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Speed is only one aspect, comfort is the main benefit for me. The biggest change in comfort I found going from row stagger to ortholinear, then a small bump again going column stagger and low profile

Hardly sounds like either a bug or a showstopper when you can rebind any command

We don't give any credence to untested hypotheses

Fork wrapping the random radius in sqrt() so the first disk is uniformly distributed

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1929418

Have you considered ignored_suggestion?

Which regulations would you like to get rid of or change?

Aside: they're all wrong. Always pull on an unknown door. If you're wrong, it's much easier to switch to pushing than it is to go from an incorrect push to a pull

https://youtu.be/lm57qo3eYe8

What's the etiquette here or are we just being trolled?

Parent has edited all their comments now making the rest of the comment tree less useful. Essentially they were arguing that wireless signals themselves couldn't be faster than a wired/optical signal despite physics disagreeing.

In practice, microwave networks are used over long distances precisely because they are lower latency than fibre.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...

> ...are not making use of light through air, and your wireless network connection cannot make use of light through air even a fraction as efficiently as light through fiber optic cable...

There's a clear misunderstanding here.

Light and wireless signals used by mice etc are the same thing though, just at a different frequency. They propagate at the same speed, the speed of light, which ironically is slower in glass.

Wireless signals in air travel faster than light in a fiber optic cable (and faster than electricity in copper).

Issues with Google (I'm not familiar with Apple maps) maps are the cost and inflexibility. It can't do routing for non standard vehicles taking into account height limits, same side routing, hazmat etc

See also lists

* HTTP 418 (I'm a teapot) [0]

* Not a Typewriter [1]

* PC LOAD LETTER [2]

What else is out there?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER

Note that you'll have to buy the ebook from amazon to be convinced

Looks like the image was stitched from multiple images taken by a single camera, but the camera moved around instead of panning/tilting in place. Closer objects (the rail) move more due to parallax and it becomes impossible to stitch perfectly

A max line width is welcome from me, I'll be able to remove my tampermonkey script for wikipedia.

I'll still need to keep the generic one around that I use on demand to fix other unreadable pages though.

In New Zealand you will find slot machines in many pubs and hotels, they are very accessible to the public. They are also operated by charitable foundations and claim they do a net good by donating the profits to the community.

I despise the model just like lotteries, it's a regressive tax and the lions share of profit comes from those with addictions.

Yes. I have had youtube red for a few years now, it includes the music service which makes it reasonable for me. Downloading videos is a convenient premium feature that I use occasionally when flying.

I really notice how bad YT is without red when trying to watch something on my work computer, I would rather watch on my phone than with ads every few minutes.

This is an application where I find the old tech does a better job: push mowers.

I recently replaced my mower with an old push mower [1], someone local restores them and sells them for a reasonable price (much less than anything new or even a petrol or electric second hand mower.

It works so well I wouldn't go back unless I had more than about 200 sqm to mow. Modern push mowers are junk and put me off in the past, but the older ones are much heavier and better built. They cut grass cleaner than a rotary mower which is supposedly better for the grass too.

[1]: trademe.tmcdn.co.nz/photoserver/full/1857940265.jpg

Yes, I find it more fun and engaging whether driving a car or riding a bike.

It also helps to build up a mental map of the city I live in, which I find to be one of those skills you can learn which feels like a bit of a superpower. Being able to find and navigate along a route, deal with detours, or navigate yourself around congested areas.

Recently I was trying to leave a large complex parking area when we noticed it was gridlocked. We were able to navigate a way out the back that hadn't become congested yet, and save ourselves from 4+ hours of waiting and ending up on the news.

There's no google office where I live, but google maps will show detailed transit information including exactly where on its route the bus you are waiting for is.

There's an attribution saying the data is coming from the local metro provider, who has their own interface for accessing the same data, but having it in google maps is nice as it integrates well with other navigation.

So I would say it comes down more to who has partnered with google to make the data more accessible.

Maybe more anecdotal, but I have had great mileage with google maps for navigation while driving too. The government department for land information does make almost all GIS data publicly available which probably helps too.

Consider a clause that is unenforceable because it contradicts some rights enshrined in law. If someone was misled into believing the clause is enforceable, their rights have been infringed on unfairly due to an imbalance of information

Is it ethical to include an unenforceable clause in a contract?

There are an infinite number of things that could be included in an employment contract that would be unenforceable. Should conditions on other sources of income be enforceable?

Is that no longer possible? Our collective carbon footprint is highly correlated with our "travel footprint"

Good place to drop the fantastic "falsehoods developers believe about addresses" [0]

And my favourite case of interesting address numbers in the US, menomonee falls, which includes addresses such as "W162N7420 Tamarack Trail" [1]

0: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...

1: https://goo.gl/maps/J8s2yMKConwJMg727

I think the point is that there are easier options than postfix and dovecot for most self host cases, the oligopoly is formed by other entities.

New Zealand only recently passed a law that will phase out rental interest deductions over 4 years

https://www.ird.govt.nz/pages/campaigns/interest-limitation-...

But there is much more efficient use of the car. Instead of a personal vehicle spending 99% of its time parked, a delivery van/truck spends 25% of its time making deliveries. They can be routed efficiently to deliver from a hub location to a group of homes.