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jasonjson Stadia died because no one trusts Google

I've been trying to press that button for my own Google Apps account. It simply doesn't work.

jasonjson Moving Camera, Moving People: A Deep Learning Approach to Depth Prediction

What would you recommend as a better SFM-MVS solution?

jasonjson Darpa Shows Off Some Things You Can Do with Distributed Electric Propulsion

These are probably brush-less motors, so in theory, they shouldn't pose any specific challenges in that scenario, as there are no exposed conductors, only sets of insulated coils/windings and permanent magnets that would end up being immersed in a river.

jasonjson Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor

Even before the more polished products existed, people have hacked together external GPU enclosures, often interfaced to the host's PCIe bus via ExpressCard slots or ribbon cables hanging off of Mini PCIe slots. And more recently, with the interest in cramming many dual-slot GPUs onto a single motherboard for cryptomining rigs, you can find cheap, "barebones stand-alone PCIe slots" (for lack of a better term) for hanging GPUs off of. A quick search turned up a couple of examples:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mini-PCI-E-to-PCI-E-1X-Expan...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/60CM-PCI-Express-1X-To-16X-P... (Ingeniously, on this one, they've re-purposed USB 3.0 cables to carry the high-speed PCIe lanes).

jasonjson Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

For you, has this automated (audio)book discovery by farming it out to visitors of your website? :)

jasonjson Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

Relay is quite good, I have (shamefully) used it for hour-long browsing sessions.

jasonjson Ask HN: How do you scrape Linkedin? Is it legal now after the recent ruling?

It may be legal for you to do so (for now), but it doesn't mean that they are obligated to make it easy.

jasonjson Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps

Interestingly, I had the exact same experience; opened Uber, got a ride estimate. Opened Lyft, got a ride estimate. Opened Uber again, and was presented with a promotion.

jasonjson How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things

The RFM69 does not use LoRa, maybe you meant the RFM95W/96W?

jasonjson How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things

These radios have been available for quite some time, it's the Semtech SX127x line (e.g. SX1276). I was looking into LoRa and other long-range IoT WAN radios about a year ago for a research project.

You can get cheap (22 USD) Arduino-compatible development boards here using HopeRF modules, which work great with the RadioHead library:

http://www.anarduino.com/miniwireless/ http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/arduino/RadioHead/

(I have no affiliation with the websites.)

jasonjson How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things

I played around with these about a year ago: Arduino-compatible development boards with the radios, for 22 USD.

http://www.anarduino.com/miniwireless/