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dooptroop··on Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
Oh, it goes so much further down than that.
dooptroop··on Sun has gone blank twice this month, this is what it means
Those two example pictures aren't imaged in the same spectrum, I think.
dooptroop··on The limited value of a computer science education
Well, on the other hand you hopefully have a deeper appreciation of all the assumptions and approximations that make up the implementation of boolean logic underlying our computers.
dooptroop··on So I refused a white board technical test and was asked to leave
Throw in a couple of gotchas and no-nos and see how the subject responds!
dooptroop··on Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensive batteries
Where do the normal cars park?
dooptroop··on Barriers to Entry for Hardware Startups
Except in the real world where said metrics wouldn't integrate meaningfully with the dozens of other devices that collect similar "useful" data into their own proprietary little gardens of infrastructure.

Obsolesence and device defects - I can imagine a saddle has a useful life of a couple of decades.

What are you really going to measure here beyond GPS and accelerometer data? The temperature and humidity of the saddle/horse interface? The strain and weight on the saddle? That'll allow you to report useful stuff like "your horse is tired and about to overheat", "you are to fat ride this horse", and the ever popular "this saddle is the wrong size for current horse/rider combo, please contact a sales representative". All the while taking in the views through the new and improved augmented reality interface on your smartphone, or hmd.

I mean why even have a horse at that point, it seems if you don't want to pick up on the communication from the live animal your riding, why not get a mud-bike.

dooptroop··on Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Yup. And we've already been tagging locations with adresses for years through that captcha.
dooptroop··on What to do when your self-driving car decides to drive you to the police
All it would take is a button that says NO!

More useful is perhaps a function to "cut" the proposed route. I cannot pass this point kind of deal.

dooptroop··on Erlang beauty
shim also works
dooptroop··on Should the first in a queue be served last?
This seems to result in every plane leaving either empty or delayed.

Realistically it would have to be done with an interval of boarding. Whether this interval is known to the passengers or not I don't think matter.

So boarding is between 10:00 and 10:30. The first passenger to arrive after boarding starts will be the first to board, since they would be at the end of the line at that time. And so would the next one, and so on.

dooptroop··on 3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled
But Watt * second IS energy.
dooptroop··on 3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled
I suppose "resistive" in this context relates to the method used to read the memory, not so much how this change of resistance is implemented.
dooptroop··on Can't fire a brilliant employee, but he is late every day
Hey, I'm then-you now-me :) What is DSPS?
dooptroop··on Can't fire a brilliant employee, but he is late every day
Sure, it's unfortunate if nobody answers the phone, or is not there to open a franchised store etc.

I just don't buy into the whole 11 workers do 10% more work than 10, or that 8 hours is more productive than 7.5. In any business that is, not just "brain work". Far-east sweat shop exempt.

dooptroop··on Can't fire a brilliant employee, but he is late every day
What the hell is this obsessing over 10 minutes?
dooptroop··on Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Graphics Study
I actually never managed to get past a boss fight (against "the gunther" of dx:hr) where my mods got disabled. They got disabled because I got greedy and installed a free mod that got advertised to me. So there was that. Whether it actually made a difference or if I just really suck is up in the air.
dooptroop··on Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
Are you serious? Because the phone is 5 years old it's reasonable to expect transfer speeds from the 1950's?
dooptroop··on Why Is Mayonnaise Loved and Hated So Deeply?
Another theory (at least on this side of the pond) goes something along the lines of: After people got access to refrigerators and freezers and such it was no longer necessary to hide the taste of spoilt foodstuffs, and thus it became high fashion to make your food as mild as possible to show off your fancy new fridge.
dooptroop··on Reconsidering Functional Programming
Dimensional analysis to the rescue.

The space of physically meaningful equations is vastly smaller than the space of all possible permutations of variables and operators.

dooptroop··on A simple test of whether the Universe is a hologram (or a computer)
Ooh, I wanna play too!

And as more and more classical information in one region of space has to be simulated (Allude to wave-function collapse), less and less information is possible to know about distant matter and events, which looks like universal expansion to our mortal eyes, but it's actually our instance scaling down.

dooptroop··on F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility
"... cannot be substantially and exclusively owned by the ratepayers ..."

Does that sentence mean that it's illegal for a municipality to form co-ops, and then for example lay their own fiber and then share the costs equally?

dooptroop··on Chemists find a way to unboil eggs
Besides, refrigerated eggs keep for months. And you instantly recognize a bad egg from the pugnant smell - if you have doubts the egg is fine and edible.
dooptroop··on Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
Now tell me the shortcut for scrolling without a mouse. Quickly.
dooptroop··on Chromecast Rooted
This is interesting. Never understood why this was a dedicated hardware-dongle, rather than an app for any number of HDMI-out capable android devices.
dooptroop··on Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK
What I don't get is why Chromecast isn't merely an Android app? There are plenty of HDMI-out capable android devices already...
dooptroop··on AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility
".. rational consumers .."
dooptroop··on Tesla's $110,000 Model S is now Norway’s best-selling car
That's more the perils of being born with a golden spoon so far up your ass you start complaining because the back of your mouth tastes like poo.