leoedin

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by leoedin 4y ago
That depends on how many lanes they devote to cars. Most of the main roads near me have at least 2 lanes in each direction - sometimes the inner one is devoted to parking, sometimes to cars, sometimes just to busses and bikes.
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by leoedin 4y ago
If you sold/gave it away as "Android OS"? Ultimately, Linux is released under the GPL. That gives end users several rights, including the right to repackage it and re-sell it. People do that all the time . Android, Tizen, Ma
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by leoedin 4y ago
The problem is that Meta did make a product like second life. It's called horizon worlds, and by all accounts it's a pretty awful experience. They'd almost have been better off not bothering to make it.
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by leoedin 4y ago
I hate to break it to you, but there's plenty of Americans living all over Europe. Here in London there's loads.
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by leoedin 4y ago
I think the other comment pretty much captured it. If you don't make a complete plug and play package, your robotics are just going to be part of a bigger solution developed by another business. The nature of putting together a complet
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by leoedin 4y ago
I worked at a robotics startup for a while developing a robotic arm. The big problem we kept coming up against was that the robot was just part of the story. A robot arm doesn't solve a customers problem - a robotic solution does. Prog
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by leoedin 4y ago
FizzBuzz exactly as printed in an example? An easily game-able memorization problem. The concept of FizzBuzz? If you are a programmer you should be able to write a simple program with arithmetic and string manipulation. There's no reas
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by leoedin 4y ago
> The 24-hour traffic count was conducted on a wet and windy November day last year. Presumably that means on a nice summers day the numbers are even higher. This is of course countered by the fact the City of London is becoming increasi
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by leoedin 4y ago
The problem is mainly one of discoverability. The non-programmer in the examples says "simple" when they mean "discoverable". The programmer says "simple" when they mean "not much code complexity". Of
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by leoedin 4y ago
The duration should be hours, not days. The way I've done it in the past is by pre-arranging with the candidate a time that they'd like to do the test (maybe 7pm on a Tuesday, or 3pm on a Saturday). They're sent some details
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by leoedin 4y ago
I've been using the same Brother laser - HL-2035 - since 2008. It's followed me through many, many house moves, and a couple of new toner cartridges. I'd love to get a wifi enabled one, but since this one just won't die,
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by leoedin 4y ago
Nearly every time I think "I can walk quicker than the bus", the bus overtakes me. Even with a bus stop every 200m. The only time I truly can walk quicker than a bus is when it's in complete gridlock traffic.
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by leoedin 4y ago
They don't seem to answer the question of why the chlorine in the atmosphere comes mainly from CFCs. What about all the chlorine we use every day from e.g. bleach and swimming pools? Does that not wreck the ozone layer because it never
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by leoedin 4y ago
I was wondering this. I imagine you could make a good case that they offered an employment contract, you accepted, and then they chose not to take advantage of your efforts for any tasks. I'd hope that if you could show that you acted
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by leoedin 4y ago
Yeah - that just seemed completely wrong based on my experience. I've commuted by bike for years, and my back tyre is always the first to go.
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by leoedin 4y ago
I agree - it's basically a new strain of puritan thinking. The problem is that unlike established religions - where you can step away and say "I don't recognise your moralising" with pretty much no repercussions, the lin
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by leoedin 4y ago
Yeah, there's been this common belief that "you kids are good at computers" throughout my life. Yes, the kids* aren't afraid of computers in the way that some people in my parents generation are, but there's still a
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by leoedin 4y ago
Voltage is only half the story with electrical equipment. Pretty much anything you buy is designed to withstand voltages far in excess of nominal. Almost every input on an electronic device will have "transient voltage supression"
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by leoedin 4y ago
I think I've had 3 phones in the time my wife has had 1 iPhone 7. Every time I buy a new phone I'm like "but Android is cheaper", but I'm fairly sure the lifetime cost of "phone" is in her favour at this p
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by leoedin 4y ago
I found this part fascinating: > In 1282, the administration passed to two bridge wardens, chosen from the citizens of London, who headed an organisation called Bridge House. Its rent books, accounts, and leases are the main sources for
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by leoedin 4y ago
The UK privatised whole swaths of industries in the 1980s and 90s. Telecoms, transport, manufacturing - all were owned by the government and then sold off. Taxes were lowered. The scope of out-of-work benefits was reduced. You can see the d
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by leoedin 4y ago
It is kind of absurd, especially once you get into the messy bits around bartering and gifting. But then all sorts of elements of modern society are absurd when you look at them closely. It seems that once you get into the world of macroeco
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by leoedin 4y ago
The important distinction is where the carbon comes from. If the methane comes from the ground, it's adding carbon to the carbon cycle. This is why we're in such a pickle. If the carbon comes from the air, or trees, or anything th
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by leoedin 4y ago
The Comet wasn't particularly successful (at least in part because of its fundamental design flaw) - but the military version - the Nimrod - flew until 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Nimrod
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by leoedin 4y ago
I've seen "product" done badly at multiple companies. I've still not seen it done very well. I think the problem is structural. Of all the areas of software development process that get cargo culted without careful consi
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by leoedin 4y ago
I don't think it's even about putting them in jail for a long time. The current situation has basically zero downsides to stealing a bike. You take it, you sell it, you have cash. The police don't care, they won't even i
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by leoedin 4y ago
The interfaces with devices over SPI/I2C etc is interesting. There's actually some other interesting developments in this area - 10Base-T1S and 10Base-T1L are recent standards that are designed to allow ethernet packet communicati
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by leoedin 4y ago
As far as I can see the author now owns 4 memory sticks, but only looked at the flash on 2 of them.
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by leoedin 4y ago
The author looks at one of the drives, but they bought 2. What size was the other one? It may just be that there's some distribution of "usable flash blocks" in every flash chip, and they happened to get one which fell at the
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by leoedin 4y ago
Don't forget * The workflow to use your software is so unintuitive I've had to learn it by muscle memory People don't mind when a nice discoverable UI adds some more features. They don't like it when a horrible poorly th

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