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Re:Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:38PM (#19560119)
I was very excited by the idea of an overnight train in Europe but the reality was a bit underwhelming. We went from Cologne to Vienna which was roughly from 10 pm to 7 am which wasn’t super convenient timing on either end. Also the cabins were super claustrophobic for me when the beds were folded down. Fun once but I would probably fly next time.
Re:Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public N...
on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:50AM (#19367235)
And kill dev productivity.
Re:Update on Tesla Stores and Pricing
on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:01PM (#19360579)
What a mess. Wait a week, maybe the price will go up or down another 3%. Who knows!
Re:A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies
on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:55AM (#19198300)
You can’t say “it is good design to have small composable building blocks” and then complain about the number of those blocks.
Re:The Man in Seat Sixty-One
on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:45PM (#18897693)
I'm sure he also benefits a lot from feedback. Someone goes to book a route he suggests, and the connection now doesn't work, they are going to tell him, and he can update his page on it.
Re:Eleven new House members with sci-tech backgrounds
on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:42PM (#18897678)
And doesn't even mention Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has some science cred.
https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-ise...
Re:The Man in Seat Sixty-One
on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:37PM (#18897644)
Amazing resource. And such a depth of info... we wanted to go from London to Vienna by train, and there is a page on that specifically, and three different options for the journey depending on whether you want a sleeper or want to go through Switzerland or want to go the fastest route. And then specific instructions for booking each trip on the various country's railway websites, and connection info for the train stations. Ridiculous.
Re:As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Gi...
on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:42AM (#18715192)
If you don’t trust Facebook to do the right thing, that thread is not much of a defense, since it just says they will police their partners.
Re:How Does setState Know What to Do?
on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:38AM (#18641299)
Wouldn't you just be testing if they read the blog posts?
Re:Japanese Woodblock Print Search
on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:18AM (#18353212)
It’s pretty easy to get a simple setup to do single color prints at your local arts and craft store. Speedball brand sells the ink and press and various other bits and bobs. You can either carve in linoleum which is softer and easier but less precise, or in wood. We’ve done Christmas card this way a couple of times and the results have been great if a little “rustic”.
OTOH, doing multi block, perfectly aligned woodblock prints like the ones in the link is quite difficult. There’s no shortcut, you have to carve each color block by hand.
Re:Japanese Woodblock Print Search
on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:13AM (#18353179)
Been on the internet so long he has a great domain name: http://woodblock.com
I’ve bought many pieces over the years from David. He has slowed down a bit with his personal carving as he has gotten older but has taken up training a new generation of artists which is very admirable.
Re:Tesla Model 3 is the top selling American car in the USA
on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:25AM (#18174179)
Aren’t the three “foreign” cars ranked above it also made in America?
Re:Cincinnati Joins the List of Cities Saying ‘No’ to Parking Minimums
on Sunday September 30, 2018 @08:28PM (#18109235)
I’ve noticed sometimes the parking minimum is essentially just used as a source of power for the zoning board. They don’t actually want places to build the required large amounts of parking, but they don’t want to have to rubber stamp developments that they don’t like. So they waive the parking requirements of people that make the changes that they want.
Re:iOS 12 Safari Array reverse bug
on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @07:36AM (#18023439)
I would say it’s exactly “halfway decent”. There’s very little feedback and bugs tend to get closed as duplicates but since it’s not public you can’t monitor the state of the duolicates.
Re:Ask HN: How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?
on Saturday September 15, 2018 @05:03PM (#17996024)
I’m sure part of it is A/B tests for tons of things. Doubled or tripled resources and code but any given user only sees one variety of them.
Re:Bump-Canceling Bunk Beds Promise Smooth Bus Rides
on Saturday September 08, 2018 @05:34PM (#17942899)
We did a journey in Mexico where the first class buses go on the good highway and have extreme air conditioning and lie back seats. The second class buses go on the bad roads and use schoolbuses with no AC. But the second class buses made the trip in half the time of the first class, because they could go over the mountain instead of around it. Fascinating choices.
Re:Fear the reaper: characterization and fast detection of card skimmers
on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:18AM (#17902693)
I think gas stations are the only place I still see swipe, or small merchants who have old terminals. I don’t see it as predominantly magstripe.
Re:SpaceX lands Falcon 9 booster on Just Read the Instructions drone ship
on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @09:33PM (#17614451)
The ship names are pretty much the least interesting part of the Culture books.
Re:What Went Wrong with the F-35, Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fight...
on Monday July 09, 2018 @06:21PM (#17493879)
There was a long twitter thread that was very anti F-35 going around.
Re:Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
on Saturday June 16, 2018 @09:55AM (#17327399)
You give men twelve weeks of paid leave after their wife gives birth, most of them are going to take it.
Re:Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:28PM (#17044053)
Slack did the same thing with the ScreenHero service they acquired and it had the same effect: much more lag and worse quality.
Re:Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker
on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:11AM (#16994297)
I’d assume most people at least change it when they get a free one at their six month cleaning.
Re:Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker
on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:10AM (#16994288)
It totally depends on your prescription. If there’s no astigmatism, the lenses can be stocked and cut to the frames you need. Astigmatism adds another two variables that make it much harder to stock. Also the stronger your prescription, the more alternative material options there are to keep the thickness down, which again makes it harder to stock everything.
Re:JDK 10: General Availability
on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @07:15PM (#16643359)
Does anyone know why java.com only offers to install Java 8 for a desktop user?
Re:Apple Park employees reportedly smacking into new headquarters’ gla...
on Monday February 19, 2018 @07:29PM (#16416939)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205160
“Magic Keyboard, Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, Magic Mouse 2, and Magic Trackpad 2 have a built-in rechargeable battery that lets you use the devices for extended periods between charges.
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If you have an earlier Apple wireless mouse, keyboard, or trackpad with removable batteries, learn how to install batteries.”
Re:Apple HomePod – The Audiophile Perspective and Measurements
on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:22PM (#16360135)
Is it better to test audio products with a meter or with double blind humans?
Re:Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @07:59AM (#16230497)
Craft breweries are still small businesses and live and die by their business decisions. If you borrow millions to build a fancy new brewery/attraction, and then people don’t come, it doesn’t matter how good your beer is.
It doesn’t help that the url doesn’t give any clue either. If this post was on their domain, then that would probably give enough context.
Re:'Steve Jobs' is an Italian company – and Apple can't do anything ab...
on Thursday December 28, 2017 @12:50PM (#16023550)
I know Apple and Steve Jobs are closely linked but I’m surprised Apple would have any claim to its former CEOs name.
Re:The State of JavaScript 2017
on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:58PM (#15911056)
Try google searching for anything Angular related.