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Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?'(theguardian.com)
3 points by laacz 11y ago|0 comments
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Hyundai, Kia Paying Up to $395M to Settle Suit (2013)(bloomberg.com)
1 points by laacz 11y ago|0 comments
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by laacz 11y ago
Would it be really hard to fix this OTA for all vehicles, reusing (and patching) their own bug? This is a technical question, law might forbid doing this.
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by laacz 11y ago
I'm baffled (reporting ethics aside). One would think that car industry would be the one which has learnt about road safety the hard way. That experience should have manifested into extreme caution when adopting and implementing anythi
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by laacz 11y ago
Actually, car had a software glitch halfway through the race which lead to loss of rear drive train, so it essentially travelled second part of race as FWD, instead of AWD. [1] 1: http://insideevs.com/rhys-millens-eo-pp03-pi
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1-megawatt electric car sets new record at Pikes Peak Int’l Hill Climb(arstechnica.com)
3 points by laacz 11y ago|1 comments
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by laacz 11y ago
This will bring consequences, since, for example, package for uncapped unthrottled unlimited data+calls+messages is 19.94€ (Latvia), which is much cheaper than same packages in other countries. From what I've understood operators will
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by laacz 11y ago
When coming from windows world, I quickly learned that ctrl+s can be undone with ctrl+q. And that's all, never went into more detail. Wrote it off as a quirky stuff linux has plenty of.
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How to test if a child is interested in programming?
3 points by laacz 11y ago|5 comments
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by laacz 11y ago
It strikes me as odd that Microsoft is second[1] - being ahead of companies which specialise exactly on acquiring workforce from outside US. 1: http://data.jobsintech.io/companies
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Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man(waitbutwhy.com)
40 points by laacz 11y ago|1 comments
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by laacz 11y ago
Let me join the international domestic mobile plans pricing party. In Latvia we have unlimited calls and messages for 9.95€. Add unlimited 2G/3G/4G data for 9.99€. That's roughly 20€ for unlimited everything. Tethering is not
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by laacz 11y ago
That would be valid assuming Apps are used by enterprises only. No. People use Apps with their private domains a lot.
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by laacz 12y ago
When I read that book by Dale Carnegie one think struck me. Aside from being well with words and advice he never succeeded in his own life. Two divorces and almost no friends at the end of his life. General advice is easy to give. There are
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by laacz 12y ago
Does USB type-C in Macbook mean that on all other slim devices (namely - iPad and iPhone) lightning will be replaced with USB?
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by laacz 12y ago
I believe there is distinction between Apple as a hardware company and Apple as a software company. First part works extremely well while latter one - not so much. I would not mix them together.
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by laacz 12y ago
Wanted to get an example on one of my projects. Sadly it requires write access to my public repositaries. Sorry - no.
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by laacz 12y ago
I meant that safety and engeneering requirements for cars are more or less strict around the world. As for being vintage - car is vintage now, it's not vintage when you've built it and are trying to register.
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by laacz 12y ago
I merely must add, that such DIY vehicle can't be safe. You should have extensive knowledge not only to build a vehicle, but to make it road legal in most parts of this planet. Actually, if you're thinking that assembling your car
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by laacz 12y ago
The only way to learn a language not by memorizing it is listening, reading and talking. There are no shortcuts.
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by laacz 12y ago
Yes, but project is called CommonMark, so it's markdown only.
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by laacz 12y ago
Is there a need for that much of abstraction in a simple markdown parser library?
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Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown(github.com)
26 points by laacz 12y ago|4 comments
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Monty Hall, Erdos, and Our Limited Minds(wired.com)
30 points by laacz 12y ago|79 comments
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by laacz 12y ago
Yes, as it also makes it impossible to deregister number from iMessaging service from those countries (my included).
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by laacz 12y ago
I don't believe that when saying HTML we mean HTML4...
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by laacz 12y ago
Or rather we could stop saying "car5" meaning just "car". Oh, wait.. :)
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by laacz 12y ago
If we could al stop using HTML5 when we mean HTML+JS+CSS. Let's just use HTML.
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by laacz 12y ago
"4 inches in a smartphone? That's too large!" /Everyone, 2008/
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by laacz 12y ago
As I see it, there are tree reasons for ridiculous six inches. 1) To fit a larger battery, better screen, more horsepower, better camera with OIS they just have to make them bigger. 2) Nexus line has gone out of control and people instead o

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