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by exidy 1y ago
Your comment that I responded to implied that the British engaged in indiscriminate area bombing while the Americans did not. Nothing to do with who was or was not criticised. Don’t straw-man.
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by exidy 1y ago
> so they could see what they'd hit. Such as the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
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by exidy 1y ago
I think there might be some confusion here. The vertical stabiliser (not the tail) was extended by 40 inches [0] to combat concerns about poor yaw control. Although the Wikipedia article cites the UK ARB as the influence, it was also in res
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by exidy 1y ago
I think it's better to steelman rather than assert ignorance on the part of the person you're replying to. It is true that people these days associate the DSLR form-factor with professional photography, despite the heavy use of ra
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by exidy 1y ago
I love BuildKite. It might seem obvious now but I feel like BK had two key ideas -- fully declarative pipelines and a hybrid SaaS control plane / customer-managed workers concept that made it so much easier to deploy into large enterpr
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by exidy 1y ago
> Nintendo will earn millions by keeping it proprietary. Lets stop pretending this is about technical ability or 'protecting' the consumer from a bad ux. Nintendo ships a dock with every Switch 2. How big is the market for peop
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by exidy 1y ago
This is the problem with the digital world. Time is analogue and continuous, digital clocks are just a quantised approximation. Midday and midnight are points in time that have no duration -- as soon as they are observed they are passed, so
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by exidy 1y ago
This isn't right. Midday / midnight are not the 60 seconds it takes for a digital clock to go from showing 12:00 to 12:01. They are the infinitesimally small point in time that mark the transition between "before" and &q
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by exidy 1y ago
It was not the lockdowns, it was the good fortune of being an island nation coupled with a border control regime so strict it was later found to violate basic human rights.[0] Australia went down a similar path to similar effect until the p
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by exidy 1y ago
Not sure if you had a temporary glitch or something in your client, but it's up, it works and it has for more than a decade: https://archive.ph/dhZpp
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by exidy 1y ago
Seems to provide similar information as https://aviability.com/ although with a slicker interface and monetisation.
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by exidy 1y ago
Singapore started building MRTs in 1982 and essentially never stopped. However "just build another line" is a bit glib when you're dealing with a city state of 6 million people on an island roughly 40km x 20km. There is a hug
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by exidy 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_computer
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by exidy 1y ago
I believe this was pioneered by Laplink[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplink
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by exidy 1y ago
SingPass[0] says hi. [0] https://www.singpass.gov.sg/main/
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by exidy 1y ago
You're thinking like an engineer. From the perspective of the bank, you (the individual) has given a merchant (gym etc) a standing authority to bill you. That authority is between you and the merchant, not between your specific card nu
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by exidy 1y ago
This may not even be a case of Visa Account Updater. Recurrent charges (subscriptions, gyms etc) may not even be sent online, they are just processed in batch. Visa/Mastercard is a dual message system where a real-time auth is followed
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by exidy 1y ago
There were a great number of inventive aerial navigation systems that predate GPS by many decades. One of my favourite books is Most Secret War [0], a biography by R.V. Jones that details much of the cat and mouse that went into detecting
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by exidy 1y ago
Hard links[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS)#Operation
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by exidy 2y ago
Apologies, I was juggling multiple sources. The Xerox VC investment into Apple is a matter of public record, the figure of $10/share is widely quoted, including in the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs[0]. Exactly how and when Xe
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by exidy 2y ago
This is a myth. Jobs negotiated access to PARC technology as part of a deal in which Xerox bought shares in Apple at $10/share[0], selling about a year later at $22/share. Those shares would be worth around $5 billion today. Xerox
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by exidy 2y ago
The camera is using Leica L-mount[1] so you have the full range of Leica as well as Panasonic and Sigma lenses available. For the sort of people who invest in Leica glass, $3k AUD will not seem unreasonable and the minimalist aesthetic is r
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by exidy 2y ago
Malaysia is also (more or less, for business purposes) common law. Indonesia and Thailand are not.
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by exidy 3y ago
The LCD is clearly connected via VGA. The owner needs to hit the autosync button so the left edge isn’t cut off.
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by exidy 3y ago
Not quite. Singapore Airlines continued to fly a lot of near-empty planes to Australia during the pandemic, and delivered the first load of Pfizer. I believe Qatar kept flying also. Qantas basically ceased all international operations excep
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by exidy 3y ago
In a similar vein I can recommend Alexander Frater's "Beyond the Blue Horizon" [1] as he retraces the original flight path of Imperial Airways from London to Brisbane. Because it was written in the 80s, it's actually now
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by exidy 4y ago
> Second, I don't know of any treatments for gender dysphoria (in trans people, not people with other conditions that've been misdiagnosed) that "fix" the mind and actually work. Gender reassignment, on the other hand
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by exidy 4y ago
I had a brief look, it seems to be only locally published in Singapore.
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by exidy 4y ago
> You admit not knowing Quillette, but is a well-known alt-right website who notoriously don't care about facts and as such their content is no more reliable than Putin's Sputnik. As a media outlet, Quillette is a valid target
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by exidy 4y ago
Qantas has been using them on its domestic network for some years. Either you print bag tags at the kiosk that are scanned by the automated bag drop, or if you have the Q Bag Tags[1] and have checked in online, you just proceed directly to

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