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4,788 karmajoined 14 tahun yang lalu
I like Matlab. Sad really, isn't it?

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Ntrails
·14 jam yang lalu·discuss
> I think a closer estimate is probably total annual operational costs divided by total shouts, (£18 MM / 2,000) or about £9,000 per shout.

That's a more useful estimate than merely the flight costs, agree - though the fixed operation costs don't change much in an 1800 vs a 2100 callout scenario.

> Still an order of magnitude less than the commercial US operators.

It's wild!
Ntrails
·16 jam yang lalu·discuss
> Let's hope our regulations hit these "social networks" hard enough so that never dare deploy this kind of technology.

You'd do as well to hope that people wake up and stop opening the damned sites
Ntrails
·18 jam yang lalu·discuss
> an average helicopter bill was smth around $200K if I remember correctly, with spikes up to $500K.

Those numbers made me blanch somewhat! Having been in a helicopter (aka Air Ambulance) in the UK, all of which operate as charities iirc, I was curious about their costs.

> The average cost of a helicopter mission is £4,748* and the average cost of a critical care car or rapid response vehicle mission is £2,054*[1].

https://www.airambulancesuk.org/about-us/facts/

eesh
Ntrails
·kemarin dulu·discuss
I'd probably rather it just tell me the answer and give the option to continue :)
Ntrails
·kemarin dulu·discuss
They still make and support games :)
Ntrails
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
I've never had a steam update take more than 30secs.

Game updates can take a lot longer if you need them (ie multiplayer) to play. idk
Ntrails
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
Most commonly ime the application domain may only be some small fraction of the database which is designed/optimised for a much broader dataset.
Ntrails
·27 hari yang lalu·discuss
> Investment gains are not work

Say, for example, my job is allocating capital across the S&P 500. My work is picking the stocks, the fruits of my labour are excess returns.

Are those excess returns not work? What are they?
Ntrails
·29 hari yang lalu·discuss
Compared to the 40 ft led screen blaring images out to everyone 24h a day in central London I will take the newspaper any day. Drives me nuts
Ntrails
·29 hari yang lalu·discuss
> It is the devices. It's 100% the devices.

That anyone is pretending otherwise is mind boggling to me.
Ntrails
·30 hari yang lalu·discuss
A goose was protecting its young as some (crows/ravens/idk) hopped around close on the ground. Mama hissed and flapped a little. Crows back off a bit.

Meanwhile another crow flies in, picks up a gosling by the neck (i swear there wasn't much difference in size, unreal to see) and flies off with it.

I could see the whole thing coming, was remarkable.
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
> Psychology is the study of the psyche of white male psychology students

Huh? Maybe my uni was an outlier / it is a UK thing, but there were ~99 female and 1 male psych students in my year. This was not considered unusual.
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
Man, at the rate I can generate pancakes I fear four children would murder me and just drink the batter raw. Though maybe I'd buy a second pan in advance xD
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
> Cheaper / free childcare, better parental leave policies, and cheaper cost of living so that people who want to be stay at home parents can have that option.

As GP states, heavily pushing subsidies has not been shown to work.

The one thing we know works is restricting access to birth control - I'd bet good money that ups the birth rate in no time. Leave as an exercise for the reader whether it is a good idea xD
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
For talking heads/opinion you have, I would say, two choices:

    - Retired people with historic experience.  The longer since they were actively involved in the sector, the less useful they will be of course.  There is also going to be something of a demographics bias here.
    - Currently employed people, and given their primary skillset is "Defense industry expertise" I'm going to posit that they always have a commercial role in the defense industry.  Maybe there's some subset with a non-commercial role or a purely political role... but both of those have their own implications too
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
> It's mostly the result of hiring too many stupid product managers and engineers that don't give a shit.

If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix it.

Except, they hired all these people and expect them to do Stuff. What are they supposed to do?
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
I just own a standard catering one and it always bemuses me how people suffer with the shit sold in supermarkets
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
> Might not be as strong or fast [..] knows how to do it smartly.

Friend of mine worked in Prisons for a while, and has a way of telling the difference between people with a lot of muscle and people who know how leverage their musculature to high effect.
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
> This is basically required for clueless (and even not so clueless) users.

I can actually confess that this hit me. Almost nothing on my phone has permission to use my camera, including my web browser (why???). I assume this was done in a fit of pique upon discovering that the setting even existed.

Roll on (god knows how many years later) and I cannot get into the gym with the link I was emailed to have my browser read a QR because my browser is just a grey screen. It was only when the member of staff suggested permissions that I realised what was going on.

I'm the problem, it's me
Ntrails
·bulan lalu·discuss
PE remains a source of complete fascination for me. The game is clearly rigged to produce bad outcomes at a societal level (eg no company loaded up with debt to finance buybacks/dividends and just eps ended up in a better long term financial position) - but we're completely incapable of doing anyhting about it.