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by eCa 2y ago
For one, the distance to the moon is about 1000 times the distance to earth.
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by eCa 2y ago
It also disallows drivers behind the vehicle to see through it to see what’s in front. Of course there are plenty such vehicles on the road already (trucks, RVs, etc), but it would probably be detrimental to road safety if this feature beco
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by eCa 3y ago
That’s how you lose trust, if it later is revealed that they didn’t.
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by eCa 3y ago
Altitude camps, ie spending a week or two at altitude, a few weeks before targeted events is very common in cycling. The Canary Island of Tenerife, with roads up to 2300 meters is quite popular in the pre-season thanks to its great climate.
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by eCa 3y ago
Nautical miles are globally used and are older than the imperial units by a couple of hundred years[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
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by eCa 3y ago
> Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the closing and locking functions, but not the opening and unlocking functions There’s also a psychological aspect to performing the separate action of locking. There are trains in Den
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by eCa 3y ago
German high-speed trains (InterCity Express).
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by eCa 3y ago
> directly streaming movies to consumers was techincally impossible anywhere in the world. Yeah, a 33.6 kb/s modem vs a station wagon hurtling down the highway with a dvd is a fair fight.
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by eCa 3y ago
Another small northern European language here that got an (hopefully) auto-translated version. Completely unreadable. Even if done by a human it is pretty much translated word for word with no feeling for the target language at all.
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by eCa 3y ago
Ever heard the saying ”wrong side of the tracks”?
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by eCa 3y ago
How does https://cycle.travel/map/ perform routing-wise in Amsterdam? (Unaffiliated happy user.)
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by eCa 3y ago
The Euro coins, on the other hand, have a country specific side. So with eight denominations and (about) 24 issuing countries there are 192 valid different coins. And then each country can issue two commemorative €2 coins per year.
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by eCa 3y ago
> saved by the bell I think/thought that’s a boxing term?
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by eCa 3y ago
In the late 90’s I wanted to try this Linux thing, so I followed a tutorial. First step: fdisk Yes, that was my Windows partition going bye-bye.
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by eCa 3y ago
With airplanes, a lot of maintenance routines depends on the number of cycles (takeoffs+landings). No one knows how many cycles this sub was safe to perform, but just because it had successfully performed N dives, does not imply that N+1 is
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by eCa 3y ago
> To change my mind based on that would be a mistake. Not if the change was to completely disregard anything that that user posts.
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by eCa 3y ago
Valid code != best (or even good) practices.
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by eCa 3y ago
And then there’s 747 Dreamlifter in 2013[1]. [1] https://simpleflying.com/boeing-747-dreamlifter-wrong-airpor...
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by eCa 3y ago
> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail. I live in the EU. There is nothing similar. Two hours at the airport being put in several different queues, often in a high stress atmosphere. Train travel: Five-ten minu
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by eCa 3y ago
Slightly easier to start using Type::Tiny[1] than switching languages. [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Type::Tiny
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by eCa 3y ago
DBIx::Class::Helpers and DBIx::Class::Candy are nice layers on top.
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by eCa 3y ago
> East/West roads are numbered even, while North/South roads are numbered odd. None of that exists in Europe. The E roads of Europe are generally numbered that way too[1], though exceptions exist. [1] https://en.wiki
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by eCa 3y ago
> But then, there used to be a letter for 'th', too. Which, with time, turned into the ”Ye” of ”Ye olde <thing>” [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Ye_form
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by eCa 3y ago
They have a filter for that (that I always use).
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by eCa 3y ago
That’s a good use case for Sticky keys[1] for able-bodied people that wish to remain so. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys
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by eCa 4y ago
The ”How not to travel America” playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_japiE6QKWrCfn7NFL86bRSW... Don’t miss the similarly named Europe trip either, for anyone new to GeoWizard.
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by eCa 4y ago
> America/NATO They are not the same. The list of Nato operations can be found here[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations
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by eCa 4y ago
For normal world applications, a tubeless[1] setup will perform infinitely better. Though less eye-catchy. [1] https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/buyers-guides/tubeless/
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by eCa 4y ago
> It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a cleaner look and feel. I’ll probably try it out in a while, but the
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by eCa 4y ago
If I give Google the same prompt you gave ChatGPT: > Here's the reassuring truth: Headache, by itself, is rarely caused by a tumor. According to a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins' Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center, the chance that

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