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by lbriner 5y ago
Not sure about the US but in Europe and UK, GDPR would not permit them to collect anything that is not strictly needed without explicit consent. The Data Minimisation principle says you should only collect what you need. They can soft-opt y
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by lbriner 5y ago
Sadly this is their policy across the board. Even though things like dotnet core 3.1 is supposed to be LTS, when you report a bug, you are most likely to get the response, "we will only fix it in .Net 5" as if upgrading everything
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by lbriner 5y ago
It is funny how much they have strived for one platform to rule them all when it would have been easier and cheaper just to maintain windows, web and mobile separately and kept the frameworks suited to their particular platform.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I would question how invested the existing customers are in XAML. I have worked at about 6 companies that all use .Net exclusively and I don't think we used XAML once except for maybe an experiment or PoC. I think the XAML stuff relate
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by lbriner 5y ago
It doesn't really answer any of the hard questions. There is nothing particularly controversial but the hard questions include: 1) How do you actually measure performance? 2) How do you deal with performance and variance in individuals
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by lbriner 5y ago
And what do you do for the 6 months of the year when there is not enough solar to heat water to a suitable temperature?
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by lbriner 5y ago
It isn't just that. afaik, a much larger issue is related to capacitive and inductive losses of AC. Even on the railways, an adjacent 25KV overhead line can induce a few hundred volts into the adjacent "dead" line, which is w
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by lbriner 5y ago
That isn't a great analogy because the expectation for electrical appliances in a boat/camper/cabin is much lower than it would be in most homes. I had a battery fridge in a caravan (trailer) and it was very small and pretty
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by lbriner 5y ago
Great in theory but if you are managing a system now, you would rather spend money on things you need now, you aren't going to keep it in the bank for some future day when the escalator needs replacing. I suspect that equipment is depr
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by lbriner 5y ago
I don't think it is as much about profitability but more like who should pay for it. In one world view, the people who use it should pay for it, whatever that costs, in the ticket price. This gives direct pressure to keep costs down. A
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by lbriner 5y ago
It is mainly due to an enormous expense and wanting to keep everything running during upgrades. If you are already costing the taxpayer X million per year and then you want another 400M for an upgrade, are you likely to get it?
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by lbriner 5y ago
This creates a very significant passenger challenge. How do the customers know which train to get on and what if they get on the even stop and need to get off an odd stop? They have to change train. If they can't pass each other then t
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by lbriner 5y ago
There are not many/any high-frequency metro systems that can do this on the same rails. At peak times, when you could do with the expresses the most, there can be stopping services 1/2 minutes apart on average, which means non-sto
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's not that "obvious" and is not always used. For a start, the power is often off at night so you need one of the few battery locos. You also need a clear route from the station to the nearest loading/offloading point,
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by lbriner 5y ago
Underground does present challenges but there are many reasons why these seemingly straight-forward jobs take time. You need qualified/certified workers, a load of up-front work related to ventilation, noise, structural movement, surve
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by lbriner 5y ago
If you want a really interesting read, which is great at showing how a methodical enquiry is carried out is here: https://www.theisrm.org/documents/Fennel%20(1988)%20Investig... It might look long but is still really i
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by lbriner 5y ago
Because older articles lose karma and drop down the list. Not many new highly voted articles for today yet.
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by lbriner 5y ago
This is a great example of why underground railways are so expensive to run. I don't believe the London Underground has ever been profitable. Not only is it expensive to install equipment, you then have to maintain it and replace it an
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by lbriner 5y ago
He's not claiming he invented the first manual washing machine, just mass producing them with modern techniques at a low cost for the developing world.
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by lbriner 5y ago
I don't think the developing world who cannot afford to eat well are really that bothered about formal exercise. Mostly just surviving.
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by lbriner 5y ago
But wasn't the counter-intuitive result that women spent more time washing since it was so "easy" now, they could wash things much more frequently. I can't find the reference but I did read it recently.
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Odeon Cinemas to Accept Bitcoin(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by lbriner 5y ago|1 comments
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by lbriner 5y ago
A massive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28118350 seems to imply that Apple have been told/have decided that they are not doing enough to protect their ecosystem from child sexual abuse pictures
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by lbriner 5y ago
It is easy to feel powerless because "everyone else" is making it so much worse than me, why bother, but I prefer the adage "Don't curse the darkness, light a candle". There are obvious reasons why massive economies
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by lbriner 5y ago
Apart from the usual things like location, salary range and tech stack, one thing that is really important to me is to understand the market for that role. I am not interested in fashion. If there was a great job in fashion, I would probabl
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by lbriner 5y ago
One of the best protections against invasion of privacy and feature creep is to require an independently obtained warrant that is served to the person in question. Firstly, this allows the general public to get an idea of how much governmen
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by lbriner 5y ago
In a similar vein, I would like an update that doesn't slow down by 10s of percent. My original Samsung S2 tab and my Samsung S8 both used to work fine and quickly. A few updates later and no obvious new features and sometimes a click
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by lbriner 5y ago
Interesting that the article mentions SO being better for noobs but really, the quality is so variable that it is hard for a noob to tell a good answer from a workaround from a terrible answer. If they fixed the reputation system so it more
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Turning a former coal plant into a gas-fired Bitcoin mine(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by lbriner 5y ago|1 comments
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by lbriner 5y ago
Sad but typical and not just from big "evil" companies (not suggesting that CF is!) I just ran Jekyll to migrate my Blogger blog to self-hosted and with the default importer and default theme, I clicked the Web Accessibility butto

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