adamjb
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strategic transport modelling consultant, among other things
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Comment · 1 month ago
We have records of versions of the story being repeated as it travelled from South Asia to the Mediterranean and the name slowly changing from bodhisattva -> bodisav -> Būdhasaf -> Iodasaph -> Ioasaph -> Josaphat
Comment · 2 months ago
Not quite in the same spirit but I suppose one could talk of railway operators using the railway network as a flatbed scanner when they send maintenance vehicles out to scan the railbed for defects.
For example: https://railgallery.wongm.com/ev120-inspection-vehicle/F144_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TKDw2E_PBQ
Comment · 2 months ago
Echoes of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn smuggling himself from Japan in a music equipment box while on bail for financial crimes
Comment · 3 months ago
CoMaps remembers the zoom and position of your last session and returns there on launch
Comment · 5 months ago
That already had a name
Comment · 6 months ago
>My one hope for AI, robotics, self driving cars, is that they can enable more people in cities to migrate back to rural places
Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 years ago
> The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car.
Comment · 10 months ago
It's interesting how there's a negative correlation between tenant's rights and how furnished a rental is expected to be.
Comment · 1 year ago
>axial twist orthodoxy
My impression is that this isn't exactly settled science. If you look in the history for the article you can see that it's mainly written by the lead author of the main citations. He also did the cute illustrations that everyone loves
Comment · 2 years ago
Is it this, from Matthew Butterick?
Comment · 2 years ago
No one checks names on Aussie domestic flights to this day
Comment · 2 years ago
>how can you find what version of Gitlab is being run? (through the web interface on a CE instance)
It's up the top at gitlab.example.com/help