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I'm not sure how they do it, but Rail planner app for interrail has fully offline train planner.

https://www.eurail.com/en/plan-your-trip/rail-planner-app

It was never free or instant. It only works from 9-15 on workdays and not on weekends. Also if there are holidays in eu also doesn't work for domestic transfers. Easter is fun whe it stops for 4 days even though country has only 3 state holidays during those times. Costs from 25-40 cents per domestic transaction or 7-17 euro per over border one. Depending on the bank.

It takes around an hour or some days over border for transfer to go through.

Maybe you think of sepa instant which is supported by some banks. Very new. Mostly used for people to people transfers. Some shops are starting to support it. It is actually instantaneous anc works weekends. It seems to be mostly free.

EFS supports 30 GiB/s throughput now. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-ef...

Otherwise instance drive and sync over S3.

>What’s the key to enter the euro symbol? That means you can’t use it in a text editor?

Alt gr+E? Like it's shown on the keyboard.

Re:Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:24PM (#38448237)
They got 91 million from EU fund to built commercial project. It should start producing electricity start of next year. 8MWat electricity and 64 MW thermal. Looks like everything is going according to plan. https://eavor-geretsried.de/en/ https://www.eavor.com/press-releases/eavors-next-generation-...
Re:EU says new cars must include built-in speed limiters on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:13AM (#19499145)
If it is just haptic it's OK but the talk was at least in media that it would be an actual speed limit which in current implementation is idiotic.

We have a new car which can read speed signs. In theory good idea. But tech isn't where it should be. For example when you drive on highway 100 km/h with 130 km/h speed limit and the car is warning you that you are speeding because it saw speed sign for 40 km/h on exit ramp it's a little worrying if car would actually obey speed limit. Breaking from 100 to 40 for no reason by car itself would not be good.

And there are also speed signs for only some vehicles which I don't think any car can read and for example Austrian signs (30 km/h limit and then subtext "valid only for side roads"). And another thing speed signs says limit is 50 km/h. It is valid up to next intersection. Intersection that invalidates speed limit is defined as intersection with more then 4 housing units. It's sometimes hard for human to know if intersection invalidates speed limit or not. How would a car know?

Re:Lidar Is a Crutch on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:26AM (#19045943)
Even Photosynthesis can be improved: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/genetically-engin... by 40% apparently.
Re:China's AI news anchors on Friday November 09, 2018 @12:11PM (#18415967)
It definitely doesn't use state of the art TTS. It sounds similar to MBrola english voice. There is google's [Wavenet](https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...) and even chinese Baidus [Clarinet](https://clarinet-demo.github.io/) which are much better.
Mapbox has a tutorial https://blog.mapbox.com/add-lidar-to-mapbox-43f7e3912424 it uses OSS tools and you can host results locally, own server or on Mapbox.
Re:Linux Container Internals on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:53AM (#13236165)
Site looks broken, because CSS is loaded over HTTP which is disabled if site is loaded over HTTPS.
Re:Distributed Named Pipes on Monday December 12, 2016 @06:17AM (#13157264)
If you want simple named distributed pipes there is https://github.com/lukasmartinelli/pipecat . Which is basically cat over AMQP.
Re:An exploit kit hiding in the pixels of malicious ads on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:35AM (#13137915)
But how can attack over Adobe Flash still works when Flash is disabled by default on FF and Chrome?
Re:Amazon Lightsail vs. DigitalOcean on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:40PM (#13126010)
There is also Carina docker cloud ( https://getcarina.com/ ) from Rackspace which is currently in free Beta.
Re:Amazon Lightsail vs. DigitalOcean on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:36PM (#13125985)
There are benchmarks on on VPSbenchmarks: http://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/posts/amazon_lightsail_1gb_is_n...

I'm not sure how reliable they are but if they are this doesn't seem good for AWS:

  >TLDR: Amazon Lightsail 1GB will melt down with less than 15% sustained cpu usage
  >
  >Okay then, experiment aborted. 25% sustained cpu usage is too much, all other VPS at the same price can handle that but maybe we're just over the limit, we moved traffic to another machine and let the Lightsail VM cool down for a few hours.
  >It should be noted that for $7, Vpsdime easily handles that traffic.
  >For less than $4, OVH "VPS SSD 1" can do the same.
Re:Amazon Lightsail vs. DigitalOcean on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @03:34PM (#13125975)
According to VPSBenchmarks Lightsail isn't comparable to other VPSes: http://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/posts/amazon_lightsail_1gb_is_n...

  >TLDR: Amazon Lightsail 1GB will melt down with less than 15% sustained cpu usage
And also in DO I can be sure that I won't pay more then 5$ per month. Even if I'm DDOSed. Since network is essentially unlimited (There are currently no network overcharges since metering doesn't work yet). In the future I assume that they would remove my site If I get DDOSed instead of sending me bill I can't pay.

