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Posted by
cromulent on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:25PM
from the worksinprogress.co dept.
Depends on the definition of "whatever" but car parks come to mind.
In Finland there are specific signposted pedestrian zones, where cars may enter but must not exceed 20kmh and must give priority to pedestrians (as must cyclists). They are typically the areas surrounding apartment building entranceways.
Curious. I have Siri turned off (just checked again) and I use Apple CarPlay daily. Maybe an EU thing.
Posted by
cromulent on Monday September 07, 2026 @11:56AM
from the self-post dept.
Things have drifted since Robert Peel defined successful policing as "Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime". Civil forfeiture is a good example that would horrify him.
His insistence that "The police are the public and the public are the police" doesn't really hold up in many countries anymore.
A dandy-horse, or a velocipede.
Posted by
cromulent on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:04AM
from the wired.com dept.
The calf muscle pump performs the same task in humans.
A friend of mine planted a small tree in one, after many months of notifying the local council. It was fixed very quickly.
The FT podcast series “Hot Money” season one explained a lot about this. Basically the payment card industry shapes what adult content is produced by governing the money flow.
https://www.ft.com/hot-money
Posted by
cromulent on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:52PM
from the bbc.com dept.
Posted by
cromulent on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:29AM
from the searchengineworld.com dept.
They have more usability problems than that. Driving Mercedes Benz hire cars a couple of times recently in UK and Ireland was a shock - they have the automatic gearbox PRND selector on the right-hand stalk, and indicators on the left hand one. I could maybe excuse that on a LHD car, but on an RHD car, it is infuriating. Using the windscreen wipers instead of indicating is a trivial low-consequence mistake, bumping into neutral is not.
Posted by
cromulent on Thursday March 26, 2026 @11:09AM
from the tools.simonwillison.net dept.
Thanks mate. If he can assault my ears, I can assault his nose, right. Or threaten to ;)
I had it happen to me, on a long-haul flight, in business class. I was shocked. I stood up to look at the guy after no-one did anything.
I told him that phone speakers "make me gassy" and then he turned it off.
Still trying to catch them. They keep drinking my cider and eating my chickens.
I have a Unifi doorbell and it takes great photos of the local badgers, foxes, and other wildlife. They are stored locally. Love it.
I understand the need to join the conversations about the same topic. Thanks for keeping the URLs separate. Reading Gruber's long form considered article is very different to reading some second hand Asus executive "shock" comments.
Placing anti-personnel mines is also not very effective in a pitched conflict.
The enemy will lose a few soldiers, but will then clear a marked path. The long term effects far outweigh any short-term advantage.
My understanding is that the DOD signed the terms of service, and are now trying to renegotiate them. Anthropic has declined to change the terms. This makes the government angry.
The telco would be the one collecting it first, I assume. It would be interesting for someone in the EU to request their data from their telco, and if it contains these precise locations, question the usage.
A Concept 2 rowing machine can also do this (in my experience). No impact, similar to swimming.
Posted by
cromulent on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:47AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.
At least BEA airliners used to have quite a few backward facing seats, up to half the plane.
However, there were a number of problems - people didn't like sitting in them, people didn't like hearing that their seat wasn't as safe as the others, you can't get as many rows in unless you turn them all backwards, and the structure needs to be designed differently so then you need more spares.