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eddanger··on Chicken Checker – See how often salmonella was found at meat processing plants
We often fear salmonella in meat but our blindspot is often salmonella in salad and veggies. Be careful out there! https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/outbreaks-active.html
eddanger··on No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger (2016)
I totally agree. The A&W burger in Canada is superior to other fast-food chains hands down. It seems to be A&W in name only.
eddanger··on If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?
In this post-apocalyptic scenario I think the range would be secondary to using the battery for day-to-day living. The RV could have solar and keep the battery topped off all the time.
eddanger··on The Tesla Dojo Chip Is Impressive, but There Are Some Major Technical Issues
My astute guess is ASML.
eddanger··on The Tesla Dojo Chip Is Impressive, but There Are Some Major Technical Issues
Folks understand L1 and L5. The levels between are such a blur and mix-match of things that I don't think anything is even accomplished having these levels. I agree with you, from what I have seen Tesla is far ahead and rapidly progressing using the right approach of training NNs while having a human behind the wheel.
eddanger··on GM Recalls All Chevy Bolt Electric Vehicles
> Not until they reach parity of charging station with petrol station

One thing to remember is that all ICE cars need a gas station but not all EVs need a public charging station. I only use a charging station for long road trips the rest of my charging is done at home.

eddanger··on There Is a Tennis Ball Shortage Too Now
I have purchased maybe one or two packs in my lifetime but somehow I have half the worlds supply of tennis balls in my back yard.
eddanger··on Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]
I would love to see re-certification of "professional" drivers. Almost daily I encounter taxi or semi-truck operators driving at the limit of what is acceptable.
eddanger··on Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America
> Tesla is only a success on the stock market. They are not profitable

Tesla has had 5 straight quarters of profitability.

eddanger··on IBM has simulated a quantum computer with 56 qubits on a classical computer
... and soon there will be a ban on export of plastic bristle brushes due to national security concerns.
eddanger··on Every reference to Kim Jong Un in official HTML is wrapped in a ﹤nobr﹥
Dear Leader can't be broken in HTML or real life.
eddanger··on Welcome Chris Lattner
This is very exciting for the future of Autopilot. I thought it was amazing already. I can't wait to see what they have in store.
eddanger··on Popular Electronics archives
Really liked the article in the first issue exploring the solar powered battery. Very cool to see something on solar power when it was just the start of a cool idea and knowing where it is today (seemingly also just the start).
eddanger··on Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again
Added a patch for Moped::BSON in Rails here

https://gist.github.com/eddanger/9408317d5d508d8e9ba7

eddanger··on Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
Quicktime Streaming Server comes to mind. But holy-hell it was a pain to manually configure and use.
eddanger··on Go support for Android
I haven't tried Go programming. I really like all these alternate programming languages/tools coming to all these platforms. Very cool. So many things to learn, so little time.

However, I like Ruby. In that department, RubyMotion the popular iOS/Mac alternate programming toolset is coming to Android. Seems the floodgates of "use your language of choice" are opening...

If you are interested in alternate languages and tool sets for your development I'd give this a look. http://www.rubymotion.com

eddanger··on Twitter is not dying. It’s on the cusp of getting much bigger
So now is a good time to invest... got it.
eddanger··on Gimli Glider
I hope the Americans don't use this as an excuse to stick with their old school system. I guess in one way they are closer to the Kingdom of England than us Canadians are.
eddanger··on Are We Fast Yet?: Mozilla's JavaScript engine performance tracker
Can someone explain these graphs to a colour blind guy?
eddanger··on 8.0 earthquake strikes northern Chile
I never considered this technology could be used during a disaster. That is a brilliant use case that could save lives. No phone, no power, trapped under rubble this could be your lifeline.
eddanger··on 8.0 earthquake strikes northern Chile
Scary stuff. Personally my wife and I have decided it's time to get serious about creating a disaster kit. The "big one" could hit any time.

Hope nobody was hurt in Chile or South America.

eddanger··on Fire
Very cool. Been looking at adding chat discovery into a BLE (iBeacon) app I've working on. Any idea how it discovers other devices and establishes a connection?
eddanger··on Microsoft Should Have Acquired Oculus Rift, Not Facebook
So true. Microsoft used to be only about productivity software. Then they became a game company. I see a lot of parallels with Facebook. A social company becoming a game company.

Xbox is to Microsoft like Oculus is to Facebook.

eddanger··on Microsoft Should Have Acquired Oculus Rift, Not Facebook
Oh god no. I might be just too old. But back in my day Microsoft would buy a company and kill their product. They were referred to as the "Evil Empire" back then, they'd consume companies left, right and center. I still have a bad taste in my mouth and wish they would go away rather than this slow painful death.
eddanger··on Google+ community for HTML5, CSS, JS
Next step a Reddit community for the Hacker News Google+ users!
eddanger··on The Internet is experiencing severe outages across North American and Asia
"The Internet" means Google App Engine. So yes.
eddanger··on L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter
If the bender neglected to tell the observers to wear eye protection and the unthinkable happened, they should be held accountable. A ruler in the eye is no way to start a Monday.
eddanger··on IE9 is better at blocking malware than Chrome, Safari, and Firefox combined
Because nobody uses it!
eddanger··on RIM tries to attract BlackBerry 10 developers with awful music video
All I can say is they have hit Rock n' Roll bottom.
eddanger··on The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using
51.0.0.0/8 the secret IP block otherwise known as Block 51.
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