mavhc

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Nottingham, UK

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mavhc··on It’s an age of marvels

Literally literally, or metaphorically literally?

mavhc··on UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)

Apart from backward compatibility, sounds like a good idea

mavhc··on Tesla FSD head to head against Mercedes Driver Assist on the same road [video]

The main cameras are behind the windscreen, so cleaned by the wipers

mavhc··on UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)

Exactly, we already store and show dates and times differently due to time zones, just add seconds to that alteration too. we have tzdb, add lsdb for leap second database and we can work out the difference for any time in the past, or near future

mavhc··on Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe

Should be pretty easy to use an actual force meter to see what the variables are then

mavhc··on Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe

What kind of sensor are they using to detect an object in the way?

mavhc··on Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content

Surely lack of soft wrapping in the first version was the worst thing to happen to email, that breaks quoting, which leads to top posting.

Also lack of a signature section, relying on weird -- \n hacks

mavhc··on Hyundai is spending $1B to keep self-driving startup Motional alive

The joke is your think your country is good, but it turns out it's terrible if those things are "happening regularly"

mavhc··on The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment: Could I Hide My Pregnancy from My Phone?

https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/target-didnt-figure-out-a-t... is the main critical post

mavhc··on Hyundai is spending $1B to keep self-driving startup Motional alive

Move to a first world country

mavhc··on Hyundai is spending $1B to keep self-driving startup Motional alive

Waymo is 4 years older than Cruise

mavhc··on Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else

https://xkcd.com/1200/

mavhc··on Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else

Every app on your phone runs as a different user

mavhc··on Passkeys: A shattered dream

Dunno, go to an official dealer I guess

mavhc··on Passkeys: A shattered dream

That is how you add new keys to my car, have 2 existing keys present to add a third

mavhc··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay

Tesla costs $30k https://www.tesla.com/modely/design#overview $29450 with tax incentive

mavhc··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay

Cars have wheel rotation and direction sensors so can do dead reckoning when the gps isn't being useful

mavhc··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?

Hugs

mavhc··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?

Give them a second user with a really really complex password that's written down and sealed in an envelope. On the inside of the envelope put another piece of paper that says "I told you so"

mavhc··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?

Don't give people admin rights, that's madness!

mavhc··on Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?

Might as well get a Chromebook

mavhc··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

The end of the document implies it

mavhc··on Monowheels: Vehicles with Insufficient Wheels

My favourite page on the site is http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/nwheelcar/nwhee...

(Oddly second site this week that doesn't work when you force https)

mavhc··on Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

But that's a thing adults like, so it's ok, but what the teenagers like is confusing and different

mavhc··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

97% of people don't use a shift key for capitals now it seems

mavhc··on Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022)

Never worked out why people who hate Smart TVs don't just not connect them to the LAN

mavhc··on Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years (2022)

Why would it have outdated technology, I'm suggesting a major display company open sources their firmware, saves money on debugging, adding new features, etc

mavhc··on A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'

Given that the tech and people went on to be involved in future nav systems, yes.

I imagine all that work digitising the maps was used again and again for a few decades, and the people brought their hard won knowledge to newer systems

mavhc··on Ramanujan's lost notebook

Thanks, I'd set my browser to always switch to https

mavhc··on BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

https://github.com/thomas-mc-work/most-possible-unattended-r...

Finding a good CD drive to rip them is the first step.

https://flemmingss.com/importing-data-from-discogs-and-other...

IME Discogs had the track data most often.

And obviously rip to flac

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