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charlesdenault | 29 days ago | on: Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025

please do

charlesdenault | 5 years ago | on: Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests

That's not entirely true. Cat IIIc is "zero zero" autoland capable with no decision height required.

charlesdenault | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: IPOs.fyi – Missing Out on IPOs Was Frustrating, So I Fixed It

Does the product literally just scrape this data? Does it include the SPACs/direct listings/reverse mergers that seem to be increasingly popular?

charlesdenault | 5 years ago | on: First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO

Not to mention these are gas giants at a relatively nearby star (300 lightyears away) and we consider the universe is something shy of 100 billion lightyears in diameter. We're not even scratching the surface!

charlesdenault | 6 years ago | on: Could Removing Social Media Metrics Reduce Polarization?

But that'd just create more echo chambers and destroy their engagement metrics, right? I feel like the contemporary draw of Twitter is the discourse.

charlesdenault | 8 years ago | on: Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers

What does "drive-by-wire" achieve other than removing a shaft between the steering wheel and steering rack? Cars already have collision avoidance without full self-driving capabilities.

charlesdenault | 8 years ago | on: Sun Flyer, an Electric Trainer Aircraft

Most flight schools have much older aircraft-- think 70s and 80s-- that have carbs. Newer aircraft are fuel injected, but often more expensive per hour.

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected

The gestures demonstrated are easily discoverable and are so widely used now, I'd argue the majority of iOS/Android users are familiar. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, etc. all follow these similar UI/UX features. Software should work well for everyone, but it's evolving and users adapt.

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Redesigning Apple Music after Being Rejected

This is an incredible redesign, utilizing widely known gestures (swipes, double taps, etc). Apple should embrace these further, IMO, and a casual-use app like Music makes the most sense. I'm a longtime Spotify Premium user and I tried v1 of Music but it was jus too painful. This would have made me stay. Great job.

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Yale Climate Opinion Maps

Incredible... the most eye-opening difference was the majority of Americans believe global warming will harm people in the US, but very few people believe it will harm them personally. And this isn't limited to west/northeast coasts-- it covers the entire country. What would cause people to think GW will harm others but not themselves?

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: London-Paris electric flight 'in decade'

What do you mean by a grid? Long-haul direct flights offer many benefits, such as lower drag at cruising altitude, engine efficiency at altitude, etc. [1] Biggest fuel savings are going to come from more efficient engines and weight reduction (composites). 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Elon Musk is launching a tunnel digging company to reduce traffic in cities

What law/precedents exist around underground land ownership? Do the surface owners have rights to the land below it to a determined depth?

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

See other comments regarding employer being able to create an account via POST request. I'd assume that's the only way to create clean separation, even then I don't doubt they'll be able to fill in that gap!

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Seriously, we don’t need smartphone-controlled candles

I doubt this was the piece the founders were hoping for.

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Why Bezos’ rocket is unprecedented–and worth taking seriously

Serious question: what will the tolerance be for loss of human lives when crewed flights start? While it's entirely different, government space programs have endured many [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Adblock Plus now sells ads

I'm still using uBlock for Safari until Origin is ported.

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Blue Origin announces orbital rocket called New Glenn

I'm most surprised that they're skipping a smaller orbital rocket before jumping to the massive scale of the New Glenn. Seems that there would be a lot to learn from that as well, with the potential of flying revenue generating payloads to LEO.

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]

Assuming cryptography exists in Kleptopia, couldn't he use a padlock with a combination and transmit this electronically?

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: Git Undo

Because a simple, but clever, alias that integrates with everyone's existing workflow is a lot easier?

charlesdenault | 9 years ago | on: What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence

Humans need a bunch of atoms (organic molecules) to survive, and we source that from other living organisms. That parallel isn't too far off.