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by michaelt 1y ago
In the UK a large-scale fire will often be attended by far more fire engines than the local water network can supply. At the major Grenfell Tower fire, the water network could only supply ~4,320 litres per minute (1141 us gallons per minute
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by michaelt 1y ago
The article says the "super pumper" could supply 8,800 gallons per minute, and it came with three "satellite trucks [...] not burdened with a pump of their own" Your basic modern fire pump unit can pump 2,200 gallons per
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by michaelt 1y ago
It means you don't need any mechanism to compensate the vehicle owner for using their battery.
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by michaelt 1y ago
It's not the airport specifically, it's the use of automated facial recognition at all. Many former Warsaw Pact citizens have lived under a surveillance state with a dossier on every citizen, and didn't find it particularly g
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by michaelt 1y ago
Depends if any important websites are re-compressing user-uploaded videos. If there's a website converting user-uploaded gifs to mp4 to save on bandwidth or something, I wouldn't be surprised if they used ffmpeg to do it.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Surely they could have put a cable duct, trench or similar alongside it, or an under the adjacent cycle path. Maintenance would surely be cheaper too. Burying a cable is 3x to 10x more expensive than running it overhead. [1] Although
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by michaelt 1y ago
It's a classic way of sweeping problems under the rug. Imagine you're a cynical politician. A school shooting happens. You don't want to ban guns. So you say "switzerland doesn't have this problem, we need to addres
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by michaelt 1y ago
For one thing, with printed passports border officials have to recognise all the anti-fraud features on all the passports issued worldwide in the past 10 years. Quick, what security image on a valid UK passport - a thistle, a daffodil, a ro
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by michaelt 1y ago
> You require something the bot won't have that a human would. Is this why the “open web” is showing me a captcha or two, along with their cookie banner and newsletter pop up these days?
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by michaelt 1y ago
Has society ever addressed an underlying psychological problem successfully? Because when it comes to the underlying psychological causes of homelessness and drug addiction and school shootings and violent extremism my impression is we don’
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by michaelt 1y ago
In related news [1] "VPNs top download charts as age verification law kicks in [...] one app maker told the BBC it had seen an 1,800% spike in downloads." It's going to be interesting to see how this plays with voters at th
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by michaelt 1y ago
If you call that defending microsoft, I'd hate to see what attacking them looks like :)
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by michaelt 1y ago
The CAs have to follow the baseline rules set by the CA/Browser Forum which CAs are voting members of . Mark my words, some day soon an enterprising politician will notice the CA system can be drawn into trade sanctions against the
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by michaelt 1y ago
Imagine if, hypothetically speaking, the CA had given you a certificate based on a DNS-01 challenge, but when generating and validating the challenge record they'd forgotten to prefix it with an underscore. Which could have lead to a
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by michaelt 1y ago
CAs are uniquely assertive about their right to cut off your access. My hosting provider may accidentally fuck up, but they'll apologise and fix it. My CA fucks up, they e-mail me at 7pm telling me I've got to fix their fuck-up fo
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by michaelt 1y ago
Maybe he means astronauts on the International Space Station, who will now have a 90 minute long day.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Imagine if hypothetically a supplier offered very competitive - maybe even loss-making - prices when they had 25% of the market; then once they had 90% of the market and most of their competitors had gone out of business, they planned to ra
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Does placing by ability actually helps student learn and score better? Yes, you shunt all the disruptive/obstinate kids into class 2 and they can spend 4 hours of math lessons every week rehashing arguments about how they have a
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I'm not sure why the swapsies plan is unreasonable? Imagine a route with 6 planes a day, 2 hours apart. The first flight of the day develops a problem that'll take 3 hours to repair. Is it better to delay one plane by 3 hou
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by michaelt 1y ago
Right, but they didn’t want that to happen. It’s just a weird side effect that’s surprisingly difficult to prevent - online games have had gold farmers for pretty much as long as there have been online games with gold.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> They are suing Gaggle, who claims they never intended their system to be used that way. Yeah, there's a shop near me that sells bongs "intended" for use with tobacco only.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Is 75 minutes really considered that long of a time? [...] When I worked on firmware we frequently spent _weeks_ trying to diagnose what part of the firmware was broken. One might spend weeks diagnosing a problem if the problem only
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by michaelt 1y ago
In my experience HNers are extremely credulous. As far as I can tell, there's no level of satire so heavy-handed and unsubtle that it won't get a reply taking it seriously. If anything, the more obviously ridiculous your suggest
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Most of these companies value is built on the idea of AGI being achievable in the near future. Is it? Or is it based on the idea a load of white collar workers will have their jobs automated, and companies will happily spend mid four
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by michaelt 1y ago
On the other hand, the limited size of the British market limits Parliament’s ability to pressure foreign companies. China may be able to bully Apple into letting it snoop on its citizens’ icloud backups, but when the UK wants the same illi
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by michaelt 1y ago
"No need to ask permission" and "You get the same bill every month" kinda work against one another here.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Surely they need the same sensors and compute no matter what car they attach them to - they're either strapping $75k of sensors to a $60k luxury EV, or a $30k economy EV. Unless they're planning 20mph golf carts to save on long-di
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by michaelt 1y ago
Maybe - but Google's sitting on $400 billion of assets. Would they delay their rollout over the capital costs of a few thousand $60,000 Jaguars? Granted, Chinese EVs can be half the price, and there isn't any competition at Google
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by michaelt 1y ago
They had an election, and in California there was 1 vote for Trump for 1.52 votes for Harris [1] so even within one of the bluest of blue states, 40% of voters support the current administration. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by michaelt 1y ago
Your audience chooses you over the press releases because you sound like a human, trim out the boring items and more obvious propaganda, place things in context, reduce jargon/simplify things, also report on other things the pentagon d

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