hosay123

> - Adopt crypto principles.

Turn a profit by pumping crappy tech to the masses?

Minor nit, but I always appreciate receiving these -- in US English as well as British I believe it's always written "bury the lede"

Until they fix that weird off-centre trackpad, I'd continue suggesting people go Dell XPS, also the only PC laptop with a trackpad response even approaching that of a Macbook

I have yet to encounter an embedded map that could not have better been

- a static image

- a table of addresses with an external map link

It's not just the idea of wheeling around in some 256x256 box added at the last minute to a Contact Us page, the entire concept of an embeddable map is shit

Their main purpose seems to be to add 1 second to page loads across the web, and feed more clickstream back to the mothership

The main exception to this I can think of right now is Flightaware, but even that does not require such detailed rendering

I thought I understood FFT, but totally not getting the relationship to this problem. Someone ELI5 please? :)

This was an interesting point, but prefixing it with a call to authority was both needless and distracting. Why did you include it?

The XPS 15 has the first non-Apple touchpad to impress me in 12 years. Tap heuristics aren't as nice as Apple, but definitely more than workable

If some condition existed that exceeded GPS intended design, you most certainly wouldn't learn of it first from some random anecdote on HN.. more likely the front page of the BBC as the transportation system instantly collapses

So the anecdote itself is noise, it's intended to show how seriously intractable a problem accurate time is, but it doesn't do that, instead it only demonstrates OP's lack of familiarity with GPS and willingness to regurgitate corporate old wives' tales

> Time SRE has at various points had take measures up to and including calling the USAF and telling them their satellites are fucked up

It's another cute anecdote, but Google culture is full of these, always scant on details and always intended to show how big/smart/important/complex/indispensable their engineering is.

"Had to" is a strong term here, it's made to sound like USAF could not possibly have noticed some deviation they were likely to correct of their own accord as a matter of routine as they had been doing for the 20 years of the GPS project prior to Google being founded.

The reality is drift and bad clocks are and always have been a feature of GPS, one explicitly designed for, one an entire staff exists to cope with, and designs depending on the absolute accuracy of a single clock have never been correct

The UK has 4.9x fewer population compared to the USA, yet manages 246x fewer deaths due to policy activity. While some of our police are armed (covering Northern Ireland only - 1.65m population) the majority are not.

The real problem is likely not having armed police, after all, Northern Ireland does not suffer a 246x increase in police-attributed deaths compared to the rest of the UK, but the expectation by police that theirs live are at risk - due to the common access of regular citizens to offensive weaponry

This is so important it deserves its own article