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This isn't a novel thing, as far as I can tell. A decade ago when I was working on routing of over-the-road trucking, our maps provider moved the entire United States a couple mete…

Anything and everything made with Unity.

Only if you're the one paying. The ADA requires 'paratransit' service for persons whose disabilities prevent them from using accessible, non-commuter, fixed route bus service. In m…

Are player IP addresses stable enough to be used in this way? I've always considered my own IP to be dynamic, despite rarely changing.

Highly recommended by me, too: Zoz at DefCon 23, entitled "And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y

...which is strange, since PTFE is naturally white. I think we've become used to seeing it on silver and grey frying pans. But that said, what's wrong with a dark-colored toilet?

You might look through the source code for Wordcram[1]. It is built under Processing, and is relatively easy to understand, I think. [1] http://wordcram.org/

I've been pondering the same economics on car-, bike- and scooter- shares. I'd love to know if Car2Go's ridiculous little SMART cars were treated better or worse than their Benz re…

What you saw as a positive feature, I saw as the death of Friendster. My friend added "The Burning Man" as her friend, and I suddenly had thousands of friends neither of us had eve…

Or worse, if you accidentally find this feature, will you know what you just did? Or will you suddenly be dumped into somewhere that looks like it is still a web browser but has su…

I'm guessing that Mrs. B. was smart to stay out of the Denver/Boulder area. The Furniture Wars were fought in those foothills. You can still see the corpses of Weberg and Levits st…

There's also "This Person Does Not Exist[1]", which has been discussed a few time before[2], here. [1] https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

Huh. It didn't even occur to me that they could also be using the app on my phone to do the same thing, and do it more accurately.

We're changing to auto market into the cell phone market? Oh no. "Well, I get Free Miles(tm) with the Chevrolet, but it throttles at 70MPH and the radio only plays Pandoa. Or I can…

Is your OS time at least battery backed? I can tell you that nightmares start when all your clocks go back to 1970 on boot, and you need a clock to validate certificates on boot...…

For what it is worth, I'm pretty sure that Amazon is already doing this at their Amazon Fresh drive-up stores. When you drive up, a sign lights up to say that your order is coming …

Saving you from the clickbaity title: Debian etc, Suse, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. The bottom half is filled out with Canonical, Google, RedHat, Cisco and Adobe.

...or maybe even offer those features to Google Voice's dialer, as well.

For me, personally, the way Amazon has captured me is more in the cart than in the fulfillment. Yes, it is nice to get things to my door practically overnight, but the fact that I …

Although I have a lot of stories from my time there, my view of this particular event was mostly from behind a desk. I don't think I can offer much personal insight to it. But I st…

I did race operations for the Leadville Trail 100 for a decade, including when the Tarahumara first raced. The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best…

In retrospect I also wonder why we didn't just do a bulk update. I think the problem was that we discovered the geocoding problem and started correcting for it before we understood…

You are fortunate that lat/long is sufficient for your use-case. In my experience, the problem is that it isn't as exact as you'd think, especially when your measurement passes bac…

Same. I'm running an NEC E-series. The 'smart' features it has are an honest-to-god serial port for plugging it into automation. It's been a decent display to me. The only thing I …

Just out of curiosity, how do you think you missed the rest of the URL? I have a suspicion that the trend towards browsers being 'helpful' with the URL field is contributing to mis…