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by softgrow 4y ago
I cut up broken trees as a volunteer emergency responder. I'm always fascinated by these puzzles, in that every tree is different in species, condition and nature of the fault. The aim is to make the tree safe for the public by getting
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by softgrow 4y ago
How common are thermal runaway fires? Adelaide, roughly 1,000,000 vehicles, 99% ICE gets one or two vehicle fires each day (Winter at the moment) https://sapaging.com/jobs?MFS=1&type=vehicle%20fire
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by softgrow 4y ago
No they don't. They spend very little time on the road, most of the time stationary. Obligatory link to Donald Shoup and the "High Price of Free Parking". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Fr
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by softgrow 4y ago
Your bank/financial institution should be able to do this at least from a bank account to a bank account. I have "pull" payments for organisations I'm ok with and "push" for others. The only issue I have is the
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by softgrow 4y ago
The tool is useful, but let down by Wikipedia images not being linked to the relevant Wikidata ID. I selected just the red circles (no photo). About half of these already have photos in the Wikipedia article that isn't linked to the Wi
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by softgrow 4y ago
Should be titled differently, all of the least viewed articles are now going to be viewed, lots. I'm really having trouble myself not visiting them. Mind you it's time some obscure moth species articles got some improvement :)
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by softgrow 4y ago
Paris has "grand correspondences" which means the lines link on the map, but in reality are a long way apart. There are many travelators (think flat escalator), and even had a "high speed" one, which was fun, but I think
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by softgrow 4y ago
Actually had the source code still kicking around on my laptop and it had a comment {ACSM Algorithm 415} which I think means, Communications of the ACM, Volume 14, Issue 12, Dec. 1971 pp 805–806 https://doi.org/10.1145/
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by softgrow 4y ago
I greatly appreciated the source code (probably FORTRAN) that I found in a university library in the late 80's. I seem to remember a book of microfiche with many basic algorithm's published on the basis that it was developed with
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by softgrow 4y ago
An inline svg in the parent page would trim it down to 87 bytes and replace <img> code, so even less than 87 in practice. <svg width="256" height="256"><rect width="100%" height="100%"
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by softgrow 4y ago
Convert to svg maybe? For OpenStreetMap 136 bytes <svg xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/2000/svg " width="256" height="256" viewBox="0 0 256 256"><path d="M0 0h256v256H0z&qu
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by softgrow 5y ago
Looks pretty much like a clone of https://kakaku.com (Japanese language). Doesn't seem to have the nice price history graphs or the multi factor ratings. Compare 2.5" SSD https://kakaku.com/pc/ssd&
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by softgrow 5y ago
If only Wikidata was easier to use. It is terrific to use across different language articles, but it is for most, including me challenging even to start using.
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by softgrow 5y ago
From the ABC https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-30/adf-soldiers-to-arriv... , ADF is assisting police who are checking on those who are infected are actually staying home. Instead of 2 police knocking on your doo
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by softgrow 5y ago
AN0M v2? :) :)
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by softgrow 5y ago
I tried to do something similar with Traffic Confusion https://web.archive.org/web/20021203070116/http://hd.st90.ar... I started using a resource editor on the Windows exe to extract resources and substi
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by softgrow 5y ago
Thanks for the really interesting article. I have a (volunteer rescue) pager provided and look after a fleet of 40 for my unit. Found them far superior in actually getting the message out compared to an app, and also getting sleeping bodies
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by softgrow 6y ago
In transport academia "crash" vs "accident" is contested. I'm a "crash" person but I'm lampooned by "accident" people for it. It's the wrong word or maybe it doesn't matter. There
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by softgrow 6y ago
That seems really good advice. Next time I try to cancel my NYT subscription, I'll try that. I managed to do it entirely by email, but took 3 emails back and forth. Then in all the excitement of the 2020 US presidential election I subs
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by softgrow 6y ago
Taking a cab video and then syncing it with controls is a fairly old approach. The first example I've seen was from Ongakukan in 1995 (Win 95J) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Simulator_series ). The video wer
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by softgrow 6y ago
So many jokes will need to be rewritten now the linear 7 to 1 rule has been debunked. However the dogs on the internet is much more credible with a one year old dog equivalent to a thirty year old human on this new nonlinear function.
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by softgrow 6y ago
You may have local issues. I ran a series of iperf3 tests in a small but non-trivial network and was surprised. There was a 100Mbps switch that had been forgotten about. Also a wifi network running off a Power over Ethernet link which was 3
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by softgrow 6y ago
A run of ethernet cable costs money to install, but once done it uses no power, zero maintenance and gives you 1000Mbs or more full duplex reliably. (I'd discard Ethernet over Power before Wifi, cable is so much nicer).
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by softgrow 6y ago
Can we have an EV for people who don't suffer from range anxiety and are willing to trade that off for cost? I travel 5000km (3000mi) a year, longest single day use 50km (30mi). Vehicle is garaged with access to power. I just need 100k
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by softgrow 6y ago
The librarians date it 1951. https://www.worldcat.org/title/40-circuits-using-germanium-d... It is no 102 of Bernards radio books series. List and many other scanned books at https://www.americanradiohistory
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by softgrow 6y ago
Used to offer this when working on fraud in <a Big Corp>, but have to give them my name so main number switchboard can route call. Very few people did, but those that did appreciated it. Only costs you a few minutes while they find th
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by softgrow 7y ago
I live near an airport. It would be nice if this quiet first approach was taken on by passenger aviation. All I can see at the moment is gradual improvement in noise performance being countered by increased traffic. A stepwise improvement w
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by softgrow 7y ago
I asked a firefighter when is the fire considered safe once it appears to have stopped burning? The answer surprised me a bit. You need to have a 100m strip around the fire where someone has raked or inspected inside every tree, under every
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by softgrow 7y ago
If you head south towards Haneda airport there are little (blocky) planes! Source is at https://github.com/nagix/mini-tokyo-3d . This seems to be part of an Open Data Challenge for Public Transport in Tokyo https:&#x2F
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by softgrow 7y ago
Looks great but lacks some JR lines (e.g. Musashino) and private surface lines and Shinkansen. But still having most JR and most subway is great.

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