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by t0mas88 2y ago
It's quite a common trick in airplanes. Someone drew a "50" over half of the Netherlands for the 50th anniversary of the flight school I teach at. In airplanes it's not that hard. You can draw the route on your iPad on t
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by t0mas88 2y ago
PII in the general public's definition is a name, address etc. The confusion in these discussions comes from European regulations defining browsing behaviour as personal data, which makes GDPR applicable to it. Even if that browsing be
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by t0mas88 2y ago
It says GDPR compliant and no cookies on the project page. How are unique visitors calculated? And I'm assuming it can't link conversions to campaigns without some cookie-alternative?
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by t0mas88 2y ago
The original Bose QC in ears were also amazing for their time.
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by t0mas88 2y ago
A simple older HP office laser printer works very well as a home printer. It doesn't have an app, no wifi, no cloud services. Plug in ethernet and print, always works and the toner capacity is made for office use so it lasts a very lon
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by t0mas88 2y ago
I'm using wireguard with ipv6, the only thing that I never got to work is for wireguard to do ipv6 prefix delegation allowing devices to pick (and change) their own address like they do on a normal ethernet subnet. I like the randomisa
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by t0mas88 2y ago
I've had two cars now with head-up display info on the window. It shows speed, adaptive cruise control status, lane keeping, maximum speed, navigation info and warnings. I will definitely get it again on any future cars. It's so m
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by t0mas88 2y ago
The speed of sound fluctuates with density. Altitude and temperature both change density.
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Yes, from earth rotation the INS could figure out true north if the latitude is known. Or figure out the latitude if current heading is known. But normally it's aligned with a starting position from pilot input or GPS.
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by t0mas88 2y ago
This makes sense for the seller depending on how often a financed offer falls through. Our agent mentioned that in Amsterdam for example over 1/3rd of the offers with a financing condition fall through. And they do so weeks after the s
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Brakes are not usually "by-wire" on a car that is able to automatically brake. The brake pedal is still physically connected to the brakes. Same for the steering. BMW for example has a method where the steering wheel is physically
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Indeed. Not having a mechanical blow out set a bit above the never exceed pressure sounds like a design fault.
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by t0mas88 2y ago
I wouldn't blame the pilot for ejecting after loosing navigation capabilities, the HUD and the PFD during a missed approach. That means you're in very bad weather and lost the two primary means to control the aircraft and ensure y
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by t0mas88 2y ago
The same applies to airplanes. Which combines into the "If it floats, flies or f.. ehm.. fornicates, it's better to rent it"
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Your first paragraph describes GDPR, which does not require cookie popups. But there is also the e-privacy directive (older than GDPR) that does require a cookie popup for any cookie not strictly required to deliver the service. Regardless
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Brilliant move, then use the money to support those that are less well off. You can have the ultra-rich bragging about how much they paid, while those that need it most are benefitting. A real win-win.
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by t0mas88 2y ago
The Dutch may have some "rights" to adapt English. They're #1 in non-native English proficiency for 5 years in a row and surpassed Canada (considered native speakers) on overall English proficiency some years ago. One point o
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by t0mas88 2y ago
The Google "support" black hole even exists for their high budget ad customers. I've seen a case where things went into the Google support black hole for a company spending a few million per month via DV360 / Google Ad
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Is the any GCP documentation on that? Sounds like a far bigger risk going with GCP than AWS if all zones in a region are in the same building.
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Technically yes, Boeing is responsible for the whole plane, but that's not what I meant. What I meant was that the media will make this an "OMG Boeing very bad!" story while it's quite routine for these things to happen.
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Low visibility due to fog happens regularly in places like Amsterdam and London. You can see taxiway centerline lights or a follow-me car in that, but you can't manually land in it. Below 300m / 1000ft visibility you're down
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Agree that autolands are rare, but they are used for low visibility procedures and it's not "1 plane per runway". Almost the opposite, typically you would only use a limited set of runways in such conditions and severely limi
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by t0mas88 2y ago
That's because vacuum powered is the traditional way in small aircraft and the modern replacements are all-glass based on AHRS. The number of planes without a vacuum system but with electrical mechanical attitude indicators is quite sm
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Probably not a factor. There is a backup attitude indicator on the bottom right side of the panel. So a more modern version would have gone digital for the PFD (more options for extra indications) even with EMP risks considered and just kep
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Note that despite what media headlines will make of this, it wasn't a Boeing issue in this case. One of their suppliers incorrectly installed a bearing on a component that could lead to moisture getting in and freezing. That component
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by t0mas88 2y ago
This applies to many fields. It will come up with plausible looking but wrong answers and keeps apologising if you correct or point out the mistakes. I've seen it with statistics as well, asking it to implement some things in code. You
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by t0mas88 2y ago
You're almost certain to end up with the exact same line just a different provider on it. Very few areas have multiple fiber networks, although it's getting more common. I still believe that the original move, forcing KPN and othe
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by t0mas88 2y ago
Consumer contracts don't guarantee GPON support in any way. So if KPN wants to upgrade they can just send the customer a letter telling them to get an XGS-PON compatible ONT by some date. They'll probably take a bit more customer
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by t0mas88 2y ago
The contract does not guarantee GPON or XGS-PON. They have a tool to help you figure out what you have, but they can legally change it when they're upgrading their network. The only guarantee is that they'll give you a new provide
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by t0mas88 2y ago
For a while the maximum connection speed I could order was limited to 1 gbps. No XGS-PON here, the fiber rollout was 20 years ago in my neighbourhood so it's still the older standard. But interestingly they're now offering 4 gbps

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