Kuy Mainwaring

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@scanlime I believe it's selective wave soldered, common for high-volume electronics in Asia. A physical mask defines regions to hit.

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When I heard about the $95M Facebook satellite exploding today my response was simply "Move fast and break things." :-)

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@SFPDBikeTheft @bySeeing Thanks to SFPD and a helpful neighbor the owner was reunited with his bike!

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Doordash: "Search from NaN restaurants". As it happens I *was* craving Indian food.

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Can we expect a Clinton/Sanders '16 ticket? That would be an amazing strategy

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@CedHon yes, get them from Powerstream. That's what they used inside the Coin card.

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So, who is going to buy Nintendo? Disney? Comcast? Sony?

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The question is has Amazon already beaten Uber to the general logistics opportunity?

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Just received an Amazon delivery in SF from two guys in a sedan: one drives door to door, the other runs the box over and hits the doorbell.

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It should be noted that Concorde did not fail because its tickets were too expensive, that's just a symptom of fatal bad business management

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Another SST problem is the easily-forgotten public backlash against noise at a time when cars/cities were already much louder than now.

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One of the problems with Concorde is its RR Olympus engines have extremely high fuel consumption during taxi. Perhaps redesign to solve that

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Wouldn't it be far cheaper at first to just recommission existing Concorde airframes than develop an entirely new supersonic aircraft, Boom?

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It works, it's back to normal operation but unfortunately it's still a first-generation iPad. So only slightly better than e-waste :-(

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This old iPad's battery had over-discharged to 2.8V and normal recovery didn't work so I'm directly recharging it:

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@chadzeluff they're really good: instantaneous, detailed, color-coded, configurable, scrollable, dismissable, filterable.

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@chadzeluff critically Pebble watches have always-on screens and long battery life. The Apple Watch has neither and is thus of limited use.

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@chadzeluff Yes, e.g. it tells me how long I have until my next meeting, where it is and how long (with current traffic) to get there.

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The Pebble Time Round is such a good smartwatch that I can't imagine how someone would buy one from another brand.

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Intel released a tiny QFN microcontroller that looks like an ARM, Windows will ship with bash... what next, a front-wheel drive BMW? Oh wait