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xanderjanz

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About xanderjanz

Coder from Danville CA. 12 years industry experience, iFixit, PlanGrid, and Uber. @xanderjanz on X

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    Comment #48150376

    Thanks! - Checkout Reachy Mini or Stack-chan on orobotio, those are the top 2 SOTA AI personality robots, what you're looking for! Not an exact match, but I see the vision, it's de…

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    Comment #48143941

    @Jinyibruceli Hi thanks for the question! HN flagged your comment, so I'll respond here. You said: "I tried building a hexapod last year and the hardest part wasn't the printing, i…

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    Show HN: Browse 61 3D Printable Robots

    Robotics is advancing really fast lately, with AI inference, different controllers, software, and parts always changing. I wanted a place that supports many device types, Raspberry…

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    Comment #21847915

    There are open source versions of everything done within a GCP API call, but it requires multiple machines and lots of data to build an NLP model to be as fast and accurate as GCP,…

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    Comment #21847855

    Also AFAIK GCV uses techniques beyond better OCR that greatly help accuracy. It does image fixing, boundary detection, NLP, spell check, etc.

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    Comment #18721337

    But other services don't connect to your friends. So I guess it's more like, paying them not to use any intersecting public roads.

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    Comment #18720727

    Isn't this sort of like estimating the value of Ford by paying users not to use roads?

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    Comment #18464132

    underrated post.

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    Comment #18152875

    Investors care about revenue.

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    Comment #18117506

    Wrong, it was the best selling overall sedan in US by revenue, including gas cars.

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    Comment #18117503

    Depends on how you calculate it. Toyota sold more car, but in terms of $$ spent, Model 3 is the most popular sedan in US.

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    Comment #18008736

    You don't care about profitability anymore? Now you want to talk about demand? OK. - Tesla is mentioned in multiple current top rap songs. - Elon has the most viewed episode of the…

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    Comment #18008153

    I guess by definition, as long as they lose money, they lose money on each Model 3. But really what you're implying is, when Fremont is a closer to full produciton , each Model 3 w…

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    Comment #17973610

    Yep. UX is our jobs (as devs), it should be our main focus and sacrifices of it made minimally. For better or worse, does seem the days of Apple engineers working weeks on perfecti…

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    Comment #17964508

    Have the people who complain about javascript page load performance read about netflix.com? Netflix uses JS to render their landing page server side. No client JS necessary. How ca…

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    Comment #17964481

    Russ, whats the value of UX on products that don't exist yet? DevEx is the egg that creates the UX chicken. I love your attention to UX, but clearly developer experience is above u…

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    Comment #17964457

    Excuse me, I was just sitting here waiting for the JS haters to die of old age. Tick tock!

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    Comment #17667970

    We have high order functions in JS. Which are similar to decorators.

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    Comment #17502937

    Thats how all invention works. Scaled up versions of existing tech.

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    Comment #17502928

    Yea it does. But if you fraud multiple companies you're increasing the odds one will detect you. This is why companies don't rely only on their own data, they do credit checks, and…

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    Comment #17493912

    cc is a measurement of displacement, only useful for combustion engines. Equivalent for electric motors would be Wattage.

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    Comment #17493904

    It's common for gig companies to limit payouts, because it lowers the cost of fraud, which is common. A smart charger charges for multiple companies, and could easily hit higher pa…

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    Comment #16140766

    You're talking about Lodash. But the remaining issue is of locality. If you use a package as a standard library, you still have to send that package to a client for them to use you…