ifwinterco

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by ifwinterco 2y ago
Even before that cyberattack I was never able to get TfL online services working properly. Luckily it's not needed, you can just buy an Oyster from a corner shop and top it up at the machines in the station (all with cash if you'r
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
There's a big difference between applying a high concentration of fluoride to teeth where it's needed and then spitting the excess out vs swallowing a low concentration of flouride in drinking water and having most of it go where
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
I think it's because the US has the clout to indirectly compel foreign institutions to cooperate in a way that other western countries can't. For example, for a US expat living in the UAE the various branches of the US government
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
It's definitely controversial and in the short term it's probably dwarfed by other factors (velocity of money and external factors), but it stands to reason that if M1 increases by 300% while population remains roughly static and
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
The federal reserve can just buy the debt from the government using newly created central bank reserves, but this increases the money supply so in the long run it will cause inflation (eventually you end up with Weimar/Zimbabwe style h
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
I always find it funny when people say "you can't put a price on a human life" because this is exactly what traffic engineers do on a daily basis. I don't know what the exact figure is but there's a number where bel
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
23 hour bang up isn't uncommon in the UK, mostly just because the prisons are overcrowded and underfunded and it's easier to keep things under control with everyone locked in their cells most of the time. There are legal minimums
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
I think the main issue is the DOM API is designed around JS. Running another scripting language with different semantics in the browser is trivial, having it interact with the page and do anything useful is not
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
I'm not actually a farmer I just grew up in the countryside, so I'm not sure, but I think with row crops slugs are less of an issue than vegetables, and they do use slug pellets if necessary. Pests, bad weather etc. are definitely
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
True, but you can't really just go on holiday for a week if you have any kind of animals, whereas with arable there are times of the year when you can
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
In the UK with arable you can potentially make money (although probably not), and it isn't a crazy amount of work. You plant crops in the autumn, spray them a couple of times, then it's too wet to get into the field and do anythin
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
Motorbikes still overwhelmingly use chains, not sure why but there must be a good reason
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
Same in the UK, I find it kind of funny that some North American transport planners are starting to put roundabouts everywhere at the same time as they're being ripped out in London. They're still pretty much the default junction
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
These days in JS you can just use let instead of var and it will work, but in itself that inconsistency is a bit weird
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
For stuff like phone chargers you just need the 2 pin europlug, a proper 3 pin adapter is only needed for anything over 2.5A
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by ifwinterco 2y ago
I think current LLMs suffer from something similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect when it comes to reasoning - in order to judge correctly that you don't understand something, you first need to understand it at least a bit. Not only do L
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
Travelling long haul without relatively 'normal' luggage is always going to attract attention
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
This is a bit of a weird comment about Singapore because a significant part of their population is and always has been ethnically Indian (Tamil)
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
Russia wants everyone to know when they do assassinations abroad, that's why they use obviously-Russian methods like polonium and novichok. It's designed to send a message to other Russian dissidents and remind them that they aren
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
Bow thrusters are only effective at very low speeds due to the Coandǎ effect
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
Might have changed, but last time I tried to use the Clipboard API it didn't work on localhost without https
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
To be truly evil you have to believe you're doing the right thing
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
Cries in PAL
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
In the UK there was a brief period from 2009-2011 where everyone seemed to replace their Nokia with a Blackberry before iPhones became common (BBM was a big thing)
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
Yeah this amazes me as well - the AWS web interface does work, but it's pretty low quality. You'd think a company with 1.5m employees could find half a dozen decent front end developers, but apparently not
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
There used to be relatively generous yearly allowances for savings (£1,000) dividends (£2,000) and CGT (£12,300) which meant most people would be exempt and not have to fill in a tax return. Saving interest is often paid gross but if you go
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
I think this is why JS and Python chose to make key ordering defined - the most popular implementations maintained insertion order anyway, so it was inevitable people would end up writing code relying on it
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
Yep replacing tables with floats is just swapping one hack for another, with its own set of edge cases, browser incompatability etc. The good news is now flexbox and grid work in all modern browsers, so this is (finally) a solved problem
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by ifwinterco 3y ago
The heathrow express is very expensive, before the elizabeth line a lot of londoners would just take the piccadilly