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Spare_account··on Let's Settle This
In the specific context of 'Basel', it's like "art", but I see your point.
Spare_account··on Let's Settle This
>the way the Swiss pronounce Basel

You may have been making a veiled reference to the fact that the Swiss pronounce it three different ways themselves, but just in case you weren't:

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g188049-i752-k284241...

>The locals say without any doubt "Basel" with a long "a". So do the germans.

>So, in american it is something like "Baahsel"

>Some english folks pronounce it "Baahl", so do the french, who write it "Bâle".

>In italian, by the way, it is "Basilea".

Spare_account··on James Webb is fully deployed
Cunningham's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...

Spare_account··on James Webb is fully deployed
>a truck sized craft at a few million light years?

JWST is three light seconds from earth

Spare_account··on Gas Pump Golf
I don't have a horse in this race, I'm just interested in the facts.

Your phrasing in the comment I initially replied to suggested that you believe the pump mandate reduces the number of fires. If that's the case, it should be demonstrable with data and it should be front and centre in every discussion, surely?

Spare_account··on Gas Pump Golf
How many fewer incidents does NJ have per non-incident pump, can the other states?

How much safer is it in NJ?

Spare_account··on Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
One of my hobbies is figuring out which captcha prompts are the unclassified data so that I can answer wrong and stick it to the man.
Spare_account··on WhatsApp just downloaded 12k photos of other people's information on my phone
A second redditor has reported the same behaviour, although it's in the same (seemingly inappropriate) subreddit and was posted 4 hours later so it may just be a copycat:

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/ry0cnr/d...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220107101132/https://old.reddi...

Edit: The thread has now been deleted, so both reddit threads about this issue are deleted.

Spare_account··on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
This advice may be unique to the United States.

UK: It’s usually safest to get out of your car (using the doors facing away from passing traffic) and wait behind a barrier. https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/what-to-do-moto...

France: Any passengers should get out of the car on the side away from traffic and take shelter behind safety rails at the side of the road, if there are any. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210820/breakdowns-crashes-and-poli...

I'm interested in this part from your link:

>However, more than half the deaths and almost 1 in 5 serious injuries occur when a vehicle strikes a pedestrian who is leaving, working on, or returning to a stopped vehicle.

Is a breakdown of the different groups available?

• Leaving

• Working on

• Returning to

I agree that groups 2 and 3 are to be strongly encouraged against.

Group 1, choosing to leave your vehicle and stand off the road, behind solid infrastructure, is actively reducing their risk, albeit at the tradeoff of being briefly exposed to traffic.

I wouldn't recommend anyone exit a vehicle into fast moving traffic. For my comment above, I condsidered adding "if a suitable break in the traffic appears", but I decided it was overly wordy and to some extent self-evident.

Spare_account··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
This happens to me, but mainly because of aggressive privacy settings on my Browser and my addons (uMatrix etc).
Spare_account··on The UX on this small child is terrible
I was reading the comments wondering if dang would turn up at some point and shut this whole thing down.

I think allowing us to have a bit of fun on a single post is fair enough, but it can't keep happening or the balance will shift too far.

Spare_account··on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
You've drifted off topic, and started giving advice about "vehicle broken down on active highway" which isn't the scenario being discussed.

Yes, getting off the highway makes sense if you are in a disabled vehicle on an active highway, assuming there is something solid to shield you from the vehicles/debris that goes flying when your car is hit.

No, getting out of your car in a winter storm when all traffic is halted due to the conditions does not make sense at all.

Spare_account··on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
This is in the same territory as the advice I see sometimes to make sure you don't turn the steering wheel while the car is stationary ("dry steering") because "it will put stress on steering components and shorten their life, and it will damage the tyres".

These pieces of advice are technically correct but catering for edge cases that won't affect 99% of drivers/vehicle owners. Modern cars are designed for the way people use them; people run their tanks to empty all the time.

Spare_account··on YouTube-dl's first release since June 2021
>Honest question: why do you care how?

