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New comment by adamjb in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner"

adamjb — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:39:47 +0000

Not quite in the same spirit but I suppose one could talk of railway operators using the railway network as a flatbed scanner when they send maintenance vehicles out to scan the railbed for defects.

For example: https://railgallery.wongm.com/ev120-inspection-vehicle/F144_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TKDw2E_PBQ

New comment by adamjb in "US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat"

adamjb — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:01:12 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

adamjb — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:59:02 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

adamjb — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:42:51 +0000

That already had a name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_exchange

New comment by adamjb in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

adamjb — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:40:16 +0000

>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 a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 years ago

> The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car.

New comment by adamjb in "Los Angeles ends strange rite of passage with new fridge law"

adamjb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:39:25 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "Axial twist theory"

adamjb — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:17:45 +0000

>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 of the main citations. He also did the cute illustrations that everyone loves

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Marci68

Why Airlines Aren't Supermarkets

adamjb — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:08:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.analyticflying.com/p/why-airlines-arent-supermarkets-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168725

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by adamjb in "The design philosophy of Great Tables"

adamjb — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:02:39 +0000

Is it this, from Matthew Butterick?

https://practicaltypography.com/grids-of-numbers.html

New comment by adamjb in "What flying was like fifty years ago"

adamjb — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:57:18 +0000

No one checks names on Aussie domestic flights to this day

New comment by adamjb in "Critical Gitlab vulnerability exposes 2FA-less users to account takeovers"

adamjb — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:11:28 +0000

>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

Password-crackers and metadata used to check welfare users' relationship status

adamjb — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:09:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/password-crackers-and-metadata-used-to-check-centrelink-users-relationship-status-592649

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35434939

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by adamjb in "Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)"

adamjb — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:26:54 +0000

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.

New comment by adamjb in "High Court of Australia rules hyperlinking is not publishing [pdf]"

adamjb — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 03:59:19 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure?"

adamjb — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:46:02 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "Citroen 2cv pages"

adamjb — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:08:19 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "How far can you go by train in 5h?"

adamjb — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:20:04 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "Omyyyy/pycom: A Python compiler, down to native code, using C++"

adamjb — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 03:09:20 +0000

>>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.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/w7vlim/i_made_a_pyt...

New comment by adamjb in "The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos"

adamjb — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:28:07 +0000

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

New comment by adamjb in "CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City"

adamjb — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:32:51 +0000

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 it isn't worth the order of magnitude more computing time when just simulating a representative 10% does fine.