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by bkor 7y ago
> They have been solving these problems operationally for years now. Emergency medical supplies (the twitter mentions "Lifesaving deliveries by drone") is quite different than delivering packages. That you can get something up
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by bkor 7y ago
A drone is way more loud than the various electric delivery vehicles used in Netherlands. Aside from how loud a drone/quad copter is, the noise is also high pitches (more annoying). Traffic is/can also regulated somewhat by limiti
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by bkor 7y ago
I use an extension within Firefox called Bypass Paywalls. It seems to be able to avoid most of the (soft) paywalls by using a few tricks (deleting cookies, etc).
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by bkor 7y ago
According to the Corona expert in South Korea, masks help a great deal. His assumption on why the WHO only recommends masks in Asia and not anywhere else is due to the limited amount of supply anywhere but in Asia. In Asia people like alrea
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by bkor 7y ago
Seems the source of your "10x" statement is the following report: https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/report-cruise-shi... That's a report released in 2019, but the subject is 2017 emissions. Sinc
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by bkor 7y ago
> There was a potential problem. However the companies and government departments that were affected had started planning in the early 90s, and they prepared during the decade. I can point to several huge companies who did nothing until
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Dutch tennis association fined €525,000 for selling members’ information(dutchnews.nl)
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by bkor 7y ago
If you track the car carries vessels Tesla uses it's kind of obvious: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Uh_GSkShwPPlrE5mOJc... It seems the first deliveries will be March 10th, the last deliveries were
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by bkor 7y ago
> In the Netherlands Tesla sales dropped from ~12000 in December 2019 to ~36 in January 2020 because those 'incentives' where dropped in 2020. October 2019 also had almost no deliveries due to no vessels delivering Tesla's
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It seems more to be that people use the word "stable" while maybe another word should've been used. The main criticism during the "stable" criticisms is that something like MCAS was added. The design of the plane sh
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by bkor 7y ago
> Boeing is probably right From the article: "New safety rules on wiring were adopted in the aftermath of the 1998 Swiss Air 111 crash." These recommendations were added as a result of a crash. The crash happened a bit after th
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by bkor 7y ago
> There is no other reason we are here, than money. Various articles indicate that competitive pressure and trying to speed up development of a competitive alternative was also a cause for this. A new airplane would've required more
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by bkor 7y ago
I've replaced the case of my NUC with a passively cooled one from Akasa. I forgot what I paid for it, seems the one I had sold for 50 EUR (old NUC I bought around 2015/2016). The NUC itself was 150 EUR or so. The highest temperatu
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by bkor 7y ago
Could you add references to the sections of the GDPR which explain this? The various times I read the GDPR (as well as the local law) I didn't see your explanation in it. References would allow me to determine what I missed.
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by bkor 7y ago
> Do you know the story behind why Sun was doing this work? See e.g. https://www.gnome.org/press/2000/08/sun-joins-gnome-foundati... . Quote: > Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it is joining the GNOME Fo
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by bkor 7y ago
> memfd_create is also one of those wat kind of system calls, which initially don't appear to enable any use case that couldn't be accomplished by other means The author agrees with that. It's just a bit simpler. See e.g.
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by bkor 7y ago
> People, bikes, buses, trucks: all face difficulty or death in their presence. Roundabouts make my bicycle commute way faster. This in The Netherlands where we cycle a lot. Difficulty or death is entirely incorrect. Suggest to compare t
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by bkor 7y ago
> They're a huge clusterfuck that does not win any time Research shows the opposite. They can handle more traffic within a given timeframe. The bit about accidents seems strange. Not sure why you'd think that. I'm wonderi
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by bkor 7y ago
> In cities, they are death traps for pedestrians and cyclists. I haven't experienced that for the many roundabouts we have in The Netherlands. Throughput is higher (can easily be measured), plus waiting time is lower thanks to roun
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by bkor 7y ago
Just because something is possible technically doesn't make it ok legally. I think there's still various issues though, as per GPDR I don't think another company can just copy that data from Linkedin. That it's easily vi
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by bkor 7y ago
> Comparing systyemd with init scripts is disingenious You're not really explaining why I think. For systemd you have configuration files. It's very easy. At a last resort you can write a shell script for some special handling.
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by bkor 7y ago
The inside lane changes into the outside lane. This is usually done by traffic analysis. Meaning: it doesn't always immediately change the inside lane into the outside one. It works quite well for roundabouts with heavy uneven traffic
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by bkor 7y ago
sysvinit scripts were/are massive, plus usually source some other file. For systemd they're replaced with configuration files. Much easier. I don't see why you'd need to check the source code though. It's often just
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by bkor 7y ago
> And btw: I wanted to cancel my subscription afterwards, but apparently you can't do that via web from the EU (or not for my subscription type?) - so I need to cancel on the phone, during american business hours. There's exist
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by bkor 7y ago
This article continues on the various other articles highlighting that Boeing focussed way too much on financials over anything else. Engineering had way less of a say into things. See e.g. this article https://www.theatlantic.co
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by bkor 7y ago
> Boeing and the airlines should have provided more simulators if their new model is so different that it needs a dedicated simulator I highly recommend reading this article: https://onemileatatime.com/boeing-737-max-lion
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by bkor 7y ago
If you like tinkering, look into Zigbee2mqtt (=software). It supports loads of Zigbee devices so you can mix various devices together. Everything you need to do is pretty well explained. IMO home automation is currently anything but smart.
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by bkor 7y ago
Cheques were phased out in Netherlands in 2001. Even at that time it was hardly used. Cheques had a very high risk of fraud, plus expensive to process. I don't get why you'd use something like that. Due to new EU regulation I can
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by bkor 7y ago
> read back by the crew means confirmed Read back does not mean confirmed, it's basically a double check. What pilots do when they get an instruction they'll respond with the same instruction (but abbreviated). Example: ATC: De
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That's a complete opposite of how it is in The Netherlands. I don't think it's the experience though, it highly likely it's the implementation. In any other country they often completely mess up all of the bike infrastru

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