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djpilot

107 karma · joined December 10, 2018

I am a drone and music enthusiast.
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djpilot··on Traffic-busting $100B Bay Area tax plan taking shape
I really like the bendy train in the artistic rendering. What materials would allow for railroad car chassis and bodies which could bend and torque with the curve of the track like rubber? I think you would need lots of wheels or a relatively pointless flex-inducing system on each car to even get it to bend in this fashion.

Perhaps it just made for a pretty picture, and a completely impractical reality :)

https://i2.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/201...

djpilot··on When Can Headphones and Earbuds Damage Your Hearing?
Once I'm deaf enough, definitely.
djpilot··on Coinbase Debit Card
Pseudo-anonymous. Research it a bit if you aren't aware of the implications.

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/anonymity/

djpilot··on Coinbase Debit Card
"Seems to completely work around the reasons why Bitcoin etc. were interesting in the first place as a technology."

I respectfully disagree. The original goal of Bitcoin was to create a new financial system and instrument which ultimately enables people to pay for things.

djpilot··on Ask HN: I can make an app delivery platform for your electron apps. interested?
I might pay for it if you'll provide competitively priced developer and end-user support.
djpilot··on Removing Array Duplicates
Agreed, the sort interface in go is one of the worst parts, and doesn't translate to any other language I'm familiar with. The article was mildly entertaining but by the end left much to be desired.

Shoulda just gone with python, rust, c, crystal lang.. anything else for sorting!

djpilot··on Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
Pi holes were already discussed extensively and at length a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075159

https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/

djpilot··on When Can Headphones and Earbuds Damage Your Hearing?
Any time it is at a pleasurable level, there is some amount of damage occurring. This isn't news.

Sometimes being human is such a bummer! I'd rather be deaf and have had happy ears when I was young than grow old and never "used" them, though. YMMV, a lot.

djpilot··on Confusing Terms in Container Ecosystem
Confusing article. Would've preferred to just see a dictionary of terms and definitions.
djpilot··on Coinbase Debit Card
I've been piloting this program and I've got to say it's been a convenient way to pay without draining my real bank account. IMO this is a killer product compared to everything else I've experienced with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency this far, it really bridges the gap.

Heck, I even used it to pay my back taxes to the IRS.

djpilot··on Removing Array Duplicates
From TFA: "These examples are written in neutral pseudocode that should be adaptable to most any imperative language."

False. The examples are written in Go, a generally easy to read language. Maybe the author thought it is a funny joke. Low bar :)

djpilot··on Snob coffee shops ban milk and sugar
I seem to be doing well and living nicely off mostly toxins, then.
djpilot··on Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life
"To render the diagram" is a pretty good reason.
djpilot··on Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994)
Why is this promotion about a book published in 1994 interesting and worthy of my attention? Not news, more like nonsense.
djpilot··on Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner
This is flat out not true. FB doesn't employ 10s of thousands of human moderators.

According to a 3-month old article, $FB supposedly employs 7,500 moderators [0], though it's unclear what constitutes "employment" in this case. Probably a salary of less than $5k/yr. Are there really thouhsands of content moderators pulling up to FBHQ in Menlo Park 5 days a week? I don't think so, no.

[0] https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/facebook-content-moder...

djpilot··on Robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but can lift 100 times its weight
It reminds me of a certain kind of sheath. Don't want too come off as too vulgar, but latin roots reveal all:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sheath+latin

djpilot··on Ask HN: What's Wrong with Docker?
The creator, Solomon Hykes, rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with his arrogance and narcissism, not to mention poor netiquette.

Docker is also a huge layer cake of code, not elegant or beautiful by any stretch. At this point there is enough lipstick on the pig that it more or less works okay in general, though frequently still remains the source of many a headache.

djpilot··on Ask HN: Tools of the Trade, 2019 Edition
Spacemacs is superb once you get it setup right. Best of every world!
djpilot··on Ask HN: Annual Bonus Time, Team's Not Happy
Salaried employees almost never are.
djpilot··on Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts
What about the underside of the vehicle? I remember hearing it was a super big tightly guarded secret. Was that ever true? Is it still?
djpilot··on Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics
Does DF have a multiplayer mod like rimworld? I love playing together with my partner.

https://github.com/Zetrith/Multiplayer

djpilot··on How a small group of activists got gas-powered leaf blowers banned in D.C.
Maybe blown away by wind and / or burned dry by the summer heat.

You seem out of touch with reality (I intend this in the gentlest way possible).

djpilot··on How a small group of activists got gas-powered leaf blowers banned in D.C.
> An F150 consumes ~2 litres of fuel an hour at idle

Where'd you get this number? AFAICT this is not true.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+gas+per+hour+idling...

More like a little less than 1 liter for a 4.6L V8 motor.

djpilot··on Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
What is the approximate price range to get everything needed?
djpilot··on Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
How did you get the remote control to work? Looks like you started with an Xbox controller?
djpilot··on The State of Caching in Go
Makes sense now, thanks!
djpilot··on The State of Caching in Go
> LSB 9-16

What is this? Google thinks it's some sort of metal stamp.

djpilot··on The State of Caching in Go
Thanks matee.
djpilot··on The State of Caching in Go
Great article (or start of article)!

The GitHub stars obsession is too much, though. I read the request in the main content area, then a nag banner popped up at the bottom of the page requesting it again. How annoyingly desperate and uncool.

Enough already, I'm trying to read!

Or was, anyway..

Plus I'm not even logged in to GitHub at present and cannot without getting to another device for 2FA.

No offense, but now I'll likely never give that star.

djpilot··on Ask HN: What antivirus software do you use?
I typically ride bare. AV software just doesn't feel good.