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by gmac 1y ago
Speed, of course, affects not just how many accidents there are but also how bad they are. A key argument for 20mph is that collisions with pedestrians at this speed are mostly survivable. https://publications.parliament.uk/
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Full-text searching the Web – on a single Postgres instance?(neon.com)
1 points by gmac 1y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 1y ago
I think it comes down to these two questions: * If the network is secure, why do you want to encrypt? * If the network isn't secure, why don't you want to authenticate? Encryption without authentication generally seems like a stra
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Postgres's sslmode=require: ubiquitous, reassuring, and almost useless(neon.com)
3 points by gmac 1y ago|3 comments
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by gmac 1y ago
It's hard to know what to make of this without a better understanding of the methodology. But the supposed leftward shift of men and women in the UK is kind of hard to square with an increasing vote share for the hard-right morons of
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by gmac 1y ago
I have plenty of right-wing economist colleagues, thanks. And these data are for Germany, while we’re commenting on a thread about the UK. I suspect this is also a hard thing to ‘prove’ with data, since it’s importantly about a shift in how
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by gmac 1y ago
(Thought I was adding this to my previous post, but in fact I was replying). I think part of the mechanism here is the normalisation of Trump. An authoritarian/trending fascist US President is continuously reported as mostly business-a
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by gmac 1y ago
Fully agree. The extreme left barely exists in the UK, Labour are perhaps a little right of centre, and the extreme right is all too well—funded and high-profile.
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by gmac 1y ago
The obvious reasons being what? To the extent this is true, I would phrase it the other way: women are becoming less conservative, while young men are drifting towards the extreme right.
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by gmac 1y ago
Right on topic, since overuse does in fact reduce their power to relieve pain: https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(11)00762-0/fulltext
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by gmac 1y ago
In that basic sense, yeah, OK.
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by gmac 1y ago
It loses (less than) 50% relative to the list price, which is an important reason not to pay the list price. I'd estimate that the last new car I bought lost less than 10% relative to the price I actually paid (although selling via a d
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by gmac 1y ago
Depends. My (UK) house is 125 years old. Its depreciating days are well behind it.
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by gmac 1y ago
Getting a loan for a car seems quite natural to me. A car provides service flows over a long period, so why not pay for it over a similarly long period? In the first year or two the car's value is probably below the outstanding loan am
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by gmac 1y ago
Yep. I think SEAT are the pick of the VAG brands. Their marketing isn't about being cheap, but they're aimed at the youngest market segment, who also have the least money, so in my experience have the best prices. Pre-COVID we got
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by gmac 1y ago
There are cheaper European cars than VW (and why compare with their 'average mid-range offering'?). The new (and widely liked) Renault 5 EV starts at around €21K, for instance. Probably a bit smaller than something made in China f
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Why Postgres needs better connection security defaults(neon.com)
2 points by gmac 1y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 1y ago
I don't think so. A security vulnerability is a kind of bug, and a bug is a kind of flaw. Once you've introduced a problem using the most specific terminology, it's OK to refer to it using less specific terminology. It can he
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by gmac 1y ago
Similarly, I use an automation that turns on low power mode any time the phone’s not charging. Not found any real downsides to this.
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by gmac 1y ago
100% agree on the unreliability of older Mac OS. In the late 90s my university computer room offered a mix of Mac and Windows machines, and I only ever took a Mac if that was all that was free, because there was a good chance it would at so
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by gmac 1y ago
Extra weight because of the battery, I think. Our EV is light for its size, but still 50% heavier than our previous ICE, of a similar size (Renault Scenic e-tech, 1.8 tonnes vs SEAT Leon ST, 1.2 tonnes). Though the additional acceleration p
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V8 JavaScript engine gets eager compilation hints(devclass.com)
3 points by gmac 1y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 1y ago
True. But given that's true, it would be so much better to be inside the single market or customs union. But apparently those are still 'red lines' ...
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by gmac 1y ago
Let’s hope so. But of course this is also a heavy incentive for all of them to make sure their regime never leaves power.
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by gmac 1y ago
There are an infinite number of Brexits we didn’t get. We only got to try one. For most purposes I think it’s pretty reasonable to equate ‘Brexit’ with that one. Frankly, I don’t think any of the Brexits we stood any chance of actually gett
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by gmac 1y ago
Can't see any reason not to take it at face value. It's not a common phrase or expression.
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by gmac 2y ago
s/counted/numbered/ (probably for no logical reason, that's just the phrase)
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by gmac 2y ago
Not only Teslas: my Renault has this as standard, and many brands have it at least as an option.
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by gmac 2y ago
> They include some common appliances that use water, due to water use regulations. No reason my dishwasher should take over 2 hours to run I don't think this is a great example, because saving water (and thus the energy needed to h
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by gmac 2y ago
> Professors keep acting like this is some unsolvable research problem I am a professor, and yes, it's trivially solvable. The solution has been well known for hundreds of years (at least). If only the institutions we work in would

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