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Echoes of Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn smuggling himself from Japan in a music equipment box while on bail for financial crimes https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993

CoMaps remembers the zoom and position of your last session and returns there on launch

That already had a name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_exchange

>My one hope for AI, robotics, self driving cars, is that they can enable more people in cities to migrate back to rural places Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's …

It's interesting how there's a negative correlation between tenant's rights and how furnished a rental is expected to be.

>axial twist orthodoxy My impression is that this isn't exactly settled science. If you look in the history for the article you can see that it's mainly written by the lead author …

Is it this, from Matthew Butterick? https://practicaltypography.com/grids-of-numbers.html

No one checks names on Aussie domestic flights to this day

>how can you find what version of Gitlab is being run? (through the web interface on a CE instance) It's up the top at gitlab.example.com/help

One of the reasons Schumacher was able to dominate was that he was one of the first F1 drivers to train for it as a physical sport.

The laws in Australia refer to "facilitating" copyright infringement. Whether or not a torrent website is a publisher is entirely immaterial

My workplace's solution was to simply turn off 2FA for my account

2CV's do around 6L/100km which is comparable to modern town cars

Fascinating how clearly you can see this with the 5hr limit from Dusseldorf being pretty much exactly the French border from the Atlantic to Switzerland

>>How does it handle type instability, i.e. when the type of a variable is only known at run-time, not at compile-time? >c++’s extremely convenient ‘auto’ keyword :) https://www.re…

The redesign was in 2018 so I'm not sure about that timeline

MATSim or ActivitySim are used for that sort of thing. Most modellers don't bother to simulate every individual person though. Instead they use a sample which they scale up because…

Digital twins aren't simulations, they're just data. The idea is that it's openly available and easily queryable so that people have good data to run their models and simulations o…

I find this to be an unintuitive metric, as nights that are part of longer bookings are oversampled as there are more nights in longer bookings

Useless outside the US? Ignoring the obvious objection, one of the design goals of the initial iteration of the NATO/ICAO phonetic alphabet was that every word in it would be famil…