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Re:Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:20AM (#49920263)
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.
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.

Re:Tesla Balance Bike on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:03AM (#49003748)
A dandy-horse, or a velocipede.
Re:Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:06AM (#48244554)
The calf muscle pump performs the same task in humans.
Fascinating. I had to read up on this. Apparently it was Ritonavir and polymorphism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir

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

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.
(2012). Another article on the same doctor was discussed recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957231

Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:52AM (#47572359)
Regarding Claude: As I have unticked the "Help improve Claude" checkbox, I was under the impression that Claude did not do this.

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023555-how-do-you-u...

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.

BYD are about to launch an EV that charges from 10 to 70% in 5 minutes. As much as I recoil at a brand called "Build Your Dreams", that is quite compelling.

https://www.byd.com/us/news-list/DENZA-Z9GT-to-start-Europes...

Re:Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:49PM (#47431849)
Still trying to catch them. They keep drinking my cider and eating my chickens.
Re:Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:30PM (#47431663)
I have a Unifi doorbell and it takes great photos of the local badgers, foxes, and other wildlife. They are stored locally. Love it.
Re:MacBook Neo Review: No Other Budget Laptop Can Compete on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:38PM (#47340218)
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.
Re:Users fume over Outlook.com email 'carnage' on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @07:10AM (#47246353)
The article has hyperlinks in it, e.g. to this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5786144/...

which comes from an ESP serving millions of users.

Re:Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years on Saturday February 28, 2026 @11:25AM (#47197162)
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.

Re:OpenAI – How to delete your account on Saturday February 28, 2026 @08:16AM (#47194982)
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.
Re:Mobile carriers can get your GPS location on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:32PM (#46841585)
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.
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.

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