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by fransje26 8mo ago
That it should be possible for somebody with a reasonable understanding of car maintenance to actually fix or maintain their car instead of having a blob of proprietary nonsense only meant to lock you in and milk your wallet with mandatory
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by fransje26 8mo ago
> If you double following distance, you halve the throughput. If you halve following distance, you double your throughput. That postulate breaks down as soon as you move away from a laminar traffic assumption and include distracted drive
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by fransje26 8mo ago
The plot is trying to illustrate the solution to an equation that is quite similar to Burger's equation, with a strong dependency on space and time. That's not easy to do in a single, static image. When the characteristics meet (w
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by fransje26 8mo ago
Ah, crickets! Just got the two nouns in the wrong order..
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by fransje26 9mo ago
No. East Germany did not start existing with the Berlin Wall. The system was in place well before that, and so was the Stasi. It spanned more than 40 years, and was absolutely multi-generational.
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by fransje26 9mo ago
That's because you have the right to travel freely between Schengen countries. Asking for an ID or passport when embarking/disembarking would be similar to having an ID check at a border, and would therefore be a border control, i
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> As long as there are still safety drivers, the data doesn't really tell you if the AI is any good. Unless you had reliable data about the number of interventions by the driver, which I assume Tesla doesn't provide. Sorry that
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by fransje26 9mo ago
It depends on how much you want to sleep in the coming days..
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> I completely understand why, but on the other hand democracy relies on citizens being informed about what's happening. The point being made by the author is that "following the news" nowadays has nothing to do with being
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> The Economist Speaking of an anger-inducing publication..
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by fransje26 9mo ago
Ubuntu and Fedora dropping X11: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/ubuntu_2510_to_drop_x... https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-43-wayland-only/ Kde Plasma 6.8 dropping X11: https:
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> It is many years, I guess close to a decade, since I needed to change X config manually. Making manual changes in 2015+, for a protocol released in 1987, that's a long time having rough edges..
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> Tri-Flow because it has PTFE that stays as a white powder. Ever-lasting PFAS for the win!
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by fransje26 9mo ago
https://xkcd.com/538/
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by fransje26 9mo ago
It was visible in the 22:00-23:00 time window. Here in the south west, the sky started turning green around 22:30.
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> However, for sure this crash should have never happened but it only happened because they were testing the limits of both the train and the track. No. It happened because they were under-prepared and disorganized, and thereby didn&#x27
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by fransje26 9mo ago
Good to know! Which version of Qt are you using?
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by fransje26 9mo ago
Lol! Corrected. :-)
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by fransje26 9mo ago
This article does not? And the DC-10 was not decommissioned. It is, in fact, still in service.
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> they paid extra for the redundant AOA sensor. There was no redundancy AOA sensor option for MCAS. All the planes were built with two AOA sensors, with the original MCAS implementation only using data from 1 sensor.
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by fransje26 9mo ago
> That does not however answer the question of whether they just got lucky, or were more skilled, though there are some indications that it may have been skill. What a load of bullcrap. Full stop. The crews of the two crashed 737Max were
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by fransje26 10mo ago
DuckDuckGo has also been my goto for years, but it is also getting swamped with SEO-rigged spam sites. 2 days ago I was making multiple searches looking for the websites of specific hotels and spa facilities, and none of them showed up in t
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by fransje26 10mo ago
And if you really like to suffer, you can do it like the locals and try working through a copy of le "Bescherelle"..
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by fransje26 10mo ago
Just out of curiosity as I don't own a vacuum robot: do yo loose any key functionality by rooting your device with Valetudo, compared to what the manufacturer offers?
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by fransje26 10mo ago
Thank you for the links and the write-up! I'll share them with a friend who loves astronomy and who loves to organize star-gazing events that he livens up with his Unistellar telescope.
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by fransje26 10mo ago
> This reminds me of an adventured died just a few months ago at age of 40 after suffering insult. I did not understand what was meant with "suffering insult" , so with the help of DeepL and his wikipedia page I could determin
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by fransje26 11mo ago
> If you use qtcreator, it’s, and I hate this word, trivial. Most of the work comes from setting up the qt kit in qtcreator… which takes about 5 minutes. And as QtCreator is first-class citizen for everything related to Qt, you'll h
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by fransje26 11mo ago
> It's also fun to tell Copilot that the code will violate a license. It will seemingly always tell you it's fine. Safe legal advice. Perfectly embodies the AI "startup" mentality. Nice.. /s
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by fransje26 11mo ago
> Glyphosate is used to desiccate wheat to make it easier to harvest. Wheat, soy, lentils, ...
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by fransje26 11mo ago
Yeah, makes absolute sense. A bit like Toyota putting a GM engine in their car, because the Toyota engine division is too self-centered, focusing to much on efficiency.

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