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> "Crossrail was funded by me and other tax payers."

A significant portion (over 30% of the original £17.8b budget) of Crossrail's funding has actually come from land owners and businesses, in the form of:

- Business rate supplements

- Property developer contributions

- Community infrastructure levy

- Sale of surplus property along the route

- Contributions from other non-taxpayer funded entities like Heathrow and the City of London corporation

Much of the rest of the funding is from TfL and loans backed by the DfT, which should eventually be payed back from ticket revenue.
In fact, two thirds of people aboard the Hindenburg survived. Since the we had a lot more aircraft landing accidents where all passengers died in the jet fuel fire.
The more you travel, the more you find that one persons front-row is another persons back-row, and so it goes on and on in circles, until eventually you realize that travel is the only way to go.
Wish I could go back and edit the redundant second “or not”
"...we know by now that if social media platforms get us addicted, they are working well. The more they wreck our lives, the better they are functioning. "
Good post. I especially like the walrus operator, which, as far as I understand, improves readability and promotes brevity. About positional args, though, if it has been introduced only recently, how does the doc in this reference: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/#numpy-ufuncs use them already?
And the coffee tastes fine. I'm not at Starbucks to have my mind blown on coffee every day. I'm such a daily coffee drinker that I'm far beyond masturbating to it. It's more like beer to me: I'm not drinking Corona at the beach because Corona is the pinnacle of beverages.

People who like to be seen pooping on Starbucks to me are like people who need to have it known that there are indeed better beers in the world when saddled with a Corona at a social event: Yes, we know, but that's not why we're here.

Also, Starbucks is the only cafe I can find that ever has couches. No coffee is worth sitting in those tiny rigid chairs that most cafes have. Also, I don't feel guilty working out of a Starbucks for multiple hours compared to tiny cafes.
Singapore really disincentives the usages of cars. Which is understandable when you have to cram 5 millions peoples on 722km2. Car, and especially car infrastructure take a lot of space. It is something you can afford when you have the space of the US or Canada, but when you are a small city states, public transportation makes a lot more senses.
The competitor is leaving the market, which hardly makes them a competitor at all. Any users who don't want to be left out in the cold need tools like this.
I do, and I’d love to hear if there was an archive from this era, as this is where my first website was hosted. I didn’t keep any of the files myself so as far as I know it’s conpletely lost.
Yes. Wave is a perfect example of great idea, great product, poor - really really poor - roll out execution.

To have a group of say six, five have Wave, one does not and can't get an invite...group can't use Wave. What wes Google thinking?

Long to short, I bet there are plenty of great ideas/products in the startup graveyard waiting to be revived and re-executed. It's not the idea/product that failed but the marketing/growth.
Am I the only one who reads that as "source chute"?

Also - nice initiative, I guess, but I have to say their web UI seems to be stuck in the 1990s.
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> MHTML seems like a nice format but I'm not sure if there's a library to convert them into stand-alone HTML files.

Many years ago used a program that could convert them but the name escapes me. A brief search shows a few results that appear to do a similar conversion, potentially they may be of use.

> This question just came to mind. If MHTML saves images using base64, and base64 dataurl images have a limit size, how would you save extremely large photos?

From what I've read there's no official limit for base64 encodings though IE/Edge limit them to 4GB according to caniuse.com. Haven't personally encountered an image or GIF that was too large not to be saved in an MHT (I have over 10k MHTML files saved, some image and GIF heavy ones up to 200MB each).

Also a sibling comment corrected me about the data URI use, MHTML uses a separate scheme but nevertheless still uses base64 for encoding.

For that example article you linked it seems likely to be the way the program you're using is handling the Javascript-loaded images. I saved it in Vivaldi (Blink-based engine) and the main image displayed at full res when opened locally while the other images didn't, while when saved with a pre-Quantum Firefox using the UnMHT addon it saved all the images at their fully loaded resolutions. Some MHTML saving implementations clearly have advantages over others it would seem.
According to the article, these new zeppelins would be 1) huge, 2) hydrogen-filled, and 3) uncrewed and automatically piloted.

If there are any Hollywood producers reading this, I suddenly have a great idea for an action film involving maleovelent hackers and a slow moving fleet of explosive destruction.
But climate change is global, not local. So it would seem that worldwide adoption of electric cars would be in Singapore's national interest, assuming they genuinely see an existential threat to Singapore from climate change.

