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holyolyon Microsoft Edge WebGL engine open-sourced

What's your point? Does that make it okay or something?

holyolyon I finally finished this awesome game called Photoshop, let me send you a video

Pretty sure it doesn't do video.

holyolyon All European scientific publicly funded articles to be freely accessible by 2020

That doesn't make any sense... How does having one screwed up system justify another? Maybe we should start paying twice for groceries too, because we pay twice for toll roads and research papers...

holyolyon Tesla Model S adaptive cruise control crashes into van

Adaptive cruise control is not autopilot. It does not steer for you. It's not in beta, it's been a production feature on high end cars for 10 or so years.

Regular cruise control has always deactivated with a momentary brake tap. Been this way since cruise control started coming on cars.

holyolyon Microsoft no longer allows admins to block Windows Store access in Win10 Pro

The fact that you have to go to Google to search to find Microsoft pricing, and have to already have the knowledge that they have special "startup" pricing is a failure on Microsoft's part.

holyolyon Drone believed to have hit British Airways flight 'may have been a plastic bag'

You can turn on and off each individual notification. And it also has voice commands built in to control the app. You don't even need the phone's screen on. It can be in your pocket while driving.

And it is relevant to you no matter what lane you are in. If there is a car on the shoulder, someone in the right lane could be not paying attention, and swerve into you to avoid that car. Though you should be always on high alert while driving, having a little extra notification and awareness could save your life.

holyolyon A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy in a crash test [video]

There was an episode of Top Gear where they dropped a Saab and BMW on their roof from 8 feet in the air. IIRC, the Saab survived, and was able to even open it's doors. The BMW was basically flattened.

holyolyon Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones

The problem I had with it was when it was in my pocket for a couple hours, I would pull it out and it would be off. I'd have to pop the cover and pull the battery to get it to boot back up. If it wasn't for that, it wouldn't have been totally terrible.

holyolyon Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes

What exactly is your point here? That bad customer service is okay so long as the company is big enough?

holyolyon Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over Emissions Software

Except when you're in my blind spot, and your pipes are pointing backwards, I still won't hear you until you're in front of me and I've already seen you. Cars are incredibly quiet inside these days.

holyolyon 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

I have. I tested 3 models of HP that we had on campus which are kind of aging. Here's my results in Watts:

HP 6000 Pro SFF - Core2Duo E8400 @ 3GHz - 100% CPU: 70, Idle: 26, Sleep: 2-3, Off: 0-1,

HP 6200 Pro SFF - Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHz - 100% CPU: 83, Idle: 31, Sleep: 2-3, Off: 0-1,

HP 6300 Pro SFF - Core i5 2400 @ 3.1GHz - 100% CPU: 100, Idle: 30, Sleep: 2-3, Off: 0-1,

It's been a few months now, and I can't remember what I used to max out the CPU. It wasn't SETI @ Home, but it should give you a pretty good approximation. When it was off, it had Wake on LAN enabled, so it still drew some power. But it would fluctuate between 0 and 1.

holyolyon How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button

Interestingly enough, when I signed up for Amazon Fresh, I got a version of the Dash that is multipurpose. Instead of having buttons everywhere, mine has a barcode scanner, and voice recognition. When I am out of eggs, I just pick it up, push the "Mic" button, say "Eggs," and it appears on my "Dash" list when I log in to Amazon Fresh.