HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

endianswap

2,231 karma · joined January 3, 2012

submissionscomments
endianswap··on Benzodiazepines: Our Other Prescription Drug Problem
You mean GABAergenic, right?
endianswap··on [dead]
The stories discussed previously on HN involved customers who had to chargeback after Uber wouldn't refund the charge, FWIW.
endianswap··on Blue Origin plans to charge at least $200K for space rides
Yeah, I share the same sentiment. 200k+ for a few minutes in zero-g just isn't enough for me, but if it we're a few hours in zero-g as we go around the globe once? That'd be awesome and I'd easily justify that price.
endianswap··on My home lab setup for highly-available Internet
I believe Washington has certain areas that are the cheapest in the United States, but it's not state-wide.

For example, Grant County PUD for residential customers: $0.04547 per kWh

endianswap··on Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting
The idea is that if you visit two sites, and on both sites you use the same token, the ad-provider (or whoever) can associate you across the two origins because of the cached token.
endianswap··on Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
That means 75% is an upper bound, right? It's only 75% if Google had the only other maps product, and even they have two popular ones (Maps and Waze) that are likely to be installed.
endianswap··on OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns
Don't most browsers run one process per page/tab nowadays?
endianswap··on Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL
MoltenVK is an implementation of Vulkan that runs on top of Metal, and so far yields exciting performance results: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dota-2-I...
endianswap··on Benz remotely controlled vehicle stuck in cruise control mode for 1h at 120km/h
ABS is a solved problem without requiring software.
endianswap··on Benz remotely controlled vehicle stuck in cruise control mode for 1h at 120km/h
That's not typical for cruise control; even cars in the 80s with cruise control would increase throttle uphills.
endianswap··on Mental Overload Detection with Respiration Variability Spectrogram
For Keras, yes. It's known as the "functional model".
endianswap··on Fitbit Firmware Modifications and Data Extraction [video]
"Principal Software Engineer, Fitbit, Inc."

Common practice here is to disclose that when making comments...

endianswap··on Don't Buy Anyone an Echo
Please stop spamming this everywhere...
endianswap··on Show HN: Discovering fonts with a vector space model
How was the embedding for the font features generated? By hand given a few axes representing traits?
endianswap··on A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days
Can't they already do that with cameras and fixed position sensors? Why drones?
endianswap··on Seattle City Council unanimously approves income tax for the rich
What about state law, though? Wouldn't they have to win the State Supreme Court case and also get the state law amended?

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=36.65.030

endianswap··on 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
LTCG as of VS2015 is an incremental process when it can be, which did wonders for build times.
endianswap··on Too many people are buying cars using financial products they do not understand
That seems insane that it'd be the biggest check they've seen. I've bought an 80k BMW and an 80k Jaguar outright, and they both shrugged at me paying by check. BMW let me use a personal check, Jaguar wanted a bank check (easy enough).

Edit: A normal down payment for a luxury car of any brand can easily be 20k up front.

endianswap··on Doctor who fought a risky medical procedure has died
Some form of cosmetic surgery maybe?
endianswap··on Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil
"The amount of pressure needed for a small sample is roughly the equivalent of someone dropping 10-lb hammer from a height of one meter, Qiao said." On Earth or with Mars's gravity?
endianswap··on How Cars Get Named
And BMW is, for the most part, encoding more into their designations. They split the 3 series into the 3 series coupes and 4 series sedans (ignore the GCs, as beautiful as they are) and for the most part the even numbers are supposed to be the coupier cars compared to the odds (see X6 vs X5).

Owning an M4 I didn't realize how often I'd have to explain this to random folks at the gas station when they wondered what the hell an M4 is when they've only seen M3s.

endianswap··on We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species – Is It Worth the Cost?
I know it's brought up in the article, but assuming that the money going toward reviving extinct species would otherwise go toward protecting endangered species is silly. I would have no ethical qualms donating money to bringing back mammoths and would be justifiably angry if that money instead went to saving the elephants.

Edit: That sounds like I irrationally hate elephants, which isn't the case. I just value pushing cool new science forward more.

endianswap··on To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls
Aren't tolls like this an incredibly regressive tax that further hurts the poor?
endianswap··on A solution for enabling UDP in the web
You could have a pool of them, right? Or would you have to actually tear it down after each packet
endianswap··on Apple Park Opens to Employees in April
It's multiple parcels that are subdividable, they're selling the property for new development of multiple homes.
endianswap··on SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff
There's no way he can't just command an abort from wherever he is.
endianswap··on 50 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (2013)
I doubt Bruce Dawson commissioned a spam bot to post his ancient articles. My guess is that it was vouched for because it's an actually interesting article (hence the corresponding votes) and users don't really care who posted it if it's interesting.
endianswap··on Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?
I know this is off topic, but Satan didn't exist when the OT was written, by the way.

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bib...

endianswap··on In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve
Yeah it's pretty straightforward to pair a loan like this with life insurance (which is not only cheap for someone of college age but also generally requires no medical exam).
endianswap··on Reddit quietly updates 16 day old post: you are now tracked even if logged out
You say "us", who are you representing?
← PreviousPage 2 of 9Next →