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by zepearl 8y ago
In Switzerland the swiss Post is implementing something similar => my thoughts are very similar to yours (we can even vote by letter, and an electronic vote might in comparison save me at most 5 seconds out of the avg 3 hours of debate w
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by zepearl 8y ago
Therefore, as with civilian planes there is usually no "plan B" (exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst... ), acceptance criteria for unstable civilian aircrafts must be more s
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by zepearl 8y ago
> The company says it has a "generous return policy" to avoid the need for test drives, as would-be buyers can return a car after 1,000 miles or seven days. I wouldn't define it "generous", if I cannot test-dri
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by zepearl 8y ago
> This is also why modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital: they are mastered differently since its assumed everyone is going to be listening on good equipment. I have just downloaded "Radiohead - The bends" and
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by zepearl 8y ago
This is interesting probably only from an academic point of view (as stated in the article) and only a corner case of what could be done when having the possibility to replace the firmware of a HDD.
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by zepearl 8y ago
Actually you're right (what shall I say, for some mysterious reason I didn't think about it) => I'll first do a comparison with whatever I find and then if it does sound better I'll try to achieve the same results on
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by zepearl 8y ago
> This is also why modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital: they are mastered differently since its assumed everyone is going to be listening on good equipment. Sorry, I don't know much about sound so here comes prob
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by zepearl 8y ago
Example of an new upcoming cobalt mine (USA, Idaho): https://www.ecobalt.com Historical cobalt price charts: http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/cobalt/all/
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by zepearl 8y ago
Great explanation - thanks!
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by zepearl 8y ago
Similar for me: ~160-180 km/h in Germany and ~130-140 km/h in Switzerland is my limit since always, if the highway is in good condition + weather is good + traffic is low + I'm not tired + etc... .
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U.S. traffic safety agencies probing 2 fatal Tesla crashes in Florida(cbc.ca)
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx!
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by zepearl 8y ago
Does this have something to do with the decision of the owners of Tesla's convertible bonds if to get back cash or shares? https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-to-pay-march-convertib... I mean that maybe if the bond o
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by zepearl 8y ago
Am I the only one on the planet that never had stability nor speed problems with Firefox? (e.g. on Linux when I start Firefox it displays all tabs, but it refreshes/loads only the "last"/current tab - other tabs are refr
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by zepearl 8y ago
I donated twice to cover hosting & maintenance of Wikipedia, then became aware of the many other activities into which the funds were/are flowing, so I stopped donating. I care about Wikipedia, not much about the rest.
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>If the EU comany is a subsiduary of the US company, then it will have to follow its orders and won't really be separate. Maybe the US company could be a holding which would "only" own 100% of its independent EU subsid
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by zepearl 8y ago
Personally I would say that the base design of the app is wrong if you have 100k direct connections => I would implement some kind of intermediate layer that caches and/or schedules DB connections by some sort of priority queue... .
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by zepearl 8y ago
7 years french => I keep screwing up "Peugeot" (cars)
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by zepearl 8y ago
A friend of mine owns it since a long time - he has always been very happy with it and never had any problems with it. I've been in it a couple of times and it felt nice while driving. It's a pity that people basically didn't
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by zepearl 8y ago
I am waiting for the Volvo V60 (the variant with the smaller gas engine) and the new V40 (hoping that the V40 will be less expensive than the V40), both hybrid (battery range ~50km). The on-demand 4wd of the V60 (the electric motor drives t
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by zepearl 8y ago
Any infos about the RAID itself? (e.g. disks, raid type, software managing the raid, OS it is running on, client protocols being used, which decisions/priorities resulted in the current setup, etc...) I love such details :P
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by zepearl 8y ago
Kind of similar characters & practical approaches used many times in John Ringo's "Looking Glass" and "Troy rising" sci-fi series: story & characters are definitely "american-style" (very direct &a
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by zepearl 8y ago
just fyi: >>Due to its high density, shaped charge and explosively formed penetrator liners have been constructed from tantalum. Tantalum greatly increases the armor penetration capabilities of a shaped charge due to its high density
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by zepearl 8y ago
I loved his "Robots"-trilogy (actually I think that there was a 4th book but when I the first 3 again recently I haven't been able to find the 4th one as ebook on Amazon & Kobo :( ) => they definitely motivated me to l
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by zepearl 8y ago
I agree - nobody needs to be a crack in any area, but whoever will take decisions needs at least a base understanding of the theme to judge the validity of the foundations on which those recommendations are based upon; anybody could be a ma
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by zepearl 8y ago
Maybe a mix of multiple factors including "business"? - e.g. more cost effective to use the same HW on multiple devices but limiting their capabilities through SW by segment => total cost covered by many sold med-end devices AN
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by zepearl 8y ago
>> Zip2 allowed for two-way communication between users and advertisers. Users could message advertisers and have that message forwarded to their fax machine. Likewise, advertisers could fax users and users could view that fax using s
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by zepearl 8y ago
Lame "influencer"-attempt. You're the Candy_Crush-project_manager, right? :)
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>but in most cases, there are no other processes Cool (yes, I was wondering about the complexity :) ) Thank you!
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>Real-time programs tend to avoid syscalls, etc. which cause a context switch so it is indeed possible to run a realtime program indefinitely without the OS stepping in. I guess that context switches would have to happen if e.g. 2 re

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