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by time4tea 3y ago
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/20/2023-23... > We estimate that piston-engine aircraft have consumed approximately 38.6 billion gallons of leaded avgas in the U.S. since 1930, exclu
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by time4tea 3y ago
Spent $12b in stock buybacks, now worth $7b, and loaded with debt. When will companies learn that stock buybacks are a terrible way to spend their money, and in AA case, their debt... Their debt would be at 50% of its current without that b
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by time4tea 3y ago
a=a; // silence misra unused Oh the games, oh the kwalitee.
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by time4tea 3y ago
Another interpretation is that people who drive EVs are also realising that multi-modal transport is better, so they are shifting their journeys to "non-car". This is a double win!! Taking an ICE vehicle off the road, and also, us
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by time4tea 3y ago
Very old idea. People wanted to host trading floors on rigs or tankers in international waters in the 90s so they could avoid tax and regulation. Not sure if anybody actually did it. Possibly due to latency? Or regulation?
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by time4tea 3y ago
"Hydrogen produces only water when burned" This oft-repeated claim is incorrect. Burning hydrogen in air produces NOx and other pollutants, and this confusion is promoted by fossil fuel companies that persist in telling us that it
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by time4tea 3y ago
My previous comment was flagged, but I'm happy to restate. The author doesn't understand what repudiate means, and therefore all the arguments are nonsensical. To repudiate means, according to Cambridge dictionary "to refuse
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by time4tea 3y ago
ISTR SunOS4 panic if it saw duplicate IP address on the network. sync boot
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by time4tea 3y ago
What this means is that the keys are not stored in non-recoverable hardware, they are available to a regular server process, just some compiled code, running in an elevated-priv environment. There is no mention that the systems that had acc
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by time4tea 3y ago
Carbon offsets are total bullshit, so really this changes nothing. Perhaps now they will report their true carbon emissions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/24/carbon-c...
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by time4tea 3y ago
We learned they were 70% autogenerated so probably shouldn't have been in git at all, but our build process relied on that, and didnt want to fix it, so we bodged it.
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by time4tea 3y ago
If you drive an SUV in a city, you're part of the problem. Preferably Walk, cycle, get a bus, get some transit, share a lift, drive a small car.
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by time4tea 3y ago
Have you considered maybe you're in the wrong? The hierarchy of responsibility puts a motorbike above (more responsible) than a pedestrian. Three people is more than one, so you are really saying you inconvenienced three more vulnerabl
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by time4tea 3y ago
If you drink the kool-aid, you'll love it. It's a tricky question to get a real answer, due to all the vested interests, lack of real research, and differing views of "what is good" Which is better, Amiga or ST (Amiga!)
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by time4tea 3y ago
aka, we don't do any input validation. Oops.
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by time4tea 3y ago
Google using its huge market share to push a browser to help it know what you are up to. Same as Google analytics, same as Google hosted libraries, Google fonts etc etc. All there to make sure they see you on every site. Why anyone would u
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by time4tea 3y ago
Annoying illegal cookie consent banner?
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by time4tea 3y ago
Microservices are just an architectural pattern, and like all patterns there are places where they are highly appropriate, and others where they are inappropriate. Same for cloud, same for <pattern> If everything is a hammer you'
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by time4tea 3y ago
"Years of experience" is age discrimination in a single phrase. Sure, ask about competency and capability, but not years of experience. By asking about age you started programming, you may be discriminating against parental income
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by time4tea 3y ago
This question, in an interview, seems to be likely to be illegal in many jurisdictions.
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by time4tea 3y ago
How about just use cookies for strictly necessary purposes. Then you don't need to ask, and the Web will become better It's only because sites are jam-packed with spyware that all these horrendous popups are everywhere. If you nee
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Tracking Sewage Pollution in Rivers in England and Wales(top-of-the-poops.org)
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by time4tea 4y ago
Seems expensive. I just got a ~13kW / ~45kbtu Mitsubishi Ecodan air/water plus new hot water tank etc for £10k (plus £5k government grant) No details on refrigerant and therefore GWP / F-gas that I could find. On the plus sid
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by time4tea 4y ago
Hilarious that this is posted on a site - tumblr - that itself is full of dark pattern garbage. "Open in app" whizzing about "I love tracking cookies" over half the screen.
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Show HN: Create video overlays from GoPro Videos or any GPX/FIT file(github.com)
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by time4tea 4y ago
So much to unpack. City selling things cheaply to sovereign funds. Price hikes when bought by VC for no reason (other than profit) Capture of car-centric infrastructure, which makes it less likely to turn towards zero-carbon or multi-modal
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by time4tea 4y ago
I think you can do this quite easily. Use docker compose to start an nginx and maptiler/tileserver-gl. Use an nginx config to send requests upstream to tileserver and cache. Download a region file from maptiler, or make one. That'
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by time4tea 4y ago
In the UK, anecdotally, every time I feel like I'm being blinded by an oncoming headlight... it is a tesla. Why is that?
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by time4tea 4y ago
Personal experience is that akamai is very expensive, has poor api integration, and limited set of real world features (especially regarding certificate management, for example), poor response times when "expert" is needed, and
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by time4tea 4y ago
Firefox multi account containers are amazing. For example : multiple o365 accounts, fb segregation, multiple Google accounts.... Amazing feature, underrated.

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