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by taitems 6y ago
I see the skateboard as a stopgap measure for companies playing catch-up. Not everyone wants to dethrone Tesla, and even fewer are resourced to do so. VW has spent billions upon billions, in part as a mea culpa for dieselgate. How many othe
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by taitems 6y ago
Lots of EV manufacturers are investigating the "skateboard" model where you drop a chassis on a unified battery platform. VW has invested monumental amounts in this but I imagine will keep it all locked down to the VAG family. Per
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by taitems 6y ago
I would counter and say that those who reacted most fervently to COVID were the quickest to recover and those who were most blasé and dismissive are paying the price. New Zealand went immediately to stage 4 “where you sleep tonight is where
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by taitems 6y ago
Unfortunately all videos are unavailable in my country, would have loved to have seen the comparisons.
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by taitems 6y ago
What a needlessly abrasive headline.
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by taitems 6y ago
We self isolated really early due to a possible COVID scare, so for months now we’ve been using a local green grocer who has always done free delivery over $40. Early on it was phone orders only, payment details read out over the phone. Aft
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by taitems 7y ago
Off topic: Credit where credit is due, that site is doing an amazing job of thwarting AdBlockers. I thought for a moment I had disabled it, but no, 90+ items blocked and I'm still seeing ads everywhere due to obfuscated class names and
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by taitems 8y ago
Not an aviation nerd, but had a local one explain a particular A380 issue to me. About once a month the main daily SYD/MEL to LAX routes had to turn around and it was pretty much always the Rolls Royce engine (one of two engine manufac
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by taitems 8y ago
> That doesn't really hold up. The cost of developing a custom typeface can easily run from hundreds of thousands into millions of dollars. No-one's arguing the up front investment in creating the font, but instead focusing on
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by taitems 8y ago
Not going to incriminate myself with any of my own stories, but a friend did work for a phishing take down company that was paid per site they removed. Of course the people who sign off on these things are never that technical, so the compa
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by taitems 8y ago
I hope you too got a chuckle from reading their anti-bot counter measures section only to see their form protected by Google’s “I’m not a robot” CAPTCHA plugin.
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by taitems 9y ago
Shit like this just makes me appreciate our state police force more. They transparently tweet out every time a member of the force is fined for drink driving, speeding etc, which is more often than not. Not saying they're perfect, but
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by taitems 9y ago
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by taitems 9y ago
I had a go at building this general idea as a browser extension about 5 years ago, but abandoned it as writing browser extensions is a pretty fragmented, horrible experience. The general idea was take the current page URL, hit Reddit/H
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by taitems 9y ago
Original author of the original article this person is responding to. Saw this response earlier today which made me a bit sad, but mostly excited that people are having a crack at it themselves. It's currently Father's Day here in
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by taitems 9y ago
As an aside, the trials and PoCs have already taken place as a separate project worth only $100,000.
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by taitems 9y ago
Not sure if trolling, but: I'm using an open source license plate recognition system (OPENALPR), taking the produced registration number, and THEN querying the (yes, closed source) records database via web scraping. All tools used to a
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by taitems 9y ago
I've worked with state government and fortune 50(0)s, so I get where you're coming from. Costs that are just part of doing business seem like enormous waste to outsiders. That being said, I've heard some horrible war stories.
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by taitems 9y ago
It was sourced from an article. I originally built the tool to see if it could be done (given I knew the DB existed), and then did some Googling and found BlueNet. I wasn't actually trying to do it better/cheaper, it just so happe
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by taitems 9y ago
Oh dear. That's so creepy someone might actually do it! I'm getting into home automation at the moment, so a use case that I think I deleted from the article was just letting you know that your mum or someone had pulled up in the
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by taitems 9y ago
Emergency services vehicles run so much equipment they have isolated power from engine power.
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by taitems 9y ago
Author here, hi HN/Reddit. I had hoped I'd made it clear enough, but by no means am I recommending something I cobbled together in an hour on the couch be rolled out as a competitor to BlueNet. I mean shit, I'm web scraping t
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Does AWS Lambda keep its serverless marketing promise of continuous scaling?(read.acloud.guru)
5 points by taitems 9y ago|0 comments
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by taitems 10y ago
As an aside, the level of over-employment in the US and the UK blows me away at times. I walked by tiny hole-in-the-wall type restaurants that could seat maybe 20, and they had valet parking (because why not?). Two valets were working 4 car
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by taitems 10y ago
A very interesting read. In what way does a "Craftsman Home" differ from what we internationally regard as a California Bungalow (or cal bung)?
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by taitems 10y ago
I've had this on two MacBook Pros here in Australia. On the first one I took it in to a Genius Bar appointment and, while they acknowledged it happens to a "rare number of people", they basically said tough luck and to use th
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by taitems 10y ago
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by taitems 10y ago
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by taitems 10y ago
Surely the high gloss finish on the black material is drawing attention to a lot of the flaws as well? I'd really like to see a same colour comparison between the two.
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by taitems 10y ago
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