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Re:What China Wants and Why on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:58AM (#28125847)
Can't take this serious. The "Hu Line" is massively inconsistent in the various maps used here!

In the topographical one, Sichuan is west of the Hu-Line, while in others it is east of it. Make up your mind.

Don't fuddle with the line just to tell a story.

And that is why I buy Apple chargers to power my Arduinos and Raspberry Pis.
Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:24AM (#27746889)
Thanks for the context. What a sad and despicable behavior by those people.
That's entirely feasible. Mind that 8 years ago was 2013 and systems like the recommendation system from Amazon was already online. Also it only specifies machine learning, pattern recognition, NLP etc - all of which are active research fields for far more then 20 years already.

It's not like they are asking for more than 8 years of experience in Pytorch.

Yes, that is an interesting case!

"Ä" is a separate letter in the Swedish alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet

In German on the other hand, "Ä" is part of the language but not part of the alphabet and it is simply expanded to "AE" as in the previous comment.

Time zones a big factor. Note that this is about online classes (live), not a MOOC.

I wouldn't want to expect a student in Sydney to stay awake at 3AM to follow a lecture at Harvard at 1PM.

The same is true for office hours with professors and TAs. You have a huge disadvantage in getting information if you are in a bad time zone.

Re:Nvidia is now worth more than Intel on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:06AM (#23780358)
The public noticed the value of technologies MSFT offers. Not everyone who has money and invests understands what Cloud is or why MS Teams is something that might sell well.

Covid-19 gave all those people a very visual example of the value proposition.

It caps the fee that the delivery service can take.

You can still tip the delivery person as much as you like.

Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:45AM (#23777895)
Totally agree. This is also why I keep donating to Wikipedia.
Re:Don't bet on the most likely winner on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:49AM (#23748492)
That makes it sound like the retail operation of Amazon was subsidized by AWS, which it isn't. Both are profitable.

Amazon was losing money because they put every single dollar they earned (and more) into new projects and markets that expanded their reach.

Definitely agree with your second paragaph though! There are so many companies that for some time fly under the radar of the general public, where experts in the field can already see their success coming a mile away.

Nvidia would be another example. Anyone in Computer Science around 2014 could have predicted their meteoric rise due to machine learning and CUDA. But people outside of the field would have no idea.

Re:Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups? on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @07:19AM (#23688931)
A combination of a traditional bank that has certain duties towards business clients and a transfer service like Transferwise might be best.

An important part of certain banks like Sparkassen or state banks in Germany is the fact that they are legally bound to serve you. Private banks like N26 on the other hand can drop you at any point.

I don't think you understand how much easier it is to repair an iPhone compared to any other phone on the market (apart of niche products like the Fairphone which does a great job!).

If you open an iPhone, you will see a very well ordered and packaged arrangement of components. Most Android phones are a hot mess compared with it.

If you need a component for an iPhone, you can get it easily.

What I'm saying is not that electronics should not become more climate-friendly.

What I'm saying is that the focus on Apple is wrong. The business is the problem and companies like Samsung, Motorola, etc. are putting much worse devices on the market.

BTW: iPhones regularly get software updates for around 5 years. How's that for extending the lifetime of devices? Android phones are lucky to get significant software updates for more than one year.

Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:19AM (#23598513)
AWS will offer ARM based EC2 instances. If Intel doesn't come up with a drastic turnaround, they are going to be Nokia'd.

https://aws.amazon.com/de/ec2/instance-types/a1/

How much would you budget for this?

I am actually curious, because on the other hand you would have all the constraints like development in less than 3 months, need for the app to be waterproof in a legal sense (data protection), additional backend development and also development for both iOS and Android.

Jira -> Offers structure for bug findings, requests, ideas. Confluence -> Permanent place for information.

Slack is greatly helped by integrations with tools like this. Otherwise you would only have chaotic discussions and then try to find messages in Slack to remember things.