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2y ago
Yes — it reached a point where Ryanair made a website on the issue: https://www.atcruinedourholiday.com/
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We certainly know how to do both those things (and military planes fly supersonic daily). That's because it's written down.
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2y ago
> I can't understand why it is always depicted as bean-shaped. Do you disagree with the reason suggested in the article?
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2y ago
You can rewrite the history of the repository to remove the huge files, if you wish. Of course, all the commit identifiers change.
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2y ago
I've handled scientific data sets of that size (per file).
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2y ago
The target to replace lead water pipes was abandoned by Trump yesterday.
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2y ago
The ban on "display" of the DPRK flag means flying the flag in public or on a building, it doesn't mean viewing the file on a computer.
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2y ago
There are hundreds of resources for a Google search for "emoji flags Windows".
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2y ago
That's not essential. Plain looking flags are still better in all cases than large letters.
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2y ago
There's no official definition of Y being a vowel. In many words it is, in some it isn't.
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2y ago
It's English. Naïve is more commonly known. Very few people would write the dots, but I wonder if that's more because they don't know how to type it than anything else. Here's a list: https://github.com/R
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2y ago
I found https://uc3.cdlib.org/data-mirror/ which was a mirror a few years ago, but it's been taken down due to a lack of ongoing funding. It would be a great start to have a mirror of just the metadata, to at leas
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2y ago
> I get him, but why Visa? It seems a crazy business decision for Visa. There was an advertiser boycott in 2023-2024, why would Visa choose to get involved?
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2y ago
(I'm not sure why my comment is now collapsed by default. It doesn't seem to be flagged, and has a score of 15.) I tried again, and this time I get "Posts that look like spam are blocked", and a similar message if I try
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2y ago
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190 Most likely add an American English name, leaving the English name as Gulf of Mexico. But I didn't read all 108 comments in the discussion.
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2y ago
I tried to make a post with the https://species.wikimedia.org/ link, and I get "Your content couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards".
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2y ago
The increased demand (from abroad) causes local prices to increase. It looks like Norway has about 8.5GW of export capacity, vs about 13GW of production. Overall, exports significantly outweigh imports, but the times Norway is importing mea
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2y ago
The territorial sea is 12nmi (22km) from the coast. Even where this covers the whole distance (e.g. Denmark and Sweden) foreign ships still have the right to pass through. You are thinking of the EEZ, exclusive economic zone, but that'
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I've tried it again and was given this flag: https://flagle.fun/imgs/flags/BQ.png It's Bonaire, but that territory isn't in the list.
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2y ago
Cheque use in the UK is now around two per year per person. (This includes business-to-business cheques.) The over-65 age group is most likely to use them, and least likely to use an app, so you can see why it wasn't a big priority for
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2y ago
We are still not past this point. Just yesterday, people in government announced their wish to build an additional runway at Heathrow. Noise will increase for over 300,000 people. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/hea
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A relative who used Concord a few times didn't comment on the space, but instead said it was the noise during flight that meant he preferred British Airways first class on a normal plane, if time wasn't essential.
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It's in the article.
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2y ago
Similarly, I was first shown Norway's flag, but with an enormous vector. The answer could therefore only be Bouvet Island. Revealing the answer should be added, given all the AI-genned text about education.
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2y ago
I don't think most of your examples are correct, but in any case, not everything has to be started in the USA. Private companies running a taxi service (arranged by phone) were widespread in the UK long before Uber, and surely also oth
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The Victoria Line in London has a 100 second interval, although apparently in practise it's more frequent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ0zk4MWCQY From a quick search, there are also lines in Paris and Moscow wit
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In London you can take a high speed train from St Pancras to Stratford, though it's a normal high speed train that then continues far outside the city. It's the blue+yellow line which goes off the east side: https://con
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Since 2022 there's also the Elizabeth Line, which uses the same tracks as the Heathrow Express, but then continues under Central London and far to the east. It takes 27 rather than 15 minutes to Paddington, but it's also half the
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Ultra-High Voltage seems to mean over 500kV. AC lines of this voltage in Europe are only in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/ — there's a legend if you click the button, but navy i
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There's additional cost for the transformers powering the caternary above the track to allow them to receive power, not just send it. However, since this has been normal in Europe and Asia for decades, I doubt the additional expense is
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