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Former Tesla employee admits uploading Autopilot source code to his iCloud(theverge.com)
25 points by voodooranger 7y ago|3 comments
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by voodooranger 7y ago
center fuel tanks (under the passengers) are common in commercial aviation
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Scientists unraveled the mystery behind the return of a banned greenhouse gas(technologyreview.com)
3 points by voodooranger 7y ago|0 comments
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by voodooranger 7y ago
costco > target > walmart in my book
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by voodooranger 7y ago
if everything is a debacle then nothing is a debacle. what word are journalists going to use when there’s an actual debacle?
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by voodooranger 8y ago
I haven’t seen any evidence that the two Max crashes are related. The first one was the result of Lion Air flying a plane that was not airworthy because its AOA sensor was known to be faulty. There is no information about the cause of the s
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by voodooranger 8y ago
i believe elon’s argument is that the offending tweet didn’t need approval because he believed that he was just restating a projection made on the previous earnings call
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Browser-based live tracker and sim of Israeli lunar mission(live.spaceil.com)
1 points by voodooranger 8y ago|0 comments
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Why corn syrup in beer(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by voodooranger 8y ago|0 comments
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Kamala Harris’s Disappointing Economics(bloomberg.com)
4 points by voodooranger 8y ago|0 comments
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Community Groups Stop Boring Tunnel Under West LA(autoblog.com)
2 points by voodooranger 8y ago|0 comments
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by voodooranger 8y ago
simple software that’s easy to use is anathema to companies like red hat. to the extent you can keep software simple, you won’t need red hat, pivotal, etc. these support companies have every incentive to make you dependent on them. think ab
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Why your brand-new smartphone will scratch just as easily as your old one(theverge.com)
2 points by voodooranger 8y ago|0 comments
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How spammers are gaming the podcast charts(chartable.com)
93 points by voodooranger 8y ago|31 comments
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by voodooranger 8y ago
the cargo hold of a 737 is indeed pressurized https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/8252/are-cargo-...
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by voodooranger 8y ago
The workaround I used for this was Google Voice. I put the Google Voice number on my resume and in settings told it to use my own GV number as the caller id. If I saw a call coming from the GV number I knew it was a response to my resume. F
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US breaks up IRS phone scam operation(nytimes.com)
183 points by voodooranger 8y ago|185 comments
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by voodooranger 8y ago
The code review systems I’m familiar with give you the opportunity to submit code that’s different than what was approved. The assumption in these systems is that the developer is acting in good faith.
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by voodooranger 9y ago
If the landing speeds are the same, a heavier aircraft requires a longer landing roll. But a heavier aircraft also requires a higher landing speed. Those two phenomena compound.
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by voodooranger 9y ago
The Model 3 also has some hardware buttons.
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78 seconds of earthquake early warning(blogs.agu.org)
2 points by voodooranger 9y ago|0 comments
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by voodooranger 9y ago
I heard center core boostback burn shutdown
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by voodooranger 9y ago
I’ve never worked on satellites but isn’t the engineering not lost at all? What’s lost is all the manufacturing and verification that went into this one copy. Wouldn’t manufacturing a second copy be like an order of magnitude less effort&#
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by voodooranger 9y ago
Yeah, those foreign spies will never catch on to this ruse — not like us intrepid HN commenters.
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by voodooranger 9y ago
I went to a professional soccer game in a large stadium in South America a couple of years ago in the middle of summer. It was really hot and all I wanted was water, but you couldn’t buy water at the concession stand. The only drink they of
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by voodooranger 9y ago
I’ve never worked at Google but my read on them is that they’re an algorithm company, not a product company. They tend to hire algorithm nerds and pass on folks who, like Max Howell, can design and build useful products. As a result, their
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by voodooranger 9y ago
I was a high functioning alcoholic, drinking a six pack of beer per weeknight (programming by day for a successful company). On weekends, I would keep an eye on the clock and wouldn’t start drinking until noon. Looking back, I realize that
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Amazon Key(amazon.com)
2 points by voodooranger 9y ago|0 comments
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Java: Free at Last(mmilinkov.wordpress.com)
96 points by voodooranger 9y ago|19 comments
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by voodooranger 9y ago
Never buy any Apple product from Amazon. I've been burned several times. Didn't realize it until I had already bought several products.

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