jakecopp

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by jakecopp 8y ago
What accounts for the difference in these figures? Is it understandable for someone without in depth knowledge or not really?!
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I wonder if a high speed link to Newcastle via Gosford or a northern beaches link would be more politically doable.
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Do you mean transitioning older rolling stock to short lines built to high speed spec and prioritise new trains for the long lines? Not sure if I understand correctly.
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by jakecopp 8y ago
With Sydney house prices 12.9 times the median yearly household income [1] second only to Hong Kong (SF is 9.1, Hong Kong is 19.4, San Jose is 10.3 and Vancouver is 12.6) would value capture make a similar high speed project work in Austral
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I'd love to hear more about how they achieve this efficiency!
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by jakecopp 8y ago
The ATAR isn't broken as such, the process of getting one is. For a NSW student a good ATAR means you can ace a test after 2 years of study, where as Canberra/ACT focuses a lot more on project work and has much more flexibility in
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Is grading to a curve the norm at Australian Universities? They don't seem to do that at UNSW except in special circumstances. It's quite strange coming from the Canberra secondary school system where everything was scaled to a co
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Might be Faculty of Engineering Admissions Scheme (FEAS)? Though I believe there are also bonus ATAR points for students from regional schools. https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/study-with-us/feas
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Ah okay, I thought maybe he meant a clear line of sight with a long range gun or something.
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Thanks for writing that. Why does distance from car to camera van matter though? I'm very curious!
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by jakecopp 8y ago
No reason why not. I see prams on public transit in Sydney all the time. Depending on the age of the children they can also take public transport on their own, so can the drunk, elderly, and disabled. (Kids are so overprotected in this age
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Is making smaller trains feasible?!
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I'm not sure if you realise there are many world cities where you don't need a car. I think great public transit is extremely threatening to car ownership, especially when zoning changes as a result of public transit.
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I don't think it would be in scope of OpenStreetMap itself, but it would be an incredible service alongside it. Even just for tracing non-existing building outlines in OpenStreetMap - it would be a huge help. Much of the work for Human
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Yes it's comfortable, but super space inefficient - 18 feet of road space times a lane for one human. By all means cars are great, until our devotion to them makes us build 12 lane freeways rather than civilized mass transit. Nothing s
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by jakecopp 8y ago
A/B testing self-driving car software to find bugs? Would probably work great, but that is also terrifying! But you're right, if you're really going to do a full roll out, may as well test it on a subsegment first - I'd
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Found your comment really interesting, thanks! Having traveled to both LA and SF briefly (from Sydney) my impression was that LA was much more sprawled and car-centric than SF. I really like cycling and public transport so I think I would s
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Do you work in IT? Sydney and Melbourne seem to be the only Australian cities with a substantial tech presence.
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by jakecopp 8y ago
> It does not invite highway hypnosis. The explanation for this lies in your past driving experience. You lend the Auto-Pilot a duty you have been trained to perform yourself, and this somehow makes you just a little uneasy. It is not an
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Good point, thanks. I might add the option for some randomness.
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Pocket Money pitfalls: gender pay gap(abc.net.au)
1 points by jakecopp 8y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Preserve privacy in GPX traces on OSM by removing nearby points(github.com)
4 points by jakecopp 8y ago|2 comments
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by jakecopp 8y ago
What if Apple replaced their maps with Mapbox, which uses OpenStreetMap data? Apple does use OpenStreetMap data but they barely update it.
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I'm with Elon on that one, but to be fair he defended the autopilot mistake by saying how safe the physical structure of the car is. But I agree, better to release something that isn't perfect but saves lives. (we hope)
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I always preferred Meccano! (similar to Erector in the US)
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I would have thought it would be the opposite?! If there are less items I thought that it would make it easier to standardize and ship them in, while a larger menu might require more actual cooking.
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by jakecopp 8y ago
How does uMatrix compare to uBlock Origin with its matrix enabled through advanced mode? I can't tell much difference but would be willing to jump ship. uBlock Origin doesn't have CSS or image control per domain but it's the
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by jakecopp 8y ago
Unfortunately I think Firefox Quantum + uBlock Origin still uses more battery than Chrome...
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I use Firefox containers along with cookie autodelete so each tab gets a clean slate unless I've auto-mapped it to a container (where I've white-listed cookies - eg. a Facebook container where I only visit facebook.com) Much safer
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by jakecopp 8y ago
I agree, it can be ridiculous! It's also interesting seeing how many tracker domains each site tries to hit, definitely changes your opinion on different sites.

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