And yet, they make statements like this which seem counterproductive. So, why?
>Their workflows is insanely complex and requires hours if not a day to deploy a single change...

Isn't this what micro-services were supposed to be the solution to? I get the feeling the whole thing is oversold.
also explain to me how their blocking of EV's is business friendly
Yes and enterprises have more money to spend on their staff. In general. SF tech bubble excepted!
The biggest offenders of AI are of course governments. AI is military technology. Yet we re arguing about the merits of gender inclusion.
The dice roll is somewhat addictive--great tool and fun way of sharing it with the world.
git has gitweb:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-GitWeb

But in both cases, the user has to have a server to put it on, making services like Sourcehut and Bitbucket (may it rest in peace) useful.
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I really wish the powers-at-be would look at Hyperloop as a serious alternative to HS2. While it seems so futuristic it's well within our technological abilities, just seems to be health and safety / legislature restrictions.

Potentially far cheaper to build and maintain, modern, environmentally better and quicker amongst a host of other benefits and would help make Britain a global leader in transportation.

The Danny in the Valley podcast episode with Dirk Ahlborn was eye opening on the potential benefits and briefly mentions HS2 and Crossrail along with the current SF to LA High Speed rail project.
I hear what you are saying, but let us not forget that today's mobility environment is a very recent phenomenon. In my opinion the 'change' required is presented as much more insurmountable than it is in practice.

Look at today's world vs the world just 3 decades ago. No mass Internet, no WWW, no mobile phones, no eCommerce, much more smoking, much less obesity, a vastly different financial system, ...
Society is apparently extremely plastic in adapting to created changes.
One way to dedupe inline image resources while still using HTML rather than MHTML, could be to encode them in css once, and transform the image element to something with that class.
Isn't that an n-gram search? I think postgres can do this.
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Few things to ponder on like is CO2 used just to gain hegemony over the planet? If you demonize CO2 you can dictate who can use energy freely and who pays a penalty for it.

Has the global temperature been as high before? Yes. About 7-8 times before every ice age according to the Vostok ice core samples.

Is CO2 raise related to temperature? Yes. It raises around 1000 years AFTER the temperature raises

Have sea levels risen before? Yes. After every ice age.

Does man made CO2 dictate the climate change? It is odorless, colorless and non-toxic gas that all life on this planets depends on. It is a poor greenhouse gas because of its reflective band and humans create 5% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. So suddenly 5% dictate what this gas does to the climate?!?

So yes Tesla is about lifestyle and giving a "statement" that you care about the climate even if the whole CO2 hysteria is just a scam.

IPCC throws the "97,5% consensus" at people's faces and when this study was ripped apart 64 out of 12000 papers actually said that man made CO2 causes the climate change.

I would say it is just scam to keep other nations back in production and R&D, because limiting energy usage would be suspicious. Limiting the consequence of energy usage is just climate awareness... Hold Germany back once again and this time don't go to war over it. Russia and US never sign any treaties
Maybe that's because Elon directly criticized Singapore's government a few months ago?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1080829741056159744

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1080888452256657408
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I mentioned the same in another comment about public transport and car prices. Given very high COE cost which allows people to have a car for 10 years and to pay for new COE to renew. A COE can range from SG$ 32,000 to SG$76,000 or higher depending on demand.

But focus on public transport is one thing, still there is a large automobile market with related oil and gas related automobile industry. Moving to EV will threaten them and related jobs.
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Anyone can outrun a car... In a sufficiently dense forest. AI always have had this problem that reality is a very dense forest.
They are not wrong at all. It’s a little funny coming from the Air Conditioned City though. Singapore uses an amazing amount of power.

If you ever have the chance to their their two giant botanical gardens, I highly recommend it. Just one tiny example of their commitment to use as much energy as possible for their size.
Can you make "sr.ht git services" the blue title of the repo "card" and "~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht" - the subtitle (with dimmed color)? This simple change will improve UI usability in 10x times.
Then why not make the tool open source + standalone and compatible with other alternatives like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Gogs/etc. so the users can pick the competitor or tool they like?
Lots of project zero's previous work has been focused on fonts and video codecs (along with realtime voice/video chat). It's worth reviewing their blog, they published some stuff on facetime recently.
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Yeah, I don't think that Korova Milk Bar motif of his would play well at the Pentagon.
"so sometimes it's better to preserve the valuation of your building rather than set a new market rent which will negatively affect your building valuation "

I understand that, and thus the question about WW being a canary in the economic coal mine. If there are more and more building owners who literally can't afford to "preserve the valuation" - and WW's success seems to hint at that - then doesn't that say something about the economy that aggregate numbers aren't seeing?

