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by bencoder 6y ago
If you click the "camera" option a few times you get to satellite view - and you are correct, it seems we are driving in a big loop
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by bencoder 6y ago
I feel like there's a huge amount of delayed demand. A lot of people I know are pretty desperate to travel as soon as it's safe to do so (without quarantine after each leg). I don't think demand will take such a huge hit. It
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by bencoder 6y ago
That's a cool idea. Though I see no need to make it VTOL. A simple tug plane, like a glider tug but for passenger aircraft. Really nice thought!
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VentilAid open-source ventilator that can be made anywhere locally(youtube.com)
2 points by bencoder 6y ago|0 comments
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by bencoder 7y ago
We are about 2 weeks behind Italy in death rate, which is the only measure that can be reliably compared between countries, due to differences in test rates and criteria to be tested. Is 2 weeks "grace period" before implementing
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GPT-2 generated VC thought leader(twitter.com)
1 points by bencoder 7y ago|0 comments
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by bencoder 7y ago
The true inflation rate is probably a lot higher than CPI which is what most calculators use. Somewhere between 7-13% [0] (for example) [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/if-people-knew-the-actual-in...
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by bencoder 7y ago
I work with quite a few ex-BBC developers. It seems to be more of a labor of love. They universally have said that it's poorly paid, relatively.
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by bencoder 7y ago
They used to give it away. I learnt to program from a free magazine cover-disk Delphi, and its excellent help system.
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by bencoder 7y ago
I've always had problems with external displays on macbooks. Particularly when using 2, regardless of hdmi or TB, but even a single display sometimes refuses to work without repeatedly unplugging and retrying. Never explicitly tried le
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by bencoder 7y ago
Yep, I would fork myself. Merging and deconflicting if you want to reunite forks could be a fun problem to solve in the future
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by bencoder 7y ago
100% of its expected actual failure point, based on its design. The plane is rated to 2/3rds of that (I think this is pretty standard in aviation) - the other "100%" - meaning it should never go above that in flight, and if i
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by bencoder 7y ago
Ryanair claims to be the only European airline that doesn't overbook. Probably they can get away with this as changing your flight costs more than a ticket in the first place
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by bencoder 7y ago
Replying top level to say thank you all for the lovely comments on our game, 'xx142-b2.exe'. It was a huge surprise for us to win this! We are slowly working on a dev blog/post-mortem for the game. Coming soon!
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by bencoder 7y ago
Yeah I'm worried this will actually be worse for indie developers than the big gaming publishers who can afford always-on servers and subscription based models
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by bencoder 7y ago
See also: Cal Newport's Deep Work [0] [0] http://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
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by bencoder 7y ago
It just seems like he must have had help, somehow, in order to kill himself. Regardless of his or his assistant's motivation.
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by bencoder 7y ago
Helped by the powerful right up to the end
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by bencoder 7y ago
The craft/art still exists in the demoscene
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by bencoder 7y ago
I grew up on a southern coast where north was almost always with a slight upwards incline. When I'm in a hilly place my automatic sense of direction gives me downhill = south, with about 25% accuracy
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by bencoder 7y ago
> There are many holocaust survivors and decedents who take extreme offense to this characterization. I haven't personally come across this, only the opposite, but I suspect I'm in a bubble of sorts. Can you provide any verifia
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by bencoder 7y ago
Sometimes dangerous situations are averted by pilots realising the controller had made an error, like clearing a plane to cross a runway while another is taking off [0] This kind of thing might be much harder to catch if clearances are give
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by bencoder 7y ago
British: https://youglish.com/search/herb/uk ?
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by bencoder 7y ago
The data is too noisy with boom & busts and inflation to really say, but it certainly doesn't /look/ like it makes a difference to employment rates: https://imgur.com/a/KtC7BD0
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by bencoder 7y ago
> Never heared of boingboing.net That's a genuine surprise! You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing > > Steven Crowder's hate channel I don't see this phrase in the
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by bencoder 7y ago
There are nail clippers suitable for cats which help. Some cats will protest violently and make it extremely difficult to trim them though
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by bencoder 7y ago
As the other reply pointed out, without a huge(like 5x) improvement in energy density (specific energy, actually) of batteries, this is physically impossible. Even with improvements, it would still be inefficient as batteries don't los
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by bencoder 7y ago
You've skipped over quite a lot. - learning about and understanding S3 in the first place. - Billing and AWS account management (possibly requiring agreement/permission from others) - maintaining credentials securely for your app
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by bencoder 7y ago
> Sure, a mate isn't _technically_ required to live a good life, but in our intensely individualistic society where the number of friends men have is dropping precipitously, relationships form a core of socialization for many men. P
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by bencoder 7y ago
In theory, certainly, mgtow seems fine. In practice, like your message right here, it's coming from a place of bitterness and resentment and a desire to "get back" at women. I prefer not to live like that, regardless of wheth

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