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qwertay | 5 years ago | on: What ever happened to scandium bike frames? (2016)

Yeah that seems likely, I have seen people do repairs on carbon before depending on the level of damage.

There is also the old saying "If you don't tell the rest of the group ride that your bike is titanium, it will transform in to aluminum."

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: What ever happened to scandium bike frames? (2016)

I think the usual argument is that Ti lasts longer but carbon lasts for ages if you don't crash it and the people willing to spend $10k on a bike usually welcome the chance to buy a new one every 5-10 years anyway.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Khan-dl – Khan Academy Course Downloader

Don't even trust "private" cloud storage. I used google docs in school and randomly they locked one of my documents that I needed to work on citing "tos violation". Week later the document was unlocked but I will never trust them again.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

Thats true but the license users agree to usually says they grant the platform full rights. Users still retain their rights but you would have to contact every reddit user for their permission individually.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

I have to wonder if the author is not understanding the hidden complexity of rendering graphics. They make the claim that svg would take over a month to implement which sounds accurate, but then they claim that it could be replaced with a new format which could be implemented in a few days.

Surely SVG does not include months of work which is entirely useless. What features are we giving up for this simplicity?

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Is it more logical to have a point tag which has the attributes x and y or have x and y as their own tags and values? Its not clear to me which makes more sense and it seems the spec writes using xml didn't know either.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Its good if you need dynamic charts in JS but if you just want a graphic or a logo I wouldn't use it. Its also a huge pain to maintain, they update the library once a year with breaking changes and then it takes me a day or 2 to work out how the old version worked, how the new one works and how to move all my graphics over.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

They released a new version that fits the form factor of traditional dryers where you only put your hands under it without having to dangle them between 2 pieces. They work pretty well although they do make the table/floor wet since they are blowing the water off your hands rather than evaporating it.

I always found the traditional hot air ones to be useless and I would walk away with wet hands after using one.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

Thats fine but the parent comment is saying that the video has high praise of the product when the closing quote of the video says something to the effect of "You would be a complete moron to buy this".

He has some interesting discoveries like how they make plastic feel like metal but overall the vibe I got from it is the product does not match the price.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

Says the proposal is abandoned in 2011. The thing is OSM does not deal with real time data, the general rule is if the data is likely to change within the next month it doesn't go in OSM. A lot of OSM apps and servers cache the OSM dataset so anything like a road closed for one day would be stale before it even reached users.

Thats one of the big issues with OSM though, they have an attitude of "Thats not my problem, it should go in another dataset" but then no one actually has an alternative place to put it so users just miss out.

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

Wikipedia shows that average people are pretty good at assembling data. The problem is drive by contributors are not very good at developing software. Wikipedia is super basic software wise while GIS and everything around it is extremely complex.

The data in OSM is pretty good but there are no apps for it that are actually good other than leaflet JS for embedding on sites.

Have to remember that a maps app is way more than just data. Its efficient routing, its good text to speach, its pulling in data from multiple sources like the gps location of the bus I'm waiting for or the roads closed for construction currently.

You would also need a whole bunch of heuristics for the OSM dataset that the current apps don't have. OsmAnd would not be able to tell the difference between the turning lane on an intersection and an entire road that just has no name because the way the data is entered is there is just an unamed path joining the roads so the text to speach would say "bear slightly left" instead of "turn right on to foo street".

qwertay | 5 years ago | on: I don't want to do front-end anymore

Good thing too because otherwise these retro hipster devs would block every new feature with the excuse "Its not possible to do that without reloading the page in raw html"
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