I understand the theory of "preserve the valuation", what I suggesting is that in reality less and less building owners are able to preserve that theory. And some of that is direct result of demand (read: the lack there of) not being in parity with demand.
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Client development was never trivial. Your old iOS/Android skills also expire due to SDK changes. Apple recently switched out the entire language you're using.

I don't think SQL is a great example either. Your next company could be using any database where you aren't even writing SQL. And you're expected to know more than standard SQL to, say, use Postgres. Your rant here to me is like getting mad that "just SQL" isn't enough because you constantly have to learn more at your next job that uses Postgres, DynamoDB, etc or that "just <language>" isn't enough because your next job uses a different framework than you're used to. I don't think your rant is consistent, so it just comes off as confused anger towards JS client development.

Maybe you don't have the stomach for client development where code must run on a machine you don't control? That isn't a disparaging remark either, it's very reasonable to prefer the cozier environment of writing code for machines you do control (like application servers).
I find viewpoints like this to be overly regressive in the name of the environment.
Think Craigslist - totally clunky UI that totally dominates its market
Oh god, this is one of my biggest peeves.

SSL/TLS in anything that's not a browser is a total shit-show, and this is ignored by security professionals, ISVs, developers, and network architects alike.

As an example, take a look at something like a Citrix NetScaler, a popular network load balancer and security appliance (similar to an f5 BIGIP LTM):

Until recently, it was flat out unable to validate host names because like all network devices, it assumes that "IP address == the host".

Some dingbat put the "host name" part of the SSL validation into the SSL Profile. So you now have to make a separate profile for each and every host name, making this feature practically unusable.

By default it'll accept any certificate for a back end, signed by any CA. Or self-signed. Or whatever. 512 bits? No worries! It's a cert! It's good! We're SSL now!

Recently "server authentication" was added so you can actually validate the cert chain of a back-end service. Except for one minor flaw: it lets you pick exactly one signing certificate to validate against. So even if you know ahead of time that a back-end server is about to have its intermediate CA change, you're facing at least a temporary outage while you quickly switch out this parameter on the NetScaler.

For some retarded reason, the back-end and front-end SSL capabilities are wildly different. You read the manual and think: Yay, there's TLS 1.3 support now! Nope... front-end only.

The stupid things still generate 512-bit keys by default, and this can't be overridden for some scenarios, making them so insecure out of the box that Chrome refuses to talk to one.

Validating CRLs or OCSP is so difficult that I've never seen it set up on a NetScaler. I tried once and gave up.

Sure, you're keen. You want to validate CRLs and use OCSP like a good boy. Bzzt... chances are that some Security Troll has blocked outbound port 80 from the NetScaler because everybody knows that it's an "insecure protocol". So you're now facing a multi-month argument with a whole team of people convinced that you're trying to undermine their precious firewall rules.

There's no supported way of renewing a certificate automatically on one of these things, so of course, certificate expiry is like the #1 reason for outages in any NetScaler deployment.

Etc... it just goes on and on.

A lot of SSL/TLS design for network appliances was very obviously hacked in to support one scenario only, and anything else is going to be dangerously insecure. NetScaler was originally designed to do front-end SSL offload for HTTP-only servers in the same broadcast domain on a physically secured network. For any topology or scenario more complex than that it just falls apart and provides essentially zero protection against a MitM attack or anything similar.
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Hyderabad as well (another IT city) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad_Metro

Smaller ones :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur_Metro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi_Metro

etc.
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And metaphorical and abstract are what? Words you don't understand? Geez.
About the appeal - it depends on your cultural background. Here are some other ways people from different backgrounds think about this (not necessarily consistent with each other):

* A private car is bulky and noisy, bicycles and pedestrians aren't.
* Lazy people drive in cars, healthy people walk or cycle.
* A private car removes you from society, while using public transport/walking puts you with a group of peers, and cycling is a bit more singular but you're still surrounded by your peers with no physical barrier. So using a private car is somewhat disdainful towards the rest of society.
* A car is either a truck for people who need it to move things around, or if its a private car - it's probably some young man wasting his money to feel macho.
I am not sure about that either - is he talking about SQLBindCol()?

