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microDude

155 karma · joined March 8, 2013

Oregon based Electrical Engineer, specializing in signal processing, machine learning, control systems, and all things iterative :-)
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microDude··on The First Time America Freaked Out Over Automation
Auxiliary, I think most office jobs can be modeled as a Flow Chart (with slight exceptions that can be caught by AI).
microDude··on A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus
Just look at the IBM Somers Campus... Not trying to be cynical, but history repeats itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Somers_Office_Complex

microDude··on A Look Inside Airbus’s Alabama Assembly Line
A lot of this article talks about the US government subsidies and back rubbing required to sell to the US market. What about the reverse case? What is required to sell Boeing planes in Europe?

Last time I checked there are a lot of protectionism clauses surrounding EU aerospace markets.

microDude··on A Remote Attack on the Bosch Drivelog Connector Dongle
Actually, I was impressed how much security Bosch included in their device.

For a IoT device I would give this a gold star. I am sure after this report was given to them, they patched their firmware.

microDude··on Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50%
Why all the hate against XML, especially when used for configuration? Having a schema configured is a plus.
microDude··on Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions [pdf]
The best interpretation of a troll was actually on "South Park: Season 20, Episode 10" Trevor's Axiom:

https://vimeo.com/194900488

microDude··on Why do you use Firefox?
I don't worry about the browser collecting usage information to sell to information brokers. I have a lose trust in the Mozilla foundation to do the right thing.
microDude··on Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits
I went to Kaui for a 2 week camping trip a few years back.

I would listen to the local radio broadcast at night, which I really enjoyed. It was some local DJ that would talk about native rights and issues. One thing that stuck out to me was an interview he did with a Native American from the main-land. The guest was amazed at how much local Kaui natives were able to defend their rights and maintain (at least influence) control.

microDude··on The White House is adding four ‘Skype Seats’ to its press briefings
Ok, so Breitbart has a seat now. Who else?
microDude··on U.S. Reviewing Proposed Design of Miniaturized Nuclear Power Plant
I have seen this company slowly mature over my past 6 years living in Corvallis, Oregon (original location for NuScale). I was excited when I first saw the design and started to look at employment opportunities at the company. At the time, they only were looking for experienced engineers (15+ years) with knowledge of the Nuclear Regulation Commission (NRC).

Even after 6 years, they just now have submitted the application to NRC. It is depressing how much Nuclear has been over-regulated.

microDude··on Street-Legal ebikes are underpowered
Just keep them off the single-track (back country trails on public lands). There is a serious problem going on right now where eBikes are being used by hiking advocates to ban all Mountain Bikes (ie, normal pedal powered) off the trails.

Motored powered bikes are already banned on most trail systems (for good reason).

microDude··on The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1997)
I printed, then read the first few chapters. After which, I decided to buy the book to finish reading. A fantastic book, I could not recommend it more.

Especially, for those that feel that they missed something in their undergraduate classes on this material. It really explains the concepts well.

microDude··on Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1978) [pdf]
Is Von Neumann Style, not the most efficient way to program a Von Neumann Architecture? Which as I understand it, is pretty much all major commercial computers today.
microDude··on Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?
Nailed it.
microDude··on Amazon Go
Ok Amazon, why not do this?

Skip the whole stocked shelf thing entirely. Have a website setup that customers can build a shopping cart, then just show up and pickup their "pre-bagged" groceries. The benefits to this are obvious.

1) No shop lifting. 2) Car friendly (you could have multiple drive-thru pickup lines) 3) Convenience for the shopper (saved lists, common items, don't have to walk around the store) 4) The store, could just effectively be a warehouse. 5) Possible to automate almost all of the work.

And before you say "what about produce?". Well, you could have a automated "imaging" station upon goods receipt that customers could use when building their cart. Or, offer really good return policies. Either way, the convenience would far outweigh the produce problem.

microDude··on Do the math: too much calculus? (2012)
I disagree. Especially, if you combine it with a graphical tool like Matlab or the Python libs.

