Readit Newsamatix commented on Cockpit mishap seen as likely cause of plunge on Latam Boeing 787 wsj.com/business/airlines... · Posted by u/gnicholas
> A number of New Zealand petrol pumps stopped working on Thursday due to a "leap year glitch" in payment software, fuel stations and the payment service provider said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/leap-year-glitch-...
amatix commented on How Lego builds a new Lego set theverge.com/c/23991049/l... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
The patents for their core IP expired. You can legally sell generic compatible lego blocks now. So to maintain mindshare they have to do licensed movie tie-ins, their own movies and other such stuff.
I get why but it feels less timeless than it used to, perhaps with less emphasis on creativity-led play. But what do I know - I'm a grownup.
Even today the LEGO-compatible knock-offs are complete junk, my kids occasionally end up picking up a loose bag for £1 from the local charity shop. Pieces don't stick together properly (with each other, let alone LEGO pieces); legs, arms, and hands come off the minifigs; etc. You can instantly tell — even ignoring the assault rifles that would never make it in a LEGO box.
amatix commented on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17% newsroom.spotify.com/2023... · Posted by u/filleokus
There were 1,600 people at Spotify?
> Spotify reported that it had 9,400 employees at the end of the third quarter of 2023. It had already cut back employee numbers by 6% in January and by a further 2% in June.
amatix commented on Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row canarymedia.com/articles/... · Posted by u/Anon84
> There is none except hydro and nuclear for base load.
I'm not the person you're replying to, and I mostly agree with your points, but I think its necessary to point out that nuclear and hydro have long lead times to build the infrastructure. And we basically don't have enough time left to build it.
I don't have good answers. Solar + interconnectors, maybe? So that areas in daylight can power areas that aren't? But this obvs requires cooperative behaviour.
There's a company working to build a 3600km long cable between solar + wind farms in Morocco, and the UK. 3.6GW cable, 10GW of generation, 20GW of battery storage, and the cable should run at full load for 20h a day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco%E2%80%93UK_Powe...
amatix commented on Kart: DVC for geospatial and tabular data. Git for GIS kartproject.org/... · Posted by u/starkparker
Is there a public git repo available somewhere that represents a Kart repository?
Are the raw files in the working repository GeoPackages? How is it tracking the changes made inside the geopackages? What happens if it's replaced with an updated copy of the geopackage the was edited via some other application? How does it diff the changes?
Good questions
> Are the raw files in the working repository GeoPackages?
The working copy for a vector/table dataset can be in a GeoPackage or a SQL database like PostGIS. For rasters/point-clouds they're flat files.
> How is it tracking the changes made inside the geopackages?
In general, triggers which store RowIDs/PKs of inserts/updates/deletes. Then when you ask for a diff or make a commit Kart figures out any actual row-level (or schema) differences.
> What happens if it's replaced with an updated copy of the geopackage the was edited via some other application?
If it's edited by something else (QGIS, ArcGIS, python/go/whatever application, SQL CLI, whatever) it'll work: you do edits where you want to. If it's replaced by something else, it won't work.
> How does it diff the changes?
Comparing the features/rows in the repository (and their schemas) against the rows in the working copy database. It uses the stored list of modified rowids to make this fast.
amatix commented on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end? economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/i13e
amatix commented on Air-to-Air Heat Exchangers for Healthier Energy-Efficient Homes ndsu.edu/agriculture/exte... · Posted by u/MengerSponge
Bionaire's elegant $100 commercial window HRV was discontinued, there don't seem to be any alternatives at that price point, https://www.amazon.com/Bionaire-BAP336M-U-EverFresh-Exchange.... Product manual might be useful for DIY: https://ia904509.us.archive.org/29/items/manualzilla-id-7067...
Commercial ERV/HRV units start around $500, https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/question/inexpensive-ef...
DIY counter-flow design with coroplast sheets, https://ecorenovator.org/forum/showthread.php?t=891&page=38#...
The BluMartin FreshAir 100 and the Fresh-R series are both MVHR units that fit into existing walls: there’s a Fresh-R model that goes into a window frame too.
Nurdles are everywhere... https://www.nurdlehunt.org.uk/nurdle-finds.html