Aren't you interested to find out? It sounds like it would be interesting to know how they did it.

Spare_account··on Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
>we have already had two major mutations in less than two years.

How frequently do equivalent Flu mutations occur?

Spare_account··on NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV and 48 on WWVH
Could you elaborate on some of the safety reasons for exceeding the speed limit, to help me understand?

We use average speed cameras in the UK to enforce temporarily reduced speed limits during road repairs on the motorways. It seems to work quite well, it certainly feels like most people adhere to the reduced limits.

Personally, I am aware that if I speed (for whatever internal justification I convince myself of), I just need to reduce my average speed by the time I pass the next camera (they're big and yellow and deliberately conspicuous so drivers know where they are).

Spare_account··on Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy?
You got a full refund (minus small-print about sales tax) after ~1.5 years of ownership?
Spare_account··on Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
> Tautologically

Did you mean this word? I can't make sense of it in this sentence.

Spare_account··on Scattered thoughts on why I waste my own time
Thanks for the reply.

Was your initial approach "I think I have ADHD", or was the diagnosis a suprise to you?

Spare_account··on Scattered thoughts on why I waste my own time
Asking as an adult that increasingly suspects he may be undiagnosed ADHD: Did the diagnosis result in being prescribed a treatment? If so, what, and has it helped?

I'm conscious that each case must be handled individually, and whatever happened with your diagnosis/treatment would not be the same with me, but I'm interested to hear nonetheless from anyone that's willing to share.

Spare_account··on Roblox has been down for over 24 hours
There are screenshots floating around on Reddit showing limited functionality, presumably from sessions that were still logged in when it started:

https://www.reddit.com/r/roblox/comments/qi3du1/roblox_witho...

Spare_account··on I’m putting a WiFi router into a wall charger
UK (230V) here, I've observed electricians working on live circuits frequently. That's why tools like this exist, 'safe' for working up to 1000V:

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/c/vde--insulated-tools/

Despite being warned not to over and over again, I have replaced multiple electrical outlets and light switches in my home without flipping the breakers

Spare_account··on Facebook-owned sites were down
Do you have some examples?
Spare_account··on Almost All of Facebook’s Top Christian Pages in 2019 Run by Foreign Troll Farms
>it's much better for people to believe in Jesus than the Kardashians

I think if we weigh up the overall good vs bad of these two propositions, you might find that it's not as clear cut as you think.

Spare_account··on The code worked differently when the moon was full
>Wasted half the lab

I don't think it was entirely wasted time, though. You can't plan to teach that kind of lesson ("Look outside of your usual blinkered problem-solving-space"), it happens when it happens.

As this whole thread shows, most of us learn it during our careers at some point but you were lucky enough to learn it before you even started.

Spare_account··on The Perils of an .xyz Domain
>Most of my SMS spam comes from .info domains

Do you mean that the SMS messages contain links to .info domains?

Spare_account··on Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater
>What would you think if they said the opposite?

Not the same guy, but I might start to trust them more

Spare_account··on Tianwen-1 attitude in Mars orbit
I see you've had some other answers about the meaning of 'attitude' in this context, so I thought I would address the other part of your comment:

>a google search reveils no alternative meaning

A Google query that worked well for me to learn more about this was 'attitude orbit'. Including another word from the knowledge area (borrowed from the article title) helped Google understand the context I was searching within:

https://www.google.com/search?q=attitude+orbit

Spare_account··on Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
>We were fortunate in that we had a backup payment gateway integration "just in case"

This seems like the key point here. I'm not a software guy or even a payments guy, I'm a network infrastructure engineer.

For anything that we want more than 99% uptime, we put in two of everything, sometimes more. Two separate service providers, ideally coming down different physical paths where practical.

Spare_account··on Xiaomi Camera censoring German postal voting documents
The user supplied a link with a number of sample images, including the photo taken with ProShot at the bottom.

https://imgur.com/a/SCHGo4N

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