nettdata | 4 years ago | on: Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B
This is about being able to package and provide the Weta toolset to Unity developers. Imagine making video games with the Weta toolset.
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nettdata | 5 years ago | on: I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now
Exactly what I do and I love it. The AppleTV Plex app was a game changer.
nettdata | 5 years ago | on: Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable
If we learned anything from Lawn Darts, it was this.
Maybe.
nettdata | 6 years ago | on: Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls
Roll? Pitch? Yaw? Engine RPM? Prop pitch?
Those are “most” of the controls... none of which require touchscreens.
What controls are you referring to specifically?
nettdata | 6 years ago | on: Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina
Then don’t upgrade.
nettdata | 6 years ago | on: 'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed
Unfortunately, just because you spend more doesn’t mean you get what you pay for.
I spent 3 years in an education startup and I never saw such a correlation.
nettdata | 6 years ago | on: Space firm founded by billionaire Paul Allen closing operations
First time I saw it was surreal.
I was on a wine tour and on the way back to the hotel looked out the window and was gobsmacked. “Woah... that’s the Spruce Goose! The Spruce Goose is here!?!”
Cancelled the next day’s tour and hit up the museum instead.
Highly recommended.
nettdata | 7 years ago | on: Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces
If your team can't check on that stuff manually for a few hours while Slack is down, then I think you may have bigger problems.
If anyone on my team came to me and cited Slack being down as a reason for their inability to do their job, then they wouldn't be on my team.
Is it less than ideal? Yes. Is it a little bit less efficient to pull info instead of having it pushed to you? Yes.
Is the sky falling? No.
nettdata | 8 years ago | on: The Blockchain Is Bigger Than Any Bubble
Then how do you explain the Maersk blockchain-based insurance trial that they found very successful?
Bitcoin is not the only incentive that can be had in implementing blockchain technology.
There are a number of very promising use cases for blockchain, in education, healthcare, energy... none of which involve bitcoin at all.
nettdata | 8 years ago | on: She Warned of ‘Peer-To-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened
Someone watched Jon Oliver...
nettdata | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: My house might burn down in the next 24 hours. Suggestions?
Try to set up a sprinkler on the roof and just leave it... it'll go a long way to knock down any embers that may land on it.
nettdata | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency Without Your Landlord Noticing
I've always known it as a battery isolator, and have purchased/installed 3 of them, and that's what I bought them as.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_isolator
https://www.amazon.com/NOCO-IGD140HP-140-Battery-Isolator/dp...
nettdata | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency Without Your Landlord Noticing
It's called a battery isolator, and it's basically a monster diode from the alternator to the battery. Very common setup for RV's, etc.
I had one set up in my Jeep so that it would charge the deep cycle marine battery for my fishing pontoon's electric motor... way, way faster than anything you plug into the wall.
nettdata | 9 years ago | on: Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber
There were 5 of them that competed in this year's 24 Hours of Daytona, and Lambo is looking at an LMP1 car for Le Mans next year.
nettdata | 11 years ago | on: Curl.io – Share files from your terminal or ssh
Don't know about you, but an SSL certificate does nothing to increase my level of trust of a website.
nettdata | 12 years ago | on: Oracle Discontinues Free Java Time Zone Updates
It's based on freely available data in the first place, and I'm sure an Open Source option will pop up to replace it.
If it's truly "mission critical", then I don't see what's wrong with paying for the service.
Call me crazy, but I don't see this as being a big deal.
$0.02 (CDN)
nettdata | 12 years ago | on: Erdogan says social media 'danger to society'
Saw this pic on Reddit that kind of sums it up.
nettdata | 13 years ago | on: Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle
As a long distance shooter, and lover of technology, I would most assuredly get a lot of joy out of this.
Also, you'd be incorrect about this doing the hard work. They add the concept of "windage" almost as an afterthought, and I can tell you that at long distances, it is anything but.
In long distance shooting, pulling the trigger is the easy part.
nettdata | 13 years ago | on: Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle
Funny, the first thing I thought of was long-distance target shooting or hunting, not mass killings.
The fact that you immediately go to the sniper mass killings angle is what I find to be pretty fucked up.
nettdata | 13 years ago | on: I Bought A Firetruck
Whatever you do, don't Google "Unimog".
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