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by ralferoo 3y ago
I'm from the UK, but IIRC I think the US phone numbers originally used the 2nd digit to discriminate whether the first 3 digits were a local (7 digits) or national (10 digits). Not sure where your 5 digit example fits into that though,
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Even in countries where you might assume this is true, it's not always! For instance in China, most names are single character family name followed by a two character given name. Some rare family names are two characters and usually th
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by ralferoo 3y ago
> And since it doesn't come from a magic tree, it has to come from customers or from profits. As a fairly impartial outsider (I'm from the UK and the price we see advertised for broadband on the website after entering our addre
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Oh, another fun fact... Historically, the UK was 240V and Europe was 220V. This was later standardised across Europe as nominal 230V +- 10%, and AFAIK both UK and mainland Europe carried on as they were without actually changing anything!
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by ralferoo 3y ago
The world is pretty standardised into these two now, but that can't always have been the case. In the early 1980s, my dad found an old valve keyboard / organ thing at some jumble or car-boot sale that probably dated at least from
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by ralferoo 3y ago
"... which is associated to a tiny passage almost impossible to pass ..." The irony is that it gets easier after eating there... ;)
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by ralferoo 3y ago
It seems to me that this article is predicated on his friends not reaching out to him, leaving him to have to beg them to do things. Whilst it's true that some people might be less keen to hang out with their friends if all they ever d
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by ralferoo 3y ago
After reading the title (and the article), I was left wondering how it denies access to lazy cats who don't work...
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by ralferoo 3y ago
This seems fine during the good times, but I can imagine a big problem of having a no-hierarchy worker-owned operation is what happens when the market shrinks and you can't afford to pay everyone the promised minimum salary. Do you all
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by ralferoo 3y ago
> I'm not sure what differences you see between contracts and licenses. The licence is the permission to do something that without the licence you would not be permitted to do. The contract is the agreement between the licensor and
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by ralferoo 3y ago
There's a Chinese meme that PORSCHE means "rubbish second hand car" PO = 破 = rubbish, RS = 二手 (er shou) = second hand, CHE = 车 = vehicle Here's one instance of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x9HlIVC
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by ralferoo 3y ago
A very long piece of string.
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by ralferoo 3y ago
I just googled to support my hypothesis and found this: https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/disruption/articles/w... "A recent study by McKinsey found that the average life-span of companies listed in
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by ralferoo 3y ago
The financial upside is that they also own 85% of the company shares, so get 85% of the profits, reducing to 20% over 20 years by selling shares back to the employees. Selling here implies they'll also make profit from that too.
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by ralferoo 3y ago
All these worlds are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Funny, I heard the total opposite about Nissan Leafs. The industry was guesstimating that batteries would last 8-10 years. The first Nissan Leafs (which was about the first commercially mass-available EV) had battery lives where something l
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by ralferoo 3y ago
I keep my phone on silent 24/7 except for the very rare occasions when I'm expecting a call I don't want to miss. Sometimes I notice the screen when someone calls, otherwise I call back when I next notice the phone, usually w
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by ralferoo 3y ago
They used to operate this way in the UK - the line would stay occupied until the call initiator hung up. We used to play with this when I was a kid, but I've not had a landline since early 2000s, so I've no idea if this survived t
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by ralferoo 3y ago
> Pro tip here: Put your batteries and power cables in a checked bag. Only take your cell and laptop as a carry-ons to prevent them from "disappearing". Works most of the time, especially with full flights and/or busy days
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Except the article has a categorical statement: "The 9 lines contain all present knowledge about nature, including all textbook physics and all observations ever made." Take something simple like "F=ma" which is in lots
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by ralferoo 3y ago
I'm not a physicist, so I'm not really qualified to comment on whether a "real physicist" would say the fundamental assertion is true or not, but from a simple linguistics point of view, this article is pure click bait.
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by ralferoo 3y ago
> "3 1 3, 3 2 6, 3 3 9". Although I'm not sure why that can't be done in English It was a long time ago for me now, but I learned the times tables (using your example) as "three ones'r three, three twos&#x27
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by ralferoo 3y ago
> you have vivid memories of how quickly the AUD, or USD or any fiat currency really has been so immensely rapidly inflated in the last 20 years; hell just in the last 3 years I actually think the last 20 years have had remarkably little
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Actually, I've never really understood the reason behind this. Surely, it doesn't really matter WHY you suspected somebody in the first place. If there's enough other evidence to show irrefutably that they committed the crime
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Spinning disks absolutely do fail this way. Drives from the same batch can easily work 5+ years fine and then fail within a few hours of each other. Even worse, in a RAID the additional load from starting a new replication after a hot swap
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Whether Android would exist in its current form is kind of irrelevant. We'd have had useful devices anyway, because they'd just have been the next step of the evolution of what was possible and what people wanted. I'd argue t
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by ralferoo 3y ago
> CarGuy: Around €1.50 > I guess, but still, these seemingly large numbers are still a minute percentage (e.g. probably 0.00001%) of overall costs/revenue that are relatively way, way more. Do you realise that your estimate, of €
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by ralferoo 3y ago
From that same site: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/tag/app-framework/a... React Native: 5.43% of apps (4.18% of installs) Flutter: 4.22% of apps (1.39% of installs) It's clear from the ra
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by ralferoo 3y ago
Hmmm, just checked and you're right! I've not touched the SPU for well over a decade now, and it appears I've forgotten a lot more than I realised. You're right about the latency too, but because it was a pipelined archi
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by ralferoo 3y ago
It looks like my memory is playing tricks and the combined instruction that does everything was just on the PPU (the PowerPC part) and not the SPU. But the SPU ISA docs are available in many places, just googled and found this mirror: http

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