thomaspurchas

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by thomaspurchas 10y ago
Same in Copenhagen[0], but they do appear to have LIDAR units monitoring the track edge at stations without doors. [0] https://youtu.be/R8QvM000uyE?t=151
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by thomaspurchas 10y ago
I don't think they actually get to drive the train then, just get the press the close door button on the panel. The train still drives to the next station without any human input. Most automatic trains can't be driven by humans un
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by thomaspurchas 10y ago
Strange because the DLR is almost completely automated (no driver, but ticket inspector closes the doors) and has no platform edge doors. But they do have emergency stop buttons on the platforms.
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by thomaspurchas 11y ago
The irony of you starting your rebuttal with an ad hominem attack is pretty amusing. Expecially in reponse to an article that talks at length about others in nutritional science using ad hominem attacks as a primary form of defence against
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by thomaspurchas 11y ago
I always take issue with the idea that people should just make themselves more "valuable" to get a job. While it sounds like a good idea in principle, it ignores the fact that without a job many people simply won't have the r
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by thomaspurchas 11y ago
You seem to make the assumption that corrupting the secure enclave firmware is easy, or that its RAM is exposed of chip. The entire point of an secure enclave is to completely enclose all the hardware and software needed to generate encrypt
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by thomaspurchas 13y ago
The memcache was purely the result of polling the server every second to keep different JS clients in sync. Admittedly it's not very elegant, but it was something I did just to see how easy it is (backbone makes this really really easy
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by thomaspurchas 13y ago
A stupendous amount. Before starting this project I had never done any complex frontend stuff. Pretty much just HTML CSS and a bit of jQuery. With this one project I learned about backbone, marionette and the limits of what can be done on t
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by thomaspurchas 13y ago
About two months off and on.