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Comment · 2 years ago
Direct PDF download: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/cart/download.cgi?record_i...
Comment · 2 years ago
You cannot make the cost-efficiency argument without acknowledging all the costs which aviation and automotive travel externalize: air and water pollution, damage to wildlife, global warming, lack of walking/cycling infrastructure, rising sea levels... a disproportionate part of which are born by poor or faraway people who have no choice in all this.
Edit: forgot about noise pollution and about flooding risks (due to impervious surfaces like runways and parking lots).
I also doubt airfields and planes require significantly less maintenance than trains and tracks, but I have not researched that.
Comment · 2 years ago
Bollards are good at preventing the inconsiderate from parking on the sidewalk. For fewer people to be killed by cars, however, you want transportation infrastructure which does not rely on having fast metal boxes in close proximity to pedestrians (or cyclists, wheelchair users, etc).
Comment · 3 years ago
The investigation partly relies on notes seized from the defendants which mention various privacy tools: GrapheneOS, LineageOS, Signal, Silence, Jitsi, OnionShare, F-Droid, Tor, RiseupVPN, Orbot, uBlock Origin…
According to investigators: "these elements confirm they were willing to live clandestinely".
According to the prosecution: "these notes consituted a real playbook allowing anonymous use of a phone, showing the person was willing to live in secrecy and hide their activities".
Comment · 4 years ago
Students in France protested multiple times at least partly against Parcoursup, the government software where high school students enter their choices for higher education and get selected by universities.
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20181204-high-school-protests-c...
> In the past few months, several high school student unions have called for protests against recent reforms in France's education system.
> They have also been protesting against 'Parcoursup', an online government platform designed for selecting students for university.
Comment · 5 years ago
See the first item in this post: https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th...
Comment · 6 years ago
Wow that is amazing! His proposal for "IPv4+" is... I have no words. Thanks for the laugh.
Comment · 6 years ago
As soon as you start having you own server/network rooms, yes.
You will have to monitor your HVAC systems, your fire extinguisher systems, your alarm systems (for smoke and water leak detection), your electrical systems... You will need to make decisions about which type of system to install. You will have to set up maintenance and repair of these systems and interact with the specialized technicians who come to service them.
Not saying you have to become an HVAC expert, but you will definitely learn some stuff outside of computing/networking.
Comment · 6 years ago
FYI, your webserver sets the ContentType header based on the file extension, which is probably not what you want.
For example: http://textfiles.com/100/black.box gave me "application/vnd.previewsystems.box".
Comment · 6 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Took me a while to figure out why I was not able to pull MMS over WiFi anymore!
(My "hack" was to have a SIM from a country where RCS/Chat is enabled, but actually using it in a country where RCS is not yet supported.)