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amdavidson··on Lego Axle Sorter [video]
There are drive shafts at the bottom of the device that drive mechanical linkages.
amdavidson··on NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students
Parent was referring to nurses...
amdavidson··on NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students
An endowment that wouldnt exist except for the free tuition.
amdavidson··on Potato paradox
Unfortunately you got bamboozled.

50000 miles / 12 miles per gallon = 4166 gallons

50000 miles / 10 miles per gallon = 5000 gallons (833 gallons saved)

50000 miles / 60 miles per gallon = 833 gallons

50000 miles / 30 miles per gallon = 1666 gallons (833 gallons saved)

amdavidson··on Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat
It might not have any legal weight (though I don't see him saying that it does), but it could be enough to give someone pause.
amdavidson··on Russ Cox on Go dependency management
I really dislike reading the tweets in this bizarre thread reader. The page width is much to wide and the, line spacings are inappropriate for the size of the font, and that's not to mention the lack of contrast.

Even worse, I could not find a single link back to Twitter, the canonical source.

It's just as easy to read on the twitter website, it provides additional context, and allows for interaction.

https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1022588240501661696

amdavidson··on A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'
Why do you abbreviate USSR that way? The first I assumed was a typo, the second makes it look intentional.

I do not see how that tracks from either the English translation, the original Russian name for the country: "Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик", or the transliteration: "Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik".

amdavidson··on FDA approves first marijuana-derived drug and it may spark DEA rescheduling
Link? Everything I've read cannot prove causality, just correlation.

It's very hard to prove causality, especially when marijuana's scheduling does not allow for proper scientific research.

amdavidson··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
I am a heavy Paprika user as well.

Emailing the recipe formats the content into an email body text and doesn't require the recipient to go to the website. It also includes a .paprikarecipe attachment for direct import into the recipients Paprika app.

amdavidson··on Bloom Energy files for IPO
TL;DR

- Seeking $100MM (could be placeholder)

- Share price is undefined

- $376MM in 2017 Revenue, $208MM in 2016 Revenue

- $281MM Net Loss in 2017, up from a $336MM net loss in 2016

- NYSE symbol: "BE"

amdavidson··on Gnome has moved to GitLab
Are your bazillion bugs not in the ~14k issues that are on their gnome project page?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues

amdavidson··on Gnome has moved to GitLab
I see about 14k issues: https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues
amdavidson··on I put all my personal data on eBay
As someone who shares the same frustration with normal graph paper, check out a Rhodia Dot Pad.
amdavidson··on Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Worst Passwords
With that security model, how do you trust any extension at all?

At least with this one, you can audit the source code and build it for yourself[0]

0: https://github.com/OktaSecurityLabs/passprotect-chrome

amdavidson··on The Last Days of Time Inc
The White Terror of Taiwan[0] article on wikipedia goes into greater detail for the curious.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)

amdavidson··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
This is "by design"[0], though you should have seen it crop up in 17.04 when it became the default. I was bitten by it too and disabled systemd-resolved.

0: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6224#issuecomment-...

amdavidson··on Is it worth supporting Firefox?
> ...encrypted again with HDCP for the display

And after it is encrypted again "for" the display, the display decrypts it, closing the loop, and allowing the DRM to be at least more than trivially functional.

amdavidson··on I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report
You can compile Blink yourself and sideload it in Xcode.

https://github.com/blinksh/blink

amdavidson··on Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy
> They can't reliably be dictatorial like Apple can.

Why not?

If they never shipped an RCS client and made Allo part of the required Android install for Play Services compliance, who is going to stop them?

They choose not to be dictatorial.

amdavidson··on Bringing people back to the open web
Do you consider ads on cable TV to be spam? Likely not.

Like them or don't, but the ads on FB are not spam because they are not unsolicited and are targeted.

amdavidson··on How North Korea’s Hackers Became Dangerously Good
> Does anyone really believe that a nation where 99% of people shit in simple holes in the ground could build a competitive cyber army?

If you replace "cyber army" with "nuclear program" do you feel the same way?

amdavidson··on The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees
Whether it is a cost reduction depends entirely on your variable cost, mostly labor.

If you are paying a laborer $3/hour it may not be cost effective, if you are paying $50 w/benefits it may be a huge cost saver.

amdavidson··on Productivity
Is that true?

If we're all just stating our experiences. I find that those who care, care intensely, perhaps immovably, and everyone else just floats along.

amdavidson··on Our experience with Stripe Atlas (2017)
What advantage do you see in Atlas if you already have the C corp and business account?
amdavidson··on YouTube and Facebook Are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals
That was to subscribe to HBO from your cable provider if/when they decided to offer HBO GO, the streaming service.

When this comic came out(2011) HBO Now (confusingly separate from HBO Go) did not exist.

amdavidson··on Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook
The HIPAA violation would be on the care provider by transmitting in cleartext over the internet.

If they're transmitting properly over TLS then no patient info would be divulged.

amdavidson··on Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
In your link, they're comparing to EC2 VMs not Amazon's Container hosting.

Their whole premise is that their containers are equivalent to/better than VMs[0].

0: https://www.joyent.com/blog/understanding-triton-containers

amdavidson··on Have we reached peak English in the world?
For someone coming from an atonal language, it can be very difficult to learn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...

amdavidson··on Another reason why Docker containers may be slow
They're not exactly competitive:

https://www.joyent.com/pricing/cloud/compute

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

amdavidson··on Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." [0]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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