Life Hack: Pure H2O becomes safe to drink by adding a sticker that says; "Gluten Free".

I tried it and it totally works!

He's been the only one posting stories since Thursday morning. I'm willing to cut him a bit of slack at this point.

We used to preset the volume level by listening for the hiss from the magnetic tape when it hits the heads after the non magnetic leader.

Most commercial tapes did not use high quality, high bias tape or Dolby NR, so every album on cassette was just a terrible hiss fest. You had to record albums yourself on good tape with NR if you wanted to avoid the hiss.

If you didn't remove hairs and lint from the capstan, clean the rollers and tape guides every 10 to 20 operating hours and demagnetize the heads every year your tapes would sound like shit and the players would "eat" your tapes. The tape would often stick in the mechanism and start folding, accordion style.

It was common for car players to eject the cassette with the tape still stuck inside.

I recall hearing; "Dude, I'm totally bummed. My car ate my favorite album on the way over".

You all get a "can't see the forest because of the trees" award for not recognizing that a 3 million ft square factory has less than 69 acres of floor space.

Will we have to pay 100 times standard rates for the data in the few days before the hurricane hits?

Hi! I'm an Executive at the Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center, and we've detected a problem with your internet....

Microsoft would never do this because It's not in their interest to build something which connects a customer to Google's services.

They want to replace the entire Google cloud services infrastructure with Microsoft services.

I found it very interesting that Tsinghua University controls the investment group. Does that make a difference?

Their Wikipedia page says nothing about their EE department. I took a quick look at their EE dept. faculty page and, while large, don't seem to be doing much in chip design or fabrication.

Can someone with more knowledge of the University provide some insight on its relationship to the Chinese military and national government? Has anybody here worked with current Tsinghua University faculty?

As an older programmer with 30+ years experience I've not bothered to apply at Google because of their reputation of only hiring a homogeneous group of young PhD's and placing them in large, open, work environments. My local paper shows all the toys and "perks" that Google offers their employees who stay at work for long periods. That kind of environment is unattractive and kills creativity.

I've also read that Google is quite stingy about vacation time. I think Google would benefit from hiring people like me, but probably won't attract them until their reputation improves.

I'm not going to work for any company who won't let their employees take vacation. This seems to be a common trend; No time off for software people because everyone lives on "Internet Time".

I got an order of magnitude greater interest when I removed my graduation date from my profile. I'd also suggest using a picture from when you were in your 30's.

Companies these days seem to be fearless about overt discrimination against non protected classes. I was having lunch with a friend and asked him if he knew any high quality companies who had software job openings. I was shocked at the reply.

"My buddy at HP (Loveland CO) said he has an opening in his group. ... However, his boss told him not to bother bringing any white males to interview".

So, HP has an illegal hiring policy and are not afraid to tell their managers, who are not afraid to tell their professional staff, who are fine telling members of the public. We've come a long way, Baby.

I will never purchase or recommend a HP product again.

Is getting a notification you are about to be hit by a tornado a horrid idea?

Push (subscription based) notification can be pretty useful. It's been around a long time, in many forms. I doubt Google is giving up on the concept.

I agree. The author comes across like a Mean Girls reporter for a high school gossip column sent to do a report on the AV club.

The author's personal biases are palpable as is her fixation on people's bodily functions.

What's that supposed to mean? The article seems to focus on the author's opinion that the contestants are unfuckable despite them having good job prospects. Did we learn anything about technique or team strategy in these competitions? Did the author care?

Note that researchers found the cockroach body shape useful for navigating through obstacles.

Paint it orange and give it a little LED headlight for rescue. I'd be happy to see a robot roach if I were buried.

Find more details here The planes used a Linux based autopilot to control the aircraft which had waypoints sent to it via onboard Odroid SBCs. Primary communication to and from the planes used UDP packets sent through USB WiFi adaptors hung off the Odroids

2 people "operated" the swarm, one commanding, the other monitoring. Planes got their swarm "slot" assignments at launch and tried to maintain position relative to a lead aircraft once they had reached their slot altitude. It's an interesting read. A quick estimate suggests they put around $1k in hardware into each plane. They describe guiding planes manually via spotter pilots using a secondary 900MHz spread spectrum radio link when anything went wrong.