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New comment by dcustodio in "Why routing alogrithms from different maps don't always give the same route"

dcustodio — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:01:26 +0000

I tend to follow Google Maps' advice only when there are no signals or directions as it most of the times sends me through the twisty local/secondary roads. It also considers that all roads are to be done at maximum allowed speed.

It really makes me wonder if with all the navigation data from real users they couldn't already done something better than this.

New comment by dcustodio in "ZEROe: Hydrogen-hybrid aircraft concept"

dcustodio — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:48:48 +0000

Don't forget that wind turbines still produce at night when there is less demand. So either you use that power to pump water upstream (if you have dams) or you can use it to produce Hydrogen.

New satellite images to allow anyone to monitor tropical deforestation

dcustodio — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:29:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nicfi.no/current/new-satellite-images-to-allow-anyone-anywhere-to-monitor-tropical-deforestation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576847

Points: 2

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New comment by dcustodio in "I Worked for a Criminal Organization"

dcustodio — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:01:26 +0000

Years ago the Portuguese government encouraged consumers to submit their receipts in a portal and each submitted receipt was a entry to a raffle where the prizes were luxury cars. This way they could match the receipts from consumers with the ones reported by the shops. It felt wrong to put citizens policing the shops but it worked.

New comment by dcustodio in "City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once"

dcustodio — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:56:03 +0000

Amazing! Thank you so much for this. I am getting myself an A3 diagram of my hometown.

New comment by dcustodio in "Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?"

dcustodio — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:10:04 +0000

I wonder how many people will actually buy this. Personally, I would rather get a box full of veggies than some internet karma.

New comment by dcustodio in "Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet"

dcustodio — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:23:52 +0000

Indeed. You couldn't offer the same level of services that a cruise ship does because of height restrictions and it's too slow for fast-paced youngsters. Price-wise it's hard to compete with interrail so I guess it would be a very niche thing. Which leads me to wonder if there is anyone hitchhiking barges.

New comment by dcustodio in "Inland Waterways Europe: Maps and Fleet"

dcustodio — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:24:22 +0000

I wonder if there are any costs to use the waterways. Even if the boats are slower than trains, couldn't it be the case that with all the layovers a train takes as much or more time than a boat? It would be cool to have a boat service similar to Flixbus.

New comment by dcustodio in "Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged with 147 Crimes"

dcustodio — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:26:13 +0000

I could argue that that's just your opinion and of an handful of other rival club supporters.

New comment by dcustodio in "How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger"

dcustodio — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:12:07 +0000

It's a nice story but I've seen this parenting technique applied in our western society:

- "Don't do this or the police will arrest you".

- "eat you yogurt or that kid over there is going to eat it".

Isn't this fearmongering?

New comment by dcustodio in "A Beach Nobody Can Touch"

dcustodio — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:06:55 +0000

I stayed a few nights in Ao Nang and even though is quite packed you can still find places to eat without reserving beforehand. I used it more as a base to visit the surroundings, as the beach there doesn't look that inviting with all the boats and the occasional sewer. I was expecting it to be more "Thai", instead as I walked down the street I heard the same radio hits I hear in Europe. But that's just my expectations hitting the globalization wall. On a positive note I really liked northern Thailand, the days I spent in Chiang Mai were definitely the best days of the trip.

New comment by dcustodio in "A Beach Nobody Can Touch"

dcustodio — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:47:46 +0000

I was in Thailand last November and I spent some days in Krabi. It's so overly touristic that in most "paradisiac" beaches you cannot even take a decent nap with all the noisy long-tail boats going back and forth. Even though I contributed for the overexploration, I wasn't ready for this. I wouldn't be surprised if they start restricting access to other places like Railay.

New comment by dcustodio in "BrandColors – brand color hex codes"

dcustodio — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:19:02 +0000

I exported the list and created a small node app to sort the colors: https://github.com/dcustodio/colorcount the top five is #00000 (66 occurrences), #CC0000 (18), #FF6600 (12), #FF0000 (10), #FFCC00 (8)

New comment by dcustodio in "VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries"

dcustodio — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:45:36 +0000

the beauty is that one day you'll be able to sell electricity from your EV during peak hours, and recharge it when it's cheap.

New comment by dcustodio in "Tesla Model S battery degradation data"

dcustodio — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:38:36 +0000

I fill up every time I refuel and I take notes of the quantity and odometer and the average matches the dashboard.

New comment by dcustodio in "What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack Overflow? (2016)"

dcustodio — Mon, 15 May 2017 06:47:18 +0000

Books would provide the general guidelines on how to do some stuff. I used a search engine (not sure if google at that time) to decipher the exceptions and it eventually would point me to some random message board. It taught me to RTFM.

New comment by dcustodio in "Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC"

dcustodio — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:25:25 +0000

Some people need to feel offended just as I need my morning coffee. I'm not even counting how old is my pc/laptop and that's the thing I like about PCs - there's hardly anything new that triggers my Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

New comment by dcustodio in "[dead]"

dcustodio — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:48:51 +0000

As a windows phone user I hope this is merely a speculation. WP is a great platform for entry level phones. I recently upgraded my WP8.1 to Windows 10 and it runs like a charm even though it only has 512 RAM.

New comment by dcustodio in "Misused mobile UX patterns"

dcustodio — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:20:11 +0000

Great article. I find disturbing how some apps are so hard to use not only by the poor choice of icons, but by not providing immediate and clear ways to perform the most basic actions.

New comment by dcustodio in "Show HN: Simple canteen menu for Portuguese college"

dcustodio — Fri, 22 May 2015 09:10:44 +0000

that's what I call good public service :D