joncrane

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811.
by joncrane 8y ago
This is amazing! I wish the DC Metro did this.
812.
by joncrane 8y ago
The lead bus can slow down between stops and let the empty bus overtake. Essentially "stop" several bus-lengths before the next stop and let the empty bus overtake and pull into the stop ahead of it. The full bus pulls in directl
813.
by joncrane 8y ago
I wonder if it was the uploading of mapping/route information and not an actual update to the systems running the plane.
814.
by joncrane 8y ago
Are Hackintoshes still a thing? I remember building one with a friend in the mid oughts (2005 maybe?).
815.
by joncrane 8y ago
The line in the US is commercial use. Even in an artistic work, if someone's likeness is in the picture, you have to have their permission to sell it.
816.
by joncrane 8y ago
The thing is, it's too late. When MongoDB was in its heyday, it got known as something that loses records. Not much you can do now when for every post affirming its consistency, there are two about how someone tested it and it failed
817.
by joncrane 8y ago
Filing detailed bug reports is still easier than fixing it myself. I don't have the time or the skill to hack on most open source software, but I do file detailed bug reports, feature requests, and documentation updates whenever I run
818.
by joncrane 8y ago
Absolutely. Many in Silicon Valley make much, much more as Individual Contributors.
819.
by joncrane 8y ago
Is this a follow up from a front page post about a week ago titled "My Boss Will Call Your Boss?"
820.
by joncrane 8y ago
Isn't Milton Keynes where the McLaren Technology Centre is? (McLaren are a Formula 1 team and supercar manufacturer)
821.
by joncrane 8y ago
Ah. I got mixed up. Thanks.
822.
by joncrane 8y ago
So now you have to carry an external HDD around with you and plug it in every time you want it to boot up?
823.
by joncrane 8y ago
Nicotine is not orally bioavailable so it's a non-starter. You could add it to temporary tattoos or face paint or something. But that would be borderline evil.
824.
by joncrane 8y ago
There's an old saying for drivers (and it's usually trotted out when your favorite driver has had an off) that goes "In order to know where the limit is, one must occasionally cross it." Usually drivers are going to test
825.
by joncrane 8y ago
Wrong, AWS has no regions near Denver.
826.
by joncrane 8y ago
Cool fact: Niki Lauda is a former F1 driver who is most famous for having severe facial and lung damage from a fiery crash, then returning while his burns were still healing. The doctors said he still had more operations to undergo to compl
827.
by joncrane 8y ago
Defining by dollar amount is never a good idea due to inflation/market appreciation. There are so many laws and regulations that are pinned to a dollar amount that get more and more out of date each year. It should always be something
828.
by joncrane 8y ago
Source for the Thai rescue one?
829.
by joncrane 8y ago
>pending tens (hundreds?) of thousands of $ on apparently unserviceable cars If you read the article, his net cost for the one Tesla he drives was $6500. This is because he bought two junked cars for about $30k, assembled the one "
830.
by joncrane 8y ago
Meh. Extreme circumstances result in extreme behaviors. It's a story as old at time.
831.
by joncrane 8y ago
Does anyone have a version without intrusive popups?
832.
by joncrane 8y ago
The closest thing to a middle ground I can think of is FIRE-ing and going back to work as a landscaper, or a carpenter, or whatever. You can not "need" to work financially, but still have to/want to have a job. The key is i
833.
by joncrane 8y ago
In addition to the other answers, one of the reasons animals strive is to attract a mate. I think a lot of people marry someone who did so with an understanding that the gravy train continues indefinitely.
834.
by joncrane 8y ago
For many readers here, and adherents to the FIRE philosophy, sure. But to most people who actually make $1.2 million per year, it means giving up all kinds of status symbols and creature comforts. Many of which they are locked in to via mo
835.
by joncrane 8y ago
Right now Google is niche for Big Data and ML type of stuff. Their ecosystem has the lead as far as the best tool for the job out of the big three. AWS is still blowing them out of the water in the "Enterprise" market, which they
836.
by joncrane 8y ago
That's the impression, sure. But soon, Tech companies could become darlings. Think about it: the government works in close cooperation with banks to catch money laundering. It's not too far fetched to say the government works in
837.
by joncrane 8y ago
Yeah Youtube's algorithm for playing stuff you will like is pretty good. Know who else's algorithm has done the same thing for me? Pandora. It's basically my go-to music app. I have groomed a station to be exactly what I l
838.
by joncrane 8y ago
I was in Costa Rica and I used Google Maps to navigate my way around some beaches and stuff. And to look at the satellite imagery. Nothing to do with directions or even roads. No way Uber is competing with that.
839.
by joncrane 8y ago
What if you're on vacation when something happens, such as a power outage? What about a massive event like an earthquake/flood/wind storm/fire/etc?
840.
by joncrane 8y ago
It wasn't extra capacity so much as making some of the internal tools publicly available, and it took off. I believe SQS was the first publicly available service. EC2 was obviously the tipping point and that was a couple of years late

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