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by pja 8y ago
That’s partially because Chester isn’t run by a separate local authority - the local council is “Cheshire West & Chester”. Places where the City is a unitary local authority will sometimes have a noticeable boundary. For the city I live
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by pja 8y ago
The standard model doesn't include gravity, for a start.
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by pja 8y ago
If they use anything like the hue that's used in the UK, it's been pushed a long way towards blue (IIRC the intention was to better accommodate people with red/green color-blindness). You only really see it as explicitly “gre
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by pja 8y ago
Ava is the film’s true protagonist. I thought this review in feministing was on point: http://feministing.com/2015/05/28/goddess-from-the-machine-a...
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by pja 8y ago
I spent my summer holiday in Aarhus, Denmark this year. The city is half built on a massive hill, yet 25% of commuters cycle to work. Flatness is not a pre-requisite for a cycling culture.
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by pja 8y ago
it can be anywhere a short drive away and summoned at the touch of a button The roads around where I live are /already/ at nose to tail capacity at the times I might actually want such a service. What do you think is going to ha
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by pja 8y ago
There's a bad memory leak in gnome-shell which was found & fixed back in March, but the Ubuntu devs still haven't merged the full fix into Bionic for some reason: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bu
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by pja 8y ago
It's a classic example of in group / out group thinking: Cyclists are the out group, so any action of one of them is perceived as representative of the whole group. In group members are perceived differently - wrongful actions are
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by pja 8y ago
IIRC the two road users tended to break the rules in different ways, so it's unsurprising that as a pedestrians you might be more aware of one class than the other.
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by pja 8y ago
I enabled sch_cake on my router (an R7800 with Openwrt 18.06 on it) recently. Worked like a charm. Would happily recommend. I imagine the main thing that's holding back ISPs from using it on their consumer routers is the (minimal) conf
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by pja 8y ago
Yeah, In retrospect I should have done my research on this front. Mea culpa.
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by pja 8y ago
Yes, but online reports suggest the round trip time is a couple of weeks. I ended up ordering the cheapest possible AM4 CPU from Amazon Warehouse & returning it after updating the BIOS instead.
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by pja 8y ago
Yes - I built a pair of machines - one mini ITX B350 motherboard with a 2400G CPU/GPU & the second an X370 board with a Ryzen 2600 that used a GPU I already owned.[1] The first came with an updated BIOS & the 2400G worked out o
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by pja 8y ago
Just switched my home desktop to a Ryzen 2600X / Gigabyte AX370M-DS3H motherboard: Only hiccup was having to source a pre-ryzen AM4 cpu to update to BIOS to get Ryzen support, which was a pain - I'd advise making sure that any boa
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by pja 9y ago
The problem is that Autopilot is simultaneously too good and not good enough.
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by pja 9y ago
Methods of suicide are strongly culturally determined I believe. It wouldn't be entirely surprising if the impulse that expressed itself via self-immolation in one cultural context did so via mass shooting culminating in 'suicide-
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by pja 9y ago
My understanding is that RADAR systems can detect stationary objects just fine: What's going on is that in-car radar systems can't differentiate between, say, a metal sign on a gantry or at the side of the road and a parked car on
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by pja 9y ago
That's an awfully long risk compensation feedback loop to close! It sounds like a plausible motivation for Tesla to care more about the quality of their self-driving code than they otherwise might, but it would be a bit difficult to ru
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by pja 9y ago
Agreed, hence my parenthetical note at the bottom of the comment.
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by pja 9y ago
I’m suggesting that Tesla drivers are both relatively wealthy & /less/ error prone! Clearly /if/ Tesla self-driving code is safer than the average driver then extending that to the general driving population would be
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by pja 9y ago
I disagree with your implied belief that cars should have priority on the roads & that in every collision with a pedestrian it's implicitly the pedestrian who is at fault unless it can be proven otherwise. We all owe each other a d
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by pja 9y ago
Firstly, wealthy drivers can afford to keep their cars in better shape and can afford better cars in the first place. Neither of these factors depend on self-driving technology. Secondly, Tesla themselves makes it clear that their self-driv
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by pja 9y ago
And no, you can't get out of culpability by claiming statistical superiority. Quite. Tesla is deliberately comparing their modern vehicle design & wealthy driver base (statistically one of the safest cohorts) with the entirety of
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by pja 9y ago
somebody literally walked in front of their car.. The analysis I've seen suggested that the self-driving system in the Uber vehicle had 4 or 5 seconds to detect the pedestrian crossing the road in front of them. Driving into a pedest
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by pja 9y ago
The fuel tank is usually located at the back not the front & generally survives intact in a frontal collision & there are shut-off valves in the fuel lines to the engine so that fuel doesn't leak everywhere in an accident. The
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by pja 9y ago
I can confirm that the former is considered effeminate by some in the UK. That’s weird, because no one has ever mentioned anything of the sort to me. Were they particularly small-c conservative?
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by pja 9y ago
Years ago I read a book which suggested that this was specific to the U.S.: sitting cross-legged doesn't carry any particular gender / sexuality coding elsewhere.
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by pja 9y ago
Yes, you’d have to replace the blacked out text with a fixed length string too. "REDACTED" perhaps.
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by pja 9y ago
Note to self: print all documents in mono-spaced Courier New if I intend to ever redact any contents.
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by pja 9y ago
What they /probably/ mean is that VISA set a higher charge level for cryptocurrency exchanges than for other vendors. Since the charges imposed by VISA are intimately related to the level of fraud they expect to see from a given v

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