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by mwint 4y ago
That central system is already far more real than you would think. I was amazed to download the PulsePoint app and immediately see all the fire/EMS events in real-time, with data on which units are responding/there/leaving. I
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by mwint 4y ago
This caught my eye: > As she gripped her gun, she felt as if she’d stepped into one of the true-crime documentaries she binge-watched at night. Seems like an incredibly bad idea for police officers to be binge-watching that stuff. They’l
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by mwint 4y ago
For production use, presumably you’d use an optimized binary
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by mwint 4y ago
Last time I messed with it was years ago and it was somewhat buggy, but the concept is awesome: https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/
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by mwint 4y ago
I’ve seen multiple gas car fires IRL, and never seen a Tesla vehicle spontaneously begin smoking and catch fire. I guess our anecdata cancels out.
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by mwint 4y ago
Statistically, it is indeed a rare occurrence. What they should be used to is gas cars self-immolating.
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by mwint 4y ago
She listed a drug she (allegedly) doesn’t take in the application field meant for drugs she does take, and it confused the system. (Edit - may not have been her fault, strictly. Sounds like the system needs a “taking” vs “for others” flag,
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by mwint 4y ago
> a stray round coming from a neighbor's house Any statistics on how often this happens? Feels like a “shot by a swimming dog” scenario.
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by mwint 4y ago
Truth exists, but the definition of truth Twitter, etc. use has a nasty habit of becoming false later.
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by mwint 4y ago
> So, to use a very primitive metaphor, imagine a Twitter that wasn’t managed by a company, but was able to grow and be moderated by developers and users, the way Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is no bastion of free speech either.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't apple.com have a GDPR-esque “cookie banner”?
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by mwint 4y ago
They may not have anticipated that governments would try to force them off their own spec onto an inferior one.
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by mwint 4y ago
I can’t be the only person who much prefers the Lightning port for a phone. Reasons are: 1. There’s no breakable bits in the phone side of the port 2. The charging speed is fine 3. It’s smaller 4. I like the way it clicks in better than USB
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by mwint 4y ago
Curious, what things in “CAPEX vs OPEX” do you not agree with? I’m no economist, but this sounds interesting.
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by mwint 4y ago
> “There's no battery degradation. You always get a healthy battery. Simple economics says that’s probably not (going to be) true. But at a broader level, I don’t think the tradeoffs are going to be worth it to most people: 1. For m
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by mwint 4y ago
> B-tree databases like SQLite compress well Curious, why is this?
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by mwint 4y ago
Same thing, economically.
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by mwint 4y ago
Maybe the FAA should find a 99.9% empty (100 mi)^2 square in the middle of Nevada or something, and designate it “do whatever you want, can’t hurt anything anyway”.
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by mwint 4y ago
I'm curious, what is your favorite paper of all time (the specification of 'last five years' sounds like it's not this one?)
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by mwint 4y ago
If you don’t miss a flight occasionally, you’re leaving too early ;)
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by mwint 4y ago
The iPod touch was so great for me as a kid, it provided an accessible (read - cheap) platform I could plug into a Mac and deploy iOS apps to at a young age. Now there's really no reason to keep it around, as you can get an off-contrac
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by mwint 4y ago
Sounds interesting, do you know of any good places to read about this?
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by mwint 4y ago
> pulling anyone who made changes to infra to the dispatchers themselves. I’m not up on railway lingo, can you expand on this?
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by mwint 4y ago
What’s your experience been in doing that?
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by mwint 4y ago
Carry a ye olden flip phone for this; they tend to work even without a SIM for 911.
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by mwint 4y ago
Indeed. There’s a chance all of the “acceleration” categories are down to different types of accelerometers being controlled for poorly.
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by mwint 4y ago
That video is completely animated.
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by mwint 4y ago
Yes, see their initial announcement post where they showed it’s a backronym.
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by mwint 4y ago
Could you share some details on your solar setup?
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by mwint 4y ago
It’s already each to survey actual speeds; a couple of those air-filled sensor lines stretched across the roadway at different intervals works fine.

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