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by thesimp 5y ago
Wait what? They are/were only stacking 2 containers high? When I google on how another big port is doing it, or example Rotterdam, I get a 5 year old video of 5 high stacks and a fully automated system: https://www.youtube.c
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by thesimp 5y ago
And that is the price they pay for trying to be Chrome clone UI wise and not listening to to the "power users". I hate to use the words "power user" but it is the small group of very active and enthusiastic users that yo
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by thesimp 6y ago
Like already said in this thread: the Amiga was a product of its time because it introduced some hardware and software features that were radical at that time. If you want to make an Amiga 2020 today you will really need something that the
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by thesimp 6y ago
Just as the BMW i3 the Alfa Romeo 4C also has a carbon fiber monocoque: https://www.toraytac.com/media/story/XkKY/Alfa-Romeo-4C-Mono... . And Alfa Romeo has published a 162 page manual for bodyshops on how to
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by thesimp 6y ago
And with all that thinking on models, sizes, and how to build the sets, they still got it wrong. See the link below: the Millennium Falcon interior and exterior dimensions do not match. The original page seems long gone but web archive has
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by thesimp 6y ago
SoX is amazing because it indeed makes very nice spectrograms which visually show how audio is encoded. It makes it easy to see if this really is a lossless FLAC or a crappy 192 VBC mp3 audio source. If you personally hear the difference is
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by thesimp 6y ago
The hot question is of course: can this be used with a Pi as a web Cam? Because with the current homeworking enthousiasm so many people buy good quality webcams that almost everything is sold out. And to rub it in the current best selling w
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by thesimp 7y ago
Are there masks for sale then? Here in The Netherlands there are no n95 masks available for the average person. I understand that hospitals and 1st aid responders need them now, but in the short term I would like to be able to get some.
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by thesimp 7y ago
It is probably nr 1 because it still has very clear audio and video while the performance of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams is dramatic at this moment. And the last two are supposed to be the standard tools in the very large organiz
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by thesimp 7y ago
Hoarding is only a part of the problem. A company in The Netherlands producing chloroquine has got 24/7 police protection as of this weekend because some people came to them and were very insistent that they would like to have some pr
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by thesimp 7y ago
I've used Kubuntu as a normal every day desktop for some time and there are two simple annoyances that popup in my mind: - when I get a notification in the systray that there is an update I click on it but nothing happens. Then I have
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by thesimp 7y ago
The thing that raised my eyebrows was that my work laptop had this issue. And this is a serious work laptop, managed by a large & conservative IT org. I'm so locked down with GPOs/McAfee/Zscaler/Cylance/always-o
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by thesimp 7y ago
3 out of the top 5 dredging firms are from the Netherlands and one is from Belgium, right next door. The Netherlands will be fine. Actually the Netherlands will make bank selling water management knowledge to others.
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by thesimp 7y ago
It is not in the Calibre preferences but in the Viewer preferences. Open an ebook in the Viewer and while in the Viewer press ESC to get to the menu, then the option is under Miscellaneous.
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by thesimp 7y ago
If I understand correctly he uses a dataset called CFSv2, which goes back to 1979, and then July 2019 is the 4th warmest on record after July 2016, 2002, and 2017. If these were numbers (range 1979-2019, winning numbers 2016, 2002, 2017, 20
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by thesimp 7y ago
That was maybe 15 years ago. These days cars have multiple CANbus networks running and there are control unit everywhere. Below the details for an Alfa Romeo Giulia, which is interesting because it was a complete new design when introduced
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by thesimp 7y ago
Looking at the numbers it should not move that much. According to this article, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190307005812/en/TRE... , in 2018 912 exabytes of HD and SSD storage was sold. 800 e
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by thesimp 7y ago
Indeed, this is something that needs to be blocked asap by ublock origin or a browser setting. Taking over my screen full-screen with whatever they want to stream to me.. ??? I'm already thinking about streaming a full-screen image of
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by thesimp 7y ago
And sharp 15:15 local time my add-ons got disabled and now I have a yellow sign saying "One or more installed add-ons cannot be verified and have been disabled".
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by thesimp 7y ago
Same here. Both on Windows 10 and Kubuntu my Firefox 66.0.3 instances seem to have working add-ons (uBlock Origin) as of now. Both systems have been up for weeks. Let's see what the day will bring...
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by thesimp 7y ago
Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" can be used to explain current big industrial control systems. A typical distributed control system these days transfers data across many different layers, transforming the data when it crosses
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by thesimp 7y ago
It is much to easy to blame Windows for everything. If this is another TRITON level attack then it did not matter what operating system is used, the attackers would have come in anyway. With enough resources you can break anything. Check ou
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by thesimp 7y ago
The airgap question comes up every time an industrial system is attacked. The thing is that these days all systems are connected via several layers to the outside world. Because a modern oil refinery is of no use if you cannot track what pr
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by thesimp 8y ago
I use a very simple test to verify if fonts are usable in programmer/technical environments: - check the readability of lower and upper case "i" (india) against the number "1" (one)and the lower and upper case &quot
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by thesimp 8y ago
And diesel cars like yours are THE reason why these type of legislation is being put into place. Your 2001 diesel is most likely a euro 3 emission type and that put on average 3x more NOx and 10x as much diesel particulate matter in the air
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by thesimp 8y ago
I have a bit more positive look on the future: Jan-2038 is just before my retirement. I can make some money with old computer knowledge while the post-post millennial generation does not even know what the inside of an old operating system
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by thesimp 8y ago
I'm by no means an expert on this, but I do follow some trucking vlogs on youtube, but it amazes me how inefficient the loading and unloading process is. Sometimes truckers have to waiting many hours just to get a place at a loading do
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by thesimp 8y ago
Sounds like an variable frequency drive in combination with tire noise. Youtube has some good videos on how VFDs sound like. Are there any detailed specs on how Tesla controls the electric motor(s) in the truck? AC, DC, controller types,etc
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by thesimp 9y ago
One word: privacy. They are already trying to create an image that what is on an iphone is yours, that osx does not send endless amounts of telemetry back to the mothership,etc.. But I think that in the next 5 years this image will become a
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by thesimp 9y ago
I recognize this. I live in a part of the Netherlands where there is only ONE highway going through the area. Yet Google Maps and TomTom both want to send me through the nature reserve instead of via the highway running parallel to the natu

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