Nuro

Kroger already has this with the ClickList grocer pickup service. So instead of loading the groceries into your car the same employees will just load the robot and it will drive to your house. No extra effort or overhead because the same clicklist app will be used for both use cases.

neuromancer2701on Google Edge TPU Devices

The NXP® i.MX 8MQuad board is available for 150$ and has USB3 and PCIe. The TPU would probably be attached through one of those buses. I would bet around 250$ with the TPU which is pretty good and puts it around half the Jetson Tx2, 1/5 the Xavier. I wonder if the TPU could be used for SLAM not just object identification, now that would be useful

neuromancer2701on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

Commscope | Software Engineer | Onsite in Forest,Va | Full Time | Multiple levels and positions available

We are a small group of embedded linux engineers working on the first digital DAS(Distributed Antenna System). If you want to live in the country with a 20 or less minute commute and a great debt into income ratio Central Virginia is the place.

4 position are currently available:

Electrical Engineer https://jobs.commscope.com/job/Forest-Engineer%2C-Electrical...

Senior FPGA Engineer https://jobs.commscope.com/job/Forest-Senior-Engineer%2C-FPG...

Senior Software Engineer https://jobs.commscope.com/job/Forest-Senior-Software-Engine...

Software Engineer https://jobs.commscope.com/job/Forest-Software-Engineer-CC%2...

If you have any specific questions feel free to message me.

neuromancer2701on AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen 'Matisse' Coming Mid 2019: Eight Core Zen 2 with PCIe 4.0

These aren't "different CPU architectures". They would all be x86-64 so unless VMware uses some specific Intel feature it shouldn't be a problem.

neuromancer2701on The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

The FED has been unwinding the balance sheet this whole year. Granted the rate started out at 16 Billion/month and was capped at 40B/month. So there have been plenty of jokes about how it will take years to unwind 4 Trillion. I think we have just passed 150 Billion there is a pretty cool chart out there somewhere.

The unwinding of this many treasuries has always been a concern about the whole 2008 crisis along with the unintended consequences of ZIRP.

neuromancer2701on SoftBank’s debt obsession

99% in SPY, 1% in 80% SPY Put option should cover your downside.