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by jaclaz 8y ago
Technically, you don't need windows in an autonomous car, and even on a normal car you could have the views captured by the external cameras projected onto the windshield and windows. all made of solid steel ...
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by jaclaz 8y ago
>What impresses me most about TBC is how fast they were able to dig a tunnel. Well, "normal" small diameter TBM's in "normal" terrain/rock can go as fast as 400 m/month ("net" progress rate) t
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by jaclaz 8y ago
>Think about how you can recognize your friends without even seeing their face, by the way they walk, what they wear, how tall they are, and other contextual clues. Yep, but think also how many times you approached a friend from behind a
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by jaclaz 8y ago
May 10, 2012? Yet another date, the Wayback Machine Cache has it Nov 17, 2013.
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by jaclaz 8y ago
You are right: https://web.archive.org/web/20131119203754/http://arstechnic... Sneaky. But that clears the "twenty years", five years ago that would have been accurate.
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by jaclaz 8y ago
To be picky (besides clicky ;-)), that specific keyboard: >Mmmm.... manufactured in 1985, just like Ars Features Editor Nathan Mattise. was manufactured (on 28th August) 1992, and only copyrighted 1985. Neither 1992 nor 1985 are "tw
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Without having any experience in marketing, let alone AI or AI marketing, as a maybe potential client I find the "what buyers get wrong" and the "buyers asked dumb questions" to be a very adversarial approach to selli
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by jaclaz 8y ago
And you sent me deeper down it. This seems like a good summing up, more up to date: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/about-rtl-sdr/
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by jaclaz 8y ago
I wasn't thinking of the moral implications for the individual (which is of course volunteering) I was thinking of the moral implications for the society. Of course it is removable, the "easily" is debatable. In a society whe
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Anecdata, but I worked several years in infrastructure projects (and in the course of that cut numberless pipes, cables - both electricity and communications - and what not), the basic issue in my experience was the sloppyness with which th
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by jaclaz 8y ago
They look like the ones that are commonly in use (mandated by Law) for dogs and (I believe optional) for cats here in Italy since years. Besides the moral and psychological implications of being "marked" for life (not entirely unl
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by jaclaz 8y ago
>Well, the paper[0] spends ~98% of the time not claiming that. Still it does say that, and the actual 2% remaining and actually stating the possibilty of it being an alien ship of some kind is essentially coming from the "set of edu
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Right. E-mail is a substitute for mail, it is not a replacement for phone calls or SMS. (and both phone calls and SMS should be IMHO used parsimoniously by the people needing your attention). Previous similar themed thread on HN, JFYI: htt
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Not to put anyone off, but there are two hypothesis: 1) investing at 5% return (over several decades) 2) having the time, once retired, to take advantage of the increased wealth that might not reflect reality. This said, it is rather obviou
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by jaclaz 8y ago
A similar example is also in the known John Allen Paulos' book "Innumeracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_(book)
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by jaclaz 8y ago
I seems to me that - besides the specific fraud scheme in the article - there is something else to be worried about. From the article: >The revelation of this scheme shows just how deeply fraud is embedded in the digital advertising ecos
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by jaclaz 8y ago
The same is done traditionally in Italy and Spain, at least where and when the weather allows it (more in the south than in the north). In any case having the windows open for some time daily allows to change the air and it prevents moulds
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Several FreeRTOS TCP/IP Stack Vulnerabilities Found(blog.zimperium.com)
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Not only, it seems like a completely speculative theory, unless I missed it there is no actual data in the article about an increase in media (games or other) consumption by the same group that is "working less". And even if there
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by jaclaz 8y ago
... or start making more buttons ... http://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=14228 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galalith
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Only slightly off topic I recently get to know about a technique in (industrial) manufacturing, friction forging: https://www.diamondbladeknives.com/Friction-Forging cannot say if it actually delivers what it promises, but
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by jaclaz 8y ago
>Subst.: pingue , is, n., fat, grease, Plin. 11, 37, 85, § 212; Verg. G. 3, 124: “taurorum, leonum ac pantherarum pinguia,” Plin. 28, 9, 38, § 144: “comedite pinguia,” Vulg. 2 Esd. 8, 10.— "Comedite pinguia" may be not "cl
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Do we really need a "store" (in the sense of a centralized and "controlled" repository of android apps? [0] [1] I mean, set aside the Apple Store and the Google store (and the abomination that is the Windows store) all
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by jaclaz 8y ago
In EU 2G is just fine (yet?), Italy here, but never had problems in EU and near countries.
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by jaclaz 8y ago
A bit off topic, but one of the movies I always found really interesting (without having any idea how much "realistic" it might or might not be) has been "The man wihout a past": https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Italian: Il silenzio è d'oro, la parola d'argento.
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by jaclaz 8y ago
Even if it is by now rather dated, the classic about England [0] "strange" things for a foreigner remains "How to be an Alien" by George Mikes, JFYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_be_an_Alien
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by jaclaz 8y ago
I guess it depends, I worked a short bit of time in Berlin (construction project) and among other things I was somehow the "procurement guy" even if my German is far from being good enough (we had a couple interpreters anyway). I
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by jaclaz 8y ago
It is all a matter of what you want a device to do (I know it seems obvious). I had a couple of what you could call a "smartphone" before "smartphone" existed (Sony Ericsson P900/P910), which anyway had a battery th
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by jaclaz 8y ago
I fly a couple times a year between Italy and Spain with Ryan Air and my national issued ID card is OK. From Ryan Air site: https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/useful-info/help-centre/terms-... >INTERNATION

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