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pxndxx··on Heads up – effectively offline for now
Can an internet outage kill you and your family?
pxndxx··on Hyundai Uni Wheel electric drive system could revolutionize EV design
Hub motors make wheels quite heavy, which means that there's more unsprung mass [1] in the vehicle, making it less responsive under acceleration/braking and more noisy and sensitive to vibrations.

They're common in electric scooters, bikes and bicycles though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_mass

pxndxx··on Show HN: Open-source digital stylus with six degrees of freedom
Modern consoles (and modern controllers I assume) can do this "double-input" for aiming, using a joystick and a gyroscope. I'm still bad at shooters, but it feels super good. Plus you don't look like a huge dork with a dildo glued to your head.
pxndxx··on FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones
Are delivery people that drive cars that well paid?
pxndxx··on Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API
CORS is a browser security measure to protect users from malicious sites. This is an app and not a web browser and is therefore allowed to send HTTP requests to any URL it wants and to parse the HTTP responses as it deems necessary.
pxndxx··on An Aperiodic Monotile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal
pxndxx··on Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car
Calling this car Nevera (fridge) makes it a great addition to the unfortunate car names in Spanish, next to the Fiat Marea (makes-you-dizzy) and Mitsubishi Pajero (wanker).
pxndxx··on The Mattel Spinwelder was the coolest Christmas gift of the 1970s
Yeah, it sounds a lot like Lego Mindstorms.
pxndxx··on Compound pejoratives on Reddit
There's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/37/
pxndxx··on A lightning bolt would be worth only about a nickel (2015)
How are you proposing we produce 10W to heat clothes? we produce around 80W just by sitting idle, just wear insulating clothes! How do you produce 10W to power an electric bike? 10W is a laughable amount of power, just get rid of the electrics and pedal a bit. 10W is barely enough to charge a phone these days. Anything that gets moderately hot while in use is consuming more than 10W.
pxndxx··on LetsEncrypt Certificate Issuance Halted
A week is 7 days. Three weeks is 3x7 = 21 days.
pxndxx··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
It's usually called Zalgo text, and it's what you get when you start stacking all kinds of Unicode diacritics on poor unsuspecting characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text

pxndxx··on SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
If you do this, you can add all the files to git and get historical views, changelogs... and if you distribute the "database", you even can know who made what changes!
pxndxx··on Google Analytics Opt Out
GDPR applies to any organisation operating within the EU, as well as any organisations outside of the EU which offer goods or services to customers or businesses in the EU.
pxndxx··on Water on Mars: discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
Maybe it doesn't need to survive per-se, but the ejecta could have enough life building blocks (aminoacids, etc) to achieve abiogenesis easily again.
pxndxx··on Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
That's a shell feature, not wget's.
pxndxx··on “What Did You Do?”
Too little, too late. Reddit had a chance to ban T_D and other hateful subreddits many years ago and didn't.
pxndxx··on This Artwork Does Not Exist
I've always wanted to do something like this, but wired up to your webcam to detect when you blink. When you do, update the picture to a new one, to make extremely ephemeral art.
pxndxx··on Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
You're thinking of PHP. Modern Javascript has good error handling and is a pretty nice language to use.
pxndxx··on Accelerating Photosynthesis
Can't wait for a superplant to take over all ecosystems on earth! Hoping it's tasty at least.
pxndxx··on Ants trapped for years in an old bunker
1.5 lbs of beef a day is _a lot_. Are you sure you're saying that right?
pxndxx··on Ants trapped for years in an old bunker
The limit surely isn't anywhere near having meat in every single meal, including bacon in milkshakes.
pxndxx··on Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams
This argument keeps popping up, and it's a waste of thought. We'd OBVIOUSLY have cars or other kinds of provisions for disabled people! Do you actually think anti-car people are actually that stupid or inconsiderate?

EDIT: BuT WHaT abOuT DeLiVeRiEs?

pxndxx··on Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
Are there any NGOs working on reforestation based on this report I can donate to?
pxndxx··on John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]
That's a very anthropocentric view, and not how the timeline works. Unicellular organisms are also smart in a way computers can't exactly replicate. They hunt, eat, sense their environment, reproduce when convenient, etc. All of these are also intelligent behaviours.
pxndxx··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
How is this different from the "digital coins" e.g. gems in pay to win games then? They don't give me a bank account, but it's still digital money, but not a cryptocurrency.
pxndxx··on SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO
Yes, Ethereum is an outlier in the sense its ICO wasn't a complete scam.
pxndxx··on Pollen: the book is a program
I write Markdown and convert it to pdf via LaTeX with pandoc [0]. You can also embed some LaTeX directly, like math formulas.

[0]: https://pandoc.org/

pxndxx··on Rainworks – Rain-Activated Positive Messages and Art
I've always found it too expensive to just buy some and experiment, but I swear it's cheaper now. I'll buy some when I get home.
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