Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — mistermegabyte

mistermegabyte

HN member
Joined
Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC
HN karma
22
Public activity
21 items

About mistermegabyte

Truck driving nerd from Sumner, WA

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #44695500

    The earth will be fine. I'm sure during the ice ages with gigatons of water trapped on the surface in glacial ice it would have had to changed the tilt also and the planet survived…

  2. comment
    Comment #40380343

    The Kolbalt 80V line was made by Greenworks, which makes excellent products for pros. I have the Kobalt 80V blower and it is an excellent blower (loud) and is just a rebranded 80V …

  3. comment
    Comment #39503121

    I love the channel and have been watching for a few years. I agree that videos are the flashy things but in some ways videos have ruined the internet for me a bit (not your channel…

  4. comment
    Comment #39456317

    This is the answer. My work tablets are android based and taking pictures isn't supposed to be part of the workflow, but sometimes by using random button presses, you can accidenti…

  5. comment
    Comment #39080920

    I just tried sharedrop.io and it worked great. It wouldn't work until I turned off my VPN, though.

  6. comment
    Comment #39080891

    Fellow caveman here. That's the way I've been doing it for years also, haha. Just tried Sharedrop.io mentioned in another post on HN and it works great if your phone and computer a…

  7. comment
    Comment #39049538

    Or hit the Space bar.

  8. comment
    Comment #38825759

    I have been digging a small, awesome site called Blue Dwarf ( https://bluedwarf.top/cackle/index.php ). It is everything you described above except I don't know if it is like Faceb…

  9. comment
    Comment #38462073

    archive.today has a cached version.

  10. comment
    Comment #37599942

    Dang, I thought this was gonna be an article about shipping container logistics and moving products around the world. Still interesting, though.

  11. comment
    Comment #35389393

    If you get inspected at a weigh station, they for sure are looking at that ELD records. Its probably the first thing they do. They don't automatically inspect you, only if you're o…

  12. comment
    Comment #35389340

    It all depends on the vendor. The software that our company uses is totally locked down and it would be very difficult or impossible to run a ghost driver on it (I'm a local city d…

  13. comment
    Comment #35389261

    Yes, its an app. There isn't a single generic ELD hardware device. Every trucking company decides what device is best for their needs. My company uses Samsung Galaxy tablets. These…

  14. comment
    Comment #35389178

    They're not burning drive hours, they're burning on-duty hours which are also limited. You are limited to 14 hours of on-duty time. You are also limited to 11 hours of actual drivi…

  15. comment
    Comment #34430626

    Funny stuff. Scientific American really screwed up that headline.

  16. comment
    Comment #34402593

    Not sure why, but watching this makes me very anxious. Especially when the second hand is bending,just before it springs loose. Neat idea though.

  17. comment
    Comment #34370711

    I suspect the real problem is that someone plugs in a device via HDMI, switches the input to that HDMI port, watches a movie, does some work on their laptop, etc, and then doesn't …

  18. comment
    Comment #33845573

    As someone who doesn't program/code at all, I don't care how it arrives at the result. It's just amazing to me that if I need a simple script or program, I can have an AI write usa…

  19. comment
    Comment #33845441

    Pretty amazing stuff. I used this prompt to have ChatGPT write me a coin flip game in python that flips a coin x amount of times and displays the result: "create a game in python t…

  20. comment
    Comment #33721991

    Awesome game. I agree that left click to rotate left and right click to rotate right would be so much more convenient.

  21. story