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by fyfy18 7y ago
The first part of your statement is not true. Autoland as in "press a button and go get a coffee" sure. Almost all commercial aircraft have systems that can land the aircraft themselves (with the pilot ready to take over at any po
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Maybe I misread the article, but my understanding was she was saying the private schools she visited had exactly the same issue (forcing kids Infront of screens) as public schools. The only school that didn't was a Montessori school.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
One of my pet peeves about Go is a lot of errors are not exposed as public variables, so your options of handling them are somewhat limited other than a generic "something went wrong". I've recently written a tool that classi
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I live in Lithuania and this season winter here has not yet come (and probably won't now). Typically winters here have a week or two of temperatures reaching -25c in January, with it averaging around -10c the rest of the season. This
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by fyfy18 7y ago
The UK has had similar labelling for a while, as well as higher taxes on high sugar drinks. Has the same effect been seen there? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/19/traffic-ligh...
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Many cars now come with a database of speed limits and display it on the dashboard. Although this shouldn't be relied on for self driving, it could be used to double check. OSM data for types of roads and areas is pretty accurate too,
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> A fuse should be put on the hot leg as close to the power entry as possible. The reasoning being that if the fuse pops it removes the hot voltage from as much of the assembly as possible. This only works if the power system has a defi
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by fyfy18 7y ago
For anyone wondering why: I was working on a hobby project a few years ago that had to do a lot of inserts in a SQLite DB. Performance was ok, but it wasn't great either. Turning on WAL greatly sped up performance. In both cases just a
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by fyfy18 7y ago
To be fair, GDPR was first proposed in 2012. In 2016 it was written into law, and then in 2018 it became enforceable. It was these adtech companies that choose to ignore implementing it and/or to do it as late as possible.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I bought a 4K monitor a few years ago. It's beautiful when displaying 4K, but I'm still waiting for Linux to catch up. I used in on a desktop and that worked mostly ok, but on a laptop with different scalings on the internal and e
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I lived in a London 10 years ago, and both salary and expenses were pretty similar. There are a lot of cheap or free (public museums and art galleries are free) things you can do in London if you know where to look. Unlike SF travel is a he
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I read this as sticking to what you know. Maybe you come from a C# background, it's not hot and sexy (sorry C# developers), but it's still a perfectly good technology to build a business on. Compare this to your team deciding to l
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by fyfy18 7y ago
How does MRI compare to other techniques (e.g. CAT scans) for general diagnostics? Does it make sense to be used as a more routine diagnostics tool if there are many more machines available? In the US there are 37 MRI machines per million p
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by fyfy18 7y ago
That doesn't really fit into the SV narrative of unicorns though :/ There was an article last week about new forms of funding that may make supporting this model more common: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22
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by fyfy18 7y ago
That's not really suprising. I imagine setting up a new deployment isn't terribly expensive (now the R&D is done), but given you are going to be spending a few weeks working with the ISP to get it up and running, you probably
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by fyfy18 7y ago
For most intercontinental flights I've been on, at least half the flight the windows are closed to block the sun so people can sleep or watch the screens. They could design a viewing area at the edge and fill the interior (where passen
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Why do we still consider the "perfect domain" valuable? Most users will search on Google for the company rather than typing the address (even for companies that probably do have a .com, like their bank) so why is it something we s
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> Cast iron and glass for cooking/storing instead of Teflon and plastic. How do the "mineral stone" [0] pans compare? Is it just a Teflon equivalent with a new name? [0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FX
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by fyfy18 7y ago
That sounds exactly like some sort of population control mechanism from a dystopian novel. All it needs is a tazer for those that don't comply.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
My father's cousin has been living in social care for the last few years. He was put into a home associated with the council, but as he owned a home (that he'd lived in his whole life) he was forced to sell it to pay for his care.
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by fyfy18 7y ago
How do you even begin to put a price on individual articles though? Should you charge the same for a long form article that took months to research as the latest commentary on The Voice? Do you charge the same to a wealthy CEO as you do to
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by fyfy18 7y ago
The new fangled communist blocks did, but older developments were often left without this, even at the fall of communism. I live in the capital of my country, and 30 years ago a lot of the old town - places that are now the most expensive p
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Nobody here has mentioned the fact that they went through a locked door (well supposedly it was unlocked, they closed it, and they broke in to test it) even though their 'get-out-of-jail-free' letter explicitly said that was not p
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I'm waiting for Tuple to launch their Linux version, but wonder if they ever will or this will just be a major blocker. Half my team uses Mac, the other half Linux and one Windows guy. Zoom works pretty well for calls, but I'd lik
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by fyfy18 7y ago
Just don't try to annotate the screen (or let a viewer do it). I ended up with a blank screen over everything (even the task switcher) and no way to quit. Fortunately I had a keyboard shortcut to launch a new terminal, so used that the
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by fyfy18 7y ago
As an EU "customer" I'm rather surprised by this. There are services that I've signed up to since GDPR came into effect which I didn't get explicitly consent to do this. For example my business bank. Why would I giv
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by fyfy18 7y ago
I've been selling a SaaS product for the last four years. Originally I used Stripe but recently switched to Paddle. The main reason is that it makes my life a lot easier, they act as a reseller so I effectively sell my product to them,
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by fyfy18 7y ago
> Solar is never going to generate as much per panel in Scotland and UK as in California or Saudi, but it's good enough to pay well economically and in terms of emissions and overall impact too. Why wouldn't we use it in the mi
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by fyfy18 7y ago
My comment was meant as opposed to relying on fossil fuels imported from other nations; Europe as a whole imports 87% of it's oil [0], most of which comes from Russia [1]. If the same capital would be spent on renewable domestic energy
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by fyfy18 7y ago
This is about electricity, not energy, demand though, so it's more like your neighbour runs a coal fired power plant that you import 50% of your electricity from. If you look at energy consumption as a whole it's not that great th

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