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Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

mtviewdave — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 03:09:19 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32820266

Points: 3

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A Boy and His Atom: The Smallest Movie (2013)

mtviewdave — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 02:14:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30893710

Points: 1

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New comment by mtviewdave in "The Ur-Quan Masters"

mtviewdave — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 02:12:03 +0000

The original Star Control was one of my favorite games. It came out when I was in college and my friends I spent many hours playing the Amiga version in our dorm room.

I happened to know a developer at Accolade who asked if I had any ideas for new ships in the sequel they were planning. I sent an email that seems to have inspired a couple of their ships. Here's a blog post I wrote up about it a few years ago:

https://daveschreiber.com/2016/03/17/my-small-role-in-star-c...

New comment by mtviewdave in "Approved fracking compounds can form PFAS a.k.a. “forever chemicals”"

mtviewdave — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 04:21:44 +0000

I would doubt the groundwater contamination at Moffett Field would migrate inland. Groundwater in Mountain View moves in the direction of the bay.

The groundwater contamination in Mountain View proper comes from the many companies that manufactured semiconductors and other electronics in the '50s through the '80s. Many of which did a poor job disposing of the chemicals they used in electronics manufacturing.

Moonjumper Alpha, a font inspired by the Cow Palace

mtviewdave — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:21:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Introducing-Moonjumper-Alpha-a-font-inspired-by-16258664.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588251

Points: 2

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New comment by mtviewdave in "Fry's Electronics is closing all stores"

mtviewdave — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:55:23 +0000

> on the east side of Lawrence Ave I think, before they moved to the west side of Lawrence.

541 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, to be exact. That was the original location of the original Fry's. That location moved across Lawrence Expy. sometime in the fall of 1990.

New comment by mtviewdave in "Tesla suffers network outage disabling vehicles’ mobile app"

mtviewdave — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 19:43:30 +0000

The key card still works, as I would expect. The car isn't dependent upon network infrastructure; an optional convenience is dependent upon it. You can operate a Tesla fully without installing the Tesla app.

As a comparison, my last car was a BMW. For that car, I had key fobs. I always had to take one of these key fobs in order to unlock and use the car. So going out, I would have one key with which I could operate the car.

Now, because I always carry the key card in my wallet, and I always have my phone, I always have _two_ keys with me. This isn't worse than having only one key, even if one of the keys is failing today due to an internet outage.

Essentially, I'm experiencing the worst case scenario right now, which is that I'm exactly the same situation as when I had my BMW. It's annoying (and as an iOS dev, I Have Questions on how the app came to be architected such that a network outage erases the app's settings). But I'm not worse off

New comment by mtviewdave in "Tesla suffers network outage disabling vehicles’ mobile app"

mtviewdave — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:06:25 +0000

I just tried this with my Tesla. The app cannot connect over the internet to the car, but unlocking and starting the car still works, as does using the app to open the charge port and the front trunk.

The Tesla app uses both internet and bluetooth to connect to the car. I would expect that even with no internet connectivity, bluetooth-related functionality would continue to work, and at least today, that is the case.

EDIT: After seeing dawnerd's comment, I just re-opened the app (didn't kill it, it was in background), and now the entry for my car is gone, which means all the bluetooth functionality I mentioned above no longer works. That's one hell of a bug.

Comet Neowise

mtviewdave — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2020_F3_(NEOWISE)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23776700

Points: 2

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New comment by mtviewdave in "Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?"

mtviewdave — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 17:01:17 +0000

Touchless Networking: like Chat Roulette for business networking. It helps organizers of online events replicate the "mixer" portion of in-person events.

https://www.touchlessnetworking.com/

A GDPR Guide for Developers

mtviewdave — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:25:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnil-publishes-gdpr-guide-developers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502700

Points: 2

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New comment by mtviewdave in "With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage"

mtviewdave — Sun, 24 May 2020 22:35:42 +0000

Here's a thought experiment. Let's say an employer is based out of downtown San Jose, and employs people on-site. Would it be reasonable for them to adjust salaries depending on what city an employee lived in? The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment is $3,291 in Mountain View, but $2,390 in Morgan Hill. If an employee moved from Mountain View to Morgan Hill, would the employer be justified in reducing the salary of the employee to adjust for the fact that the (on-site!) employee now lives in a lower cost-of-living area? (Let's assume that other CoL factors are not more expensive in Morgan Hill than Mountain View, which I feel is a safe assumption).

Would it be justified if the company was fully remote?

What about if the employee moved to Sunnyvale? The average rent is $3,016; a smaller difference, but still cheaper than Mountain View.

Driver in fatal Tesla crash in Mountain View was playing video game

mtviewdave — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:47:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/ntsb-driver-in-fatal-tesla-crash-in-mountain-view-was-playing-video-game/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22415939

Points: 2

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Every Street Is Named 60

mtviewdave — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:04:58 +0000

Article URL: https://forgotten-ny.com/2013/06/every-street-is-named-60-maspeth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22415486

Points: 1

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New comment by mtviewdave in "Fly Through a Star-Studded Nebula [video]"

mtviewdave — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:00:22 +0000

Here's a link to the original video (without the animated text overlay):

https://youtu.be/fkWrjrdT3Zg

New comment by mtviewdave in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)"

mtviewdave — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:48:52 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Mountain View, CA | Remote or On-Site

I'm Dave Schreiber. I'm a mobile software engineer, with over nine years of experience developing for iOS. Started with Objective-C but moved to Swift in 2015. I also have experience with Node, Express, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Heroku, and React. Currently freelancing to bootstrap a startup.

Prefer part-time (20-30 hours/week), but am open to full-time.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtviewdave/

Startup Website: https://www.nextweekapp.com

Email: dave@metebelis.com

Thanks,

-Dave Schreiber

Chris Sacca on Political Ads at Facebook

mtviewdave — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:06:42 +0000

Article URL: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1189934371190345728.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21411048

Points: 2

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New comment by mtviewdave in "The Fry’s Era"

mtviewdave — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 21:33:28 +0000

The very first Fry's was at 541 Lakeside Drive in Sunnyvale, on the east side of Lawrence Expy. Sometime around late 1990 that store moved to 1177 Kern Ave in Sunnyvale, and then by the late '90s moved again to the current location at 1077 E. Arques.

The second store to open was in Fremont (though not at the Fremont store's current location), and the third was the Palo Alto (at the current location).

Source: I worked some summer jobs at the Lakeside Dr. store in the late '80s.

New comment by mtviewdave in "Software was eating the world – now landlords are eating everything"

mtviewdave — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:49:59 +0000

>...it emerged in SF...

It didn't emerge in SF. Quite the contrary, virtually all tech startups for most of the Bay Area's history were no farther north than Menlo Park, and often much farther south (Netflix was founded in Scotts Valley). That's why YC was headquartered in Mountain View until recently.

SF only became a startup hub within the last decade, IMHO in response to the desire of Millenials to live in urban environments.

Watch 125,000 years of human migration in 1 minute

mtviewdave — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:29:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/watch-125000-years-of-human-migration-in-1-minute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20142853

Points: 2

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