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ostacke··on Allow babywearing carriers on planes
I work in child car seat development and I can second that the main issue for our mechanical engineers is preventing neck injuries. Rearward-facing car seats really are a lot better on that front.

ADAC is indeed the main test, but even more difficult than getting a good ADAC score is passing the plus test[1], which focuses on neck spinal forces.

[1]: https://www.vti.se/en/services/laboratory-and-testing/crash-...

ostacke··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
You are correct, they state that on their website.
ostacke··on iPhone Duo
Anecdata of course, but my experience with Windows Hello is that it only works under perfect circumstances. Me just being positioned slightly differently in my chair is enough for it to not recognize me. As opposed to FaceID that has (for me) worked flawlessly for these past almost ten years.
ostacke··on Live map of public transport in Belgium
This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.
ostacke··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Well, even if you don’t get your 50 cents back you usually have an incentive to leave the restroom when you’re done.
ostacke··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
Reminds me of https://everyuuid.com/
ostacke··on Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
IANAL, but that's not quite true right? As per your own citation, återgivningsrätten gives the right to use any piece of art (not in digital form) in conjunction with a piece of critical text.
ostacke··on Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian
Broken in Firefox.
ostacke··on Incident with multple GitHub services
Isn't the simplest homelab humanly possible just... no homelab?
ostacke··on The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki
Seeing Miyazaki’s Pippi makes me so sad that we never got to see that movie. I’ve been reading a ton of Astrid Lindgren with my kid lately, and for many of them I see them in my mind’s eye as Myazaki films, and especially Pippi. Myazaki and Lindgren have a lot in common, I think, in how they tell stories from children’s perspectives. What we’ve got for Pippi movie adaptations instead are very poor things.
ostacke··on Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
Bu that's not really what danlitt said, right? They did not claim that it's impossible for an LLM to generate something different, merely that it's not a clean room implementation since the LLM, one must assume, is trained on the code it's re-implementing.
ostacke··on Malm Whale
It's definitively not the source of the word, but it might very well be the reason the decided to have a "fest i val". Gothenburg is famous for their puns, and even today they open up the mouth of the whale for visitors on two occasions - valdagen (election day) and Valborgsmässoafton (Walpurgis eve).
ostacke··on Bet on German Train Delays
Reference: https://youtu.be/ykj3Kpm3O0g
ostacke··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
It falls quite close to the "super ideal scenarios" you described, but Nordic did a real world test and got a range of 1300 m using coded phy.

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/pos...

ostacke··on Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
The second article is here: https://jsomers.net/blog/the-mcphee-method
ostacke··on King of Cannibal Island: Will the AI Bubble Burst?
https://archive.ph/ZGPUi
ostacke··on GPT-5.2
Interesting concept with conceptual spaces, but how does that affect how you work with LLM:s in practice?
ostacke··on Things I want to say to my boss
I’m sure you’re right, at least to some extent, but let’s not forget that Mad Men is fictional, and from the 21st century, and might not accurately reflect the 1950’s.
ostacke··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
I wonder what the US administration will demand from Netflix for approving this.
ostacke··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
Adding Warner Bros. catalog will naturally lead to more titles to choose from for Netflix users. The choice of streaming services will be slimmer though. It will be interesting to see how regulators see it.
ostacke··on Benjamin Franklin's Experiments
https://archive.ph/hodmD
ostacke··on Fish in the Wrong Place
https://archive.ph/orovn
ostacke··on Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB
1 Hz is slow. Apple's iBeacon standard specifies 10 Hz, for instance. Also, every packet is transmitted on three different channels, so there is actually quite a lot of traffic generated.
ostacke··on The Real Reason Endurance Sank
You can visit the Fram in Oslo [1]. It's a fascinating museum.

https://frammuseum.no/polar-history/expeditions/the-first-fr...

ostacke··on Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark
There's an episode[1] of In Our Time covering Doggerland. Recommend.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jlHaJMCfRmsMsrqqLBY3O?si=1...

ostacke··on Monodraw
How do you export to ascii in draw.io?
ostacke··on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
If you're one of today's lucky 10,000: https://xkcd.com/327/
ostacke··on How to Build a Medieval Castle
You might be thinking of Masada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada?wprov=sfti1
ostacke··on Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
Visited Florence last year and certain bus lines there were operated by minibusses. I guess some routes with the narrow streets in the city center are impossible to drive with big vehicles.
ostacke··on Help Identify the Photographer Who Captured Many Images of 1960s San Francisco
And even with the chemicals, it's a notoriously convoluted process.

But of course there's always someone who's done it in their garage[1].

[1]: https://emulsive.org/articles/darkroom/developing-film/they-...

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