benj111

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by benj111 8y ago
So could we see the return of square windows to aircraft? This would allow that right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
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by benj111 8y ago
"and got behind when the English started using machine labour" What do you mean by machine labour here? If you're referring to steam engines I think you're drawing a causal link that isn't justified. The dates at b
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by benj111 8y ago
He might not be, but what about his son, or his sons son?
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by benj111 8y ago
Try reading the comment he responded to.
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by benj111 8y ago
I suppose you could use it as a prompt to request healthier snacks. I don't see what problem the company would have with that, your coworkers might complain though.
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by benj111 8y ago
"There people always made the point that human judges making just decisions based on fairness." I once had the 'pleasure' of working with a Magistrate. She was the most bigoted, opinionated person I've ever worked w
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by benj111 8y ago
That sounds like '10Gbit ought to be more than enough for anybody' to me. Plus the good thing about USB is it just works, you don't have to worry about any tiny subset (well that's the theory anyway). I've had enoug
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by benj111 8y ago
You wouldn't say that Musk being fined $20 million by the SEC were luxurious though.
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by benj111 8y ago
Because as I was hurtling down the hill doing 140 with no brakes, my first concern would be knowing what speed I was doing. Presumably if the speedo only went to 112mph, it would be impossible to go faster (that's how it works, right?)
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by benj111 8y ago
"experiencing that kind of risk is a massively luxurious thing that the vast majority of people cannot afford" That seems a strange way to characterise breaking the law.
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by benj111 8y ago
Why would there be consumer outrage? If you're planning to speed past 180kph don't buy a Volvo. I doubt the Venn diagram of both groups shows much overlap anyway.
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by benj111 8y ago
But MPH says 'MPH' on my car at least. It would be very confusing if that wasn't MPH. The manufacturer would probably also end up getting sued.
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by benj111 8y ago
Personally I prefer analog. I think its mainly down to analog giving you feedback as to whether you're increasing or decreasing in speed. If I'm approaching a speed camera in a 30mph zone, a glance at an analog speedo, and periphe
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by benj111 8y ago
Yes, and for an extra $5 you can be covered against finding cheaper buyers remorse insurance. And for an extra $1 you can be covered against finding cheaper buyers remorse insurance insurance.
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by benj111 8y ago
Well (most?) other regions would have better consumer protections anyway.
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by benj111 8y ago
Why? It isn't as if the $35k model 3 is a surprise. If you're willing to wait, tech things tend to get cheaper over time, should I be annoyed that had I waited instead of getting a 486 with 8mb ram, I could have got something orde
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by benj111 8y ago
As I said we have 80 years to patch the software. The scheme was suggested to avoid a 20nn.n scheme that the parent identified. Theres nothing to stop us from going from 99.nn to 100.nn and I wont be there to stop it. I'll remind my ki
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by benj111 8y ago
Yes I was wondering whether to add a /s tag to that last sentence. Hopefully they'll future proof it, or they'll be cursing us come 9999.
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by benj111 8y ago
You mean 'one'.
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by benj111 8y ago
That isn't versioning per se, that's just branding and marketing and bike shedding. Not that I disagree with your point though.
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by benj111 8y ago
19.1, 20.1 We can safely assume that for the next 80 or so years that the year will begin '20'. That leaves 80+ years to patch the software that expects a certain version number format. Plenty of time.
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by benj111 8y ago
The phone looks interesting. Although the realist in me questions why it would be successful over all the other Linux phone efforts. I hope it's successful though.
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by benj111 8y ago
Well I suppose if you subsist off of one product, that would work ok. I'd need one for milk, eggs, bread, pasta, rice, cous cous, onions, peppers, etc, etc, etc. So currently I just have a piece of paper hanging on the back of the kitc
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by benj111 8y ago
Yes, as the OP states they don't want to make a business out of it, a subscription model kind of ties you to ongoing maintenance. At least a straight sale can be fire and forget.
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by benj111 8y ago
Whilst having data for the whole country is obviously good, having data for one fixed location stretching back 350 years is good too. You can for example compare the recent heat wave to past years at the same location. I'm also not sur
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by benj111 8y ago
The UK has some of the better weather records. Eg "The oldest ongoing instrumental record of temperature in the world is the Central England Temperature record, started in 1659." [1] So while they may not be very good, they'r
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by benj111 8y ago
If I roll a d6 and get a 6 twice in a row, is it loaded? What about if I get a 6 10 times in a row or a 100? You can't definitively state any one extreme weather event is the result of climate change. What you can say is that extreme w
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by benj111 8y ago
"Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said the drugs were “not performance enhancing”." That isn't some Bridge player.
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by benj111 8y ago
Do you have any special insights into the process? Naively, I would hope that the Bridge governing body would get the stakeholders together with medical experts to come together to decide on a sensible list. That doesn't seem to be the
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by benj111 8y ago
I think theres a drift over time. If you're inputting hand assembled hex, then an assembler is high level. If you writing ASM, C is high level. C is now thought of as low level, I'm sure many formerly 'high' level langua

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