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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
What other effects would that have?
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
How do you get 30k? A new Routemaster double decker weighs 12.6 tonne and carries up to 80 passengers. A typical car weighs 1.6 tonne and carries up to 4 passengers, they both have two axles. If we guess at half the rated passenger count
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
I have a Tesla S so that means bigger tyres than most European cars so I feel the price whenever I buy tyres so I once bought some Chinese summer tyres, Triangle brand, they were half the price of the equivalent Michelin. They seemed OK bu
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
> Overpopulation has been a huge driver, and it's a problem without a solution Population is predicted to reach a peak and then start declining according to all the modelling I have seen so overpopulation is not a problem without a
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Even just taxing jet fuel at the usual rates for other fuels would be a useful start.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Such data should never be held by a third party unless it is one of several duplicates. I keep photos on Google and MS but they are short term storage only and never the only copy.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
> I wonder how they can handle it, In Norway there is a list [1] run by the state registry service (Brønnøysundregitrene). Any individual can add their phone number to the list. Anyone cold calling is required to check that list at leas
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Good to hear they are catching up.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Not everywhere.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Even in fairly recent times viva voce was common. I had to defend my final year report on a long piece of practical work as part of the final for my BSc in Applied Physics in 1975. You don't need to do everything orally. A return to
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Osmand~ is better than Google Maps for walking and public transit where I am at the moment (Tyne and Wear, UK). Based on Open Street Map.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Come to Norway.
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Most of us in electronics in the 1970s in the UK had physics degrees I think. And when I moved sideways into software much later the physics background was eminently useful when modelling machinery and physical processes. But I too have me
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
Why not?
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by ninalanyon 2mo ago
I think you can drop the wannabe label. Of course you have a long way to go and much to learn but I think you are already an engineer, just one at the very start of what might be a great career.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
In the UK 300 mm is, or at least used to be, referred to as a metric foot.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
DNB killed the excellent SBanken website and the SBanken Android app. So now I have to use DNB's crap version of the SBanken app or DNB's really horrible website. We all protested that DNB was simply killing a competitor but the
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
In the side bar I can't vote on the comments.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
I Linus Torvalds needs them. And that's a good enough reason for their existence as far as I'm concerned.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
> email clients quote previous conversations. Surely only if you configure them that way. At least I can turn that off in my email client, Thunderbird. Nina xx
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Reading the comments here makes me think that even US citizens might be better off not trying to enter the US.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Donate them to free libraries or charity shops. Oxfam has bookshops and they often have old books.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
> many banks in the UK no longer offer a web portal Same in Norway.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Coding itself is not the problem and mostly never was. The problem is conflicting requirements, lack of resources, haste, the desire to be first with a feature, etc. And the lack of backlash from anyone with real influence when software fa
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Are you not able to put limits on how much the site can spend?
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Same in the UK.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
How do they manage that? Do you have to visit a government office to get a passport? I only have a UK passport and it definitely does not include my finger prints as it was obtained by post.
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
No. Unless you expect everyone to always have those things you will need the street lights anyway so why not make them smart and efficient. This especially applies in northern latitudes where it is dark in the evening even before people l
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
A backup that isn't offline is not really a backup as it far too easy to destroy it even by accident/carelessness/lack of understanding. When I was responsible for backups we kept the tape cartridges in a fire safe in a diffe
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by ninalanyon 3mo ago
Why does a monitor install anything at all? Why does it even have a mechanism to do so?

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