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by willyt 7y ago
I read once that we share 99% of our DNA with Chimpanzees but we also share 95% of DNA with fruit flies. So if the viruses are 89% similar does that mean the difference between SARs and nCOV is bigger than the difference between a human an
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by willyt 7y ago
The reason clouds are starting to be simulated now where they weren't before is probably because we have only recently had the computing power available to do this at the level of detail required. Switching the 'clouds' featu
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by willyt 7y ago
It's not impossible. Listen to this podcast, it's a discussion about weather forecasting models with the scientists that create them. They discuss model verification for weather models and they touch how this also applies to clima
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Is it possible that they haven't figured out how to sandbox the little bit of code that handles the notification from the rest of the webpage? Maybe this is solved already by the webpush standard but some websites are a ridiculously ov
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That is a dogmatic statement not supported by any evidence. Many countries have really quite efficient governments. e.g. the UK spends less taxpayers money per person on healthcare than the US and we have free medicine, longer life expect
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by willyt 7y ago
You are right, a bus trip I used to take regularly in London would take 15mins if you got the first bus at 5am, which was quite busy with shift workers. At 9am it would take 45mins with a similar level of crowding. A good portion of the jou
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by willyt 7y ago
I think the french do a better job though, the TGV is way smoother than Virgin Trains despite travelling at about twice the average speed. You could do a hand drawn sketch on a TGV, you can't do this on a UK train.
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But even if they had known about MCAS, I think I read somewhere that they had 30 seconds to diagnose the problem before it put the trim in this configuration.
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Here is a video explaining how difficult the manual trim procedure is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNOVlxJmow
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They accurately simulate the forces on the controls, see this youtube of 737 pilots unable to manually trim in the simulator [0], but I don't think they could anticipate and simulate every single possible fault. https://www.
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Probably best just to follow the cite link and learn more about what you might be installing. Its a random blog post I found on the internet.
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To install swift on a raspberry pi: curl -s < https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/swift-arm/relea... | sudo bash sudo apt-get install swift5=5.0.2-v0.4 [0] https://lickability.com/b
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by willyt 7y ago
Madrid Baracas Terminal 4 roughly equivalent to building the whole of Heathrow airport i.e including 2 runways and a metro line extension. 7 years from conception to first passengers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ado
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by willyt 7y ago
And make journalism a registered profession like doctors, dentists, structural engineers, architects etc with a legally enforced professional code of conduct. Every article should be cryptographically signed by the journalist in a way that
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Includes heavy industry presumably? e.g. no such thing as passivhaus blast furnance or a passivhaus lime kiln.
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by willyt 7y ago
Interesting that they speculated that it was an algorithm that was trained by comparing a manually drawn map with imagery. US cities are all fairly uniform as they are pretty much all based on a grid, but they vary in colour significantly f
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by willyt 7y ago
Thing is, wires are a natural monopoly. In fact, all the wires in the UK are owned by BTOpenReach which is a highly regulated and audited government sanctioned monopoly. I bet if you looked at the current costs of auditing and regulating it
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Transport Fever in sandbox mode?
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Have a look at this [0] as an example airport where there are no ducts or fans at high level. The skylights are probably automatically controlled to vent smoke using stack effect only and the undulating roof will act as a smoke reservoir to
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by willyt 7y ago
Ahh, so we don’t have punitive damages. IANAL but as I understand it, it has to be a reasonable estimate of the financial loss caused. So if he was off sick from work with stress I’m guessing it would be the difference between sick pay and
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by willyt 7y ago
Emergency smoke ventilation is a solved problem, ‘little chimneys on the roof’ are one of many different solutions; there are lots of different strategies. So that sounds like nonsense. Source, I’ve worked on mega projects like this. If it’
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by willyt 7y ago
But surely this can have the opposite effect as well. Take the case of the UK Doctor who was alleged to have joined ISIS by the Daily Mail and subsequently had his house repeatedly vandalised, had to move house for his own safety and was un
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by willyt 7y ago
Cops should lose their jobs if they commit crime. But, recklessness, drinking and domestic violence are common symptoms of PTSD. Police see a lot of bad stuff. Maybe the police department should look after their people better before their o
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...consisting of ~1/4 of the population. Parliament represents the interests of all 65 million of us.
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by willyt 7y ago
Bear with me there is a point to my preamble... So in the UK if you buy a train ticket and the train is late and as a result you miss a connection to, say, a ferry then the train company is obliged to put you right. For example, by putting
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In older houses there is only one tap it is ‘safe’ to drink from. Usually in the kitchen, all others, hot and cold, are fed from the tank in the roof. For some reason it’s OK to brush your teeth with water from the tank but not to actually
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by willyt 7y ago
Construction machinery, Busses, Gas heating boilers? Probably not trains, only a few long distance trains out of Paddington and St Pancras are still diesel powered.
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574km/h is the record on steel rails set by a french TGV with some slight modifications from the in service version.
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Also, 'Hey Siri' is supposedly processed locally on the phone using the Neural Engine part of Apples custom ARM chip so it should only upload voice data after you have said 'Hey Siri' or held down the home button to acti
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It’s different legal and contracting culture. Britain is also a common law legal system and our projects are typically way less efficient than mainland Europe. E.g the most expensive TGV the french have built was about 5-10 times cheaper th

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