ninalanyon

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by ninalanyon 3d ago
So you can't use the app to control the kettle if your internet connection is down. Why doesn't it just run a simple server?
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by ninalanyon 3d ago
One of the great things about StreetComplete is that it works perfectly offline.
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by ninalanyon 6d ago
If these tools are as clever as they seem then why not just tell them to rewrite the code in a more review friendly style? I only dabble in the use of LLMs to generate code for hobby programming (I'm retired from software development)
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by ninalanyon 6d ago
You can get soft bread in Norway that is much like the stuff that is ubiquitous in the UK but it is marketed for making toast. Most of the rest is much more interesting, and I'm sure better for you.
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by ninalanyon 6d ago
> i wonder what the point of presenting these inventions as your own are Because if you independently invented it then it is your own. The value to the student is not necessarily that the idea is novel to everyone else but that is nove
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by ninalanyon 6d ago
If it's a rare enough event you can just rent a car.
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by ninalanyon 9d ago
When do you get to see these terms? The discussion seems to imply that they are seen only after purchase (I haven't read the article). If that is so they are void and unenforceable in most jurisdictions as you cannot agree to something
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by ninalanyon 9d ago
Hours spent working haven't noticeably declined for people in Northern Europe for fifty years. I worked 40 hours a week in the UK in 1978, the usual working week in Norway now is 37.5 hours. I very much doubt that most people are grea
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by ninalanyon 10d ago
Dead mans handle devices (driver vigilance units) were introduced on UK trains in the 1960s They also certainly exist on Norwegian locomotives, I've seen them on YouTube videos. They bring the train to a stop.
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by ninalanyon 11d ago
Were there no dead man's handles on those trains? Or do they have them and the drivers fall asleep frequently and most were caught in time but these two fell asleep at the latest possible moment?
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by ninalanyon 12d ago
Why is everything quietly done now?
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by ninalanyon 15d ago
"Clinically tested Dyson CameraJet™ is clinically proven to be more effective in improving gum health by removing and preventing plaque buildup.² Vs a manual tooth brush. " So they didn't dare compare it against a 20 EUR Brau
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by ninalanyon 16d ago
You can buy them almost anywhere where there is a need to keep food cold without electricity.
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by ninalanyon 18d ago
https://www.tanatvalleyrailway.co.uk/monoloco
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by ninalanyon 18d ago
So you don't learn from other people's experience?
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by ninalanyon 18d ago
Why would I want to call 911? The number here is 999, or 110, 113, 113 in the rest of Europe. And of course I can call it.
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by ninalanyon 18d ago
My Nokia 105 has 4G (as well as 3G and 2G) and is definitely not a smartphone and absolutely not an Android. It runs S30+. What do you mean by: > support for VoLTE Emergency
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by ninalanyon 18d ago
If your daily life includes interacting with a bank then in many cases you absolutely do need a smartphone many banks no longer have websites that can be accessed with a web browser.
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by ninalanyon 18d ago
Why should the customer of a bank need any skills? Surely the bank is the one that should have the skills.
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by ninalanyon 20d ago
There was a Doomwatch episode on his subject with airliners falling out of the sky bcause all the plastic had been eaten away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomwatch#Series_One
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by ninalanyon 21d ago
> at least it doesn't leave trash all over the streets. It leaves lithium ion batteries everywhere. There are even YouTube videos by people scavenging them to build small battery banks.
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by ninalanyon 21d ago
You mean it isn't taught where you are? That's bizarre, it was part of the curriculum when I was in high school in England in the early 1970s!
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by ninalanyon 21d ago
Financial settlements of what should be criminal cases should not be allowed. Hundreds or thousands of people at Meta should instead be jailed. If we assume that the median income for a Meta employee/board member is 100 kUSD then that
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by ninalanyon 22d ago
> my degree from the social side didn't include statistics. That's bonkers. Society is all about statistics, and the reverse. Without statistics any kind of social studies is only Just So stories.
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by ninalanyon 22d ago
> hunting a wild animal situates the hunter in the broader context of the natural world, in which organisms live by their wits and try to outrun others doing the same. It's not exactly a fair fight though. In modern hunting the hun
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by ninalanyon 22d ago
So where should one look? It seems tome that society is very much what does provide freedom, just not all freedoms.
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by ninalanyon 23d ago
If personhood can be applied even to something without volition then it has become such an all encompassing notion as to be essentially meaningless because when using it one will have to surround it with moat of caveats,
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by ninalanyon 23d ago
Consciousness is also not necessarily relevant. Once machines start to influence the design of new machines in ways that are hard to examine in detail they can gain capabilities that are unexpected and unwanted. Machines capable of this ki
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by ninalanyon 23d ago
So they were cited. So what? When you are extremely wealthy fixed penalties become simply part of the cost of doing business. Now if the fine were a substantial fraction of income it might make some sense, as is done for speeding fines
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by ninalanyon 23d ago
It's an engineering failure if the designers did not fight for it. In my career as an electronics engineer and later as a software developer it was clearly part of my job to interrogate the specification documents and almost always th

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