BIair | 6 years ago | on: Hailing a Driverless Ride in a Waymo
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BIair | 6 years ago | on: Maternal fluoride exposure during pregnancy and IQ scores in offspring
Estimated Fluoride Intake and IQ
A 1-mg increase in fluoride intake was associated with a 3.66 (95% CI, −7.16 to −0.15; P = .04) lower FSIQ score among boys and girls
BIair | 6 years ago | on: New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (2016)
Double edged sword. Too short an article, the progress bar is meaningless. Too long, and there's no way I'm reading until the end. Useful if all the articles are about this length, but even then fades away with frequent readers.
BIair | 6 years ago | on: Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients
BIair | 6 years ago | on: Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
Same, the address in the notification email had never been signed in.
BIair | 6 years ago | on: Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures Versus Founding Teams (2018)
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
BIair | 9 years ago | on: A study on human behavior has identified four basic personality types
"Optimistic, Pessimistic, Trusting and Envious" in case you missed the obvious
like myself.
BIair | 10 years ago | on: Seattle is putting up $50B for transit
Isn't this money squandered, if autonomous vehicles are likely by the time of its completion?
BIair | 10 years ago | on: Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co
For me, it's to proxy the email IP address. Use Cloudflare for http, but using SMTP from your server exposes your IP.
BIair | 10 years ago | on: Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co
Moved from Mandrill to Sendgrid for SMTP... had delivery issues, likely my fault. Moved to Sparkpost, NO problems. Much easier interface and onboarding for SMTP.
BIair | 10 years ago | on: Too many people have peed in the pool
Doesn't this just correlate with 10 people will tell others when unhappy, while they'll tell 1 if happy?
BIair | 10 years ago | on: Why Engineers Can’t Stop Los Angeles' Enormous Methane Leak
Guessing the photos are composites. The background is HDR, but HDR looks horrible on people, so they were shot without HDR and layered in Photoshop. In the second shot you can clearly see how the shadows are at different angles.
BIair | 10 years ago | on: Amazon Building a Tech Business for the Long Haul
This should be higher.
BIair | 10 years ago | on: Programming the Quantum Future
Most likely not programmed by humans, at least at the highest levels.
BIair | 11 years ago | on: Mockups for a free, ad-supported Uber service
Why do you think Google has invested so much in self-driving cars?
BIair | 11 years ago | on: Being Andre the Giant
When I was 8 or 9 years old I had dinner with a contemporary of Andre the Giant, Baron von Raschke. He was friends with my best friends dad. He gave me "the claw" (brainclaw). Life as a young boy doesn't get much better (except for blueberry pancakes).
BIair | 11 years ago | on: Where the Real Skyscrapers Are (Hint: North Dakota)
North Dakotan checking in. I've seen this tower many times, from the road and up close, it's pretty uninspiring. Hard to get a sense of scale when it's so thin and transparent. Also, you can't see the view from the top (legally). What fun would the Space Needle, Empire State or Burj Khalifa be if you couldn't see what the view is like from the top?
BIair | 11 years ago | on: Google Cloud Platform free for 60 days
I use Google's Pagespeed Service, which is free and in beta. They say they may charge some day. But the support... I have "proxy errors" reported, which would appear to be an error on their end. Contacted support via email and was told to expect a response within 3 business days. So that was Thursday morning, it'll be at least 96 hours before I get a reply. Maybe up to 120 hours. Glad I moved the site instead of waiting.
BIair | 11 years ago | on: Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware
Just conjecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_hash
BIair | 11 years ago | on: Hubble captures the sharpest ever view of Andromeda Galaxy
Space is full of a LOT of empty space. Maybe even more amazing to myself, is the scale works almost the same in inverse. There's also a lot of space at the tiniest scales.
Scale of our solar system: http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...
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Now I think she may never ride in an autonomous vehicle. Do autonomous vehicles drive in the rain? We live in a northern state where snow remains on the ground for months at a time in ever shifting depths and banks along roads. Lidar is unable to see through the snow. Road surfaces are sometimes wet, sometimes snow covered, sometimes ice. Visibility can drop to zero.
I wonder if tech companies will spend the time and expense to solve these difficult problems for a rather small percentage of the population.