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by arethuza 1y ago
I suspect most people, even when told exactly what the app using that SDK would be doing, wouldn't actually see the potential problems...
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by arethuza 1y ago
Doesn't FTL also imply time travel - which probably isn't a good thing?
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by arethuza 1y ago
Indeed, I wasn't trying to defend the management of the trams project - which did seem a farce. Mind you - the investigation into the trams itself took far longer than expected and cost far more than anyone thought it should...
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by arethuza 1y ago
In descriptions of the process it always amuses me that they talk about failure to receive Radio 4 being the test (perhaps of it also being broadcast on long wave)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
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by arethuza 1y ago
The initial phase of the Edinburgh Trams project wasn't great - but I suspect everyone involved knew it was going to be difficult and it's the approach of getting the project started and once started it's difficult to kill
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by arethuza 1y ago
The current design for the Strait of Messina bridge has a main span of 3.3km - which is quite a bit more than the current longest span? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Messina_Bridge
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by arethuza 1y ago
If you sort the list on Wikipedia by "main span length" rather than overall bridge length then the longest span is just over 2km? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_bridges
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by arethuza 1y ago
According to Daniel Ellsberg the US did implement a scheme where regional commanders could use nuclear weapons without explicit authority from the President: "Walking out of the theater, Ellsberg turned to his friend, another nuclea
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by arethuza 1y ago
"implement the lambda calculus on a handful of combinators, then implement lisp on the lambda calculus, then write stuff in that lisp" Having done this years ago as a student (not Lisp, but a simple language that macro expanded in
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by arethuza 1y ago
Robert Baer's book "See No Evil" goes into a lot of detail about how espionage actually works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_(Baer_book)
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by arethuza 1y ago
I had a similar problem with the VW Passat I had at the time - the drain hole from the battery compartment got blocked and when it rained it overflowed into the interior of the car - I was wondering for ages why there was this sloshing nois
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by arethuza 1y ago
I think the Lamborghini that makes tractors has always been a separate legal entity from the one that makes cars (now part of the VW Group) - both founded by the same chap though. https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-eu&#
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by arethuza 1y ago
I've known a few people who were obsessed with Land Rovers - often severely dilapidated ex-forces ones. The horror stories almost seemed to be the point - a bonding experience almost...
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by arethuza 1y ago
My wife had a Toyota at one point which developed an interesting fault - all of the internal electrics would cut out at random times. Turns out the cause was a leaking sunroof! Water got in through the sunroof and the genius design had some
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by arethuza 1y ago
A fair point, but I do wonder if in these situations the tension builds up (e.g. the list you mention) and at some point something, possibly something relatively small, such as an Archduke getting shot triggers a much wider conflict.
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by arethuza 1y ago
Isn't that possibly like saying that New Century was "just" a real estate investor?
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by arethuza 1y ago
World of Tanks...
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by arethuza 1y ago
I was once very unpopular with a team of developers when I pointed out a complete solution to what they had decided was an "interesting" problem - my solution didn't involve any code being written.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I have a PC that is probably at least 10 years old but works perfectly well for browsing, spreadsheets and the occasional lightweight game but MS has decided, in its infinite wisdom, to say that it can't be upgraded to Windows 11. So I
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by arethuza 1y ago
I think those technologies are mentioned throughout the book - just at a much larger scale in the second part.
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by arethuza 1y ago
I have very fond memories of programming in PostScript within NeWS/HyperNeWS - it did quite a few things that I've never seen in any other environment. Edit: To be fair relying on PostScript probably did limit the appeal, but I ac
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by arethuza 1y ago
Perhaps they were doing it before the Atlantic opened up and they just kept going...
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by arethuza 1y ago
One of the other comments noted that a lot of organisations may be asked - but they don't have to respond. I was looking at the actual submitted documents for planning applications... Mind you - the responses I did see seemed pretty se
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by arethuza 1y ago
"NHS, police, fire service, etc. usually raise objections to everything" I've never seen any of those organisations raising objections - I don't think they are even consulted on the planning applications I have seen? Pla
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by arethuza 1y ago
We can see a lot of windmills from our house - probably at least 60 in a few different windfarms. They are all nearly 40km away, but I actually like seeing them. There are others much closer, which I also rather like seeing (closest is ab
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by arethuza 1y ago
The north of the UK is definitely windier than the south, but I'm not sure that the west is windier than the east - it's certainly wetter? e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/European-Offshore-Wind-A...
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by arethuza 1y ago
We're a windy island surrounded by sea - which seems to be pretty ideal for wind generation going by the number of huge projects underway?
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by arethuza 1y ago
Those 4 "Eastern Green Link" projects look interesting - pretty sensible given how close most places in the UK are to the sea to go for subsea cables. Fewer problems with planning permission as well...
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by arethuza 1y ago
The description said "People standing in front of impressive scenery" (or something like that) - it got the scenery part correct but the people are barely visible and really small.
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by arethuza 1y ago
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