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by plantain 3y ago
Air Canada has always been like this. They were notorious amongst the stranded-abroad community during COVID for selling tickets on flights they weren't operating and had no intention to operate, then refusing to refund, except with cr
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by plantain 3y ago
What's baffling is the eSIM market seems to be substantially less competitive - you can almost always buy a local physical SIM with far more data for the same price. You'd think the cost for providing an eSIM would be less and MVN
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by plantain 3y ago
Good. Brave's fiddling with WebGL causes >50% of my bug reports from 1% of users. [1] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/10518 [2] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-j
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by plantain 3y ago
Avoid legitimate websites that Brave willfully and carelessly breaks?
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by plantain 3y ago
I thought it was Oracle they were swinging at.
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by plantain 3y ago
>The uploader has not made this video available in your country Why do we still suffer through this nonsense.
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by plantain 3y ago
Brisbane Pros: Outstanding climate - winter does not exist, it's clear skies and sunny every day. Large enough to get major events. Access to nature. Relatively cheap (compared to Syd/Melb). Good nightlife. Great cafe culture. Go
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by plantain 3y ago
Well, the record is 64 days. They did oil changes inflight on the running engine. https://simpleflying.com/robert-timm-john-cook-endurace-reco... .
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by plantain 3y ago
Highly likely it was unpatched Citrix Netscaler https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111391466200487619
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by plantain 3y ago
It's art. Give it a rest.
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by plantain 3y ago
Because I will get banned for life from Uber...
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by plantain 3y ago
Every single driver at the airport repeatedly cancels over and over if the fare is less than 100$ - clearly there is no tracking going on of anything at Uber. Recently I had one driver claim he picked me up then ended the ride immediately,
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by plantain 3y ago
http://satview.skysight.io/ - global, realtime, full resolution satellite viewer.
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by plantain 3y ago
We have it - closer to $5000. https://aussietrains.com.au/the-ghan
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by plantain 3y ago
>it's pretty rare that I have been materially adversely affected by the latency of an ACH payment What about every time you make a credit card payment (and associated fees)?
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by plantain 3y ago
Protests are like backburning/hazard reduction burns of forests. Banning them to prevent minor disorder tends to lead to major disorder further ahead. Democracy by its nature poorly represents minorities and protest is an important bac
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by plantain 3y ago
Xero's been juicing the lemon more and more aggressively every year...
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by plantain 3y ago
Really sad about this. Vice went places no one else would go, and did deep dives on topics (drugs) conventional media wouldn't touch.
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by plantain 3y ago
Australia basically prohibits any kind of LHD on the road, even rare classic imports. As a result there is a small industry that will convert your import to RHD for you - pricetag is ~100kUSD per car.
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by plantain 3y ago
It's encrypted. You need a licence and special software from EUMETSAT.
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by plantain 3y ago
Yes, they will strongly gate keep it, as is typical for publicly funded data in Europe :( It'll be part of the same licence structure - 8000 euros per year for a licence to use and distribute, 4000 without distribution.
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by plantain 3y ago
I have to work with Fortran HPC code a lot. The code and conventions are often extremely difficult to read. What I've started doing recently is just pasting into ChatGPT and having it explain the code to me. It actually works great.
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by plantain 3y ago
Purely on wind & solar? Probably only islands. But major cities are getting close. Adelaide, Australia went from 100% carbon energy in 2007 to ~30% today, and looks to hit at a net 0% by 2028. https://opennem.org.au/ener
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by plantain 3y ago
This is obviously bunk, but I'm sure these people do exist, because I was previously one of them (in a pre-Spotify era). I felt guilty for pirating some of my favourite albums, so I bought them on vinyl because it seemed cool to get a
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by plantain 3y ago
Realtime, full-resolution satellite imagery, globally. https://satview.skysight.io
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by plantain 3y ago
Terrible software quality, falling hardware quality, every possible corner cut on support. Inevitable.
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by plantain 3y ago
"Undercover footage that appears to show extremely sick cows being smuggled into a Polish slaughterhouse and sold on with little or no veterinary inspection has raised alarm about standards in one of the EU’s largest meat exporters.&qu
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by plantain 3y ago
The point not considered is the Cessna 172 is an extraordinarily draggy airframe - it didn't need to be clean and laminar because fuel was (relatively) cheap. Electric aircraft of the future will have half the drag or less. High aspect
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by plantain 3y ago
225Wh/km is very high. I see more like 140-160Wh/km driving 80-100km/h on a M3.
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by plantain 4y ago
The processing time appears to vary roughly linearly with your whiteness, youth and skills. My friend with an Asian wife and two kids has been waiting two years.

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