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by crocal 6y ago
> Automated trains are just like elevators Ahem. No. There is no collision hazard in elevators (essentially each elevator is on its own dedicated track). In railway, collision hazards are everywhere because you can change track and there
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by crocal 6y ago
The game was developed by Philip Ulrich, already behind the Ark of Captain Blood. The guy is a genius. This [1] is a short video of him explaining how the game was developed, alas in French only. [1] https://youtu.be/5nHX_74
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by crocal 6y ago
In other word, use mercenaries to do the dirty work in your own organisation. Ever read about the fall of the Roman Empire?
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by crocal 6y ago
Be careful, as many topics in railway signalling, this is actually fairly complicated and tricky. As I said in another comment, crossings are pure evil. They are many hazardous scenario and without any system inside the car, mitigations are
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by crocal 6y ago
No, it’s really important advice. The big issue with trains is that it has an inertia that our brain is not trained to. As signalling engineers, we get to compute safe braking distances a lot and they are /big/, even at relatively
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by crocal 6y ago
Actually no. Cannot be too big and automatic. You need to allow a stranded car to break free. You must not crush a car that is only half way in. Sigh. Railway crossings are pure evil. There is no fail safe design that I know of without addi
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by crocal 6y ago
This is the typical line of defense used by harassers when brought to court « I can’t be an harasser because there was no previous or other complain ». Sorry, it doesn’t work like this. Presumed harassers have to explain why the supporting
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by crocal 6y ago
Very common tactic in Europe indeed. The new thing is that now employees retaliate... and win.
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by crocal 6y ago
> Yes, it is. Keynes said at one point that the government printing dollar bills and burying them for people to dig up would be a valid form of economic stimulus. This does not make it the center piece. The center piece of Keynesian econ
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by crocal 6y ago
Err... Keynes « center piece » is not manipulation of money supply. This extreme monetarism you describe is... Friedman’s!!! And boy do I agree it does not work! Ultra liberal economics lead to accumulation of wealth by few super riches. Th
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by crocal 6y ago
I have to disagree. Economy is the interface between producers and consumers of resources. It’s big time a social construct, and therefore the subject of political action. Importantly, the idea that state intervention is bad for the economy
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by crocal 6y ago
It’s hard to overestimate the gigantic /smack in the face/ that Akira was when it came out on screen. Much of us had only seen Disneyish / childish stuff so far, and even adult-themed animation was cartoonish in nature. And h
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by crocal 6y ago
Upvoted for mentioning Red Line, most amazing anime you have never heard of.
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by crocal 6y ago
Yes. I miss Abba...
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How the libertarian right plans to profit from the pandemic(theguardian.com)
4 points by crocal 6y ago|1 comments
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by crocal 6y ago
Bytecode, it seems :) https://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/rovercom/telem.html
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by crocal 6y ago
Did it really cost only 5B$ to get there? I just ask because if confirmed it’s unbelievably cheap. I am /stunned/.
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by crocal 6y ago
If only one company goes remote, then the collective power of employees certainly goes down (« divide and conquer «) But if the entire /job market/ goes remote and access to the net is a public commodity, then you can apply for al
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by crocal 6y ago
Europe suckiness at R&D is well documented. I am European. It hurts. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
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by crocal 6y ago
I don’t know how to write it well but hang in there! The fact that you worry about your children means you are a great person. Take care.
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by crocal 7y ago
It is inevitable that in such an atmosphere unlikely targets are picked as scapegoats. If it stops at 5G antennas I guess we can consider ourselves fortunate.
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by crocal 7y ago
I think you answered your own question with the ´Dopamine’ comment. Slack clearly has an addictive game effect on its users. And since it pleases the crowd and has no visible downside, it’s tempting for busy small/medium business owner
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by crocal 7y ago
Not only that. Hard work and early specialising is a recipe for depression. I have seen this pattern repeat itself over and over again.
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by crocal 7y ago
Well, I am no big fan of Gohsn, but judging from the way the Japanese justice system treats suspects, this system deserves to be mocked, rolled in tar and covered with feathers. Ghosn is not asking to escape judgement, he is asking for a fa
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by crocal 7y ago
These are not architecture documents but change management documents. Roll out of such decisions should, among other things, result in an update to architecture docs.
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by crocal 7y ago
Airbus equivalent plane is taller on wheels than the 737. Thus they could mount the engines without changing the center of gravity of the aircraft.
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by crocal 7y ago
Please. Hitler wrote a /book/ where he explained /everything/ in excruciating details. That is arguably the scariest part of Nazism. People /knew/ what they were signing for. Hitler /was/ legitimate.
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Who is in control? Road safety and automation in road traffic(onderzoeksraad.nl)
1 points by crocal 7y ago|0 comments
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by crocal 7y ago
I think the elephant in the room is the question of purpose. What is the purpose guiding your actions? Getting good grades is a mean that /can/ be necessary to achieve the purpose you have chosen in life. But it’s not sufficient f
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by crocal 7y ago
Before talking about anti-safety culture, I observed that the real issue in a purely hardware/software-driven culture is that people focus on technology. For safety systems, this usually fails / overbudgets because there needs to

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