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10 years ago
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on: Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake
I completely agree. I came here to say this but see you beat me to it! I might add that this could be used to park your car miles from where you live. You would simply let your car know when to pick you up and it would come to you like calling the valet at a hotel before heading out. If tesla had overnight parking garages/chargers scattered around we could use all that garage space in our houses for more activities!
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10 years ago
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on: Rotterdam to consider trialling plastic roads
Plastic is not a sustainable nor cost-effective material to build roads out of. I am a mechanical designer who designs with plastics daily. All plastic polymer chains break down over time and there is no getting around it. Light, thermal-variations, water-absorption, and mechanical stress can cause microscopic polymer chains to break and this weakens the plastic. If you have ever seen plastic that has become brittle with old age or sunlight you have seen a perfect example of polymer-chain damage in plastics. The rate of polymer chain breakage can be slowed down through various plastic formulations but it can't be stopped, especially in an outdoor environment where it is contending with wild temperature variations, water, oil, sunlight, and cars driving on it.
So yes, lets make a road out of plastic, even though plastic is at it's absolute worst under the stresses roads undergo. I will join the "when will the road break" betting pool at 8 years and 2 months after the road is laid.
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10 years ago
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on: Greek Bailout Fund
"If you provide all the cash needed, then we'll find you a Greek Island. There's an estimated 1,200 to 6,000 in Greece and one will belong to you. This one has yet to be ratified with the Greek Prime Minister himself but it's pretty much in the bag."
After reading this I wondered what the going rate for an island was.
I was not disappointed when I found
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/areas/greece
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11 years ago
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on: Tinder reproducibly crashes my WiFi
Have you eliminated the Access Point as the point of failure? Try plugging your MBP directly into the router via ethernet after you have reproduced this error and see if you get connection that way.
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11 years ago
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on: We are under attack
"We need help to manage this. If you have expertise in this area, please contact Charlie Smith or ping us via Twitter."
Step 1 : Unleash DDos Attack against target
Step 2 : Wait for the the target to become overwhelmed and ask for public assistance
Step 3 : Contact the target under the guise of being able to help
Step 4 : Win trust of Target after "mitigating" the attack you are actually in control of
Step 5 : Repeat until enough access has been gained
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11 years ago
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on: Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA
I looked around a little bit on the web page but the answer to my two questions was not immediately apparent to me. (Note: I might just be blind)
1. Can I set up a second Graylog Server as a failover with automated recovery and log syncing when both nodes come back up?
2. Can I run it on any cheap cheap embedded platforms like a raspberry pi or beagleboard?
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11 years ago
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on: Frontier to Buy All Verizon Wired Customers in FL, TX and CA
As a current 500mbps/500mbps residential FIOS customer in Plano Texas, you have no idea how much profanity this article has just inspired.
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11 years ago
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on: YC for Hardware
As a mechanical engineer who works in this area and already follows hacker news due to colliding interests, this is very exciting.
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11 years ago
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on: Backblaze listens, opens its entire data set on drive failures
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11 years ago
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on: Diagnostic page for Google.com
So now all my domains have a "permanent record". I am having grade school flashbacks.
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11 years ago
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on: Mean People Fail
In other words, good founders live by Game Theory?
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11 years ago
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on: A Eulogy for RadioShack
I read this post, felt sorry for RadioShack, and decided I would give them one last shot and try their price matching policy for a pair of beats solo headphones. I hoped to avoid the long lines at some of the bigger retail outlets and, by utilizing their advertised "extra 10% off" price matching, avoid mail in rebates as well. Long story short, after waiting close to an hour for one of the two working associates to become available I was denied a price match. They ended up losing my sale because of this and leaving me wondering how they have lasted this long. I had a bit of sympathy for them earlier but the only sympathy I have left is for the people still working for them.
https://twitter.com/MatthewTavares/status/538138578208169984
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11 years ago
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on: CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium
It looks like a stripped down version of their professional Altium design suite which is indeed a Windows program.
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11 years ago
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on: CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium
We use Altium daily at my office and the overwhelming consensus is that we wish they would fix a lot of the bugs in Altium instead of spending time and effort supporting a whole other program. You don't adopt another pet when you have trouble remembering to feed your first pet.
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11 years ago
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on: Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean
Chinese lanterns from a cruise ship maybe. Someone should check to see if any were in the area.
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11 years ago
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on: Source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer
I am a mechanical designer by profession and just want to point out that even I who use a 3D printer on a daily basis can't think of any other manufacturing method it has made completely obsolete. It is more like just another tool in my tool belt that adds another way to make something. As with any tool it has it's advantages and it's drawbacks and will only make sense to use it in certain scenarios.
