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Re:Asus Bike Booster
on Sunday August 16, 2026 @12:20AM (#49316875)
A follow-me tandem (which couples a kids bike to your bike) is a much better solution than giving a 9yo a poorly controlled motor.
Re:Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic d...
on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:33PM (#48600936)
I have the opposite experience. With the HP docking station, we were unable to drive a 4k monitor using windows. On linux thisnjust worked.
Re:British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time
on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:57PM (#47227833)
Going outside for lunch is a great idea.
Re:Sizing chaos
on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:54PM (#47068071)
Here's an article from 2002 talking about how we could just have data-based sizing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/magazine/the-year-in-idea...
Re:Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:36AM (#46628474)
I am cleaning up some pointer arithmetic stuff for multi-dimensional C style arrays. I managed to replace the code with a std::inner_product minus a std::accumulate (to accomodate for the fact that the upper array bound is exclusive, ie one-past-the-end).
Re:An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:56PM (#46201372)
What is the bioinformatic application? Could you point me towards some programs that use this?
Re:LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs
on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:40PM (#46011577)
Because they have so many car chases on the news. So people get the idea that car chases are a solution that people use to get out of trouble.
Seems like a vicious cycle, fed by the terrible news media.
Re:AMD continues to chip away at Intel's x86 market share
on Saturday November 15, 2025 @10:58PM (#45942638)
That is really more of a switch from CUDA to HIP; for most HPC applications, cpu speed isn't the question any more.
Re:Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
on Saturday November 01, 2025 @12:17AM (#45779208)
I write code and also cycle. I built a bike shed in my back yard. It has become quite difficult to search for advice on how to actually build a bike shed.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:21PM (#45690043)
Or just not have pardons at all.
Re:More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have tha...
on Sunday September 07, 2025 @10:10AM (#45158287)
For those complaining about the news sites being sensationalist, why not just read Reuters? You will miss out on local news, but it's pretty reliable for international news.
Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year
on Saturday August 02, 2025 @09:56PM (#44773463)
Speed enforcement has been extensively studied, and there are a lot of publicly available articles on the subject. The results are basically universally in favour of speed enforcement reducing motor vehicle collisions, reducing injury and cost.
Re:How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer
on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:43PM (#44690566)
I am not familiar with poaching issues in the USA, but in Canada, one isn't allowed to hunt too close to roads; doing otherwise is poaching. It seems reasonable to not discharge firearms next to public roads, so stopping poachers who do so is a great use case here.
Re:First-in-Nation Bill Requiring Cars to Warn Speeding Drivers Goes t...
on Thursday September 05, 2024 @07:49PM (#41461444)
Differences in speed matter, but so does absolute speed.
"Inappropriate speed is responsible for 20 to 30% of all fatal road crashes." from https://www.itf-oecd.org/speed-crash-risk
Also, due to kinetic energy increasing with speed, collisions are worse, in addition to being more likely.
Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs
on Monday July 15, 2024 @08:13PM (#40972591)
Here is the support list:
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates...
Re:Insurers Are Spying on Your Home from the Sky
on Saturday April 06, 2024 @11:33PM (#39957978)
In terms of sheer game-theoretic value, sure, perfect knowledge will reduce value gaps. However, the thing with having your house insured is that you will have somewhere to live if you have a house fire. The +/- for the insurer might be close, but going from having a house to having no house is a bigger deal than going from one house to a twice-as-expensive house.
Re:A town employee lowered the fluoride in water for years (2022)
on Saturday April 06, 2024 @10:20PM (#39957611)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_countr...
It seems that one or two European countries ban fluoridation; however few practice it. But "Europe banned this" is simply false. Moreover, it seems that there is fluoridation of salt instead (eg in Switzerland).
Re:The end of Google Podcasts is in June if you're not in the US
on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @10:11AM (#39905962)
Does it work with android auto?
Re:Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling
on Thursday January 25, 2024 @10:10AM (#39130323)
Thankfully, I have been able to keept the car in the garage and ride at -30. Passed a lot of cars needing a boost though.
Re:Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling
on Thursday January 25, 2024 @09:54AM (#39130165)
I used the 3m filter mask biking in the wildfire smoke a while ago. There is a blowout hole, which makes it much easier to get stale air out. The sport-specifc one from MEC made it hard to get fresh air when biking up hill.
I used the air warmer mask during this last cold snap. It made it so much more comfortable! Last year I was fine biking in the cold snap, except for one time biking up a hill. Actually breathing hard, I got a lot more cold air in my lungs, and ended up with a cough for a week. Wanted to avoid that this year.
Re:You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money
on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:15PM (#38936068)
> Modern life on the other hand often starts the day with an utterly toxic commute.
Yet another reason to bicycle (and to have good bike infrastructure!)
Re:The art of high performance computing
on Saturday December 30, 2023 @03:38PM (#38818857)
Could you explain how you use a shmoo plot for optimization? Do you just have a performance metric at each point in parameter space?
Re:A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
on Sunday December 10, 2023 @01:19PM (#38593565)
This is definitely arm-chair quarter-backing, but wouldn't ground effect allow for a lower stall-speed?
Re:Talking with the Inventor of C++
on Sunday December 03, 2023 @12:45AM (#38505132)
Sometimes pointer arithmetic is the best implementation; are you implying that C++ would be better off without access to this feature?
Re:Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data
on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:02AM (#38178427)
It seems like it would mess up traffic more? I have heard that Waze sends drivers through residential areas as shortcuts, which, you know, kills kids.
Re:I thought I wanted to be a professor. Then, I served on a hiring co...
on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:38PM (#36827646)
The summers are when research happens - this is not a holiday. Sabbaticals are also for research. "Pet projects" is actually just research. Did I mention research? There's also grant proposals.
Re:The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:28PM (#36761194)
ClimateTown has a video about this today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8
Re:France's Long Distance Trail
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @12:13AM (#35407093)
Right of passage laws are not part of the code civile, which is the legal system in France. Quebec follows this as well - a hiking/climbing had access removed because someone was thinking of building something. In common law countries areas, the fact that there is a well-used trail that has existed for some time means that people get to pass, regardless of whether it's private property or not. In code-civile jurisdictions, the government steps in and buys part of the land to allow for access.
Re:Book Review: Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human ...
on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:23PM (#34187208)
Sounds like the author is slowly discovering micro economics?
Re:Debunking common myths about the Autobahn
on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:14PM (#33929484)
Speed difference is also an issue. Speed certainly kills.
Increased speed limits in BC increased fatalities: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fatal-crashe...
Road Safety Impact of Increased Rural Highway Speed Limits in British Columbia, Canada https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/10/3555/htm sustainability-10-03555-v2.pdf
https://icsw.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/fars/speeding_data_visualizatio... 27% of fatalities were speeding-related
“There is a great deal of evidence that if you drive just two percent faster, your risk of being killed increases by 10 percent,” https://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/23/speeding-health-hazards/
Moreover, traffic flow is worse at higher speeds, and there's more pollution, and it's louder. And we have to spend more money on roads.
If one were to want to drive fast, the best place would be a race track.