<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dwyerm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dwyerm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:27:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dwyerm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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 meters and it broke all our road restrictions.<p>The problem for us -- and likely for those in Australia now -- is that converting physical address descriptions and lat/long becomes a little more fraught.  We described road restrictions as being "on the road that is found between X1,Y1 and X2,Y2."  A separate layer would snap those X,Y coordinates to the road network and find the road between them.  Before the move, that meant converting to "Highway 6 Southbound from milemarker 16 to milemarker 28"<p>But when you moved the world, X1,Y1 no longer landed on Highway 6, and instead snapped over to the frontage road. Your restriction now read as "Highway 6 Southbound, down to exit 21, around the corner to the frontage road, then down the frontage road".  And your restriction that used to say "stay off this one section of road" now says "stay off the highway, the frontage road, and don't use this exit."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:54:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22228956</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22228956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22228956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anything and everything made with Unity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:27:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22119724</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22119724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22119724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "Incarcerated and Facebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only if you're the one paying.<p>The ADA requires 'paratransit' service for persons whose disabilities prevent them from using accessible, non-commuter, fixed route bus service. In many cities paratransit is handed off to taxi services.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:51:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22099642</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22099642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22099642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2020 17:21:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21948012</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21948012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21948012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Highly recommended by me, too:  Zoz at DefCon 23, entitled "And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction"<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:05:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21937143</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21937143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21937143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...which is strange, since PTFE is naturally white.  I think we've become used to seeing it on silver and grey frying pans.<p>But that said, what's wrong with a dark-colored toilet?</p>
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<p>You might look through the source code for Wordcram[1].  It is built under Processing, and is relatively easy to understand, I think.<p>[1] <a href="http://wordcram.org/" rel="nofollow">http://wordcram.org/</a></p>
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<p>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 replacements.  I wonder if Lime's electric bikes get shoved off the pier less than Ofo's cheapest ones.</p>
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<p>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 <i>thousands</i> of friends neither of us had ever actually met. The activity of this pool completely swamped the output of any of the 'friends' I would actually meet up with. I had a HUGE network, but no friends on Friendster.<p>This wasn't entirely bad to meet up with people outside of your circles, but you needed some way to control the firehose. And, you know, I think that's still not a solved problem. I think I would be more keen on social networks filtering me feed if I had more control over those filters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 21:46:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253226</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "iPadOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or worse, if you accidentally find this feature, will you know what you just did?  Or will you suddenly be dumped into somewhere that <i>looks</i> like it is still a web browser but has suddenly stopped responding like one.<p>It reminds me of all the old Windows users accidentally dragging their start-bar and covering the whole screen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:16:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064721</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "Nebraska Furniture Mart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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 stores all down the interstate. Jake Jabbs took no prisoners.<p>Now, in addition to Jake's American Furniture Warehouse, there's the whole Furniture Row business holding the territory. Now IKEA is trying to find a way in.<p>Whole books have been written about the Furniture Wars!  It's kind of crazy.</p>
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<p>There's also "This Person Does Not Exist[1]", which has been discussed a few time before[2], here.<p>[1] <a href="https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/</a>
[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280</a></p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>We're changing to auto market into the cell phone market?  Oh no.<p>"Well, I get Free Miles(tm) with the Chevrolet, but it throttles at 70MPH and the radio only plays Pandoa.  Or I can get the exact same car from Crysler, with no throttling, but the miles come in bundles of 1000 and radio apps are $5/month."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:59:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20984715</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20984715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20984715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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...</p>
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<p>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 soon. The experience degrades a <i>little</i> bit if you arrive in a car they've never seen before -- a human stops by your window with a tablet to check you in.</p>
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<p>Saving you from the clickbaity title: Debian etc, Suse, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft.<p>The bottom half is filled out with Canonical, Google, RedHat, Cisco and Adobe.</p>
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<p>...or maybe even offer those features to Google Voice's dialer, as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2019 17:08:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779793</link><dc:creator>dwyerm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dwyerm in "Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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 can make that happen without typing my personal and financial information into a skeevy website that could be <i>anywhere</i> is the real value to me.
PayPal (...and Apple Pay and Google Wallet and Samsung Something and Venmo an Beanz and and and...) is the technology that should be making this friction go away, but it appears to be difficult to provide this without turning evil.<p>So, to your idea, I also appreciate the idea of one, trustworthy, site that would do all of that for me.  The thing is, Amazon <i>is</i> that site, for the most part.</p>
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<p>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.<p>But I strongly recommend a video that covers the second race. Not to be confused with the 2009/2010 Citizen Pictures video, this one was put out by a studio in Aspen and I think was produced for the Outdoor Life Network.<p>The problem is that I'm not sure how one would legitimately source the video today. But if you stop by my place I'll offer you a beer and arrange a showing...? I'll look it up tonight and let you know if I can find a source.</p>
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