Xylakant

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by Xylakant 1y ago
If your company bylaws are set up properly, you can do board meetings via video calls just fine. Very few acts require actual presence in the country. What is required is that you can, at any time, enter Germany to perform those acts - whic
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by Xylakant 1y ago
If you look at outcomes, 50km/h (30mph) is much less safe than 30km/h (20mph). If you look at the physics, that’s not surprising - stopping distances increase super linear. At the point where a 30km/h car would have come to a
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by Xylakant 1y ago
It happens all of the time. Cars veering off the road and maiming pedestrians is a fairly common occurrence. Sorry to cite German sources, but google translate should help you out August 2024: 8 Year old “caught by a car on the pavement” h
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by Xylakant 1y ago
That depends on what you consider noticeable. A lot of things are noticeable (and noticed) on the local level. The folks that organise reading sessions with the kids a my sons school. The people managing the local hockey club. People doing
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by Xylakant 1y ago
You are misrepresenting how dilution works - and dilution usually is not what fucks you. Dilution is fairly straightforward - someone ponies up money and gets a share of the company. The valuation that gets handed around is usually what’s c
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by Xylakant 1y ago
They could, but the shares represent value - and that money needs to come from somewhere. Simple, but extreme example: A company is valued at 10 million gobbledoks, and the C-Suite holds 10%, representing 1 Million valuation. Now the compan
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by Xylakant 1y ago
Legally speaking, it’s probably possible. Practically speaking it almost certainly a guarantee that the company will never see outside investment. On every round someone would need to pony up the cash to fill that employees stock. Anti-dilu
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by Xylakant 1y ago
Kagi has an extension to add itself. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default/s...
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by Xylakant 1y ago
The test setting is important here - the test is on an otherwise idle machine. This means that the update ensures that some thread wakes on a timer every second which may explain the large drop. This test is interesting, but not very repres
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by Xylakant 1y ago
Do roads turn a direct profit? Water works? Canals? Flood Dams? Dikes? Are public parks profitable? Should schools be profitable? Is the police profitable? Does the fire department charge for every blaze they contain? Is the congress profit
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by Xylakant 1y ago
Rewrites by engineers can also uncover cases where the original tool does not conform to its own spec, this rewrite uncovered two issues with the original sudo. One of our engineers involved in the project wrote about the testing approach t
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by Xylakant 1y ago
I think it's pretty reductive to boil down linux' success to the choice of license. There's governance model, development model, institutional inerta, ... - and the linux ecosystem contains tons of permissively licensed piece
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by Xylakant 1y ago
> It's permissively licensed, unfortunately. Wonder why. I've been loosely involved in setting this up, so I can say a little: The people that funded the initial work wanted it permissively licensed. My (somethwat informed) con
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by Xylakant 1y ago
That’s much more common than one would think. The London tube began operation 160 years ago. The U1 line in Berlin was constructed between 1902 and 1926. The central railway lines are substantially older. The Paris metro began operation in
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by Xylakant 1y ago
Better (more expensive) Engineering. Different frame geometries, different materials, better quality control on the welding. One of the main reasons for the recall was that babboe did not follow up on reports of frames breaking until a regu
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by Xylakant 1y ago
Yes, but due to unrelated issues (the frames would break)
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by Xylakant 1y ago
There are a couple of advantages of tricycles that go beyond novice/disabled. They don’t need a kickstand, so they’re easy to park when loaded. They don’t need balancing at stops. They generally have better load capacity. There’s also
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by Xylakant 1y ago
You can never control what I do on my device with the message received- I can make screenshots, or, if the app prevents that, take a picture of the screen. The goal of signal is trusted end-to-end encrypted communication. Device/Messag
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by Xylakant 1y ago
There’s also a bit of a different optimization goal in modern archery - the goal is to put as many arrows precisely on a target. More draw weight helps up to a certain extent, but ranges are pre-set and limited and once your draw weight is
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by Xylakant 1y ago
The autobahn with speed limits is demonstated to be safer than the autobahn without - there's no need to compare to US highways. You could compare the autobahn with germanies european neighbors, but the better comparison is the article
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by Xylakant 1y ago
The german autobahn demonstrates exactly the opposite. Everywhere that speed limits are introduced, the number of accidents drop. Less injured people, less fatalities. One example is the A24 https://www.geo.de/wissen/ve
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by Xylakant 1y ago
In Europe this exists with the l6e an l7e class vehicles - which lead to a number of interesting microcar designs, often for 2 people with a top speed of about 90km/h and ranges around 150-200km. Great commuter vehicles.
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by Xylakant 1y ago
You’re trying to apply the “I am a good driver and my judgment is better than other people’s” argument - but the majority of people believe they’re an above average driver. That’s a dangerous fallacy. Now, you might truly be, but your argum
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by Xylakant 1y ago
Speeding is widely accepted, because it seems such a low level offense. 50km/h instead of 30, it’s only 20 more. But the physics are against you - the energy of the vehicle grows quadratic with the speed. At 30, you need about 18 meter
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by Xylakant 1y ago
It's certainly possible for a leisure ride - 100W give you ballpark 20-25km/hour. The drag scales quadratic, so if you go below 20km/h, you'll end up somewhere in the region of 63W average. Peak output would still exceed
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by Xylakant 1y ago
The 8% are at the top of the power output - at the bottom end, the fraction doesn't matter. You'll be able to provide 5W more if you're only pedaling at 50W. The old dynamos were a chore. But their efficiency pales in compari
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by Xylakant 1y ago
You need to take you into account that the required power output scales quadratic with the speed. Power in itself means nothing, speed is what matters in the end. If you run the math (and various cycling blogs and magazines have done so), y
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by Xylakant 1y ago
It depends both on the lights and the dynamo. Incandescent lights used substantial chunks of your pedaling power. LED lights need maybe 5W or so. Hub dynamos are pretty efficient. For an untrained person your average power output is around
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by Xylakant 2y ago
My teacher in sailing/motorboat school always said that they can spot the accident minutes before it happens.
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by Xylakant 2y ago
Rust also provides guarantees that goe beyond mere memory safety. You get data-race safety as well, which avoids certain kinds of concurrency issues. You also get type-safety which is a step up when it comes to parsing untrusted input, at l

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