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This begs the question though, of why individuals still need to do this like a 17th century clerk, when it costs their counterparties fractions of a man-second. Imagine if their was a law which said, every business that takes a credit card has to supply the consumer with the data in standard, machine-processable format (ie not pdf) via their credit account (IE, not making obtaining their email address a condition).

Or you could parse PDFs and give them an email address. If you want to live like a 17th century clerk because of rules you've made up in your own head that you must follow like an equally outdated religion where the Sun rotates around the Earth, I'm sorry, but that really seems like it's on you. Personally I'd rather join the modern era and not do that, but to each their own.

That's a good one. One I tend to do is, once I know i will run the dishwasher overnight, I will set it to run with a delay. That way, even if I forget to put in the last few items, it's going to run and I will not run out of clean stuff. (My dishwasher is fairly slow, as it's a built-in one and can't pop open to dry).

As of the time of writing the first hundred or so comments are on tangents, so TLDR: this is about making a "Linux distribution" of which all the userland software is win32 software running on Wine. The idea, among others, is to recreate the experience of '90s..'10s versions of Windows. It's at an early stage.

Starling is an app-only bank.

The flaw with the technology is that it is designed so you need the co-operation of your carrier, when previously you did not. Indeed, for the first versions moving a sim profile could not even be initiated independently by a user, but required them to contact support. Now there is the "device change" protocol which can be triggered by an app on the phone, but I think it still requires the co-operation of carrier servers.

> Now there is the "device change" protocol which can be triggered by an app on the phone, but I think it still requires the co-operation of carrier servers.

And it won't work if your phone is broken, while a regular SIM could still easily be removed.


This is especially bad in the US, where the government doesn't like to force companies to implement consumer-friendly laws. It was such a great thing when GSM SIMs were introduced, to avoid the carrier lock that was so common in the early days of cell phones.

What language would you pick first, if you're going to add non English to London trains?

The problem with UK announcements is that they are piped to multiple places in the station, which is all hard surfaces and produces lots of reverberation and echo. This often makes them hard to understand even for natives. Also there are some stations with really terrible old speakers , such as horn speakers.


I'd ask the airports themselves for the nationalities of the tourists departing through them, and specify whichever secondary language was most relevant for trains likely to be used by tourists accessing those airports accordingly.

If I had to guess, French, German, or Spanish, in that order. But it may well be that e.g. Heathrow has a lot more Arabic, Stansted gets a lot more German, and Gatwick gets a lot more French, Luton gets the Spanish tourists, and City is mostly business trips or something.

You're correct about the acoustics, but foam panels are a thing that can be installed (or not) independently of this.


Arabic?

For a moment I thought this was actual co-ax, which would be supremely ironic (it was used in the early days of Ethernet, but twisted pair proved cheaper). But it looks like neither candidate has a conductive core, although they do have the conductive shell.

Coax, or more accurately twin-ax is still the underlying technology for Direct Attachment Copper cables for Ethernet using pluggable modules.

The whole point of this technology is to avoid the use of a conductive core, i.e. the use of the TEM propagation mode, in order to avoid the conductive losses caused by electrical currents that pass through the cable.

Instead of that, a propagation mode of the electromagnetic waves based on the reflection of the waves from the walls of the wave guide is used, like in optical fibers, but at much lower frequencies, in order to avoid the conversions between electrical signals and light.


The previous law used to control racial hatred was the law of criminal libel; it was successfully used to prosecute antisemitism etc. As a species of libel, it had an absolute defence of of speaking the truth. Now, clearly you can be clever enough to spread hatred by only the use of true statements. But we have reached the point where those speaking the truth about atrocities committed by a foreign government are imprisoned for hate speech, and vastly more self censor. Your implied claim that those criticising the law just want to be free to be racist is not defensible - and indeed, you're not bold enough to defend it, merely "find it interesting".

> speaking the truth about atrocities committed

Why are they doing this, in what context?

Edit: from reading the thread I think this is about the war against Hamas and the dire situation on the West bank.


It's inaccurate to say there's a war against Hamas. We have enough video evidence by now, posted by the people doing the acts so there can be no doubt to its authenticity, to see it's a war against civilians.

Thanks. So the liquid part is the working fluid. I had been wondering if the pistons were liquid; some engines like that have been built, but not very efficient ones as far as I know.

Those seem to be for drywall. The strongest option is using resin to install some threaded rod, eg fis-v which is rated to 43kgf (shear load) in the lower of the two rated aircrete classes. That's because it spreads through the holes and therefore has a larger surface area of interface. The downside is that it's not removable.

They aren't; they're for aircrete.

https://www.buyrigifixonline.co.uk/rmd.pdf

> 43kgf (shear load)

That seems really low for shear. The M8 Rigifix say 245 kgf for 1mm displacement in shear.

Also I slightly misremembered the rating for pull-out - actually in 34 kgf, and they are applying a fairly generous 15% safety factor (i.e. tested ultimate strength was 224 kgf). But still, it sucks that you can't just use a normal wall plug and have to worry about this sort of thing.


Hmm that's impressive for a single plug fixing. The above for fix-v is from their load table at https://fiproductmedia.azureedge.net/media/Load%20Tables/Loa...

That's 0.43 kN which is 430N or ~43kgf. Comparing to the rigifix table they are using a heavier aircrete and a smaller safety factor, which would take fix-v up to 80kg but that's still a big difference. I wonder if there is a testing methodology difference, as usually resin fixings are considered stronger than plug fixings.


If it's just a threaded rod held in with resin then I expect the difference is in the hole size. The actual wall plug for the M8 Rigifix is 16mm diameter. Also the M8 bolt is inserted into a larger metal sleeve so it's less likely to bend. I don't know if that affects things though.

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