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New comment by bitdivision in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

bitdivision — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:24:12 +0000

The FAA still requires ashtrays in bathrooms interestingly. To avoid those who do smoke there using the trash and causing a fire:

  Regardless of whether smoking is allowed in any other part of the airplane, lavatories must have self-contained, removable ashtrays located conspicuously on or near the entry side of each lavatory door, except that one ashtray may serve more than one lavatory door if the ashtray can be seen readily from the cabin side of each lavatory served

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.853

New comment by bitdivision in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

bitdivision — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:18:17 +0000

Not by default: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb

New comment by bitdivision in "GB Renewables Map"

bitdivision — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:10:01 +0000

Very cool. Thanks

New comment by bitdivision in "GB Renewables Map"

bitdivision — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:00:43 +0000

What are the black dots around the map when you zoom in? For instance South-East Wales / Bristol, I see a few black dots that look like they cover shaded areas or something. They also show up at the sites for wind farms, possibly they're the turbines themselves?

New comment by bitdivision in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

bitdivision — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:24:00 +0000

Looks great. Interesting to see that a lot of stations are included but without prices.

Note, in brave on linux I can't see the map. Console has a lot of 401 on stadiamaps. But works great in chrome.

New comment by bitdivision in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

bitdivision — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:03:12 +0000

Some vague info here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fuel-finder-enfor...

New comment by bitdivision in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

bitdivision — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:53:09 +0000

> From 2 February 2026, you must submit fuel price updates within 30 minutes of any change.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-your-fuel-prices-and-fore...

So looks as though the requirement to report was only just introduced, hence the considerable missing data.

Edit: BBC reporting here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp80dpzdg37o

New comment by bitdivision in "A4 Paper Stories"

bitdivision — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:08:30 +0000

I happened to be looking at ski boot fitting this morning and came across a web app from fischersports that allows you to measure your feet using your phones camera. Surprise surprise it uses a sheet of A4 paper.

App is about halfway down this page, https://www.fischersports.com/rc4-podium-rd-worldcup-strd/U0... under 'find your size' and is powered by https://volumental.com/

New comment by bitdivision in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

bitdivision — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:09:15 +0000

Some context: https://archive.ph/Apfdv

Autostore ended up paying Ocado? How did Ocado abuse them?

New comment by bitdivision in "In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended"

bitdivision — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:13:00 +0000

They were supposedly invented in Scotland, and I've not seen them sold in an English fish and chip shop. Go to Scotland however and they're not uncommon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

New comment by bitdivision in "WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model"

bitdivision — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:33:34 +0000

Seems like it would be pretty useful to forecast the supply of renewables (wind, solar, maybe some hydro).

New comment by bitdivision in "All praise to the lunch ladies"

bitdivision — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:51:08 +0000

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/ Correlated with life expectancy

New comment by bitdivision in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

bitdivision — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:04:12 +0000

The OCR -> schema.org pipeline would be useful, I've been doing it manually prior to importing to Mealie.

New comment by bitdivision in "You can't cURL a Border"

bitdivision — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:30:58 +0000

Amusingly this appears to block access from the UK. https://archive.ph/pBmlV

New comment by bitdivision in "Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?"

bitdivision — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:22:50 +0000

A lot of Cyrillic characters: https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=I+%CF%B2%D0%...

New comment by bitdivision in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

bitdivision — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:37:13 +0000

I don't think that's true, however doordash surely know that some users might think twice if they saw that number separated out.

New comment by bitdivision in "You can't build tcc from Nixpkgs if you are in the UK"

bitdivision — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:17:54 +0000

It hosts user uploaded content I would guess, so presumably the OSA could apply to them.

New comment by bitdivision in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

bitdivision — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:14:15 +0000

Sure, it's a different part of the product, but still worrying that it may have happened at all.

Looking at it further though, you're right, this probably wasn't apple's fault.

New comment by bitdivision in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

bitdivision — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:23:52 +0000

They did have a bug that corrupted images on import I think? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274277

So maybe don't fully trust it.

New comment by bitdivision in "Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy"

bitdivision — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:47:11 +0000

One of the 'misleading media reports' for context: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/14/kodak-going-concern-gen-z-fi...