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Location: US, Currently West Coast, likely East Coast Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Remote Only Technologies: Python, Rust, Swift, JS, Docker, Bash, Linux Systems Résumé/CV: htt…

A few reasons! First, the field is absolutely fascinating - the complexity is incredible, and I'm really enjoying learning about it. It's also clearly "What's Next" - the synbio sp…

Location: US, Currently West Coast, likely East Coast Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Remote Only Technologies: Python, Rust, Swift, JS, Docker, Bash, Linux Systems Résumé/CV: htt…

It's understandable. Bald Eagles sound genuinely hilarious for a bird that big.

This is similar to the Hygiene Hypothesis for allergies and autoimmune disorders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis Nassim Taleb's Antifragility concept is relevant …

I'm a fan of James Mickens' "Mossad or Not-Mossad" internet threat models ~essay: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

This is great - wonderful sense of presence, especially with the road noise mixed in. It would be really fantastic in VR. (Also, 50 different cities and a couple stations for each?…

> but it is hard to say that in the end, consumers are on the loosing end. Consumers are actual humans with complex lives that often also include producing things. Every seller tha…

This is the cycle with Intel, though. They innovate, blow out the market, and then stagnate until AMD or someone else comes out with an architecture that's a category improvement o…

You may never actually need all 100,000 pages, but you don't know in advance which pages you will need, and you'll definitely need that page when you need it.

Have any of them stood out to you? Is there anything you'd consider a reasonable consumer device right now?

The basic problem is that without high fidelity & a wide FOV, there's nothing that sets MagicLeap apart from any of the other companies that have been able to create AR headsets fo…

At a previous gig, we had a lot of systems named after animals, and I'd joked about wiring our alerting system up to emit the animal sound for the system that was paging, but I thi…

>Clothes change much slower than software updates, I change my clothes at least once a day and add to my wardrobe on a ~weekly to ~monthly basis. Having been party to large system …

I'd want to check this before committing, but my understanding is that e-ink is cheap power-wise because it doesn't require power to maintain the image - actually changing the imag…

Someone I met tried to figure out how to actually legally stream the NBA playoffs recently - apparently there's basically no way to do so without an existing cable subscription or …

> Even if it weren't his property, if you were in the public aren't people legally allowed to take photos of you and upload it wherever they want? If it weren't legal there wouldn'…

I'm not a network engineer, so take this with as much credibility as you'd give an explanation after a few beers: Most network providers have peering agreements to handle reciproca…

Sources?

If the outcome of widespread machine translation is a whole new generation of poets, I'm all for it.

They're not an ad company though - what are people going to do in their cars? Probably use their phones and tablets, and if Apple's got a lock on that, then who gives a damn about …

Honestly, I agree with @saagarjha further down thread - I think things like AR and personal assistants are much closer to their core model. Grant the MP3 comparison, though - and t…

I genuinely do not understand Apple's move into this space. They've made a trillion dollar business out of small, high-margin electronics that consumers replace every couple year. …