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Re: Elon Musk hints at Tesla Cybertruck being amphibious – is he kidding?

myquealer — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:18:25 -0000

Toyboata isn't small, neither is Hovervan.

Re: Tesla Model 3 Cheaper Than Honda Accord — 15 Cost Comparisons [Updated]

myquealer — Sat, 04 May 2019 21:20:45 -0000

A couple have passed that already. https://sites.google.com/vi...

Re: Tesla Model 3 Cheaper Than Honda Accord — 15 Cost Comparisons [Updated]

myquealer — Sat, 04 May 2019 21:19:08 -0000

My 2019 Tesla Model 3 SR+ is $70/month. My 2013 Honda Fit on low mileage coverage, but otherwise identical, is $50/month. Given the difference in vehicle value, I don't think there's an advantage in insurance cost for a Honda. Your mileage may vary.

Re: Tesla Model 3 Cheaper Than Honda Accord — 15 Cost Comparisons [Updated]

myquealer — Sat, 04 May 2019 20:35:02 -0000

Teslas, theoretically, need very little maintenance. Pretty much just tires and brakes, which the Honda also needs (though brake pads will last longer on the Tesla since it uses regenerative braking rather than the pads much of the time). There are no oil changes, no transmission fluid changes, no tune-ups, etc. There are way fewer moving parts and therefore way less to go wrong.

Re: Council seeks public’s help | News | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon

myquealer — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:14:26 -0000

The problem with making Willamette the southbound one is that Pearl is already southbound and it becomes Amazon Parkway. 19th and Pearl/Amazon would be an unmitigated disaster if there were two one way streets running into each other head-on there.

Re: Council seeks public’s help | News | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon

myquealer — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:04:29 -0000

The recent restriping of WIllamette between 18th and 20th has proven that a single lane doesn't work with stop lights. Willamette St traffic backs up 2 to 4 blocks at 18th in the evenings. This is the result of reducing the merge lane south of 18th from two blocks to one. Now everyone stays in a single lane before the light at 18th and traffic backs up (same thing happens where Pearl becomes Amazon Parkway).

I am horrified to think of what traffic on Willamette will be like if it is one lane with stop lights at 24th, 25th, 27th, 29th, and now one at Woodfield Station.

Cyclists should use the quiet nearby streets and dedicated bike lanes and paths that already exist. If they are going to redo Willamette they should look at the bigger picture and make Willamette one way northbound, Amazon Parkway one way southbound (19th to 29th) and improve the connections between those streets.

Re: Twitter For Mac Comes With A Secret Backdoor To Thank The MacHeist Loyalists

myquealer — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:05:58 -0000

Here's a screenshot of the extra preferences pane: http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: Thousands of Archived Tweets Mysteriously Disappear

myquealer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:57:55 -0000

It's my understanding that Twitter doesn't keep more than the 2,000 or so most recent tweets for an account, so tweets have been disappearing all along, or at least had the potential to. This sounds more severe than that, but Twitter is not an eternal archive of communication. That is one of Twitter's weak points as Dave Winer will be all to happy to tell you.

Re: Could the Web Run Out of Addresses By 2010?

myquealer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:35:49 -0000

It's not just every web server that has its own IP, it is every device connected directly to the internet, the vast majority of which are not web servers.

Re: New iPod Designs Leaked? [PICS]

myquealer — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:23:07 -0000

The Nano screen looks like a bad Photoshop job, like they just vertically stretched a normal Nano screen. The text and album artwork look too tall for their width.

Re: HOW TO: Find the Name of That Song

myquealer — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:25:55 -0000

If you heard the song on Sirius or XM you can search for it at http://www.dogstarradio.com... using as few or as many criteria as you recall.

Re: Rebooting the News #22

myquealer — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:44:24 -0000

I started a site similar to muckrack.com (and their related sites) recently, but before I discovered those sites. Mine is http://tweete.rs It is still in the very early stages, but the plan is to have a subdomain page for hundreds of topics listing prominent people who tweet on that topic, their tweets, and related tweets doing a twitter search.

Visitors to the site can raise or lower each tweeter's rating for that topic (by hovering over their image in the tweeters list and clicking the appropriate icon. At some point soon you will be able to mass-follow all tweeters on a topic, all tweeters on a topic above a certain rating (to follow to ten-best for example), or pick and choose which to follow.

I also plan to create a widget people can add to their own site which will show the latest tweets from the tweeters of a given topic. Initially I planned to let anyone create their own topic (it uses wildcard DNS so any subdomain works) and add tweeters themselves. Concerns about spam have kept me from implementing that thus far.

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

myquealer — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:10:47 -0000

Abraham, what do you think every twitter client (Tweetie, Tweetdeck, Nambe, Seesmic, etc.) do? They are hitting the twitter API every minute or so to show you the latest tweets (whether you are actively reading them or not. And they, on an individual basis, are less important than Dave archiving his tweets. There are millions of those clients running and you're worried about Dave's one archiving script?

Twitter allows everyone 150 API requests per hour. If you ask twitter nicely, chances are they will whitelist your account and allow you to make 20,000 API requests per hour. I think they can handle Dave's 20 or so per hour just fine.

Re: Yahoo embracing Twitter? (Scripting News)

myquealer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:10:52 -0000

Twitter (or a major twitter client should add support for additional meta-characters (or whatever @ and # are called). ? could be used to do a Twitter search (or a real search engine), similar to hashtags but will return results that don't necessarily include a hashtag.

Another idea I tweeted before the recent URL shortening brouhaha is a / metacharacter preceeded by an additional character that other sites buy the rights to from twitter (a revenue source!). For instance b/1628nB could be http://bit.ly/1628nB cutting 12 characters off the URL length in that case. Of course twitter having an additional field for URLs that doesn't count against the 140 would be better.

What other metacharacters could twitter (or a major twitter client) add to improve the Twitter experience?

Re: Wednesday links (Scripting News)

myquealer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:44:57 -0000

By going through a Serbian registrar. You can also register .rs domains through 101domain.com, but you'll pay five times as much that way.