BucketsMcG

Nothing is rare on the Internet. It's a pet bugbear of mine.

Maybe he wants to learn, or maybe he's a psychopath trying to upgrade his human emulation software so he can get out sooner. Even experts find it hard to tell.

1) Most of uk.gov is actually designed and built in-house. 2) Germany, as a nation, got to about 1991 and collectively decided "This is nice, let's keep it like this". Even the most technologically progressive regions of Germany still think it's 1997. Elsewhere, it's like the wall never came down.

Actually at the time Ford's in-car entertainment was more integrated than most. Unlike others, they fitted own-brand audio systems which were either non-standard shapes and hard to replace, or they were built in entirely. I think what we see here's just an afterthought that got added late in the design process.

Can't tell, sorry, the cache service provider doesn't supply that info.

We use it on our rinky-dink ecommerce site, and it represents 40% of requests at the moment. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 are at 30% each. Our users skew a bit older, and definitely aren't techno-savvy (one scrolled past all the products and used the contact us page to ask for a printed product catalogue and order form...).

Humanity goes extinct if sustainability and climate change don't matter. And so does a lot else. We've already ensured through our actions to date that what remains of our time on this earth will be miserable, but we might still stand some chance of not completely ruining the place.

A 33% reduction in the population of one country is a tiny step in the right direction, but still far short of making a significant difference.

Now watch as cities suddenly split into multiple municipalities of 74k people...

Is this the same vision stack that was pulling up ahead of stop signs in some places because the signs were bigger than it expected?

If it can't make sense of something as simple as that, why would I trust it with hazards?

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I've heard many an anecdote of soldiers deployed for months in male-only settings who could smell that a woman had arrived on base. They weren't able to describe what they smelled, or how they knew it was a woman, but they just knew.

That's right.

Liberating, isn't it?

...He/she posted on the World Wide Web, invented by a Brit in Switzerland.

There's a fair chance you even used an ARM-powered device to do it. Also British.

Tesla, of course, based their first car on a Lotus. British.

Oh no, it's absolutely by design. It's a factory for producing broken people capable of committing atrocious acts of cruelty for the Empire. Now there is no Empire, they've turned on their own people.

My school wasn't English, or as elitist as Eton, but each year on Remembrance Day they would read the names of every pupil who died in the two world wars. Took quite a while.

As somebody who's been through a similar-but-different dual citizenship thing: it's just a bit of paper. You're still you, in all your wonderful complexity, and you can feel like any nationality or combination of nationalities you like. That will probably continue developing over time, too. You'll lose nothing by getting a second passport, and by the sounds of things you'll gain plenty.

Everybody should take every opportunity available to them when it comes to this stuff. Don't let others decide for you where you're allowed to make a life for yourself if you can possibly help it.

This is super cool, but the first thing I wanted to do was cast it to the Chromecast plugged into my hi-fi. It seems casting isn't available yet - do you have plans to add it? It would make this a total winner for just playing music in the background.

Sorry, you're way off there. My ancient car has a gigantic 90 litre fuel tank. At 720g / litre, that's 64.8kg. And that really is a huge tank - most cars are more like 40-60 litres.

The engine, meanwhile, well it depends what you count as "the engine". If we take it to mean "everything in the engine bay" - radiators, filters, pumps, etc. - you're going to be looking at several times that. Hell, even a battery is like 20kg.

All sorts of reasons, but it's got a lot to do with packaging and handling. Generally you want the weight distribution of the car to be 50:50 front:rear for optimal handling.

A car will handle great if you can put the engine and transmission somewhere towards the middle, but obviously that isn't great news for passengers. Mid-engined cars exist, of course, but they're usually two-seater sports cars where space and comfort are lower down the list of priorities.

So you're left with putting the engine somewhere towards the front, or somewhere towards the back. Some manufacturers, like BMW, achieve ideal weight distribution by mounting the engine relatively far back in the front of the car, and putting the transmission and some other heavy bits at the back. This is elegant, but too complex and expensive for your average runabout.

With a front-engined car, you can safely put some of the engine forward of the front axle. Doing so means more space in the passenger cabin, but hanging the weight out front makes the car nose-heavy. In an average front-wheel-drive family car, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, and might even be desirable, as it means good traction and a tendency towards boring, predictable understeer.

Sling the weight out back, like a Porsche 911, and you get the opposite problem: the car naturally tends to want to swap ends in corners. Some drivers find this fun, right up until it kills them. If a 911 is a safe car today, it's because Porsche has spent decades pigheadedly perfecting a layout everybody else abandoned long ago for its tendency to send you backwards through hedges.

Questlove does a lot of things, and invariably does them very well. But it's not about what he thinks.

I rented an electric VW Transporter recently (think it's the same van as the Mercedes Sprinter), and it really felt like the future. It was just so nice to operate. Smooth, quiet, tons of torque, and will probably beating day after day with little to no servicing. Range wasn't massive, but for your typical daily urban delivery round that doesn't matter so much. It just made so much sense.

Even a light dog can put a surprising amount of pressure through its feet if it wants to. Tiny paws mean it's all concentrated in a small area. My 10kg dog feels like he weighs a ton when he puts his front paws on me and leans into it.

I've no idea what it takes to trigger a mine, and I don't know if it would be enough, but a dog can press down harder than you'd expect.

It would allow nature to begin to recover from the damage we've been doing to it for thousands of years. Besides increased biodiversity being an inherently good thing, it would also reduce flooding and erosion, stabilise weather systems, preserve topsoil, etc. etc.

After the Windsor Castle fire of 1992, they rebuilt the wooden roof of St. George's Hall without using a single nail, screw or drop of glue. They had a hard time finding people with the skills and knowledge to do it, as it's pretty much a dead art now.

I don't think there's any doubt that many tech companies are hideously, bafflingly over-staffed (3000 people working on just the music functionality of Alexa? What could they possibly be doing?). But maybe take a bit of time to understand what everybody is (and isn't) doing before throwing half out and alienating the rest?

This is just a masterclass in how not to do it. He doesn't look dumb because he's reducing the headcount. He looks dumb because he's going about it like an absolute lunatic.

It's really not. Earth's generally full of holes big and small. Water isn't.

Maybe your experience maps to the 0-100 Fahrenheit scale, but mine certainly doesn't. Temperatures where I'm from are typically 5-25C, 0-30C at the extremes. So 41-77, or 32-86. So how's Fahrenheit a more useful scale there? And what if you're from, I don't know, Bangkok? The temperature range there is, generously, 80-95F.

There are endless examples of where this argument doesn't stand up because the "averafe==ge human experience" is nothing like yours. But of course, it's more or less applicable in most of the US, so you imagine it's universal. Whereas, for the rest of us, 0 is cold, 10 is cool, 20 is warm, 30 is hot, and extrapolate from there. That's simple and relatable enough for me.

Interesting choice to name it after a Berlin park known for being full of drug dealers, muggers and ne'er-do-wells.

Sorry, what? How does blockchain get your kitchen through its safety inspection, to choose just one example?

Tesla faked swappable batteries to con millions (billions?) in carbon credits out of the California state government, if we want to talk about environment scams.

I love this. I propose we henceforth judge all phones by the sporran test.