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schwap··on The Octo-Bouncer
It exists! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meccano
schwap··on My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
Obviously low quality beer and coffee still exist. But these days I can find dozens of craft beers and a wide variety of fair trade, even somewhat recently roasted, coffees at the grocery store.

Cities are comparatively packed these days with higher end coffee shops and pubs/bars with extensive beer collections.

schwap··on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?
A basic rice cooker is a very simple device.
schwap··on A proactive approach to e-scooter safety
I sincerely doubt that's the main or even minor reason. With a well adjusted bike seat you likely would not be able to reach the ground at all. You want your leg to be at near full extension when you are at the bottom of your pedal stroke.

To solve this problem, just get off the seat when you stop.

schwap··on Avro Arrow blueprints on display after sitting in man's home for decades
Eh, almost every Canadian knows the made-for-TV movie version of the story.

I'm glad this piece of history survived, though!

schwap··on Show HN: Digital Carburetor Synchronizer (C, Swift)
Have you come across MegaSquirt[1]? The most recent iterations are neither inexpensive nor DIY but the earlier versions are still made as well.

[1] http://www.msextra.com/product-range/traditional-megasquirt/

schwap··on Ask HN: What's the current sentiment on JWT for stateless auth tokens?
Because then you have all the headaches of JWT, without any of the benefits of stateless auth tokens.
schwap··on Sweden's 100 explosions this year: what's going on?
As recently as the early 2000s the Quebec Biker War[1] in Canada between the Hells Angels and Rock Machine gangs involved over 80 bombs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Biker_War

schwap··on Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack
Yeah, sure sounds like fun doing the entire bluetooth "oh, let me pair, wait it's not coming up in my list, maybe you need to unpair first..." etc. dance over and over instead of just swapping out a cable in a second.
schwap··on Porsche Taycan [video]
> And you can do that back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back... for an hour (with say 50 standing starts), non-stop. You'll see little variation in the result, and the car won't throw up its hands and say the party's over until it takes a rest.

Funny you say that, Road & Track did exactly that in 2014 with a Porsche 911 Turbo[1] and they were able to do 61 back-to-back launches.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DRCTW-Q7o

schwap··on Welcome to the K-12 Surveillance State
> Then why do many students and young people post photo evidence of them engaging in illegal activity on social media? I don't think it would make much of a difference. Besides we're on camera in most places of commerce and in large cities, pretty much all the time.

They never said being watched exclusively changes behaviour for the better.

schwap··on 2020 Honda E Has 148 HP and More Than 221 LB-FT
I didn't get alien at all. In fact it reminded me very strongly of an 80s/early 90s VW Golf.
schwap··on YouTube Lets Users Override Recommendations After Criticism
If you clicked through the 'Tell us Why' button after hitting not interested there was an option to supposedly not see any more videos from a channel.
schwap··on Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
Uh no, according to your own source they died because of tread separation caused by a number of factors, one of which may have been underinflation. But in this example the 'underinflated' value was manufacturer recommended, so a TPMS wouldn't have helped anyways.
schwap··on Elon Musk Claims on Tesla Chips Don't Match the Reality
Yeah, unlike Theranos, Tesla actually produced what they initially said they would.
schwap··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
It looks to me like they only use OAuth2 (based on the authorize/token endpoints), they just oddly decided to version their OAuth2 api.
schwap··on Simple Bash syntax error in Steam for Linux executed “rm -rf /*” (2015)
Or maybe just `set -o nounset`
schwap··on U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
I don't remember WhatsApp ever being ANOTHER. It was the first cross-platform messaging app I ever used.
schwap··on Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms
Choose login method first = frustration (users may not remember what IdP they used) Stepped process = drop in complaints
schwap··on Activision Blizzard staff reportedly bracing for layoffs
AFAIK Diablo was the first 'action' or real time combat RPG. That seems pretty innovative.
schwap··on Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]
I'm not a doctor, but your fingers are operated by tendons attached to muscles in the arm. So possibly the nerves don't need to have the exact proper connections, and the finger can still move.
schwap··on Why Are We Still So Fat?
How many calories are you taking in per day to 0.1 kcal? The answer is if you want to lose weight it doesn't matter. You just need to average a deficit over time.

We are not sending a rocket to the moon here. Just because something cannot be measured exactly doesn't mean it's worthless to measure.

schwap··on Snowboarding for Geeks
There are single (slalom) water skis, they are different from wakeboards.
schwap··on The Baseline Costs of JavaScript Frameworks
> Methodology:

> ...

> 2. Installed routing and data management libraries in each project, and made sure they were part of the JavaScript bundle.

schwap··on The Devil's Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers (2016)
> Or winter?

They're very effective and quick for snow removal.

schwap··on An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue
You have to keep in mind that elevators have multiple cables. All you know is something, maybe a cable, maybe multiple cables, hit the top of the elevator. You don't know how many cables may remain.
schwap··on Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing
Firefox has implemented it, although you need to go to about:config and enable "security.webauth.u2f" for it to work.
schwap··on Self-driving cars are headed toward an AI roadblock
Is fooling a computer system into thinking you are a police officer the same thing as fooling a person?
schwap··on Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer
> It's totally reasonable to expect someone to know that not peeing for an extended amount of time is not healthy.

'Not healthy' and 'cause immediate death' are vastly different.

schwap··on Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend
Live by the sword, die by the sword. In this case, the 'sword' is the perception that Apple is a leader in quality.
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