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by Symbiote 1y ago
In many countries trains have two or more levels of travel. First Class here provides free refreshments, a larger seat, and fewer people in the carriage. I've not seen a public bus with a first class section, but it probably exists som
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The domain is .IE, the FAA has little relevance.
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It was introduced in 2004, and made mandatory in 2006. France was using chip cards since 1992, although with the previous standard.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
In some regions, credit/debit cards no longer have magnetic strips. If I travel to the USA I'll be unable to use these old vending machines and parking meters.
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That sounds like more hassle than receiving a straightforward deposit into my bank account.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Before she died, my grandmother couldn't remember where she'd hidden her most valuable jewellery. She was an excellent card player 10 years before that, probably because she could recall most/all of the playing cards in the
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Ms. Griffin recalled a particularly difficult episode: [...] She slammed on the brakes and yelled. Her truck pulled up just in time. > “I thought for sure I was going to kill those people,” she said. I hope at least the autonomous t
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Using [1], BMW have 87 models, of which 13 can be electric, 13 plug-in hybrid, 47 petrol and just 6 diesel. The six are all SUVs. Mercedes don't have an easy filter, but they do have some cars available with diesel engines, e.g. C-Cla
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by Symbiote 1y ago
It's also a fire hazard. I'm sure they'd consider the worst-case scenario, and at present that's probably some serious arcing within a motor causing a fire. Cutting the track power (easily done by the driver) then makes
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by Symbiote 1y ago
How is checking names going to prevent terrorists with guns? The article isn't clear (as I'm not familiar with Manchester Arena and the names of the rooms) but a man was allowed in with a bomb in a bag. Showing id (or not) wouldn&
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I think I've only had this once for a concert I've attended, but generally: > I buy a ticket for a friend (maybe as a present) but don't actually want to go to the concert You'd need to transfer the ticket to them ele
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by Symbiote 1y ago
This is the law in Denmark, and I think Ireland and several other European countries. Tickets must not be sold for more than the original price. Ticketmaster etc are still happy to take part in the action: their resale system still charges
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Absolutely, so that needs to be the discussion — a claim that the cameras achieve nothing isn't correct and would be ignored by politicians etc.
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I don't like these cameras, but it's worth noting they have had some use: > The Met arrested 587 people in 2024 with the assistance of the live facial recognition cameras of which 424 were charged with offences. Of those arrest
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Store hashes of the detected faces. Or store low framerate video, just occasional frames where people are detected
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Even before real school started, I think many of us in Europe played with base ten blocks. As far as I know they are always centimetre-sized, so the 1000-cube is a litre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ten_blocks
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by Symbiote 1y ago
10 is arbitrary, but it's also the base chosen for our counting system. You can use hexadecimal numbers if you wish. "He's B6 cm tall." I have found this, which seems neat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Inches/feet/yards and miles just remain separate things, never mixed How tall are you, maybe 70 inches? Or 5⅚ft? 178cm or 1.78m are so obviously equivalent it doesn't matter which is used. > 12 inches in a foot and 3
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by Symbiote 1y ago
A friend who heads a well-funded research group here in Denmark says the recent change is not so much in the number of Americans applying, but the quality/prestige. He's now receiving serious enquiries from graduates of Stanford,
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by Symbiote 1y ago
It could be reasonable to extend sort to support a hexadecimal numeric sort. It already supports numeric (decimal) and human-readable with SI prefixes (2k, 1G).
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Japan's cards are faster and are accepted in convenience shops. However, in Denmark many passengers (commuters with weekly or longer tickets, people with smartphone tickets, people with paper tickets) don't need to do anything at
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by Symbiote 1y ago
> Compare the speed of passing through a ticket gate on the Underground to a Tokyo ticket gate The video in London is showing tourists/visitors, since they all have paper tickets and half of them are fumbling around. The Japanese v
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by Symbiote 1y ago
I've had the opposite: I entered a large station at the west entrance as a transfer from a local train run by a different company. The platform I needed was next to the east entrance. Fine. On the platform was a sign (in English!) r
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by Symbiote 1y ago
The other case for personalised advertising is when a purchase is almost made. I was recently searching for a toy across Etsy, Ali Express, eBay. I didn't buy it. A day later, I saw 'suggested' purchases on Amazon for the
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I find EVs noticeably quieter, but the "typical speeds" here in Copenhagen are properly lower than where you live. At 30km/h or so, the main noise is the engine, so EVs are quieter (as the video says).
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by Symbiote 1y ago
Note that from 2026, electric vehicles will no longer be exempt from the London congestion charge.
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NYC wisely decided to license London's system.
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If it was good enough in 1980, Japan might computerise it but they won't change it.
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That sounds like a lot of hassle. Why do you continue to order from Amazon?
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I'm not willing to test in (I don't buy from Amazon) but almost all the time when ordering online from Denmark, I have to authorize the transaction with the second factor — phone app or TOTP key etc. This applies even when I'

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