shepting | 1 year ago | on: Rim/Blackberry tales – reply all
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shepting | 1 year ago | on: A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
I'm guessing that using some clip-on aero bars would make a big difference. Then you're not using your hands to support any weight so the typing would be a little easier.
And if you're doing hours of Z2 training, you likely want to be getting more time in a position closer to what you'd be doing in the drops.
shepting | 3 years ago | on: macOS: App sandboxing via sandbox-exec (2020)
Do you happen to have a link to the talk about Nix on macOS you heard about it from? Or event the title/details so I could search?
shepting | 4 years ago | on: How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
I've purchased a 90W USB C car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Cigarette-Lighter-Adapter-Cha...
shepting | 4 years ago | on: WWDC21
I used to work at a company in the chip-design software space that built Linux-only software for $100k/user/year, so there's definitely money to be made for Linux (even if it happens to be niche software).
shepting | 4 years ago | on: Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
This is the comment I came here for.
I had a professor in college who was building self-driving tractors and would come in every other week complaining about John Deere this, or Case that, trying to steal his business with more expensive solutions. It turns out you can use GPS for a rough location and a fancy $200 gyroscope for millimeter precision. Then just plant the seeds on an exact grid and you know that anything not on the grid is a weed.
And actually, his suggestion was to use high-pressure water jets to cut the weeds instead of lasers. It would/could be less energy-intensive.
shepting | 5 years ago | on: Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
Yes, and much of the non-livestock emissions from agriculture is from growing plants to feed to livestock!
shepting | 5 years ago | on: An Introduction to LLDB Reproducers
This is so great.
shepting | 5 years ago | on: Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11
This is bad.
shepting | 6 years ago | on: The problem with being a top performer (2017)
This was the key line that stood out to me as well. I've seen both situations where individuals are jealous of successful people in resource-limited environments and where employees appreciate working with and helping high performers when resources are plentiful for everyone.
shepting | 6 years ago | on: Xcode Build Optimization – Exhaustive list of ways to speed up your Xcode build
This is a decent sample project to start with: https://github.com/airbnb/BuckSample
shepting | 6 years ago | on: Xcode Build Optimization – Exhaustive list of ways to speed up your Xcode build
It would be great if this list would include Buck or Bazel and their associated HTTP caches. For us we lowered our clean CI build times from 22 minutes to 4.5 minutes (1 million lines of Swift)
shepting | 7 years ago | on: Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
"Military testing calls for survivability of three hits from the round marked on the plate."
shepting | 8 years ago | on: TSMC Kicks Off Volume Production of 7nm Chips
It's just stunning how they have been able to achieve 7nm features. With a 193nm wavelength laser no less.
shepting | 9 years ago | on: Lyft Is Said to Seek a Buyer, Without Success
Once people don't have to own their own vehicle, many roads will get an extra driving lane that used to be used for parking.
shepting | 9 years ago | on: Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking
There's another building that was built on friction piles: http://www.aboutcivil.org/burj-khalifa-design-construction-s...
shepting | 11 years ago | on: Waterloo Co-op: A Blessing and a Curse
I went to school at the University of Regina, and did an engineering co-op 5 years ago. It was amazing to see how gradual it makes moving out from home if you go to school in the same city where you grew up.
My work terms were Regina (home) -> Saskatoon (3 hrs away) -> Waterloo (28 hrs away) -> India (really far) and definitely was able to grow in experience each time.
I'd say it was invaluable for learning what was important and what wasn't with respect to the class materials.
Now I'm at Twitter and often look back to the wide experience I gained at companies where I could leave after 4 months and have no negative repercussions.
shepting | 14 years ago | on: OS X Lion Artifacts v1.0
Great stuff.
shepting | 14 years ago | on: NoSQL is What?
However, saying "bullshit" with his disclaimer at the bottom, I'm also the original author of "High Performance MySQL" published by O'Reilly Media certainly lends more credibility to his statements than many other people (Bob Warfield for example).
shepting | 14 years ago | on: New Android Market for Phones
This is a big step to improving Android in general.
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I recall the onboarding tour around the testing rooms which were essentially giant Faraday cages. There was a print-out on the door exhorting employees to CLOSE THE DOOR! when you come or go. Apparently it was a semi-monthly occurrence where someone would accidentally leave the door propped open and the nightly tests on upcoming devices would make real 911 calls to the local dispatchers as the E2E tests on physical hardware were running.