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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The tunnel is over 30 miles long, 31.4 miles or 50.5 km. The tunnel must first go deep enough to go under the sea on either side, adding to its length.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Very true. However, a train on fire usually can’t turn around, but there are several emergency stations in the tunnel with emergency evacuation for people (via the service tunnel) and automated high-pressure water droplet extinguishing syst
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The trains are much faster than cars (160km/h or 100mph in the tunnel), and it’s a lot easier to ensure fire safety. It’s a 50km tunnel! That requires a lot of precautions. There haven’t been any fatalities, and one of two fires was ca
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
They make money by showing me ads, so yes, I do. Just not in a direct monetary exchange.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Klar is just Focus for German-speaking countries, the name is the only difference. As you note, the name change is due to the eponymous magazine.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
It's ironic that you're commenting on bee hive insurance, something that is essential in nearly every kind of food production, by claiming that the state offering it at a loss will lead to everyone starving to death. If "bee
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Why the recommendation for lead-free solder? It's harder to work with, the fumes are more poisonous than leaded solder, you shouldn't eat/lick either, and the amount of lead is harmless for DIY solderers. I agree that lead-fr
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
My screen at home plugs in via USB-C. It also charges the laptop and functions as a USB hub. Audio out is integrated as well. It's the only cable plugged into my laptop (Thinkpad X1 Carbon), which is really convenient.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There are one and a quarter F-1 engines from a Saturn V at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in DC, with a bunch of mirrors to fake the rest of the engines: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/rock
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I use that but it's a bit of a mixed bag. Works pretty well in general but sometimes it's just incredibly slow, or decides to display a portait image with 100% width in a half-height view, spanning half a dozen screenfuls, instead
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Most of the work is done by academics who receive no compensation from the publisher. Most importantly, it is expected that one participate in peer review. Fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with a reciprocal model of review, but why
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
There's currently a push in Germany to negotiate more reasonable licensing agreements nationwide, and to publish all research by authors in Germany under a CC-BY licence: https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/ . T
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Smartphones and tablets are not Qualcomm’a only market by far. They have plenty of other customers, too.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
From the article: " What if the iPhone in question runs an earlier version of iOS that does not allow removing backup passwords? I say you’re lucky because you can simply update that device to iOS 11 and then reset that password. We tr
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You need the device password (aka PIN code), not the iCloud password
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I pieced together how to update a ThinkPad's ME firmware without Windows last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744152 - the process is a pain, as Lenovo only provides a Windows binary for installing the upd
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Reproducible builds are possible. Something like 94% of debian now builds reproducibly: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/stretch/index_s... and there's a post on reproducibility in Arch on the fro
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
If I have your PIN code, I can upgrade your device to iOS 11 and you haven't gained anything
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The algorithm was implemented in a big data framework that handles the allocations, so I would have needed to significantly adapt its memory subsystem to change this. I've talked to the authors, though, and it's not easy to change
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
That's the old Google Finance, which behaves as in your screenshot for me, too. This is what it looks like for me in the new version: https://i.imgur.com/BO5gY3B.png
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
The completion isn't great. If I type "MA" it suggests Macy's, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (an Indian car maker), and MannKind Corporation (a biotech company with 2MM revenue last quarter). It does not, however, suggest Mast
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I've had a really bad run-in with transparent hugepage defragmentation. In a workload consisting of many small-ish reductions, my programme spent over 80% of its total running time in pageblock_pfn_to_page (this was on a 4.4 kernel,
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
It happens with core computer science topics as well. The misconceptions around Big O notation, for example, are astonishing. O(f(n)) is the set of functions that asymptotically grow at most as fast as f(n) . It's not limited to mea
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Driverless trains have been here for a while. They're great. With platform-edge doors, nobody can fall or jump onto the track, not to mention that they increase brake cooling efficiency and decrease air resistance (less air to push). B
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
You can create a Windows PE image which can be booted from a USB thumb drive, see my comment further down this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744152
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I figured out how to install it using Windows PE. First, get a Windows installer image or WADK and mount it. Microsoft provides these, but hides the download link well. Then get the ME firmware update installer and the AMT/ME software
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
True, the Apple A-series chips are large, but the A10 was built on TSMC's 16nm process, not 14nm. Even TSMC's 10nm process (used for the A11) is barely smaller than Intel's 14nm, these numbers contain a lot of marketing as yo
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
I don’t know the exact numbers off the top of my head, but Apple‘s A-series chips have a lot of cache, something around 8MB in the last generations iirc.
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
IDs get lost and stolen sometimes, so there are established processes for that. In Germany, they cost 28.80€ to replace and take 3-6 weeks to be manufactured. You can continue working normally, and generally there are is no impact on your d
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by lorenzhs 9y ago
Yes, but what changed is the popularity of investments that track indices (whether they be index funds or ETFs). Loads of ETF investors haven't witnessed a crash, and it's going to be interesting to see how they react.

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