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by zkms 10y ago
It goes beyond just hotlines (which IME are useless at best and actively harmful at worst (having law-enforcement called on you is no fun)) -- the suicide rate for the past 80ish years in US has remained remarkably flat, despite many advanc
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by zkms 10y ago
> But perhaps we don't care anymore. The web is gradually consuming all that came before it. It is partly the web/HTTP eating everything but also that FTP is legitimately a bad protocol and is less tolerant of horrid shit going
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by zkms 10y ago
> but the article didn't say why it didn't open, which means it could very well have been due to a cause that would cause all other car doors to also fail to open (namely, the frame bending). The article states that the rear-se
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by zkms 10y ago
There's no reason for it to be as ugly and huge as an aircraft emergency exit -- it's certainly possible to make a beautiful door handle that can detect if that the regular/electronic door opening system isn't working an
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by zkms 10y ago
That "carefully remove the speaker grill" is the chosen phraseology means that these are instructions meant for maintenance and service, not instructions meant for emergency egress. Furthermore, the latch release cable doesn'
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by zkms 10y ago
he "was hospitalized for more than 40 days with internal injuries and fractures" so I imagine that he got significantly injured and incapacitated.
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by zkms 10y ago
There's an issue with the door so they're getting sued for the door issue . It's not some kind of general indictment of Tesla nor Elon Musk, it's just that lawsuits are alas one of the very few ways that disputes can be
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by zkms 10y ago
The common case in buildings (the ones that aren't prisons) is that anyone, without any knowledge of arcane emergency procedures, and in a power failure, should be able to exit via the door they came in, regardless if that door is latc
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by zkms 10y ago
> No, but a reasonable person who buys a car like this should at least skim the manual once, looking for info on what to do in an emergency, precisely because in an emergency they won't have time to look up such info. The door relea
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by zkms 10y ago
Not every person will be physically capable of manoeuvring over the seats to a working door (especially after an accident). In this case, the passengers were able to display adaptability and get out, but had they been physically disabled or
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by zkms 10y ago
AFAICT (it's not in the digital version of the manual) the speaker-grill door release cable isn't even documented as an "emergency procedure", it's in the section of the manual about locks and keyless entry and stuf
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by zkms 10y ago
> In addition, the passengers didn't even try the emergency door release levers The no-power mechanical release cable is hidden and not even properly documented. A reasonable person who has not pored over every page of the instructi
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by zkms 10y ago
> This seems worrisome for the privacy of builders. What if someone wishing to stay anonymous built and distributed a Go binary from a system where GOROOT included their home directory and revealed their identity? Am I misinterpreting so
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by zkms 10y ago
It's certainly possible to do so and doing so would indeed avoid any sort of flicker -- but cost-cutting (good capacitors that will last the life of the LEDs are expensive ) reigns supreme alas.
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by zkms 10y ago
It's weird how nobody so far has mentioned using this technology for singing -- given there already are singing voice synthesizers that have had extremely significant cultural impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by zkms 10y ago
Race to idle~
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by zkms 10y ago
It looks kinda like the Big Sight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bigsite_Tokyo2012.JPG
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by zkms 10y ago
> Well if you put on your tinfoil hat - maybe someone wants to track who's viewing which patents, which they can't do when it's encrypted. No, a third-party attacker can just look at size/timing of packets to figure o
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by zkms 10y ago
Yes. Good fluorescent bulbs will have electronic ballasts (the driving circuit) that supply current to the bulb with a higher frequency (in the low kilohertz) than the time response of the bulb's phosphor. Thus, any sort of flicker get
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by zkms 10y ago
Is there a specific reason (related to POST requests or anything -- I know absolutely nothing about HTTP) that this doesn't have https?
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by zkms 10y ago
Robust cryptography tends to depend on having accurate-enough time.
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by zkms 10y ago
> Current versions of LED streetlamps are absolutely awful. Also they flicker too much -- a lot more than any other lighting source. It's utterly hateful and distracting, especially when you're driving or looking at a moving ob
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by zkms 10y ago
https://stichtingbrein.nl/public/20170420%20SLOV%20vonnis%20... Here is the original court ruling -- can someone translate (heh) this (I can't read it in the original)?
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by zkms 10y ago
> I really hope everyone can see that we must roll back the powers of the federal government, or it is going to roll over us. Local and state law-enforcement agencies absolutely do this sort of thing (and pretty much every other horrid t
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by zkms 10y ago
Most of the energy consumption in a dryer is from the actual drying cycle -- once the clothes are totally dry, the high-temperature cycle to get them all hot doesn't consume much power.
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by zkms 10y ago
> The idea sounds pretty neat but I wonder about longevity of the piezeoelectric transducers. If they'll wear out fast it's entirely feasible to design the dryer around user-replaceable piezos. It may end up like with inkjet pr
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by zkms 10y ago
> but the decision not to design IPv6 such that it is backwards-compatible with IPv4 is one of the worst technical decisions ever made No. The sin was committed when IPv4 was made and not initially designed to allow for variable / e
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by zkms 10y ago
> Why should a university deploy it, and introduce all sorts of new problems? Mine hasn't. And I don't blame them. If your university doesn't have a lot more demand for IP addresses then yeah -- it makes sense that they&#x
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by zkms 10y ago
> I don't have an iOS device but since T-Mobile sells them I assume they work with IPv6. My iphone works perfectly with T-Mobile's ipv6 network -- it gets a v6 address of its own and also anyone who tethers to it also gets v6 a
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by zkms 10y ago
> In fact, these buildings look nicer than many apartment buildings I have lived in in the northeast US. Absolutely and strongly concur. USian housing is a complete shitshow, between the government's disinvestment from any sort of p

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