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by kijin 2y ago
Not sure what they use in Delhi, but here in Korea we actually have rangers who shoot blank rounds at birds to chase them away at airports. See first photo in https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20230307131700056 (article in
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by kijin 2y ago
Could be worse. There was an accident in Brazil a while ago in which a runaway plane almost hit a gas station.
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by kijin 2y ago
They shoot blank rounds. The noise is what chases birds away, and you don't want any stray projectiles flying about in an airport.
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by kijin 2y ago
No landing gears = no brakes. There are a few other ways to stop a plane, but none are as effective as applying brakes to the wheels. The thrust reverser might not have been operational due to earlier bird strike. There are speculations tha
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by kijin 2y ago
"Table" and "tablet" literally have the same root. It's flat surface, a two-dimensional blank space that is perfect for laying out data, dinner, or anything else you'd like to display.
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by kijin 2y ago
A similar English expression might be "low-hanging fruit", but again for some reason we've attached negative connotations to it. I don't know why English keeps doing that. It feels so cynical.
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by kijin 2y ago
Exactly. Mozilla is a seriously bloated organization. Most of its $500M+ budget goes toward activities that have little to do with Firefox development. (In another thread a couple of months ago, it was postulated that Firefox development ac
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by kijin 2y ago
According to the article, a rock has a 0.000001% chance of having been hit by a PBH in the last billion years. It's entirely possible that not a single human being has been hit by a PBH in the last million years. "Bombarded"
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by kijin 2y ago
It's an interesting question indeed, why the mind produces so little output compared to input. Still, I get the feeling that the apparent bit rate of the conscious output is not the right metric to be measuring. There are so many ways
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by kijin 2y ago
So, one high-performance, high-power, general-purpose processor to handle the foreground task, and a bunch of low-power processors for background tasks. Looks like ARM got it right with its big.LITTLE architecture. :)
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by kijin 2y ago
Send a query to your favorite database. The database preprocesses hundreds of gigabytes of data, map-reduces it, and finally returns a single 32-bit integer, taking exactly 3.2 seconds to do so. Nobody would say that the database can only p
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by kijin 2y ago
It will take a much bigger nuke than a backpack to make a big city "just gone" in the modern world. Every now and then, ships full of explosive material blow up in a coastal city, with yields much larger than what a small nuke lik
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by kijin 2y ago
Yet Akamai hedged their bet by acquiring a well-known VPS company. Just because they aren't aggressive about expanding Linode doesn't mean that Linode is not a serious competitor to Vultr. Linode offers nearly everything Vultr doe
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by kijin 2y ago
Digital Ocean has a market cap of $3.49B as of yesterday, so $3.5B for Vultr sounds about right. It's a mundane business in a crowded market, providing services they copied from other companies, which in turn anyone can copy. Oh, and t
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by kijin 2y ago
Binning and market segmentation are not mutually exclusive. Of course they're going to put their best-performing chips in the most expensive segment.
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by kijin 2y ago
Just realized that one can make up a lot of plausible JS library names without leaving the home row.
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by kijin 2y ago
Do chimps and gorillas regularly swim in seas populated by killer whales?
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by kijin 2y ago
Floating objects can carry seals, and orcas can dislodge seals from floating objects by sending large waves in the right direction. They are definitely very interested in the relationship between floating objects and their passengers. Using
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by kijin 2y ago
Perhaps Sagan had undisclosed resentment toward Adobe ColdFusion as well.
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by kijin 2y ago
The blockade was rather inconsistent. Some entered through the gate, some jumped the fence. Some didn't make it through at all. But If the police really wanted to block the lawmakers from gathering, they would have guarded the fence as
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by kijin 2y ago
Yeah, a few helicopters carrying troops touched down in the national assembly, but it seems they arrived too late and only waved their guns around half-heartedly. I think by the time they arrived, it was already clear which way the wind was
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by kijin 2y ago
The police kept the protesters out, but eventually let in most members of the national assembly and their staff after checking their ID. Martial law is about using the military to control civilian activities. The police are civilian. Their
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by kijin 2y ago
There are different kinds of soft delete. I've had cases where the rows in question absolutely could not be hard deleted, because of legacy foreign key relations. But the PII in those rows had to go. So we did a kind of "firm dele
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by kijin 2y ago
It might depend on the version, but last time I checked, DELETEing an entire table was much slower than TRUNCATE TABLE.
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by kijin 2y ago
AMD chips have more cores than Intel chips, so pushing for a single powerful CPU means "Buy AMD, not Intel." Of course they'll like it even better if you bought two AMD chips instead of one, but they probably don't care
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by kijin 2y ago
I think part of the package is the official-looking envelope from the LLP, transparent window and all. It won't have the same effect if you just download a PDF, print it out, and mail it in a generic envelope with a handwritten address
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by kijin 2y ago
IMO Tolkien's Tengwar is the closest to Hangul. The shapes of the consonants represent the place and manner of articulation, such that similar sounds look similar on paper. Vowels are written as diacritics above the consonants, with th
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by kijin 2y ago
Yeah, it's stupid that Windows can't normalize the two completely valid ways of expressing Hangul in Unicode. If they can process e + acute accent = é, they should be able to do ㄱ + ㅏ = 가. Having said that, MacOS also made the str
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by kijin 2y ago
In many ancient and medieval monarchies, any major project that occurred with the king's approval was attributed to the king personally, regardless of his level of participation. Kings built plenty of castles, but they probably didn&#x
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by kijin 2y ago
The data representation is fairly straightforward once you're familiar with the composition rules, at least for modern Korean. Unicode simply lists all possible combinations in dictionary order starting from U+AC00. So you can take any

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