doikor

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541.
by doikor 5y ago
Velodrome and road cycling are completely different disciplines. This is like saying that why bother building purpose built track and field venue so you can do the 100m run there when just some random piece of tarmac would do (it works for
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by doikor 5y ago
But in reality those 16k hold a very small part of the population. Them existing is not a reason you could not have fiber available for the majority of the population (and for cheap like 100mbit unlimited for $20 per month) Here in Finland
543.
by doikor 5y ago
> The problem with internet in the USA is the same as most problems in the USA: a huge population scattered across a huge country. Good luck with serving fast internet to everyone, it's not Europe. The population density here in Fin
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by doikor 5y ago
Also CO2 absorbs into the oceans and makes them more acidic. This prevents corals from growing properly. https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/scientists-iden...
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by doikor 5y ago
> Also they didn't have breathing gear (and trained staff) so you could go in and restart without waiting and also in case of an accident being able to try and rescue people. At that point without actually going in and checking they
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by doikor 5y ago
Camera takes photos and compares with how it should look like.
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by doikor 5y ago
As I understand it another driver in the same rack doing work is enough to effect the performance of the other drivers in the rack. This is why you use fancy expensive "enterprise grade" drives as they can cope better with it. ht
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by doikor 5y ago
All I have seen is not having rotational vibration sensors. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hdd-failure-lawsui... > The Seagate 3 TB models failed at a higher rate than other drives during the Backblaze de
549.
by doikor 5y ago
While methane has a much larger effect it also leaves the atmosphere much faster rate. Methane released to the atmosphere is gone in about 12 years while CO2 takes over 100 years. So over the lifetime of the gasses methane will have a small
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by doikor 5y ago
> apps turning into battery-draining non-native shitty experiences There is no reason why non-native apps should be a shitty experience that drains the battery. That is just a tooling/feature issue. > Have you noticed on the desk
551.
by doikor 5y ago
And for how long would Safari on iOS keep up with new features or not get its performance nuked if for example games started to move into browser apps in major numbers on iOS. Apple itself said in the trial that games pretty much subsidize
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by doikor 5y ago
As a Finn I can second this. It took me a while to remember to use the correct pronoun and still get it wrong sometimes (by defaulting to he/him if I don't pay attention to it)
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by doikor 5y ago
> These are typically cash heavy businesses ( as long as it is allowed ) and keeping revenue out of the books is as old as the Romans. Cash is used in less then 5% of transactions here in Finland (and it is roughly the same in the rest o
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by doikor 5y ago
American banking and tax system is archaic and really inefficient when compared to some places in Europe (especially the nordics). Here cash heavy businesses are rare and meaning the money is going through the banks. And as the money is mov
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by doikor 5y ago
> Maybe they were waiting until the same upgrade would cost $2M instead of $6M. Most of the cost is the actual digging/laying new fiber. The price of that does not really go down over time (instead the cost of labor goes up over tim
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by doikor 5y ago
Super Meat Boy is a 10 year old game that probably had sales close to 0 at this point (it has been on sale for a couple bucks multiple times by now). Taking 50k now a decade after release and losing practically nothing as anyone who was goi
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by doikor 5y ago
This is just making clear and easy to use something that people did using some type level magic (see shapeless Witness). Something that people used through ugly hacks becoming part of the language natively in a easy to use and understand (
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by doikor 5y ago
How exactly are you going to steal the fuel from inside the reactor if it is running? Only option is to cut into the reactor (and thus destroy it). And now you have just cut a hole into a nuclear reactor that is ON and killed yourself (or t
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by doikor 5y ago
Yes if it is supposed to run for 30 years. See the "Reactors with Lifetime Cores" section of https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/sl...
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by doikor 5y ago
Some of the designs are not made to be refueled. In those the fuel gets loaded in at the factory and sealed up. Though in that case they are loaded up with quite a large amount of fuel (like a couple tons of plutonium for a ~30y lifespan) I
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by doikor 5y ago
GDPR requires disclosing to the supervisory authority if user data was breached. Though this hack was before GDPR. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-33-gdpr/ edit: Also California requires notifying the residents directly and i
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by doikor 5y ago
They cost money. The less security features you put in the bigger the manufacturers cut. edit: And there are a lot good lock companies producing quality locks. They just cost like $100 (and way more for doors. A quality abloy lockbody and t
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by doikor 5y ago
Most of the the newest devices are perfectly repairable if the manufacturer would release the schematics and not block their suppliers from third parties buying the parts (and as newest trend lock the parts together on hardware level). Mayb
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by doikor 6y ago
Main problem is old pools that don't have space for this (would make the pool under length). In general the same rules are used in all levels of competition. The only difference at the moment is minimum pool depth for world championshi
565.
by doikor 6y ago
This is actually how it is done for new pools. They overbuild them by a couple cm and then adjust the touchplates. But the rules should work for the 50y old pools too.
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by doikor 6y ago
This is why modern competition pools are 10 lanes wide but only the inner 8 are used in competitions.
567.
by doikor 6y ago
> “Tracks aren’t guaranteed to be the same length” problem as in swimming. In rowing you row between 2 imaginary lines. You don't even have to get the distance of these lines perfectly just make sure they are both in the same direct
568.
by doikor 6y ago
This happens in swimming because of the tolerance of making an olympic spec pool. A good swimmer goes a bit over 2mm every 0.001s. The pools have 3cm tolerance meaning the lanes are not the exact same length (it would be crazy expensive to
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by doikor 6y ago
This is actually one of the things the UEFA big shots are really angry about. UEFA gave into most of the demands of these big clubs and as a reward for that they stab UEFA in the back and try to start their own league.
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by doikor 6y ago
> All the money is distributed across more teams. And this is very important for the future of the sport. Without a portion of the money being funneled like this to the smaller teams there is no space for future talent to grow. In Europe

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