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by sitharus 2y ago
It’s not even an HTTP invention, it’s RFC2046 MIME from 1996. RFC2388 standardised its use in HTTP in 1998. The elegant thing about MIME is it allows multiple encodings and cross-references, so you can have your HTML and the images displaye
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by sitharus 2y ago
I’m not saying any of this is _good_, just the rationale for the feature being the way it is. Non-technical people read articles telling them to turn off Bluetooth but they do not understand the consequences of turning off Bluetooth, then A
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by sitharus 2y ago
Indeed it wouldn’t, which is why they were removed when they started putting astronauts in the middeck seats.
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by sitharus 2y ago
Yes, that's correct. Under the Berne Convention all copyright for a work and any derivatives is held with the author, unless the explicitly disclaim it or another legal provision applies (eg fair use for teaching or parody). However, d
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by sitharus 2y ago
These cases do not go to court, they go to a tribunal. They are not heard by a judge (or at least a judge in their capacity as a court justice) and the results are not entered as judicial cases and do not set precedent. It’s designed so a l
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by sitharus 2y ago
That’s the same situation with the appliance but not with the law, because you have to use a lawyer. Under New Zealand and Australian consumer law (the laws are different but similar) we have access to a low-cost tribunal. In fact in New Ze
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by sitharus 2y ago
That’s comparing apples to two sacks of apples, one of which is 30 years older. The A320neo entered service in 2016 and has over 3,000 of the type in service and has zero fatal accidents involving passengers or flight crew (there have been
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by sitharus 2y ago
I don’t understand how that’s at odds with having spec-valid HTML and CSS
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by sitharus 2y ago
I recently flew on an A320neo and then an A320ceo a few days later, both in similar cabin positions and the difference was incredible. On the neo I could easily talk to the cabin crew without raising my voice, the ceo felt like I was having
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by sitharus 2y ago
Yeah but it hasn’t erupted in ages, she’ll be right. As an Auckland resident we tend not to think if it much, except when walking around because the city is entirely built in hills.
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by sitharus 2y ago
CarPlay 2 is arriving late 2024 according to Apple, so it's definitely not a CarPlay 2 feature. Dual screen CarPlay was released in 2019 https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875604/apple-carplay-io..
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by sitharus 2y ago
It would make sense if it was 1978 which seems to be when the metro system was being brought online, but ATC was definitely 1998. Perhaps ATC was layered on top of the original signalling system, which is the part that uses the floppy disks
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by sitharus 3y ago
The only “secret sauce” is the liability shift. Traditional online and contactless payments are classed as “cardholder not present” transactions which place more liability for fraud on the merchant. Apple and Google Pay (and other bank-prov
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by sitharus 3y ago
If only CSS supplied some sensible keywords based on the user's preferences, so you could just ask for say a medium, large, or x-large font. Of course CSS actually does. I've found using font size keyword and rem units can make a
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by sitharus 3y ago
Yes, there are modern cultivars that have far lower levels, or in some cases none, of the irritating compounds. These cultivars only grown in certain conditions so in markets that have seasonal growing you’ll notice some times of the year y
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by sitharus 3y ago
Bring back the workhouse? It's already a thing, and there are big issues with it https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo... ) Prison labour is often heavily discounted and it und
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by sitharus 3y ago
With enough effort and priming you can trick _people_ in to believing things which are clearly untrue. Why do we expect LLMs, which are on a much earlier step of development, to be harder to trick than a child? LLMs at the moment are really
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by sitharus 3y ago
Lets quickly check Wikipedia China: Total length: 155,000 km (100,000 km electrified) Total passenger/km: (1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres, 2019) Total freight: 3,018 billion cargo tonne-kilometres (2019) US: Total length: 257,7
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by sitharus 3y ago
so why not set a “total remuneration package” as it’s known where I live. It’s the total value, inclusive of compulsory payroll deductions and taxes, and set the salary to match that. The cost to the company is the same, but your take-home
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by sitharus 3y ago
New Zealand is way lower than the US on that measure - almost half the density - yet around 87% of households here have access to FTTP with speeds of up to 800Mbps/500Mbps (you can get a slower plan for lower cost, but the lines all su
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by sitharus 3y ago
But we’re not talking about literal cars. We’re talking about on-off speciality devices designed to perform a task where there is no possibility of repair or service. They’re overbuilt to provide the best chance that the main mission is acc
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by sitharus 3y ago
It’s more like Ford sell you a car that’s guaranteed to have no breakdowns or need oil changes for the first two years. It might run a lot longer, but you they only promise two years so you plan to use it for that long. If it broke in those
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by sitharus 3y ago
I agree, but only if we have the same standing and legal protection as professional engineers. If I’m going to be legally responsible for software bugs I must have the legal right to tell management that their timelines are not possible, an
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by sitharus 3y ago
The Ever Given has a maximum speed of 23kt / 42km/h and carries 20,124 TEU or approx. 7660 54-ft containers. Rail figures are harder to find, but a reasonable guess based on what I can find seems to be 400 containers per train if
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by sitharus 3y ago
How slow is “dog slow”? And for some purposes “dog slow” is acceptable. I have an internal app that runs as a CGI but is written in a compiled language. It averages 100ms response times, mostly due to database queries. I wouldn’t write a ma
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by sitharus 3y ago
Why would it need replacing? It's a permanent element, unless the aircraft is refitted in the future when they can remove the panel and fit a door. The door's connection to the fuselage isn't a service item, just the mechanis
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by sitharus 3y ago
It's not a permanent welded-in plug, rather it's a door-shaped panel that is secured in using the fastenings where the door would be fastened. That's why you can see the outline. The one thing an airline likes less than carry
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by sitharus 3y ago
The fuselage opening for the door is still present as it’s a common part. The door is replaced with a window panel to seal the space, there is no door there. Any mechanical component - even if unused - requires servicing and maintenance. No
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by sitharus 3y ago
I don't understand that reasoning. If something is chronologically ordered I can scroll back to the last thing I saw and catch up, or likely not and just accept that I can't read everything, if it's interesting it'll pro
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by sitharus 3y ago
A fair few years ago I worked for a company that did a lot of business in the US. To test our software we had to get a ream of letter paper shipped out and configure a dedicated printer tray for it. Quite a lot of fuss, but when you make do

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