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Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
10 years ago Wayland was in much worse state. It started being good in the last few years, though some features are still lacking.
Comment · 7 months ago
> and I don't think I know any pop stars with that background off the top of my head.

But Romania gave us the Dragostea din tei (Numa-numa song :)

Comment · 7 months ago
In Croatia only Zagreb got changed to 10 000 (because capital), the rest stayed the same.
Comment · 8 months ago
Exactly, the threat of using nukes needs to be credible in order to work as a deterrence.
Comment · 8 months ago
> And they are also… a math nightmare. Differential geometry. Integrals. Oh my… Which is probably why most games don’t even dare.

Wonder if cubic parabola (used by some railways, and visually near indistinguishable from clothoid) has easier maths.

Comment · 9 months ago
This collision happened precisely because of unfortunate circumstance that break in the rail and derailment happened just before the switch leading to the opposite track. Without the "help" of the switch, carriages of the first train likely wouldn't have invaded the second track.
Comment · 11 months ago
Well, they could add speakers that make vroom-vroom noises.
Comment · 11 months ago
The Falcons have all three engines tail mounted, so not the same "type" of trijet as MD-11.
Comment · 1 year ago
AFAIK it should be a different system because the car asks the key first (same system as Keyless GO).
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, AI is plain wrong. Fuel cutoff switches on Airbus are in the same position as in Boeing planes, below the throttle.
Comment · 1 year ago
Technically, 2 EU countries: Greece and Cyprus.
Comment · 1 year ago
True, but that EU regulation is based on the ground truth of much less spacious roads and cities.
Comment · 1 year ago
You might consider it an eyesore, but the river is hardly ruined by it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I fully agree with that. Just a bit disappointed that Python is not even considering to fix/replace it's problematic datetime library (as far as I know). Excellent third-party library is good, but an excellent standard library is even better!

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