Anyway this is only a replacement for ODBC for cherry-picked use cases - a limited subset of languages, and where the types don’t require any marshalling. If you’re operating in that kind of environment and you need absolute speed you would just use RDMA!
It's in TFA. In their opinion good public transport has a much larger impact on climate change than personal cars. Which has been proven to be the case countless times.
The problem is that Google doesn't use webkit anymore so chrome will still bleed your private data..
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>They don't seem to be in any urge to get electric buses either.

In that very article we are commenting on is a photo of an autonomous electric bus being tested at Nanyang university and as the article points out they're planning to build out an extensive bus and train network throughout the city up until 2040, to shorten any trip from A to b down to 45 minutes.

Singapore is very much in the e-mobility business, they're just not in the habit of encouraging every citizen to carry around two tons of steel wherever they go.
Uhm, Singapore not banning cars? Wasn't there some news recently... and the top search result is https://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/page.aspx?c=2&id=377d8c25-6..., which starts "In line with Singapore’s move towards a car-lite society, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will introduce" and goes on to describe with various new rules.

Singapore is also one of the places where paying money isn't enough to buy a car. You have to purchase a license to drive that car, which currently costs about €25000 for a ten-year, one-car license, and you have to show that license when you buy the car.

https://dollarsandsense.sg/complete-guide-buying-car-singapo... FYI.
>Or maybe they are just more visionary and resist the detrimental decline of the environmental

Have you been to Singapore? Because if you have and think they are some green wonderland because they require an expensive purchase permit for a car and you need to get rid of it after 5 or 8 years is because they’re “earthy”, you are sadly mistaken.

It’s 99% population control, 1% environment. The city/state is amazing; but not always in the good way. I recommend you visit.

Green is one thing they are not. They talks good game about biomass (burning trash) and solar, but the entire country glows at night, it earns its name as The Air-Conditioned City.
In most places in Europe or the US, you wouldn't have to stand in the way of a vehicle to get them to stop. You would just use the nearest crosswalk and vehicles will nearly always stop as soon as it's clear that you're crossing.
“It isn’t safe at all,” said Suman Deep Kaur, who works at a credit agency and rides an e-rickshaw twice a day between the station and her home. “But this is the only conveyance that will get me home.”
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Just the battery production can take 2-4 years to offset compare to a gasoline car[1]. Then you also have to take into account that battery have to be replaced regularly and the overall production of the car pollution.

It would be more ecological friendly to just use you gasoline car until it die and then only make the switch to electric. And even then, buying a used car and also running it until it dies might still be more ecological.

The technology will get better, on production level and on the car level. But right now, its very far from a clear cut to say if electric car are more 'green' than gazoline car (that are already produced).

Overall, the main issue is personal transportation. If you really want to be ecological, you should use mass transportation (excluding planes for short travel) whenever possible and use car sharing when you really need a personal transportation. The idea of all having a car sitting idle 90% of the time is fundamentally incompatible with ecology and electric car won't solve this.

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"Cars will exist and it's way better to have them electric than gasoline."

If we're talking about direct air pollution in cities I agree.

For climate change, I mostly disagree:

With an electrical car you're starting with a CO2 debt for the production of the battery.

Then, if you want to offset this debt, you have to use the car frequently and be in an area where the electricity production does not generate much CO2. There are not many areas like this yet (France, Sweden being the famous examples).
Well, the former is the description and the latter is the name.
> But climate change is global, not local.

And Singapore can't do shit to the way the rest of the world combats climate. It can have an impact within its own borders. It (correctly) identified that the public transport makes more sense in a city-state. It incentivizes public transport while de-incentivizing car ownership in general (electric or not) because there's not enough space for the supporting infrastructure.

You'd learn all of this and more by reading the article before commenting.
About 60 million Indians hop on an e-rickshaw every day, analysts estimate. Passengers pay about 10 rupees, or 14 cents, for a ride. In a country with limited shared transit options and a vast population of working poor people, the vehicles provide a vital service as well as a decent living for drivers, who are mostly illiterate.
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> The french can keep jetpacks

That looks funny, care to explain ?
The tool is open source, and none of the services you listed support Mercurial, so...
And banks, and large rental companies, and credit lenders, and Amazon, and Facebook, and Google, and so many other people. So many of which easily encapsulate their biases into their algorithms, which then perpetuate the biases into society as a whole.
While the planet benefits from electric cars, it can't be saved without a massive reduction in car use, regardless of type.