NamTaf

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by NamTaf 4y ago
Those steps up already exist. The railway I work for has in-cab radios that we routinely measure the signal coverage to confirm minimal black spots, plus there’s also GSM phones (as in, hardwired in the driver’s cab), in all our locos.
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by NamTaf 4y ago
This is hilariously hand-wavey of the complexity and strikes at my frustrations between how most IT engineers see the world vs how real-world engineers do. There are parallel tracks within metres of one another. Switching yards have tonnes
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by NamTaf 4y ago
What system do they use for this? I’m not aware of any remote-stop functionality outside of driverless railways but that’s not to say it doesn’t exist.
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by NamTaf 4y ago
SAP developers aren't paid because they're more talented than other developers, they're paid because the niche in which they're deeply embedded extracts extreme business value. It may take just as much talent to write in
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by NamTaf 4y ago
If you’ve not watched it, go find James Burke’s “Connections”. It takes this idea writ large; technology is almost always standing on the backs of giants before you and changing one thing which pushes the ball a bit further forward.
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Sure, but my point is that you had to actively go out and find it. You didn't get an in-lined feed of social media 'suggested posts' that gradually took you from being angry at the machine to some radicalised position. My bro
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by NamTaf 4y ago
The difference is that hyperpowerful social media algorithms have weaponised it. Kids in the 90s had to actively seek out whatever propaganda or whatnot that they wanted to read about. If you were a pissed-off goth kid wanting to read how t
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by NamTaf 4y ago
The hilarious thing is that that excuse is essentially just security through obscurity. Which is especially rich coming from the company whose vulnerability research team famously set a hard disclosure deadline that was shorter than many ot
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by NamTaf 4y ago
I could be wrong, but I'm interpreting it as a sort of analogous system to Word's autosummary feature. That is, You put in a complete text, and then have periodically briefer summaries of it (perhaps in sections, such as paragraph
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by NamTaf 4y ago
To some degree, that doesn't matter . An underlying feature of a competent approach to safety in design is that the design must take maximal ownership of eliminating risk to all people in all scenarios that can be reasonably expected
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Correct. The fact they made a robot that could crush a human hand means they paid no attention to this hazard. Competent execution of Safety in Design concepts would demand limiting the grip force to only what's necessary to reliably m
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by NamTaf 4y ago
The system producing the shadow isn't a 2d lattice, because it also involves the sun. Changing the location of the sun relative to the window will change the pattern of the shadow. If you wanted to really convince yourself, add multipl
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Aha, thanks for that key point, that does change it a lot. I missed that this was in CA and for whatever reason assumed it was all going through the NZ courts. I am sure there is some form of cross-border agreement between NZ and the US,
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Does Glassdoor even have a legal presence in NZ? If so, why? If not, why are they even bothered by this? Could they theoretically not just play hardball, ignore the NZ courts entirely on the basis that they have no legal entity within NZ, a
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by NamTaf 4y ago
As opposed to all the sheep in famously temperate Australia? :) The temperature argument doesn't stack up to me. Have you got a source?
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by NamTaf 4y ago
It's not popular, and what lamb is grown there is generally also a very mild flavour as far as lamb goes, being less gamey than lamb found in other countries.
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by NamTaf 4y ago
The bigger issue is that toxins concentrate in carnivores in a way that they do not in herbivores.
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Why aren't they paid out upon termination? Is that not standard policy in the US? You earnt them, after all. Just as they can't take back your earnt wages, they can't take back your earnt leave.
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by NamTaf 4y ago
This, a million times. Tech nerds love cooking up elaborate technical solutions to this problem (I’ve seen it here in several threads over the years) but completely ignore the legal requirements and expectations around establishing next of
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by NamTaf 4y ago
I would be surprised if you were legally allowed to go and modify assets before the will is executed. I know when my partner died that I was not supposed to log in to her accounts and just transfer shit around; banks instead have very wel
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by NamTaf 4y ago
This has almost no similarities to stuxnet. A more analogous hypothetical attack to stuxnet would be if they repeatedly cycled spinning rust drive heads in a certain way to cause the motors to fail and corrupt data, all the while faking the
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by NamTaf 4y ago
I was just wondering whether AusPost offered something similar... it's a shame to hear it's not for residential addresses. Almost all of my mail is deliveries of freight from online purchases, so I make habitual use of the locker
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Agreed. Step 6 is where it breaks down, because it's redefined A as being one of the two envelopes to being the halfway point between those two envelopes. Until step 6, it's describing two parallel views of the universe (depending
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by NamTaf 4y ago
If it detects it’s on the same LAN it’ll route locally, so I find it quite good. The only challenge I’ve had with latency is desync when using it for video but using a desktop mic directly into the PC for audio, as opposed to using the phon
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by NamTaf 4y ago
My use case was doing remote language classes. I had multiple programs open on my desktop and had my lesson book on my desk in front of me. I was looking at slides that I had to read, with PDFs open next to the slides shared during the vide
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Thanks, I’ll check this out! VDO will route locally over a LAN when it can, which helps keep latency down, but its always great to compare options.
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Protip: if your goal is to use your smartphone as a webcam, check out this: https://vdo.ninja Written by some guy named Steve, it’s an incredible piece of web software that uses WebRTC to stream phone audio and video as an OBS
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by NamTaf 4y ago
I feel you can do something with floor and trunc to get the remainder, then using round to get the sig figs correct. You can make it abs of it at the start, and then only add a negative at the start of the concat if it's negative. I ra
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by NamTaf 4y ago
Besides this, it's politically unteniable. Australia even just famously arranged to purchase US nuclear-powered subs - which require enriched fuel - without any capability to produce it or any intention of creating that capability. The
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by NamTaf 4y ago
It’s largely understood (I am in a pub halfway across the world and have no specific citation) that the FHBG just bumped the purchase price up by that amount. In Australia, many new buyers’ max purchase prices are dictated by their total bo

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