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by rob74 8mo ago
Wow, that's an impressive amount of dedication, but I guess you need that if you want to set a world record: > He monitored weather conditions closely to find the right window and right location. After a lot of travelling he arrive
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by rob74 8mo ago
Cool project! Unfortunately our planet has this pesky (but very useful!) thing called atmosphere, which makes all these extra-long lines of sight only theoretical, I guess? Ok, the longest line of sight is mostly over the Taklamakan desert,
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by rob74 8mo ago
Yeah, maybe I'm overly pedantic, but the author is also overly pedantic about the curvatures of streets/roads in games, so... :) But, to continue with the pedantry: the Romans already built cities far from (navigable) water. There
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by rob74 8mo ago
> I think roads lie at the heart of every city builder. It’s the fabric on which cities are built. To paraphrase the article, this is what urban planners have nightmares about. Roads (as in: things made for cars) aren't the fabr
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by rob74 8mo ago
Related to "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green" - Soviet designers apparently reached the same conclusion, but they applied it to aircraft cockpits instead of control rooms and used a slightly more blueish color: https:
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by rob74 8mo ago
> I have mass-tested these systems so that you don’t have to, and I have the scars to show for it, and I am here to tell you: GitHub Actions is not good. > Every CI system eventually becomes “a bunch of YAML.” I’ve been through the
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by rob74 8mo ago
Maybe it's trying (and failing) to access your browser extensions? In a loop?
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by rob74 8mo ago
Spelling is a courtesy to the person who has to make sense of what you send them.
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by rob74 8mo ago
Maybe this style indicates that drugs other than alcohol were involved?
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by rob74 9mo ago
Yeah, it's funny that they list how many cups this coffee maker could theoretically make if it were functional (and if you had a stove big enough, and were willing to risk damaging the no doubt hand painted artwork on your $3000 coff
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by rob74 9mo ago
Ok, he delivered your Tesla and your Starlink, but so far he has hasn't delivered your Robotaxi, your Optimus, your lunar lander, your space datacenter etc. And the list keeps getting longer instead of shorter...
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by rob74 9mo ago
It kinda does make sense if you consider that solar panels in space have been used for a very long time (to power satellites). However, getting the electricity they generate down to Earth is very complicated, so you end up having to use it
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by rob74 9mo ago
So... Elon wants to literally build Skynet?
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by rob74 9mo ago
It's a bit strange to call Amiga Unix an "early Unix variant", if you consider that in 1990 Unix was already around 20 years old?
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by rob74 9mo ago
It did indeed, but the original vim was developed for AmigaOS, not sure if there was an Amiga Unix version available...
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by rob74 9mo ago
Props for including the "Ü" in the title - although they somehow dropped it in the article text...
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by rob74 9mo ago
> the obvious thing for a western brand to do is to rebadge a chinese designed car and split the margins with the chinese designer/manufacturer Actually this is already happening with the Dacia Spring/Renault City: https:&#x
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by rob74 9mo ago
It will be a manufacturer of vaporware if you look at how much they announced over the last years and how much of that has actually materialized... But yeah, I guess Tesla lives by its CEO (and his grand promises that keep the stock price u
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by rob74 9mo ago
Why? I think a lineup with a 2 could have been S3XY 2!
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by rob74 9mo ago
I'd say that in the case of Patreon, any fee for Apple is unjustified. Apple can justify their fee on app purchases/subscriptions in the app store, but Patreon is not an app subscription, the money goes mostly from the patrons t
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by rob74 9mo ago
...or 2 years ago they agreed that employees should return to the office for at least 3 days per week, of course only as a temporary measure before full RTO?
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by rob74 9mo ago
Ok, so Palantir was used to prevent terror attacks in Europe, which would have presumably led to (even more) popularity of the far right. Palantir is also being used by the current far-right US administration (who, unlike the Nazis, like Je
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by rob74 9mo ago
...plus Trump is now threatening the EU with tarrifs unless they water down their data protection rules.
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by rob74 9mo ago
Pssst! I think Linus didn't as much design Git as he cloned BitKeeper (or at least the parts of it he liked). I have never used it, but if you look at the BitKeeper documentation, it sounds strangely familiar: https://www.bi
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by rob74 9mo ago
When I saw the picture at the start of the article, I briefly thought they would do it like IKEA and let people pick the articles directly from the Amazon warehouse...
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by rob74 9mo ago
Right... although you wouldn't know it if you took a look at the current Christian right in the US: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/is-empathy-a-sin-some-...
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by rob74 9mo ago
If the substrate below isn't compacted properly, bricks will sink, and concrete will crack (maybe not as fast, but eventually). So we're back at where the discussion started...
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by rob74 9mo ago
> Spain spent an average of about 1.5 billion euros ($1.76 billion) a year from 2018 to 2022 on its high-speed network, more than any other country. However, the vast majority went to new infrastructure with only some 16% earmarked for
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by rob74 9mo ago
Interesting! If I translate it from Finnish to German, Google says something along the lines of "traffic violation fee". Usually you can't punish someone for something someone else has done, but maybe if you call it a fee (wh
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by rob74 9mo ago
I'm not sure what the technology by which the data from the speed camera is downloaded has to do with identifying the driver? The reason for this "ludicrous" procedure is that the police can identify the owner of the car (b

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