adamjb

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by adamjb 8d ago
We have records of versions of the story being repeated as it travelled from South Asia to the Mediterranean and the name slowly changing from bodhisattva -> bodisav -> Būdhasaf -> Iodasaph -> Ioasaph -> Josaphat
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by adamjb 29d ago
Not quite in the same spirit but I suppose one could talk of railway operators using the railway network as a flatbed scanner when they send maintenance vehicles out to scan the railbed for defects. For example: https://railgalle
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by adamjb 1mo ago
Echoes of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn smuggling himself from Japan in a music equipment box while on bail for financial crimes https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993
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by adamjb 2mo ago
CoMaps remembers the zoom and position of your last session and returns there on launch
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by adamjb 4mo ago
That already had a name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_exchange
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by adamjb 5mo ago
>My one hope for AI, robotics, self driving cars, is that they can enable more people in cities to migrate back to rural places Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 year
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by adamjb 8mo ago
It's interesting how there's a negative correlation between tenant's rights and how furnished a rental is expected to be.
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by adamjb 1y ago
>axial twist orthodoxy My impression is that this isn't exactly settled science. If you look in the history for the article you can see that it's mainly written by the lead author of the main citations. He also did the cute ill
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Why Airlines Aren't Supermarkets(analyticflying.com)
3 points by adamjb 2y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 2y ago
Is it this, from Matthew Butterick? https://practicaltypography.com/grids-of-numbers.html
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by adamjb 3y ago
No one checks names on Aussie domestic flights to this day
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by adamjb 3y ago
>how can you find what version of Gitlab is being run? (through the web interface on a CE instance) It's up the top at gitlab.example.com/help
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Password-crackers and metadata used to check welfare users' relationship status(itnews.com.au)
3 points by adamjb 3y ago|0 comments
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by adamjb 4y ago
One of the reasons Schumacher was able to dominate was that he was one of the first F1 drivers to train for it as a physical sport.
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by adamjb 4y ago
The laws in Australia refer to "facilitating" copyright infringement. Whether or not a torrent website is a publisher is entirely immaterial
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by adamjb 4y ago
My workplace's solution was to simply turn off 2FA for my account
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by adamjb 4y ago
2CV's do around 6L/100km which is comparable to modern town cars
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by adamjb 4y ago
Fascinating how clearly you can see this with the 5hr limit from Dusseldorf being pretty much exactly the French border from the Atlantic to Switzerland
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by adamjb 4y ago
>>How does it handle type instability, i.e. when the type of a variable is only known at run-time, not at compile-time? >c++’s extremely convenient ‘auto’ keyword :) https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comment
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by adamjb 4y ago
The redesign was in 2018 so I'm not sure about that timeline
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by adamjb 4y ago
MATSim or ActivitySim are used for that sort of thing. Most modellers don't bother to simulate every individual person though. Instead they use a sample which they scale up because it isn't worth the order of magnitude more comput
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by adamjb 4y ago
Digital twins aren't simulations, they're just data. The idea is that it's openly available and easily queryable so that people have good data to run their models and simulations on.
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by adamjb 4y ago
I find this to be an unintuitive metric, as nights that are part of longer bookings are oversampled as there are more nights in longer bookings
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by adamjb 4y ago
Useless outside the US? Ignoring the obvious objection, one of the design goals of the initial iteration of the NATO/ICAO phonetic alphabet was that every word in it would be familiar to you as long as you were fluent in either English
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by adamjb 4y ago
cycle.travel incorporates real traffic data as part of its routing
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by adamjb 4y ago
They successfully tested landing and taking off a loaded C-130 from a carrier in the 60s so I guess if you designed a new long range STOL airliner from the ground up it wouldn't be impossible and might even have a slim slim chance of b
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by adamjb 5y ago
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology calculates apparent temperature like this AT = Ta + 0.33×e − 0.70×ws − 4.00 where: Ta = Dry bulb temperature (°C) e = Water vapour pressure (hPa) [humidity] ws = Wind speed (m/s) at an elevation o
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How did Russia get so big?(kamilkazani2.substack.com)
62 points by adamjb 5y ago|2 comments
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by adamjb 5y ago
It was very normal for those in the Elite Athlete program at my uni to refer to themselves as elite athletes
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by adamjb 5y ago
OP posted it with the original headline https://web.archive.org/web/20220203013548/https://www.thegu... They submitted at 2022-02-03T03:09:31 [0] but this post got re-upped by the mods, as they sometimes

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