But AWS: If you get DDOSed you just pay a large bill. Which can of course get nulled if Amazon feels like it but still.

What about Lidar lite? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14032 it uses LED instead of Laser so it's much cheaper. RIG for turning: https://hackaday.io/project/4087-360-degree-lidar-lite-scann...
Re:Rsnapshot: filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:23AM (#11821240)
Try [BSDiff](http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/) it is meant for diffing binary files and it was used for incremental updates in Chrome. Now it seems they replaced it with their own algorithm [Courgette](https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...).

I use it to upload new versions of my java app since I have slow upload. Instead of always uploading ~40 MB JARs I just upload 1.8 MB diff which is of course much faster.

Re:Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @04:55AM (#9339448)
I tested it with OpenTripplanner (kinda opensource Google transit) on JVM with ARM 8 jre. Times for 380 requests are in seconds:

  ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l) (4) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
  min time: 4
  max time: 1655
  mean time: 276.8
  median time: 148.5
Digital ocean 1G memory:

  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz (1) 1.0.0- SNAPSHOT
  min time: 1
  max time: 261
  mean time: 51.0447368421
  median time: 30.0
Digital ocean 2G memory:

  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz (2) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
  min time: 1
  max time: 407
  mean time: 64.6447368421
  median time: 34.0
Local PC:

  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
  min time: 0.0001
  max time: 114
  mean time: 21.9026331579
  median time: 12.0
Free redshift cloud (512MB memory):

  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz (2) 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
  min time: 5
  max time: 7273
  mean time: 417.507894737
  median time: 103.5
This times doesn't count roundtrip time this is purely JVM time of graph search requests. All requests are serial. All tests except redhift are run with 1GB of JVM memory. Each test was run twice before to warm JVM this is mostly seen in ARM. DO speeds varies a lot. Even bigger VPS doesn't improve speed. ARM speeds doesn't vary a lot but sometimes during testing I didn't get an answer from a server, but this could also be a problem with OTP.

I was impressed with ARM speed (it is much better then free openshift trial maybe because it only has 512MB) but now after free trial I'll probably move to DO the cheapest package, because for 11€ I can get better performance on DO even though it is varied. During normal use I can see the difference in speed between ARM and openshift in requests but not so much between ARM and DO.

Probably ARM would work better when multiple request would come (It has 4 cores) and DO has 1/2.

I like University of Cambridge Naked scientists: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/ It's a podcast about weekly new science stuff from new papers nature etc. Usually they call the author or someone who knows his stuff. Podcast is made with PhD students for general public.
How does it compare to normal "Gettext workflow"?

Currently I use i18next with custom functions, where I just write strings like _("car"), ngettext("window", "windows", number) in files. I Can use translator comments, context and everything. (Like //TRANSLATORS: this is used in this way etc.) https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/PO-Fil... Babel extracts all translatable strings to POT file. I Translate POT file to my wanted languages PO files with GUI tool of my choice. Then PO file is converted to json and used in translations with i18next library. When New translations are added I just rerun Babel new translations are added, are retranslated if needed and converted to JSON. I looked into a lot of JS libraries and extractors and these was the only one that supported Plurals, context, translator comments, etc.

I looked into Mozilla's L20 which seems nice. But there is no GUI translation editor. You have to find all translatable strings yourself etc. End it seems it's the same here.

One better things is that with FormatJS I wouldn't need moment.js for date localization.

Re:OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @05:57AM (#7771823)
Things are changing in a way. There is Slide from Strava ( http://labs.strava.com/ ). Where you just roughly click where a path is and it creates nice path from its database of gazillion GPX tracks. It can be used as an iD editor plugin already. There are scripts for automatic lake and building creation from satellite images but most interesting thing seems to be coming from Digital Globe.

In this year state of the map USA ( http://stateofthemap.us/session/mapping-the-world-in-raster/ ) they said that this year SDK is coming where they would automatically draw buildings and streets from satellite images and you would get APIs to play with this and insert into OSM. (They already provide images to OSM through Bing and MapBox). So yes drawing streets and buildings isn't fun but you need people to know what is a street/cycleway POI and etc.. There are also projects for figuring out one way streets, max speeds.

For ebooks I prefer http://inkmesh.com/ and http://luzme.com/. In Lulzme you can also add wanting to read list. And when price falls you get mail. Interestingly most of the books are cheaper on amazon.uk than on amazon.com. And sometimes Kobobooks has cheaper books but that rarely happen.
If you think the platform is finished enough maybe post it on Kaggle: http://www.kaggle.com/ there are many potential users for this app IMHO.