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by iggldiggl 9mo ago
Airplanes might be designed in mm, but airports are most likely designed in metres, and whoops, suddenly you need to convert between the two. Actually civil engineering as a whole is probably a relatively mixed bunch – vehicles drawings (wh
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by iggldiggl 9mo ago
Vehicle drawings (maybe mechanical engineering in general) might be in millimetres, but a lot of civil engineering works in metres, so when designing some bit of infrastructure to fit certain kinds of vehicles, I do need to convert between
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by iggldiggl 9mo ago
> Nobody forces you to use the peer DNS. For practical purposes there's the problem (at least a few years ago?) though that Akamai in particular uses DNS to steer you to the correct portion of its CDN and the default IPs returned by
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by iggldiggl 9mo ago
Even in the US I'm doubtful about 2 minutes per mile being true for actual "city" driving if you live in a bigger conurbation.
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by iggldiggl 9mo ago
> Miles are great to estimate time of travel by car, take 1 minute per mile of distance on a highway and 2 minutes in the city and you will be pretty close. That might be true where you live, but it's hardly a universal constant. 1
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by iggldiggl 9mo ago
> On Exactitude of Science - Borges. And based on that in turn, Umberto Eco's "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1": https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/8816
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by iggldiggl 10mo ago
Thanks for linking that page, interesting rabbit hole that I hadn't heard about until today…
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by iggldiggl 10mo ago
Yup, although who knows when/if ever shared hosting adds support for that, too. Still, at least it's something, that's true…
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by iggldiggl 10mo ago
> Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel
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by iggldiggl 10mo ago
> This is cheaper than most petrol cars. Still somewhat more expensive than petrol cars in the same category , though.
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by iggldiggl 10mo ago
The problem is that this breaks down if you don't want to leak any obscure subdomains you might be using via CT-logs – shared hosting rarely supports DNS-based certificate renewals for wildcard certificates, and even less so for domain
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> I know that read/write conflict concerns are what got USB Mass Storage mode removed from Android, but surely there's some way to resolve that. Depending on whether the respective kernel supported it, you were still unofficial
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
Competition dynamics for air traffic are different. Railway infrastructure can only support a very limited number of competing companies before you run out of capacity, and especially on classic mixed traffic routes it is very easy to run
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> May be of note also that the best train in London (the Elizabeth line) is run by a tendering process But that tendering is just internal between the state and the operator – fares and service levels on the other hand are set by TfL (an
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> despite taxpayer money investment logically dropping Did it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GB_Rail_Subsidy,_1985-201... paints a slightly more complex picture.
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> The other is some of the ticketing options And despite privatisation, a national fare system with through ticketing between operators was maintained.
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> In many European countries trains do make money. Only if you discount the infrastructure subsidies, I think.
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> and if you maintain the roads to track standards they are just as comfortable If you maintain a road to track standards, it's likely also just as expensive. (Definitely not cheap, because an intensive bus service will hammer a roa
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> Countless reviews have made it clear that essentially the only thing that BRT has going for it is lower up-front investment. Plus maybe another legitimiate niche in developing countries where drivers' salaries are cheaper relative
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> AWS / TPWS are somewhat rudimentary and deployed - by far - not everywhere I don't think that's quite true. AWS is rudimentary, true (only forces acknowledgement of warning signals, but otherwise no speed supervision, br
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
The student/hobbyist account type will most likely literally only be useful for that strict purpose, i.e. very small-scale distribution to a known quantity of people. I think it was mentioned somewhere else that that account type w
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
Banning all apps signed by the same key is already possible. Requiring signing keys to be anonymously registered with Google would add some friction to simply rotating your signing keys when you get caught doing something naughty (depending
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> See that's what the intent system was originally designed to prevent. > Your QR reader requires no media permission if it uses the standard file dialogs. Then it can only access files you select, during that session. On the one
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
Working in infrastructure design (specifically railways), cab ride videos are often useful to fill in gaps in as-built plans or the pictures you took on a site visit (you'll always miss out to photograph something that'll be of ma
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
… launcher shortcuts, launcher widgets, storage management, multi-process set-ups or even services (those need to be declared statically in the manifest), so yeah it would. So interesting as a fun exercise, but not really useful for probabl
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> Yes, if it was a measure of device security they would revoke attestation of devices that are behind on security updates. The new attestation system Google introduced recently (which I think also more strongly forces hardware-based att
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
Why waste time and duplicate the efforts of LineageOS? They've probably already got enough work maintaining F-Droid as it is, without having to add an additional Android fork (and never mind supporting a variety of devices) on top. And
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> E.g. somebody could come up with the idea of running adb or an adb emulator on another phone, or even a small hardware dongle, integrating it with a pretty UI that looks like a regular app shop. That idea already exists and is called S
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by iggldiggl 11mo ago
> The adb workaround for Android is essentially on par with being able to use Xcode's tooling to install apps on an iPhone The Apple situation is still significantly worse than ADB, because (at least without a paid-for developer acc
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> The main benefits is that Google is able to optimize downloads for individual devices. I don't think Google does the more invasive bit of stripping out non-applicable code protected by API level checks (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT), and

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