danepowell

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by danepowell 10y ago
I'm not sure of the official reason, but I'd imagine it prevents ejections (or worse, partial ejections) from the vehicle. I was the first person on the scene of a rollover where a woman was pinned underneath the car (fortunately
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by danepowell 10y ago
When I pair my Android phone with a rental car via Bluetooth, the phone asks permission to share contacts and messages with the car (of course I deny them). Are folks saying that sensitive data is still shared in spite of this access contro
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by danepowell 11y ago
It seems like a lot of these problems could be solved by better enforcement of existing laws, rather than creation of new ones. For instance, the article has a picture of trash piled up on the sidewalk in front of an AirBnB. Surely there ar
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by danepowell 11y ago
Eh... I suppose Lyft is technically a competitor, but at an order of magnitude less marketshare, it might as well be non-existent. http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/05/24/lyft-vs-ube...
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by danepowell 11y ago
There's a certain sense of schadenfreude and cosmic justice knowing that Yellow Cab probably could have saved itself by pivoting their business model years ago like DeSoto did. Instead they tried to fight change with legislation, and t
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by danepowell 11y ago
Sounds great, if you stop reading before the second-to-last sentence: "Because radio transmission through water is difficult, the craft must be tethered at this time to provide continuous communications."
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by danepowell 11y ago
To put this in perspective, 30mA costs about $0.15 / year at typical US electric prices. 500mA is $2.50. A tiny draw regardless, but probably a lot more significant if you're running on batteries.
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by danepowell 11y ago
The B-58 Hustler escape capsule is probably the best operational example of this. It allowed pilots to eject at speeds up to Mach 2 (!!). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbgeUNjsenA
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by danepowell 11y ago
This is why on-demand permissions are one of the best features of Android 6.0. Don't want Netflix to access your microphone? No problem--don't let it.
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by danepowell 11y ago
This raises a relevant concern that's been on my mind: what's the best way to back up cloud services? Given that services like S3 and Google Drive have many more nines of durability than any local storage system I could devise, ar
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by danepowell 12y ago
It seems clear that in this case the co-pilot's actions were voluntary, but what if a co-pilot were to have a medical emergency while (s)he's alone in the cockpit? Would the pilot be able to re-enter? This seems like a huge risk t
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by danepowell 12y ago
Thermal radiation is an order of magnitude less efficient than other forms of heat transfer, but it gets the job done. It helps that you're radiating to the dead of space, which is near absolute zero (efficiency is dependent on the bla
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by danepowell 12y ago
I'm guessing it refers to the problem when docking the shuttle or other spacecraft of making sure that thruster exhaust is never directed towards the station itself. I remember seeing a video that showed the shuttle approaching the sta
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by danepowell 12y ago
Doesn't work on Android 5 / Lollipop.
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by danepowell 12y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a configuration problem."
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by danepowell 12y ago
There's usually two three-person crews on the station at any given time, so two capsules are kept docked and ready to serve as lifeboats. Since the Soyuz is the sole means of transportation to and from the station, they simply put the
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by danepowell 12y ago
Except it doesn't it really eliminate bad behavior- it just stifles innovation and civil liberty.
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by danepowell 12y ago
Did the screen keep waving for anyone else after stopping the game? I'm feeling a bit woozy...
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by danepowell 12y ago
I disagree, and I don't think hyperbole furthers the discussion. I've been helped by police in many cities (in America and elsewhere) on several occasions. I've also witnessed harassment, abuse of power, and indifference- for
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by danepowell 12y ago
Detroit tried something similar (albeit for different reasons). Didn't work out so well for them: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/08/08/338068996/episode-...
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by danepowell 12y ago
If we're going to talk about Yudkowsky and boxes, the AI-Box experiment is much more interesting than this silly "basilisk" nonsense: http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
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by danepowell 12y ago
He wasn't just a pedophile, he was a child molester.
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by danepowell 12y ago
I don't think the biggest hurdle with TLS adoption is performance- it's the added complexity of integration with load balancers, reverse proxies, mixing of HTTP/HTTPS content, having to manage certificate passwords and enter
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by danepowell 12y ago
There are some good reasons that NASA has avoided touchscreens, besides the ones pointed out here: * Things tend to get loose in microgravity. You don't really want things floating into a touchscreen and performing unintended actions.
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by danepowell 12y ago
I've been building Drupal sites for 6 years, and I've never had a single one get hacked, even after I stopped updating them. It's far more likely that FTP with a weak password was the attack vector.
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by danepowell 13y ago
While my instinct is to agree with you, I suspect the waste and emissions from producing and transporting the coffee greatly outweigh those from the half-ounce plastic container .
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by danepowell 13y ago
I switched to Namecheap several years ago and have never looked back. They are one of the only registrars to offer two-factor authentication.