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4,788 karmajoined 14 лет назад
I like Matlab. Sad really, isn't it?

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Ntrails
·20 часов назад·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
·22 часа назад·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
·вчера·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
·позавчера·discuss
I'd probably rather it just tell me the answer and give the option to continue :)
Ntrails
·3 дня назад·discuss
They still make and support games :)
Ntrails
·4 дня назад·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 дней назад·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 дней назад·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 дней назад·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 дней назад·discuss
> It is the devices. It's 100% the devices.

That anyone is pretending otherwise is mind boggling to me.
Ntrails
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
I just own a standard catering one and it always bemuses me how people suffer with the shit sold in supermarkets
Ntrails
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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
·в прошлом месяце·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.