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Comment · 5 months ago

The FAA still requires ashtrays in bathrooms interestingly. To avoid those who do smoke there using the trash and causing a fire:

  Regardless of whether smoking is allowed in any other part of the airplane, lavatories must have self-contained, removable ashtrays located conspicuously on or near the entry side of each lavatory door, except that one ashtray may serve more than one lavatory door if the ashtray can be seen readily from the cabin side of each lavatory served

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.853

Comment · 6 months ago

Not by default: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb

Comment · 9 months ago

Very cool. Thanks

Comment · 9 months ago

What are the black dots around the map when you zoom in? For instance South-East Wales / Bristol, I see a few black dots that look like they cover shaded areas or something. They also show up at the sites for wind farms, possibly they're the turbines themselves?

Comment · 9 months ago

Looks great. Interesting to see that a lot of stations are included but without prices.

Note, in brave on linux I can't see the map. Console has a lot of 401 on stadiamaps. But works great in chrome.

Comment · 9 months ago

Some vague info here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fuel-finder-enfor...

Comment · 9 months ago

> From 2 February 2026, you must submit fuel price updates within 30 minutes of any change.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-your-fuel-prices-and-fore...

So looks as though the requirement to report was only just introduced, hence the considerable missing data.

Edit: BBC reporting here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp80dpzdg37o

Comment · 9 months ago

I happened to be looking at ski boot fitting this morning and came across a web app from fischersports that allows you to measure your feet using your phones camera. Surprise surprise it uses a sheet of A4 paper.

App is about halfway down this page, https://www.fischersports.com/rc4-podium-rd-worldcup-strd/U0... under 'find your size' and is powered by https://volumental.com/

Comment · 10 months ago

Some context: https://archive.ph/Apfdv

Autostore ended up paying Ocado? How did Ocado abuse them?

Comment · 11 months ago

They were supposedly invented in Scotland, and I've not seen them sold in an English fish and chip shop. Go to Scotland however and they're not uncommon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Comment · 11 months ago

Seems like it would be pretty useful to forecast the supply of renewables (wind, solar, maybe some hydro).

Comment · 11 months ago

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/ Correlated with life expectancy

Comment · 11 months ago

The OCR -> schema.org pipeline would be useful, I've been doing it manually prior to importing to Mealie.

Comment · 1 year ago

Amusingly this appears to block access from the UK. https://archive.ph/pBmlV

Comment · 1 year ago

A lot of Cyrillic characters: https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=I+%CF%B2%D0%...