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by ak217 8y ago
In places where such laws exist, sure. If you want all bicyclists to go through that, go pass a law in your municipality. Otherwise you are not the authority on this. International law codifies cyclists' right to the road. Most large A
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by ak217 8y ago
People are having a strong reaction to what you're saying because you're fundamentally presuming a car-centric infrastructure where others have to accommodate cars. Bikes are vehicles and have as much of a right to be on the road
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by ak217 8y ago
You're right. It does, unfortunately without citing any sources of its own. In Europe, freight rail is less than a quarter that of the US, while passenger rail is much higher than in the US. Where tracks are shared, passenger rail gene
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by ak217 8y ago
> They are designed to survive collision with freight trains Do you have a source?
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That it was. I am under no illusion about the communists.
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by ak217 8y ago
Pre-Soviet Russian architecture served tens of thousands of highly privileged people in metro areas and estates. Meanwhile everyone else lived in izbas with no electricity, running water or sanitation, or worse. The khruschyovkas and neobru
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by ak217 8y ago
CRAM is a standard that was started at Sanger/EMBL/EBI and developed freely in the open by the genomics community over the past decade. As others have told you, it is royalty free and unencumbered. The work behind the first versio
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by ak217 8y ago
> u"" is a syntax error in python3 This has not been the case since 2012. The last release of Python 3 for which this was the case reached end of life in February 2016. Please stop misinforming people.
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by ak217 8y ago
Perhaps your information is out of date? I think none of what you said is true. Maybe some of it was true in the past. > Want to get an stream out of a file? Better have utf-8 content. Otherwise all the documentation will be buried 15 me
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by ak217 8y ago
> it doesn't feel more correct to the programmer. I agree with the details of what you said, but the insidious thing about how Python 2 organized strings and encodings is that most programmers were free to ignore it and produce bugg
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by ak217 8y ago
Thank you for saying that. Working with strings and bytes in Python 3 is nothing short of a joy compared to the dodgy stuff Python 2 did. People who complain about the change are delusional.
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by ak217 8y ago
If you are frustrated by the complexity of packaging Python-based Lambda applications, I highly recommend checking out Chalice: https://github.com/aws/chalice . It's very well engineered and drastically simplifies
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by ak217 8y ago
It may be true that TLS x.509 PKI is broken in the context of embedded devices, sure. But that's not the problem being discussed here. The first problem is that certs used to sign a lot of firmware seem to be test certs. The second pro
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They have competitors who want you to believe their products are as good or better. In my experience, AWS's competitors don't even have a solid understanding of what makes AWS successful, and try to imitate a subset of their featu
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by ak217 8y ago
Having used Hudson/Jenkins for many years, I recently considered setting it up for a new project, and backed away mostly due to the issues Kohsuke describes. We ended up choosing GitLab instead. GitLab has been pulling ahead in feature
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by ak217 8y ago
I agree with you. I should have clarified - 4 motors in the arrangement envisioned by Honda (see the link above) is more complex than 2. It doesn't eliminate any of the driveshafts. I don't think we'll see in-wheel motors any
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by ak217 8y ago
I wouldn't put either free valves or the "wave disk" engine on the list of technologies likely to affect mass produced ICE efficiency in the next decade or two. HCCI/SCCI gas engines with VVT, variable displacement, and
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by ak217 8y ago
> The simplicity advantage of electric will soon take a quantum leap when driveshaft-free 4 motor all wheel drive vehicles hit the market You can't just eliminate the driveshaft because the wheel must be on a suspension. Remove the
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by ak217 8y ago
> Without a commitment to either a comprehensive transit system, or a decent freeway network, Syd/Mel have half-arsed implementations of both. Funny you say that - when I visited Sydney I thought the regional rail network was better
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by ak217 8y ago
Similar concept to Netflix Chaos Monkey.
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by ak217 8y ago
They are great, but the jumbo Macbook trackpads are better (I use both - my macbook's external keyboard is a Lenovo SK-8855). Also, be careful not to strain your fingers too much on the trackpoint. You could easily get carpal tunnel. M
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by ak217 8y ago
Relevant: https://www.wired.com/2008/01/nanotech-used-2/
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by ak217 8y ago
In 2003, Intel was able to reinvent its CPU design center in response to the previous iteration of PC miniaturization (the laptop market was ready to explode, while desktops were slowing down). They did this by running a skunkworks design p
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by ak217 8y ago
The whole point of the concept of environmental externalities and the tragedy of the commons is that the bill comes due for all of us, or our future generations, because a select few consumers got to exploit the environment, courtesy of the
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> There's no easy way to do that Leading consumer market governments have been using progressive import controls for many decades to do exactly that. It may not be trivial and it may not be free, but this task is no different in pri
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Not only is it confusingly similar to other storage products, but the abbreviations collide among all of them. GCF means how many different things now? (I always considered it to mean Google Cloud Functions - kind of an important product .
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by ak217 8y ago
Totally. You know, the logical next step is a fleet of mechanical turk self-driving Segways. When the inconsiderate rider drops it off and blocks the sidewalk, just have someone take control over LTE+wide angle camera, and drive the Segway
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by ak217 8y ago
Someone very much into the 787 who follows their production very closely: http://nyc787.blogspot.com/
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Boeing did go out of their way to make sure those "change incorporation" frames ended up in working condition and flying with customers. This spreadsheet shows what happened: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets&#x
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by ak217 8y ago
Instead of asking others to shoulder the (enormous) burden of backwards compatibility so that his software may continue to work, I think this person would do well to ask package maintainers to make sure their package metadata is correct (e.

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