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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

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

Echoes of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn smuggling himself from Japan in a music equipment box while on bail for financial crimes

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993

CoMaps remembers the zoom and position of your last session and returns there on launch

That already had a name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_exchange

>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.

It's interesting how there's a negative correlation between tenant's rights and how furnished a rental is expected to be.

>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

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marci68

Is it this, from Matthew Butterick?

https://practicaltypography.com/grids-of-numbers.html

No one checks names on Aussie domestic flights to this day

>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

One of the reasons Schumacher was able to dominate was that he was one of the first F1 drivers to train for it as a physical sport.

The laws in Australia refer to "facilitating" copyright infringement. Whether or not a torrent website is a publisher is entirely immaterial

My workplace's solution was to simply turn off 2FA for my account

2CV's do around 6L/100km which is comparable to modern town cars

Fascinating how clearly you can see this with the 5hr limit from Dusseldorf being pretty much exactly the French border from the Atlantic to Switzerland

>>How does it handle type instability, i.e. when the type of a variable is only known at run-time, not at compile-time?

>c++’s extremely convenient ‘auto’ keyword :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/w7vlim/i_made_a_pyt...

The redesign was in 2018 so I'm not sure about that timeline

MATSim or ActivitySim are used for that sort of thing. Most modellers don't bother to simulate every individual person though. Instead they use a sample which they scale up because it isn't worth the order of magnitude more computing time when just simulating a representative 10% does fine.

Digital twins aren't simulations, they're just data. The idea is that it's openly available and easily queryable so that people have good data to run their models and simulations on.

I find this to be an unintuitive metric, as nights that are part of longer bookings are oversampled as there are more nights in longer bookings

Useless outside the US? Ignoring the obvious objection, one of the design goals of the initial iteration of the NATO/ICAO phonetic alphabet was that every word in it would be familiar to you as long as you were fluent in either English, French or Spanish.

cycle.travel incorporates real traffic data as part of its routing

They successfully tested landing and taking off a loaded C-130 from a carrier in the 60s so I guess if you designed a new long range STOL airliner from the ground up it wouldn't be impossible and might even have a slim slim chance of being economical. But existing airliners, no way. And with the risks of carrier operations I don't reckon it'd be anywhere near as safe as 6 hour ETOPS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-poc38C84

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology calculates apparent temperature like this

AT = Ta + 0.33×e − 0.70×ws − 4.00

where:

Ta = Dry bulb temperature (°C)

e = Water vapour pressure (hPa) [humidity]

ws = Wind speed (m/s) at an elevation of 10 meters

The vapour pressure can be calculated from the temperature and relative humidity using the equation:

e = rh / 100 × 6.105 × exp ( 17.27 × Ta / ( 237.7 + Ta ) )

where:

rh = Relative Humidity [%]

http://www.bom.gov.au/info/thermal_stress/#atapproximation

It was very normal for those in the Elite Athlete program at my uni to refer to themselves as elite athletes

OP posted it with the original headline

https://web.archive.org/web/20220203013548/https://www.thegu...

They submitted at 2022-02-03T03:09:31 [0] but this post got re-upped by the mods, as they sometimes do for submissions they feel deserve a second chance [1]

[0] as you can confirm by mousing over where it currently, erroneously, says "3 hours"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

On New Year's Day 1942 the Allies declared they were fighting "to defend life, liberty, independence and religious freedom, and to preserve human rights and justice"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_by_United_Nations

Been there, done that!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30045487

Here are the rest of the 25 letter sets, found using brute force with the same 1 vowel per word with no repeated letters trick.

  [['brung', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'cylix', 'kempt'],
   ['brung', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'xylic', 'kempt'],
   ['jumby', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'clipt', 'kreng'],
   ['jumby', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'pling', 'treck'],
   ['jumby', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'prick', 'glent'],
   ['jumpy', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'bling', 'treck'],
   ['jumpy', 'waqfs', 'vozhd', 'brick', 'glent']]

I was a little inspired by this thread [0] about the practicality of implementing brute force algs in pure python for solving wordle. Using only built-ins and with a bit of optimisation [1] it runs in 4 minutes single threaded in cpython.

[0] https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1484716294179934209

[1] Instead of considering every possible combination, it discards non-optimal subsets. E.g. when considering o-words, only u- and a-word combos that already cover 10 letters are looked at. This significantly dampens the combinatorial explosion