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by tolien 2y ago
I just hope that by making the joke, I won't accidentally make fetch happen :-D
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by tolien 2y ago
Yet there will still be comments asking why IPv8 can't be IPv4 with another few sets of digits tagged onto the end, as if that would somehow be compatible with the current implementation of IPv4.
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by tolien 2y ago
> Because every nuclear power developed their own enrichment processes and bomb technology, their bombs have different isotope ratios in the fallout. It's possible to analyze the fallout to determine where the bomb came from. That m
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Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years(ft.com)
78 points by tolien 2y ago|70 comments
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by tolien 2y ago
> One idea that might reduce the problem that the UK has would be to adopt the Polish system of dividing the country into four school regions with staggered holidays. We're some of the way there - Scottish school terms run different
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by tolien 2y ago
All things considered, I wouldn't be surprised if a non-zero number of people have only heard of Kansas City because of Taylor Swift.
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Why are American roads so dangerous?(ft.com)
3 points by tolien 2y ago|3 comments
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by tolien 3y ago
You're quoting a source-less forum post, which later on is contradicted: > Not 30 times, I can name about 3 times it happened. > Thing is, it’s a known issue to the point it prompted a design change from Airbus. Why didn’t Boeing
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by tolien 3y ago
> Here’s some data from just Scotland: No it's not (putting aside that they seem to be a bunch of anti-wind cranks). > Total number of accidents: 3493 If you drill into the PDF they link to: > 3493 Miscellaneous 31/12&#x2
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by tolien 3y ago
> The real Bruno looks like the logo too :) https://www.usebruno.com/about More places need a CJO!
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by tolien 3y ago
> A machine controlled by the audited company. Audits are there to minimize the risk of companies cooking the books Sounds like the pitch Fujitsu made to the Post Office for Horizon. That worked out so well!
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by tolien 3y ago
How frequently the randomisation happens is configurable but the expectation is it should be ~daily. The thing you’re looking for is the SLAAC Privacy Extensions [1] 1: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy36
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by tolien 3y ago
> I just hope that people won't repeat the same "I wish IPv6 were just IPv4 with extra octets" viewpoint again... The new Godwin's Law, any discussion about IPv6 will inevitably lead to someone suggesting IPv4 with ex
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by tolien 3y ago
Yes, UK-spec speedometers show miles per hour as the major unit (km/h are usually there too but given less emphasis) and speed limits are posted in mph.
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by tolien 3y ago
>> as they're broadcast That’s the key. Don’t watch live TV, no license fee required. This part from you: > You have to pay it if you watch or record any TV broadcast and that includes streaming Total bollocks.
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by tolien 3y ago
> When the comprehensive part of his cover was suspended on Friday for all the speeding alerts, Connor took a day off work to call the company and try to find a solution. > Sterling Insurance made Angela and her son go to the location
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by tolien 3y ago
> A lot of insurers will give you a discount if you let them fit such a "telematics" box to your car. And for bonus points (pun not intended) will suspend your insurance because they think you're speeding even when you&#x2
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The old Scottish pub that found a new life in California(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by tolien 3y ago|0 comments
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by tolien 3y ago
Before reading TFA, I expected the "forged" in the title meant the counterfeit sense of the word.
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by tolien 3y ago
> For example, if a pie costs $16.95 right now and you have 1,000 orders that happened in the past at that price and then bump your pie to $17.95 you can’t go back and adjust all of those previous orders to have $17.95. > Just about e
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by tolien 3y ago
It does look like they develop a sort of "rust" through exposure to sea air [0], though what effect that has on low-observability remains to be seen. 0: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44067/the-f-3
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by tolien 3y ago
> "FTA: they would involve placing aluminum AM-2 mats along a strip of highway, up to 1,500 feet long. This will be sufficient for the stealth jets to carry out short takeoffs and vertical landings while protecting the road beneath
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by tolien 3y ago
Star Trek: Voyager "Virtuoso" thought of that already. Their answer was that you get something which is barely recognisable as music.
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by tolien 3y ago
Might be too much exposure to RAF Luton (e.g. the Lancaster provides Bouncy Operational Ordnance Ballistic Services), but I was expecting those capitalised words to spell something out.
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by tolien 3y ago
YoH and The Killing Game were both great, Worst Case Scenario and Learning Curve had a lot of potential but after the first couple of seasons they seemed to get bored of exploring the Maquis-Starfleet conflict other than Repression in S7. &
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by tolien 3y ago
They made that explicit in Voyager. In Year of Hell, Tuvok switches his consoles to a tactile interface after being blinded by an exploding torpedo and continues as tactical officer using that.
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by tolien 3y ago
> a time when it needs the US more than ever (trade, AUKUS, Ukraine/NATO, F-35s, etc.) Putting aside that there’s technology from UK companies in the F-35 (Rolls contributed to the lift fan in the B model, Martin-Baker ejection seat
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‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR(theguardian.com)
181 points by tolien 3y ago|108 comments
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JEP 444: Virtual Threads(openjdk.org)
2 points by tolien 4y ago|0 comments
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by tolien 4y ago
> Porkbun [...] .uk about £5.50 Porkbun do .uk domains now? TIL! I moved some domains from Gandi to Porkbun before as part of a plan to ditch Gandi and when I asked (almost 3 years ago to the day), they didn't support .uk.

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