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by eCa 4y ago
Another happy fan here. So far I’ve used it for a couple of 5-10 day tours to great success (I’m in northern Europe). In fact, I just finished one a couple of days ago. One thing I’ve noticed is the routing’s great aversion to hills. As som
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by eCa 4y ago
Think relative speed. Even a bike touring cyclist will regularly travel at speeds around 40 kph (25 mph). If you then have cars travelling at 80 kph (50 mph). Also, you learn hearing the difference in sound a car makes as it moves over to g
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by eCa 4y ago
> As time went on the wording of the +1s got stronger I think a +1 (as a thumbs up reaction, or similar) can’t be a bad thing. Comments that turn more passive/agressive (or just agressive) most certainly can. I don’t think the later
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by eCa 4y ago
I had a lonely server at another datacenter of former webhost ThePlanet when things exploded[1] back in 2008. So, while rare, there are risks. [1] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/01/e
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by eCa 4y ago
You most likely care (otherwise you would have stayed out of this thread). But when the recourse for many users are getting their issue on HN, it’s difficult not to draw the conclusion that Meta on an organizational level doesn’t care. Or
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by eCa 4y ago
The bigger question is if it will be more successful than the partly accidental geoengineering that has been taking place over the last couple of centuries, or if it will be a speedup button.
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by eCa 4y ago
As a western (but non-US) male, anyone who thinks that women and couples that discover that they are having an unwanted pregnancy, won’t (sometimes) go to extreme lengths to end such pregnancy, if it isn’t lawfully available, is, and I quot
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by eCa 5y ago
Small caps are what they sound like, uppercase characters the size of lowercase characters. Kind of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps
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by eCa 5y ago
> As long as I kept my arm at my side it didn't feel any different As someone who watches bike racing, it is often immediately apparent when someone has broken their collarbone by the way they keep their arm.
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by eCa 5y ago
> Does winning the Olympics in 1980 not count as world champion? No. That makes them Olympic champions. The world championship is an annual competition[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Hockey_World_Champions
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by eCa 5y ago
While the last couple of years have paused the steady downward trend, the winter of 2021-2022 is much closer to the worst year than the best year[1] since records began in the late '70s. [1] http://nsidc.org/arcticseaic
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by eCa 5y ago
Yes, he was heavily involved in the Nordstream pipelines and was/is a friend of Putin.
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by eCa 5y ago
Just read in a non-English newspaper about someone crossing into Moldova and being very thankful about the people waiting in their cars for someone to pick up. Just wanted to let you know that there are mentions of Moldova.
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by eCa 5y ago
A small example would be the main church of Dresden[1], in what was Eastern Germany. Destroyed by the allied bombings of 1945, it was left as rubble[2] in the middle of town all through communist rule. The rebuild was completed in 2005. Reb
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by eCa 5y ago
> Politicians and diplomats executed some realpolitik type moves and it backfired into a hot war. This has been planned for months. It didn’t backfire into anything. Putin likely made up his mind weeks ago and there was nothing anyone co
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by eCa 5y ago
They are also airport-less, making it ... challenging to visit them without going through those neighboring countries.
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by eCa 5y ago
Unless you're being facetious, you might want to read up on things like the Delta Works[1], the Zuidersee Works[2] or the smaller project of Maeslantkering[3]. If there's one country that has had long experience in dealing with th
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by eCa 5y ago
I would see it more as an issue that secrets are potentially shared with departments that shouldn’t have access to it. > you may not want your entire company to know that you just generated a password for a jobs site. I would not put any
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by eCa 5y ago
The most common modern web frameworks for Perl are Mojolicious[1] and Dancer[2] [1] https://metacpan.org/dist/Mojolicious/view/lib/Mojolicious/G... [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/
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by eCa 5y ago
That’s an opening to discus the differences between git and github, since pull requests are not a part of git. (I agree that merge requests is a much better name.)
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by eCa 5y ago
As awesome as it is[1], I don’t think it is ’based only on a profit motive’ as the gp implied they were looking for. [1] Both the building and the project.
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by eCa 5y ago
Tick tock.. But I’d argue it’s not the same thing. The ’tick’ sound comes first, it’s onomatopoetic.
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by eCa 5y ago
A 150+ ft deep ravine, according to the article: > Jones estimated that rescue crews had to rappel 100 to 150 feet down the ravine to rescue motorists.
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by eCa 5y ago
> If you’re trying to scroll deep into conversations or someone’s Tweets, it’s reasonable to expect that you’d need to become a user of the website. This change happened during last summer. Funilly enough it was just ad I considered gett
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by eCa 5y ago
Falsehoods people believe about names: First names are globally unique.
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by eCa 5y ago
I would be (also) fine with them training the birds too poo on people that litter. I think that would be effective in reducing new litter. One issue is of course that you really don’t want false positives..
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by eCa 5y ago
There’s always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Yrvind
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by eCa 5y ago
> 0 is a digit. It’s not a significant digit[0], though, when it’s leading. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures
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by eCa 5y ago
Minor correction: Gorenje is Slovenian, now owned by a Chinese company.
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by eCa 5y ago
> The only people I know who've gotten COVID have all been vaxd. So you didn’t know (or know someone that knows) anyone that got Covid before the vaccines started to be administered?

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