voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: Nikola Executive Chairman Steps Down as Electric-Truck Startup Faces Probe
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voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: JDK 15
> Removal of Nashorn JavaScript Engine
anybody know why a javascript engine was ever included in core java in the first place? seems... niche. and yet core java never included a simple web server (officially).
voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: Lucid Air EV’s Battery Will Be 113.0 KWh
TRL == Technology Readiness Level
voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
double click the edge of a window to expand it to the edge of the screen. hold alt while double clicking to get the opposite edge to also expand.
voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: We quit our jobs to build a cabin
username checks out :-)
seriously though, i’m glad they were able to tie their profession in by sharing their story, i really enjoyed it. if i were to embark on this kind of thing i’d probably end up writing some software to help with the effort.
voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them
I will continue to use Apple but I pulled both of my apps from their app store years ago due to maltreatment. I don’t use their app store as a consumer either. IMO it’s a wasteland.
Unpopular opinion but I also think it should be completely up to them to set their revenue share. Let their app store wither away as developers create platform-independent web applications instead.
voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
maybe. but they’re getting better at building the machine that builds the machine that builds the machine.
voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
> If you want to detect how someone fares at a task, say loan sharking, tennis playing, or random matrix theory, make him/her do that task; we don’t need theoretical exams for a real world function by probability-challenged psychologists.
^ horrible job interviews in a nutshell
voodooranger | 5 years ago | on: SUVs parked on cargo ships reveal scope of U.S. auto market glut
i don’t know what the automakers’ stance was or is but i believe the organizations that have fought direct sales have been the national and state dealership associations.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (2014)
if the sun, which is huge compared to the earth, were the size of a pea, the nearest star would be ~120 miles away to scale. this is a typical distance between stars and it’s why when andromeda collides with the milky way there is little chance of stars colliding.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: In Pursuit of PPE
Price ceilings cause shortages. Every time. Let’s not use Venezuelan-style economic illiteracy as a model for how to incentivize the flow of critical supplies to those who need it most during a crisis.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: In Pursuit of PPE
Excellent point. What is 3M for example — an American company — doing? Are they attempting to ramp up production in the US or have they determined that it’s not feasible because PPE prices are are not permitted to rise because of anti gouging laws?
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
the ones that i know are former engineers. they also have excellent verbal skills and seem to be the smartest people in the room. may or may not be the best coders — i don’t know — but they are very impressive in person.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: Another U.S.-Wide Housing Slump Is Coming
a housing slump may be coming but then so are pay cuts. in fact they’re already here for many people. prices are also falling for energy and lots of other commodities as aggregate demand collapses.
all of this amounts to textbook deflation. those with debts to service (mortgage, auto, student) are going to be feeling a lot of pain in this environment. good news is gov’t just needs to print money to bring nominal prices up.
bad news is there’s no free lunch for young people hoping to buy homes. imo wages are largely going to move in unison with home prices.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure from Covid-19
why not sedate a patient who’s suffering like this?
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: $5000 per violation of price-gouging in CA
I highly recommend listening to Duke professor Mike Munger discuss price gouging on this episode of Econ Talk:
https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-price-gouging/
It’s very entertaining and enlightening.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot
breaking news from 2018? there’s nothing new here, including the deceased driver’s alleged complaints.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
If your fridge were really smart it would infer both your household’s disposable income and technical acumen based on its location and overheard conversations then tailor prices, failures, and replacement policies accordingly.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: Anti Homeless Spikes
Raising taxes is not going to increase the supply of housing.
voodooranger | 6 years ago | on: Tesla's stock just hit a record $420
I have a Mazda 6. I would say that Mazda is a mature manufacturer. Yet the Mazda, which I purchased brand new from the factory, sight unseen (big mistake), shook at high speeds (I found out later due to a warped brake rotor), sounded like the windows were cracked at all times and you couldn’t ever roll them all the way up (for which Mazda issues a TSB years later), pulled to the right because it came off the truck out of alignment, and made a crunch vibration in the pedal every time I pushed the brakes. The dealer refused to even acknowledge any of these problems. I had no recourse.
On the other hand, Tesla lets you return the car within a week if you don’t like it.
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(btw when i cancelled my wsj subscription i had to call and be put on hold. there’s no way to cancel online. should be illegal imo. never again.)