Tharkun

47 ms·

451.
by Tharkun 8y ago
I should have been more clear in my comment, I was referring to international high speed trains. Including mandatory registration of passengers and keeping the data for X years. Presumably these passenger manifests are also exchanged with
452.
by Tharkun 8y ago
> Tesla has been under scrutiny before over several instances of vehicles catching fire. Really? This old chestnut again? I thought the statistics were pretty conclusively showing that cars with internal combustion engines are far more f
453.
by Tharkun 8y ago
Please read the GDPR text and then tell me where it says anything like this.
454.
by Tharkun 8y ago
Not just the US. Most of the western world has incredibly invasive security theatre in airports and train stations now.
455.
by Tharkun 8y ago
I got lyme disease after my first and only (as far as I know) tick bite. A round of antibiotics seems to have killed it, though I am still noticeably more tired than before the infection (anacdata, could just be because I'm getting old
456.
by Tharkun 9y ago
There are so many people out there who pay someone 500eur/usd for a simple drupal website, and then expect to pay maybe 50/year for hosting, but are entirely unwilling to pay for anything else. After all, they can get dirt cheap h
457.
by Tharkun 9y ago
My biggest gripe with tools like Drupal (& WP and other FOSS CMS like things) is that updating them often seems to break things. You have a custom layout and upgrade? Shit breaks. Have some custom plugins? Shit breaks. After the first c
458.
by Tharkun 9y ago
How much wildlife (or human life...) is killed or otherwise threatened by fossil fuels? I suspect a single oil tanker spill kills more animals than any wind farm.
459.
by Tharkun 9y ago
You've obviously never been threatened, harassed or stalked simply for running a blog with real contact information in the whois records.
460.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Interesting. I wonder if anyone has studied what it would take to render fingerprints useless? Like N minutes/day of sanding with Y grit sandpaper? Additionally, I was under the impression that some fingerprint readers looked at the bl
461.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Mostly learnt English online. Bulletin boards. IRC. Reading sci-fi & fantasy. Watching movies. Talking to oodles of internet friends on ICQ and the phone. By the time I was old enough for the compulsory English classes at school -- 14?
462.
by Tharkun 9y ago
My favourite author talking about my second favourite author, discussing my favourite movie. Truly a rare treat.
463.
by Tharkun 9y ago
English language cultural exports are a large part of it, but so is the internet. I could speak/read/write English years before taking English classes in school. IRC and bulletin boards were largely to blame for that, much more so
464.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Last I checked there was no Signal client for most Linux or BSD distros. IIRC they did something silly like a Debian-only package or something. But as many others have stated, its inability to work without exchanging phone numbers is a show
465.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Plenty of OTR-like plugins for your IRC client of choice. IMO IRC is still the best chat experience.
466.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I find this very hard to do. Which Android devices do you use? Most of the ones I've touched don't have an obvious way to opt out of google crapware and google accounts.
467.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I cannot understand why a lot of cyclists aim their headlights slightly up instead of down . Are they trying to illumunate the sky? The eyes of their passers-by? I aim mine down, so the road in front of me is illuminated for a couple of
468.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Moral indignity? Murder? Person? It looks like we have vastly different definitions of each of these words. Scaremongering with no basis in reality is closer to noise than it is to signal.
469.
by Tharkun 9y ago
If only there was this much outrage and discussion every time a human driver killed a pedestrian.
470.
by Tharkun 9y ago
You can pry my cheese from my cold, dead hands. Most hardish cheeses are low in lactose and high in all kinds of good stuff. And fat.
471.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I can't find the link, but I recently read an article that sugggested people with autism did less connection pruning during puberty than people without autism.
472.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I thought that the frequencies were originally decided by whatever machine the generator was driving. Want your big saw to split logs at 100RPM? Make your water wheel drive a generator at 100Hz. IIRC every big motor was different and ran at
473.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I had a chat with a bunch of Japanese university students last month. They told me the same thing. They told me their English classes weren't too bad when it came to grammar, but they hardly ever practiced speaking the language. I can&
474.
by Tharkun 9y ago
There's only so much space in cities. Getting rid of bikes is the wrong move. Cars take up so much more space and cause a plethora of negative effects. Interesting to see that this approach of vandalism is working. It's a shame pe
475.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Yes. That's incompatible with my workflow. Projects are generated on the fly, each new project is automatically connected even if I don't want it to be. Having to manually disconnect each project is a pain. I just want a big &quot
476.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Really? I hate Eclipse git "support" with a passion. I don't want my IDE to go anywhere near my version control. I'll take care of that myself, thankyouverymuch. The fact that Eclipse makes it nearly impossible to disa
477.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I've been using Eclipse for what seems like forever. But it feels like with each new release, Eclipse gets worse. More freezes, more crashes, more really weird behaviour, slower code completion. The fact that I still can't tur
478.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I was sent to the ER a while ago. I spent several hours there, mostly waiting in between test results. After a while I got really thirsty. But they wouldn't let me drink until a doctor cleared me for drinking. This went on for several
479.
by Tharkun 9y ago
Given that someone sabotaged a turbine in a Belgian nuclear power plant a couple of years ago, I'm guessing the security isn't exactly top-notch. I've subcontracted for various Belgian government agencies (as a software engin
480.
by Tharkun 9y ago
I can't really speak for large scale corruption, but small scale corruption and "bending the rules" is pretty much the only way anything gets done around here..

More ›