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by tigeba 10y ago
Not commenting on the merits of CA or Federal tax credits, but these cars end up getting sold as used cars in states that don't have tax credits. They still have value and are definitely not being scrapped.
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by tigeba 10y ago
I experienced what was eventually classified as a microburst and the effects on the ground were largely indistinguishable from a tornado. I'm not sure the article really made this clear, or if there are multiple, potentially different
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by tigeba 10y ago
A big problem for machines of this vintage is HTTPS everywhere. Google still works pretty well and will let you access it over HTTP, but the rendering of the search results is a bit janky.
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by tigeba 10y ago
Just for the record, I want to point out that it does not render well on Netscape Communicator 4.75. http://grab.by/QH2u
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by tigeba 10y ago
This is not recent, part of the compulsory licensing for covers is that the cover does not substantially alter the original song. This boils down to substantial alterations of the melody or (possibly) lyrics.
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by tigeba 10y ago
This is not really a grey area, remixes are samples, and samples are using a previous performance.
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by tigeba 10y ago
I think this article is unreasonably lumping together the concept of covers and remixes. Cover songs are covered by compulsory licenses in the U.S.A. These are very 'mechanical' and you can in fact obtain them for virtually any
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by tigeba 10y ago
I think this is a difficult concept for people because our brains do such a good job compensating for mixed lighting. Our built in auto-white balance is too good. One example I use to explain this is the classic Hollywood 'moonlight&#
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by tigeba 10y ago
I think the author has somewhat conflated the concept of CRI and color temperature in the article. An incandescent bulb or a candle has 100 CRI because they are almost by definition close to the ideal. That said a typical incandescent bul
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by tigeba 10y ago
Just for a reference point, I'm getting about 350 on Google Fiber in Kansas City.
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by tigeba 10y ago
Does the HoloLens work outdoors at all, or is it restricted to very dim lighting?
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by tigeba 11y ago
There are two broad categories of approaches you use when dealing with sound. One is controlling sound transmission, and the other is shaping/controlling diffusion. In general these types of foams act as diffusers, which influences t
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by tigeba 11y ago
Voxel data is just a bunch of points, the rendering mechanism makes it no more or less 'voxely'. Ultimately you have some scheme to take your voxel data and turn it into triangles that you can display if your goal is 3d. If you
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by tigeba 11y ago
The car actually randomly asks you permission to do this. You will start the car up and there will be a dialog asking you to continue to allow the computer to communicate with Nissan. If I recall, you also need to enter in some credential
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by tigeba 11y ago
The previous API had authentication. The new API was rolled out earlier this year, and it seems like a pretty bizarre omission indeed. edit: I will inform HN if my climate control mysteriously turns on today :)
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by tigeba 11y ago
There is no danger of this. The endpoints are so slow that the ad network / site would drop it in minutes :)
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by tigeba 11y ago
The unfortunate part here is that the previous API used authentication, and the credentials were the same as your owners credentials for the Nissan portal. They released this version at the beginning of the year. The previous API endpoint
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by tigeba 11y ago
You would think a BBC article on this topic would mention the bizarre postscript, where Lunokhod 2 and Luna 21 were sold at auction for around $70K USD to Richard Garriott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott
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by tigeba 11y ago
Apparently a non-accessible way of writing Accessibility.
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by tigeba 11y ago
I have just been scheduling a 100% charge overnight when its below freezing to compensate for the loss of battery efficiency. Normally I just charge to 80%. This is mostly just for peace of mind, my trip is about 20 miles each way.
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by tigeba 11y ago
The LEAF has a heat pump and it works till about freezing at which point it switches over to an electric heater. The loss of efficiency due to cold weather really dwarfs the cost of heating/cooling in the vehicle.
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by tigeba 11y ago
Just for comparison here, I have a 2013 Leaf. In December I drove 920 miles and with my utility prices the cost of electricity to cover those miles was about $28. You still need either an extremely efficient car or quite a bit lower gas p
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by tigeba 11y ago
My experience is that the decrease during cold weather is more a function of the lowered performance of the battery than the result of the cabin heating. The battery draw at freeway speed is maybe 30kw. The baseline draw from the accessor
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by tigeba 11y ago
This seems like the logical reason for the lack of an "Oscar Winning Movies" category.
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by tigeba 11y ago
Similar treatment for LOTR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
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by tigeba 11y ago
Still trying to determine if the Steve Jobs quote was intentional irony.
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by tigeba 11y ago
When I was working on one of our SDKs (pre Swift 2.0), I found it rather maddening that the Swift string class had native support for emoji, but developers were left to create their own implementation of very basic features like indexOf, le
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by tigeba 11y ago
A few years ago when I needed to write collision detection for a variety of specialized cases, I found the book "Real-Time Collision Detection". It is one of the few really comprehensive resources I was able to find on the topic.
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by tigeba 11y ago
My experience with Typescript is that I have spent the majority of what I would call 'wasted' time either messing with type definitions, or fumbling with getting modules to play nicely with code that needs to be used in the browse
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by tigeba 11y ago
As the owner of many Macs and accessories over the years, my presumption is they maximize fatigue per square cm of desk space occupied.

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