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by jl6 2y ago
Perhaps amortize the size/cost by combining the bus stop with a charging rack for e-scooters/e-bikes. Might be a bit cheaper per unit if you buy 19,000 of them (one for each London bus stop).
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by jl6 2y ago
Much less than half as it avoids the need for continuous rails.
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by jl6 2y ago
London buses spend a lot of time stopped at bus stops. I wonder if it would ever make sense to install a 500kW pantograph charger at each stop to give 3-4 minutes of top up.
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by jl6 2y ago
If this is the place to complain about broken patterns in Microsoft software, I wonder if anyone can fix this: 1. Create new office document (Word/PowerPoint/etc) and hit save. 2. No, the default location in OneDrive isn’t right s
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by jl6 2y ago
We now recognize this of course, but I think the point being made above is that society at the time did not, and they thought they were acting morally. Perhaps the lesson is that actions done out of a sense of moral righteousness should not
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by jl6 2y ago
Not sure about beneficial as such… more like, a low level of fraud/theft/crime might cost less than the fraud/theft/crime-prevention measures, and therefore be rational to tolerate.
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by jl6 2y ago
This article contains the actual alleged doctored images: https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...
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by jl6 2y ago
It's a handful of books in a handful of local libraries. Yes, it's dumb and shouldn't have happened, but there are far more important and insidious cases of thought cleansing that deserve more attention.
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by jl6 2y ago
Indeed, early observations and unproven hypotheses are part of how we decide whether something is worth researching in the first place.
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by jl6 2y ago
Without intending to take anything away at all from the work of the researchers, I think “breakthrough” might just be overselling it. They have improved a bound but I can’t tell that their method will open up a plausible path to a full pr
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by jl6 2y ago
I guess I did. I didn’t know what CSD was until just now. Is this something that using Xubuntu has shielded me from? I’ve been using it since around 2016, maybe a bit earlier, (using the default theme) and it’s never seemed to be a problem.
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by jl6 2y ago
I’ve been a happy XFCE user for years, and although it uses GTK I’ve never run into whatever drama is going on here.
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by jl6 2y ago
Brilliant. It contains just enough content to re-activate the neurons where my memories of the original are stored, and my brain is filling in the rest.
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by jl6 2y ago
"Sir, it appears the humans only require two of every creature." "Very well, we shall start the optimization process with them."
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by jl6 2y ago
At provincial grade school, I was top of most classes with very little effort. It made me lazy. But in higher education I finally met people who were significantly more capable than me (at least in my chosen specialism). I had to raise my g
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by jl6 2y ago
There’s a theory that for a period of time in the 00s, all the “smart” people were getting their music for free online, while only “dumb” people were buying CDs, and so popular music charts began to reflect the tastes only of the “dumb” peo
737.
by jl6 2y ago
It could still have been 3 hours as you would have been constrained not only by your own download speed, but also the peer’s upload speed, and they might have been on an even crappier dial-up line or sharing their bandwidth with other uplo
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by jl6 2y ago
It's an interesting tradeoff of freedoms when you consider how free a person is to leave a HOA. Purely legally speaking, they are free to leave at any time if the HOA starts to enforce unjust restrictions - but practically speaking, mo
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by jl6 2y ago
They’re not so interesting for mundane topics, but for anything remotely controversial, they are essential for understanding what perspectives aren’t included in the article.
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by jl6 2y ago
Should have gone with blu-rayn.
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by jl6 2y ago
The source files appear to include pages from all namespaces, which is good, because a lot of the value of Wikipedia articles is held in the talk page discussions, and these sometimes get stripped from projects that use Wikipedia dumps.
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by jl6 2y ago
Chatbots in mainstream businesses are built for one purpose: to reduce the number of staff that are needed to answer phone calls. At this, they are moderately successful. They are built for the 80%+ of customers whose enquiries are routine.
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by jl6 2y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homeles... https://archive.ph/Sn6dY Housing affordability varies greatly across the country.
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by jl6 2y ago
A variant of this idea is circulating in the corporate world: the CO2 emissions of an email. A lot of people now seem to think that hitting send in Outlook causes a little puff of gas to be emitted somewhere. Their solution is to send their
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by jl6 2y ago
“Here’s a nickel kid, get yourself a better OS”? Still, the fact that some PDF processors can make this work shows that the format isn’t broken “by design”.
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by jl6 2y ago
> the conclusions drawn were most often unsupported by the data This is damning. What’s the purpose of an allegedly-scientific paper if it draws conclusions not supported by the data? It’s no better than an opinion column.
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by jl6 2y ago
Let's not denigrate the trades. They are well paid skilled careers, in generally high demand.
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by jl6 2y ago
I'm sure we all have our suspicions about which degrees lead to better careers, and which are luxury purchases, but it would be nice to have some data to prove it.
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by jl6 2y ago
Is there a reason they didn’t ask what kind of college degree it was? Seems like a missed opportunity to get data about which degrees are worth it.
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by jl6 2y ago
Billions is not wrong. Trillion s (plural) would be wrong. "More than a trillion" would be needless words.

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