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sthgrau··on Cricket Juice Healthier Than Orange Juice? Many Insects Loaded with Antioxidants
It isn't dairy, that is correct. Note however, that using the term 'milk' to plant liquids has hundreds of years of history in the English language.
sthgrau··on Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones
I can see the 007 getaway now. With a press of the button, a bunch of tiny transponders are thrown on the road. The bad guy's cars automatically brake because they can't find a way to get around the new obstacles.

Another press of the button dispenses a martini.

sthgrau··on Thought it was a flash drive [video]
My thought was that it would be an excellent, low knowledge way of figuring that out. For example, if it said type "qwerty" and it came through as "azerty", that would get you 95% of the way to having a fully functional keyboard. Mapping out the requisite keys needed to fully identify the keys could probably be done with a fairly short number of key presses for 99+% of likely keyboards.

For this case, I am assuming that the keyboard and os language are fairly compatible, at least translatable.

sthgrau··on Enzyme pathway in human gut microbiome that converts A to universal O type blood
I wonder if this is to allow safe digestion/absorption of blood types that might otherwise cause rejection problems.
sthgrau··on Ride That Nearly Killed Me Changed How I Think About Ride-Hailing Apps
If you wanted ride sharing to be treated the same as traditional taxis, you could erase the difference in people's minds by referring to them as the same thing.
sthgrau··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)
Location: Rockville, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: unix (Solaris, linux), bash, python, perl, shell, sendmail, source control, webservers (apache et al), databases, automation Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tNNnTcV3rhDB1S5Qlhf3PII2bH8... Email: sthgrau@gmail.com

I am a creative problem solver with a passion for automation. I have extensive systems administrator and full stack software engineering experience. I believe problems are growth opportunities. I am looking for a company that I can grow with. I prefer to show rather than tell.

sthgrau··on Fridge 0.2
For putting the thermal mass above the food, could a workaround be to put a heat sink on the bottom of the lid, and connect it to the thermal mass with an equally heat conductive material?

Also, before I saw what the heat sink was, I wondered if you could use shotcrete on the walls of the freezer, to act as the thermal mass.

sthgrau··on The Yoda of Silicon Valley
It looks like a Logitech Gaming Keyboard G110
sthgrau··on Personal Panopticons
I think this covers the current state of the art. No audio capturing adware found, but other privacy problems:

https://recon.meddle.mobi/panoptispy/

sthgrau··on An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009)
That would be a clbuttic mistake, indeed.
sthgrau··on The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks
Fwiw, the USA signed but did not ratify it, so it not adopted by the USA.

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

sthgrau··on An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
What a clever impersonation of a stupid, poor person. How much is that placemat actually worth, Brannigan?
sthgrau··on QAnon and Pinterest Is Just the Beginning
Part of this seems founded on serving content based on what people do versus what they say. In the case of the video shown, they said they were interested in recipes, yet didn't bother to pin anything for recipes. From the standpoint of the algorithm, they must not be very interested in recipes, no matter what they claim.

Good or bad, this 'actions speak louder than words' approach isn't merely a social media thing. "Oh, the politician says they are for good thing, but they voted against the Bill for Good Thing." That is regardless of context, too.

I don't know whether they have this feature, but it seems to me this could be mostly addressed with a 'Less of this' button.

With a feedback mechanism, even if someone manages to inject an unrelated meme into a given demographic profile, those memes could be weeded out by a subset of those people who are just trying to keep their view the way they want it.

sthgrau··on Apple Patent Turns Car Windscreen into Giant Augmented Reality Screen
I don't know what is necessarily novel in this. For example, I remember (but can't find) a feature for a high end car that showed IR camera display to highlight unseen deer on the road..

Anyway, I think this is a good feature for intermediate automated cars. There is a problem with keeping people interested enough to be ready to take over if there is a situation that the computer lacks the confidence to deal with. One application might be to turn the display into a game field. When there is traffic, you could be able to interact with the other cars on the road. When there isn't there could be simulations. That way, you are always looking forward and at least somewhat engaged.

As safety confidence drops, the system can highlight the area where the problem is developing, giving a subtle hint to get ready.

For later iterations, the controls could become more "game controller" like where the driver is choosing between different scenarios and the system figures out how to do it.

sthgrau··on Venezuela President Maduro 'survives drone attack'
Since we can't see to the soldier's left, it could just as easily be another person nudged him trying to get a better view of what happened.
sthgrau··on The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries
Without specifying sterilized blueberries, I would assume that the surface of the blueberries contain the same flora and fauna that you find in nature.