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Re:Why Do Such Ancient People Run America? on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:38PM (#22495874)
I think that's the exact kind of persona our president has been trying to pull off.
Re:The Seven-Year Auto Loan (2019) on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:20AM (#22266125)
This is another reason for the Uber/Tesla/Lyft vision of the robotaxi future. If a service can provide both the cost-effectiveness and autonomy of a taxi network, there's a generation of tech-savvy buyers that will be grateful to take the car shopping/ownership costs out of their lives.
I wonder how much it would cost to get a decent camera on one of those Starlink launch missions just so it would beam down some distortion free, high-resolution pictures to the masses.

Although I doubt that would provide meaningful data to professional astronomer.

Re:Show HN: Cantools – an extensive set of CAN bus tools on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:53AM (#22044704)
Yeah, using -L you can shell redirect to a workable log file. I've done this a few times. They also build the asc2bin conversion utility to convert any logs to the more common *.bin format.