Take a lower triangle matrix multiply it by a vector, and "boom" you just explained causal convolution. Wash and repeat for several other topics.

microDude··on If You Build a Censorship Machine, They Will Come
Here is a interesting Pod-Cast about the MPAA: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-the-mpaa-work...

I always thought it was more useful, as a parent, to see an enumerated list of adult topics before the program starts. You are beginning to see this now on some television programs.

* Full Frontal Nudity * Drug use * Adult Language * etc.

Back to the EFF's true argument though, I fully agree that Shadow Regulations are a tricky subject, which are becoming more threatening each year to free speech and information discovery.

microDude··on Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief
Just finished paying my student loans this month. 8 years at $500/month. Yeah, I overpaid to get rid of them faster, but if I could have gotten a reduction in year 2016+X I would have paid the minimum.
microDude··on Chinese Billionaire Linked to Giant Aluminum Stockpile in Mexican Desert
Now imagine the TPP goes through, how much of a footprint will be exposed to similar practices.
microDude··on Arduboy – Open Source Card-Sized Gaming Board
In the video, the author claims to be part of a hardware accelerator in China called HAX (https://hax.co/accelerator/).

Any other information on this? I find it interesting on their website that the conclusion of the accelerator is to get a successful crowd funded project...

microDude··on Graduate Students, the Laborers of Academia
I think they meant, "Does the 'undergraduate' student get a discount for a class that is being taught by a Graduate Student rather then the original faculty staff".

As everyone here knows, NO.

microDude··on Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
Using a daily planner (on paper, not a app). I figured this out about 2 months ago.

Being able to write down the tasks and scan back through my backlog has helped me be more productive. For me, using a calendar service or task manager app just does not work as well... BTW, I am a millennial.

edit: I am 10 years younger then everyone else at my company and get questioned all the time about "why I use a day runner" when everyone else is on a smartphone.

microDude··on The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
I am not a web developer, but I have to ask.

Using basic authentication over SSL, does that mean if you entered https://user:pass@domain that the user and pass would be sent in the clear, or does this get put into the header and encrypted?

microDude··on Ask HN: Should I quit graduate school to avoid a bad advisor?
Find a different advisor now (possibly at a different school). One that has a proven track record of graduating students (which sounds hollow, but think of it this way, would MIT be a good school if only 50% of their students found jobs after graduation?).

There is a point where your advisor will look at you as a failure and give up on their responsibility of tutelage. Most of the time, this is not the students fault (assuming that you are hardworking and proposing your own ideas). Most likely, the advisor is putting undo burden upon you (does he have a history of pushing out students?). Saying that you have 3 years left is not true, since the advisor can hold you in servitude much longer with little recourse.

microDude··on The land grab for farm data
Idea: Co-Op program

Farmers join a local Co-Op, say "Iowa's Data Co-Op". The Data Co-Op then sells to the highest bidder, then after a small management fee returns dividends to the participating farmers.

The Data Co-Op partners with equipment integrators to build data collection devices and data transformations.

microDude··on The land grab for farm data
Yes, this is a common problem to all industries. Formats can be figured out or obtained from the OEM, then a gateway is created to transform into a digestible format (my guess some XML schema). In the article, the author states his company [1], where in the tech section he describes this very scenario.

[1]https://www.farmobile.com

microDude··on Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get more than $1B
It is very easy for the user to change the default Search Engine for the browser (to say Google or DuckDuckGo). I would think most FireFox users do this... So, $375M/year seems like a very high price for Yahoo to be paying. Is this just a price war between the few search giants trying to keep competitors priced out of the market?
microDude··on We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom
You sir, have some interesting stories to tell.
microDude··on Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records
God, is Ron Wyden (D.Ore) the only one reading and disclosing these things?
microDude··on FBI raids dental software researcher who discovered patient data on FTP server
I believe the FBI wanted to seize all of the computers and data access devices before he flashed them somehow. I totally agree with you, but that is my only guess for having guns drawn and not allowing him to get dressed.
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