AndyKron - Slashdot User

Comment So long! (Score 1) 57

by AndyKron on Monday May 18, 2015 @10:23PM (#49723451) Attached to: Forecasting the Next Pandemic

Oh ya, we're fucked.

Comment It was raining when I went outside today (Score 1) 287

by AndyKron on Monday May 18, 2015 @09:56AM (#49717713) Attached to: The Auto Industry May Mimic the 1980s PC Industry

It was raining when I went outside today and I got wet. I find that an interesting parallel.

Comment I know they're real motive (Score 1) 73

by AndyKron on Sunday May 17, 2015 @09:46AM (#49710467) Attached to: Rockwell Collins To Develop Cockpit Display To Show Sonic Boom Over Land

I think they're developing it so the Israelis will be able better able to piss off the Palestinians.

Comment 2 things (Score 1) 107

by AndyKron on Sunday May 17, 2015 @09:21AM (#49710361) Attached to: Turning an Arduino Project Into a Prototype

I wouldn't make a PCB for one project, I'd use a perf. board. You also don't need a stencil for SMT boards. I just got done soldering up ten prototype boards at work that had all SMT parts on them down to 0602. I used a microscope and a soldering iron.

Comment Go away (Score 1) 190

by AndyKron on Sunday May 17, 2015 @09:14AM (#49710337) Attached to: Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020

We already have our flag there, go away. Besides, the people in the UAE couldn't make a bottle rocket if their lives depended on it. Other people will have to build it for them.

Comment Keurig for cats already exists (Score 1) 270

by AndyKron on Friday May 15, 2015 @02:51PM (#49699733) Attached to: Here Comes the Keurig of Everything

Keurig for cats already exists as the self-cleaning litter box

Comment Running out of words? (Score 0) 149

by AndyKron on Friday May 15, 2015 @02:49PM (#49699717) Attached to: Rust 1.0 Released

Running out of words to call those next big things?

Comment Isn't the special? (Score 1) 71

by AndyKron on Friday May 15, 2015 @01:06PM (#49698731) Attached to: Turtle Receives First-Ever 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implant of Its Kind

Isn't the special? People over there are dying left and right, and they're saving fucking turtles.

Comment My musical tastes soured (Score 2) 361

by AndyKron on Thursday May 14, 2015 @04:18PM (#49692711) Attached to: What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age?

My musical tastes soured because of all the corporate bullshit. Now it's indie YouTube videos for me. AdBlocker is my friend.

Comment IT's birdie chase (Score 1) 403

by AndyKron on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:09PM (#49683739) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: After We're Gone, the Last Electrical Device Still Working?

The last device working will be that goddamn ball in my cat's birdie chase toy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment People were mad about talkies too. (Score 1) 175

by AndyKron on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:50AM (#49680793) Attached to: The Decline of Pixel Art

Someone is mad because pixel art is declining? I suppose people were upset when movies became talkies too.

Comment I have cats (Score 2) 288

by AndyKron on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @06:21PM (#49624829) Attached to: USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device

This won't work. I have cats.

Comment Arduino is my enabler (Score 1) 425

by AndyKron on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:16AM (#49620627) Attached to: The Programming Talent Myth

I suck brilliantly at programming. Arduino is my enabler.

Comment Hey Louie! (Score 4, Insightful) 347

by AndyKron on Monday May 04, 2015 @04:28PM (#49615441) Attached to: House Panel Holds Hearing On "Politically Driven Science" - Without Scientists

Hey Louie, you mean like trying to get government to force biology teachers to teach creationism? Is that what you mean by politically driven science?

Comment hiring 15 year olds (Score 1) 553

by AndyKron on Monday May 04, 2015 @02:09PM (#49613937) Attached to: Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks'

McDonald's in town has a help wanted sign out front saying "hiring 15 year olds". Discriminatory?

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