aronpye

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by aronpye 5y ago
LA is turning into District 9
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by aronpye 5y ago
Which UK cities? A London year travel pass costs £2,568, so public transport is hardly cheaper either, plus it’s a whole lot less convenient. Unless you enjoy spending all of your time in an urban group think bubble with the only option is
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by aronpye 5y ago
An annual London travel card is £2,568, and that only lets you travel around London. So why should be instead force people to buy something more expensive and less useful than a car?
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by aronpye 5y ago
> free (paid by taxes) Free != paid by taxes I also think tax funded services are quite regressive as you have to pay for them whether you use them or not, and there are no market forces driving them to be cost competitive.
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by aronpye 5y ago
Is any unsupervised access to the internet for children ever really safe? At the risk of sounding crass, why can’t they meet in real life like human beings are supposed to?
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by aronpye 5y ago
> … many US employment contracts also insanely long … Most US employees are employed “at will” and don’t have contracts …
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by aronpye 5y ago
Most manuals tell you to inspect the oil monthly or before a long car journey. Waiting two years before realizing your engine is drinking oil is probably reckless which wouldn’t be covered under any warranty.
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by aronpye 5y ago
Fuel and oil quality is a lot more variable in the US as it’s set at the state level, plus it’s just generally worse, so are the environmental conditions, so you have to set the guidelines according to the minimum / worst case likely
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by aronpye 5y ago
Fuel and oil quality is a lot more variable in the US, so are the environmental conditions, so you have to set the guidelines according to the minimum likely to be encountered.
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by aronpye 5y ago
I used to help develop Diesel Engines before I moved into Software Engineering. If they followed anything like what we did, they would just run load cycles on the engine in a test cell to simulate approximately however many miles of ‘normal
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by aronpye 5y ago
Environmentally probably a good idea. From a consumer rights point of view this is going to be bad. The cynical side of me thinks this is just a way to control the after-market and eliminate third party repair shops and mechanics. A better
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by aronpye 5y ago
I think you need more specialist equipment and training if you want to mess with high voltage electrical systems on BEVs.
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by aronpye 5y ago
An oil change is cheap. It’s also far better to preventatively change the oil, that way the engine is running with optimum lubrication most of the time. If you wait to change the oil when it’s black sludge, it’s likely damage will slowly bu
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by aronpye 5y ago
> it’s not just an awful safety culture and poor maintenance makes anything unsafe. I agree, I just felt that the original article was being disingenuous by stating that power lines are somehow safer than fossil fuel infrastructure just
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by aronpye 5y ago
< “It is just pinging around.” Would you feel any differently if people were recording your activities by pointing a camera at your window from the street? Or even just pressing random doorbells to see if anyone lives there? Personally I
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by aronpye 5y ago
> “ Yes, you’ll need transmission lines to move electrons around, but they are far less dangerous and intrusive.” Yeah … California Says PG&E Power Lines Caused Camp Fire That Killed 85 https://www.nytimes.com/2019&#x
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by aronpye 5y ago
I think cooperatives are an interesting idea (0). Maybe you could start one to provide a service in your community like fiber broadband, etc. For a higher risk option that’s not been mentioned you could look at peer to peer (p2p) lending. (
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by aronpye 5y ago
I wonder if most of the info is sent by the payroll / HR software employers use, rather than the employer themselves and without said employers knowledge? I.e. it’s a way for the payroll software companies to earn extra money rather th
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The Most Important Device in the Universe(youtube.com)
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by aronpye 5y ago
I wish the quality of prose as well as underlying journalism of today’s mainstream media and newspapers matched those of yesteryear. When reading the posted article, the decline in quality is shown to be immense.
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by aronpye 5y ago
Not a book recommendation, but Star Trek TNG has had a huge influence on my life and was (and still is) one of my biggest inspirations to get into engineering. It’s also filled with philosophy as well as things like leadership advice, etc.
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by aronpye 5y ago
Wouldn’t it be easier to simply invert the problem and come up with a whitelist instead? When searching for technical info there are only a handful of sites I use, namely stackoverflow and wikipedia.
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by aronpye 5y ago
Maybe try and time stamp the page, presumably the earliest page is the original source. Could also combine it with a site reputation rating or something similar.
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by aronpye 5y ago
A lot of the spam results just seem to be copy pasted content. I wonder how difficult it is to compare the main body of text in search results, then say if it is over a 95% match with another site (I.e. it has been copy-pasted), demote it i
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by aronpye 5y ago
Git is essentially web3 technology and was meant to be decentralized however, it all ended up being pretty centralized by a few players like GitHub. I envisage the same happening to ‘crypto’ type stuff like the use of exchanges, etc.
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by aronpye 5y ago
Is there a plugin which allows you to curate your own index, i.e. a whitelist of sites to search?
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by aronpye 5y ago
How are these sites created? Are they hand crafted or automatically generated with something like GPT? From what I’ve seen, a lot of them just seem to copy-paste content from each other and sites like stack-overflow. I’m just curious whethe
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by aronpye 5y ago
Also see: Radiation burns from Army radio http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3707424.stm And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_burn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi
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by aronpye 5y ago
“If it fits I sits”
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by aronpye 5y ago
It’s non-ionizing radiation so would “only” cause radiation burns worst case. I don’t know what frequency the transmitter uses / how deeply the waves can penetrate, so you could also end up with “internal sun burn” as well external bur

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