> The greatest thing about roundabouts is that they protect against the idiot that goes through an intersection at full speed.
Who is protected exactly?
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Who is protected exactly?
"Researchers in Belgium found that single lane roundabouts without a protected bike lane increased crashes by 93%, while Danish researchers said roundabouts that did have separated lanes saw an 84% reduction in crashes."
CNBC: Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atORPw-w83I
They don't. You sometimes have to read more than just the HN headline to understand what the issues are.
Airlines in particular have a long and pervasive history of blaming "pilot error" for any and all safety issues. Until and unless it is conclusively proven that some maintenance, instructions, or mechanical system was faulty, pilots are in the cross-hairs. Remember the first 737MAX crash?
It is only natural for pilots to be concerned about being scapegoats, or that their on-the-record remarks implicating their airline could end their careers.
Not me, I installed 3rd party application launchers on older versions of Windows. Those were nice and lightweight without the slowdowns of what Microsoft inflicted on everyone.
https://winuxinfocenter.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/deskto...
Why 98? Same icons on 95 were they not?
No argument that the Windows UI has gone massively downhill with each successive release. But hey, if they make it complicated enough, needing to add/remove programs in 3-4 different places, maybe you'll search for everything with Cortana and then they can track and guide you into their own services.
There are tons of MP3 player apps for Android:
vlc - has a surprisingly decent UI for music. (Open Source)
Simple Music Player - gets the job done. (Open Source)
Rocket Player - paid a few dollars for it near a decade ago and it's still decent.
Foobar2000 - The familiar old man is still around.
Can't even estimate shipping & tax without creating an account.
There just isn't a large enough population of mentally ill with symptoms that would manifest as described to make up 5%, though they surely make up some part of it.
The other style is oval shaped, and those would obviously be incompatible.
And what's the worst that happens? I might eventually have to switch to normal, horrible cables, like you use every single day? Enjoy wearing out your cables and devices...
Conan The Barbarian DVD is the noisiest film I can think of off-the-top. Strong de-noising makes it look far, far better. But just about every movie out there benefits from modest de-noising.
Following the 2014 February coup in Ukraine and Crimea's reunification with Russia, the administration of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, called upon the EU member states to cut their reliance on Russian gas, citing "security" reasons.
Speaking at the March 2014 EU-US Summit in Brussels, Obama urged the US' European allies to hurry up with the conclusion of the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), offering US liquefied natural gas (LNG) in exchange.
https://sputniknews.com/20180331/obama-trump-lng-europe-china-1063093406.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-eu-summit-idUSBREA2P0W220140326In several cases, (early on) the statement was made that "drugstore" (surgical) masks won't protect the wearer, and only those with symptoms were recommended to wear them. That changed when research showed asymptomatic people were spreading COVID-19, then it was suggested that EVERYONE wear a (cloth or surgical) mask, not to protect themselves, but to protect the public from you. Other than that, everything said was and is still true.
Nothing about N95 masks specifically... Probably because the public just couldn't buy them at the time.
Very early on, I recall statements discouraging mask use because of concerns the public would incorrectly wear them and increase their risk. At that time there was very limited information about how COVID-19 spread, with the NY Subway steam cleaning their cars on a nightly basis, and people washing their mail in an attempt to prevent infection.
Here's what Factcheck.org has to say on the subject:
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/scicheck-misinformation-ab...
People can easily overload 12V motherboard fan headers, too.
> if they are trying to get a lot of CFM.
If so, they probably have a PSU larger than the entry-level 350W unit I specified. Higher wattage PSUs will provide more power on the -12V rail as well.
> I don’t see a compelling reason to use 24V
Neither does anyone else. Still, correcting a bit of misinformation in the article.
This is false. ATX provides both +12V and -12V: * https://pinoutguide.com/Power/atxpower_pinout.shtml
Hooking them together would provide 24VDC. On a 350W PSU, I see -12V rated to supply 0.3A, which would allow for 24V fans drawing up to 7.2W of power, if desirable.
I don't see any reason to prefer 24V fans, however. The current losses over such short ranges are minimal, and I would think the larger economies of scale of 12V devices will keep 12V fans less expensive.
Oh yes she does. You think she's going to be happy at a menial job? No, she'll be right back with a new con the moment she's back on the street. Only now her name recognition will make the con harder.
There are many fleets which use natural gas. Municipal buses, city garbage trucks, etc. There, they only need to build up one (private) CNG refueling station in the city.
With a passenger car, you need to plan your trip to find public CNG fueling stations along the route where you need them.
The boom in natural gas production is a recent occurrence. Go back a couple decades and natural gas was far more expensive. Back then, propane was the obvious alternative to gasoline for vehicles, until the price for propane spiked and natural gas fell.
But more importantly, CNG is only a half-step forward, still leaving us dependent on a single fossil fuel. Battery electric vehicles are far more practical thanks to being easy to (slow-)charge almost anywhere, getting us off of fossil fuels entirely, reducing mechanical complexity/maintenance, and being far more efficient (burning the same amount of natural gas in a power plant to charge your BEV will give you far more range than burning it in your converted car engine).
There was a lot of overlap in MPlayer and ffmpeg in the early days. Things like both projects sharing the same infrastructure, MPlayer developers automatically getting commit access to ffmpeg, ffmpeg sources having references to MPlayer, several top developers active in both, etc.
It's to the point that I think of ffmpeg as a spin-off of MPlayer, but perhaps that's not fair. Maybe it's more accurate to say that several prominent MPlayer developers (and infrastructure folks) did double-duty for years, then many drifted over to working on ffmpeg exclusively. I know that's true for several lead folks. I'd have to go through the ancient mailing list archives to sharpen my recollection of events. Perhaps somebody else who was also around at the time recalls a clearer perspective.
For many more, it IS an option. If it's trivial for them to select pantone colors for their designs, they probably will use them. If they don't have easy access to pantone colors, they'll just select an approximate shade they like.
In the former (frictionless) case, more pantone dyes may get used. In the later (current reality) case, they certainly will not. It's not a stretch to think that pantone may be cutting themselves off from a potential growth market, in exchange for a rather small amount of cash up-front.
RedHat has consistently been the most aggressive supporter of Open Source out of any for-profit companies. Not only do they contribute to open source projects, they consistently release their own code/projects as open source early on, which could easily be kept proprietary (if they chose) and used as a competitive advantage over others.
Yes, but there's something to be said of the "First one's free, kid" business model. Making it frictionless to get into your ecosystem usually results in many more sales in the end.
Fewer graphics designers using pantone colors means fewer products going out with pantone colors, which means fewer sales of pantone dyes.
Years in prison can't be undone any more than death can.
Would you in principle call torturing someone for years on end but eventually letting them go free, a lesser crime than a quick death?
> State and federal governments have executed innocent people.
Very, very few in modern US history, thanks to years of appeals and reviews. Meanwhile, a tremendous number of innocent people serve a large number of years of their life in prison.
You might notice that Li-Ion AA batteries CAN'T be charged by Ni-Cd or Ni-MH AA battery chargers. Even a smaller change like Ni-MH to Ni-Zn requires different equipment.
I was using the Internet Junkbuster (and later: Privoxy) in the mid-90s, many years before that. https://web.archive.org/web/19961222061917/http://www.junkbu...
Of course, back then you could just disable javascript in your web browser to protect yourself from malicious sites and annyances, and practically all sites would work perfectly fine.