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> And personally if it's more than 5 min of walking i would just look up the way to the station and then from the station separately with whatever modes i prefer Problem is when th…

Well, in my opinion Google Maps is terrible as an actual map anyway, it's more like some vaguely map-shaped thing that serves as a convenient geographical background for displaying…

openBVE's not directly Japanese, it's an open-source re-implementation of the original BVE 2 and 4, which is.

> This is what happens when the market for phone batteries only exists for OEMs who buy millions at a time, custom. Even a few years ago when phones with replaceable batteries were…

No indoor smoking makes a major difference, but there still are enough semi-stationary semi-close-up situations where smokers can be still rather annoying, e.g. outdoor seating in …

Another crucial difference is that energy supply (as in selling energy to end users – physically providing electric energy to the grid on the other hand does require sufficient phy…

> or live closer to work Which means you also need to battle the housing problem, too, though, plus changes in settlement patterns take years to decades to manifest. In the meantim…

> Unused memory is wasted memory. 77% is basically caches + private process memory + shared memory. In simplified overviews, Windows counts file system caches (standby memory) as f…

> The deep tube lines will all get variations on the 2024 stock I think that's a bit optimistic. Right now, the only thing that has confirmed orders is the replacement for the 1973…

> I've never actually seen 230 V, the supposed standard, in real life. I've just measured the voltage in a socket my home (Germany) and the multimeter says 231 V. (And it's nightti…

With Android that's definitely not the case. Supporting older phones might get harder over time because you can't use any new APIs introduced in more recent OS releases, respective…

The other factor would be driving away potential users – even when giving away an app for free, some people might derive satisfaction from knowing that other people find it useful …

> And every time a car makes a turn, pedestrians automatically have priority. Which creates an implicit zebra crossing. Only for turning traffic, though, i.e. as a pedestrian you s…

Also if your software for whatever reasons is using the original libjpeg in its modern (post classic version 6b) incarnation [1], right from version 7 onwards the new (and still cu…

I poked at the app, which surprisingly enough isn't even obfuscated, and as far as I can tell, it's mainly relying on Play Integrity's verdict. I didn't investigate it in detail th…

Sarcasm aside, it depends on whether your employer has configured Entra to allow classic TOTP (in which case Microsoft will try to push its own app as the default option, but you c…

> That is an issue with the capabilities the os exposes to you. The answer to every security issue not "add a backdoor". Problem is, I strongly suspect we'd still be having the sam…

Also time references in stories would become much more cumbersome, and never mind how you'd handle fictional locations…

If you can read German, somebody also wrote a whole dissertation on the subject of the CD's development history: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/95066

A transcript for a half-hour radio comedy show with some formatting takes up about 60 kB. The English Wikipedia page for Monty Python is about 130 kB in pure UTF-8 text and the act…

I think Apple's implementation in macOS is the only one that offers some slightly more advanced features, but even those don't get you that far (Some sort of way to store permissio…

> What most of these people do not seem to get is that proper sandboxing does not only protect against attacks from the inside (rogue developer, supply chain attack), but also from…

See https://www.thecontactpatch.com/ for some interesting reading material related to that.

Those are for the opposite problem – detecting defective trains (overweight respectively otherwise faulty weight distribution as well as wheel flats).

> I vaguely recall it not being compatible with either 25kV electrification or high-speed rail in general, and most modern tracks therefore using axle counters instead. Track circu…