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New comment by shoesfullofdust in "The Future of Vehicle Recycling, Cars stripped, boxed and on eBay within hours"

shoesfullofdust — Tue, 30 May 2023 01:19:40 +0000

I think we watched a different video. They are harvesting parts and the disassembly plant is 75% powered by solar.

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "The Future of Vehicle Recycling, Cars stripped, boxed and on eBay within hours"

shoesfullofdust — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:44:19 +0000

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this!

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "U.S. jury convicts Nikola founder of fraud"

shoesfullofdust — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 04:45:43 +0000

thought the news would be of interest. that's all

U.S. jury convicts Nikola founder of fraud

shoesfullofdust — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 23:06:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-jury-deliberating-nikola-founders-fraud-trial-2022-10-14/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33209846

Points: 10

# Comments: 6

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "Why Warren Buffett Just Bought Duracell"

shoesfullofdust — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 06:10:29 +0000

In my world, AA batteries are all about door locks. There are a lot of card-reading door locks that depend on them.

Whenever a lock fails, step one or two or three is replace the batteries. That's 4-6 batteries per lock.

As a maintenance/security procedure, once every couple of years, every battery in every lock in the entire building is replaced. Doesn't matter if they are dead, weak or brand new. That's hundreds/thousands of batteries.

That's a lot of batteries. And Duracell has multiple levels of "pro"/"industrial grade" batteries. We buy them by the case.

I'm sure the markup on consumer batteries are huge, but I'd also think the commercial use of double-As must dwarf the consumer market. Smart buy by Warren is my guess.

What's needed in this space is a door lock that winds itself much like a "perpetual" watch. Something that takes the mechanical energy used to turn the door handle and turns it into stored energy that can be used to read the card and unbolt the door.

And there you go. Make this thing :)

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "Don't forget about email"

shoesfullofdust — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:46:50 +0000

The people I work with (about 900 of them, all <20 yrs old) do not check their email. The only reason they have email is to create an account with a service that has little or nothing to do with email. Forget about email.

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "How automatic transmission almost made sperm whales extinct"

shoesfullofdust — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:08:31 +0000

Nixon's bold stance(?!) predates P.S. Lang's invention of a synthetic replacement by a number of years.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3731

Of course, he could never use the term "sperm whale". But this is what led to the Endangered Species Act that granted the whales a reprieve. Lang's invention was only a reaction to this. It's still a good read.

Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet 'Persona' Service (2002)

shoesfullofdust — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:35:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/technology/11NET.html?pagewanted=print

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3189935

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Vash - The Visual Hash

shoesfullofdust — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:20:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.thevash.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772624

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics"

shoesfullofdust — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:24:06 +0000

Additional information can be found on the designer's website: http://www.studiostudio.nl/en/project-dyslexie/

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics"

shoesfullofdust — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:18:01 +0000

It appears to be licensed through http://www.lexima.nl/school-en-behandelaar/categorie/lettert...

google translate: http://translate.google.ca/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl...

Cam's guide for Designing with HTML (for designers) (1996)

shoesfullofdust — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:50:20 +0000

Article URL: http://users.michweb.net/~cameron/guide.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2711716

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Science of Word Recognition

shoesfullofdust — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 03:59:07 +0000

Article URL: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/WordRecognition.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2026882

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "So, that was a bummer"

shoesfullofdust — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:58:42 +0000

The technical details were great. And I'm sure other devs can learn from your predicament. But, as a user, you didn't answer the question, "When can I use this again?"

It broke. You fixed it. But, "Can I expect this to work again?" "Reliably?" All I heard was that it was broken.

It sounded a lot like, "something broke, it took a long time to fix."

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "History Of The World Wide Web"

shoesfullofdust — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:30:47 +0000

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History Of The World Wide Web

shoesfullofdust — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:29:42 +0000

Article URL: http://glaciated.org/theweb/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1622044

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "How to Write an Operating System"

shoesfullofdust — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:41:34 +0000

Since each chapter does not link to the next (the zeroeth one does, but not the others), here's a link to the index: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "Google Kills Wave"

shoesfullofdust — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:28:36 +0000

One wonders how the folks on the Novell Pulse team are feeling about this announcement. And how many hours they may have spent on "interoperability with Google Wave through the federation protocol".

http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-unveils-real-time-co...

D.I.Y. Detroit: A Hands-On Approach to Fixing the Auto Industry

shoesfullofdust — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:06:40 +0000

Article URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/diy-detroit-a-hands-on-approach-to-fixing-the-auto-industry/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564118

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shoesfullofdust in "Review your notions of time, state, mutability (talk by Rich Hickey)"

shoesfullofdust — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:05:04 +0000

Great talk! Thanks for pointing this out.

"You superimpose the notion of cloud on a series of related cloud values." Whoa!