grkvlt

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by grkvlt 9y ago
So, why don't you purchase premium economy seats, which are exactly that? Probably ~50% more, but for ~50% more comfort.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Which you can already do. This is exactly what business class is, right now! For example, the top deck of a BA 747 is entirely lay-flat business seats, which are incredibly comfortable for long haul. But, as you say, you have to pay (somewh
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by grkvlt 9y ago
yeah, for TATL (LHR to JFK minimum) or longer (SFO etc) travel, there is a quantifiable difference in comfort for premium economy, at least in BA which i normally fly. although, i actually had a reasonable flight in economy from EWR to EDI
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> I would probably have just said something like "I use an iPhone because Android is for poor people" just "for the lulz" this is why we can't have nice things. when people's response to someone doing resear
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Apparently not. The US military investigated this pretty thoroughly, in fact!
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by grkvlt 9y ago
The 'well written' part of that is what many people seem to struggle with. It can sometimes take over an hour to produce just a paragraph or two containing a 'well written' message with the right style, optics, tone, and
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by grkvlt 9y ago
What's interesting here is how things are different from say 20-30 years ago, when everyone would answer their land-line with 'Hello, this is NAME on NUMBER, can I help you' or some variant. This is how I was taught to answer
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by grkvlt 9y ago
admittedly, although i also wouldn't class it as a mental disorder, i don't like using the phone. interestingly, i find i often have to have a cigarette to calm myself down before making or answering an important call...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I can see I'm getting downvoted here, and I may have been a bit harsh, but it still seems like people are saying the equivalent of 'I got started in my career by breaking into abandoned buildings, impersonating security guards to
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> he wonders if telephones are a tool used by the national health service to cut costs that just lowered my opinion of him. first he mentions there is an online service, but for some reason he can't be bothered to obtain the user id
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Sure they do. Mine (Android) at least, has an option to decline the call and send one of a variety of text messages to the caller including exactly that one (I'm busy right now, call me back in an hour) with one touch. Does iOS not sup
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Just for comparison I did this search on Google (UK site, logged in with my work account) as well, the first page of 'github' results are listed. It seems their are much more relevant and useful than the DDG results... 1. a clearl
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Really there's nothing to be proud of about writing programs to kick people off a system - that's called being an asshole - or distributing warez, that's called stealing. I'd hope people learning about technology today c
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by grkvlt 9y ago
After I left university, all I had was a (free) 2400bps connection to a modem bank on an X.25 PAD system, accessible to alumni - fortunately PPP existed and I could bring up TCP/IP over the link, at least... I actually feared this woul
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by grkvlt 9y ago
We do that sort of thing already - see Santa Claus for example, where children are continually lied to about the identity of the person who brings them presents.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Did you ever use 1200/75 in the reverse mode? You could get the modem to dial e.g. PRESTEL in the UK and train as a 'server' so the speeds were reversed. This gives a 75/1200 connection with 75bps down and 1200bps up, wh
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I think they're in stealth mode until 01/04/2018
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by grkvlt 9y ago
What about the passenger?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
The Warp supercomputer is interesting [0] as it's apparently a 'systolic array' computer. Never heard of that architecture before...? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WARP_(systolic_array)
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by grkvlt 9y ago
To prevent threats from insiders. For example, imagine one of her personal staff is blackmailed into placing a bomb in the Queen's handbag, or similar. Also, if she is flying commercially (the Royals use British Airways first class, I
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Or, just exercise their right to not serve you? If you order something and then are unable to pay in the manner they request, they can just throw the drink away and move on. This would also happen if your card was declined.
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Exploring Iterated Function Systems(medium.com)
2 points by grkvlt 9y ago|0 comments
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Not sure I understand. Unless the property owner you are renting from is making a loss, renting should always be more expensive than owning. The landlord of your USD 2600 pcm rented property must be paying less than USD 2600 pcm in mortga
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Wow. Surely (and especially if there are red-light cameras) that'd be an automatic ticket, with fine and points? Same for not stopping at a zebra crossing. I can't say I've ever witnessed this sort of behaviour in the UK, exc
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by grkvlt 9y ago
They used stairs for a 747 and disembarked from the lower deck doors only. The main reason for keeping pax on the plane was that it is not a commercial airport, and cannot handle customs/immigration for an A380 sized (anything > 15
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Art by Algorithm(aeon.co)
2 points by grkvlt 9y ago|0 comments
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Fineness, I assume? Although it'd be important to have finesse, too!
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by grkvlt 9y ago
True, I actually use Postman in Chrome, forgot to mention that.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
For a CEO, he's an insanely bad public speaker, yes. I'm always surprised by that. Then again, he's doing this without notes, or even just a preview of the next slide coming up, it seems, which is pretty difficult at the best
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Because Paw is GBP 39.99 and a browser is free?

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