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  1. Re:Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have flown 2-3 times a year between Copenhagen and the US on the 787, and it was a very pleasant experience. I have managed to sleep on the entire flight after dinner and only woke up twice to sip a bit of water. But it was on their premium seats where you can put the seat much more horizontal and there's a foot rest as well. I have never been able to sleep on a plane before. It was quite strange/depressing to go to sleep after taking of in the warm weather and then waking up in show in Copenhagen, but I was well rested. :)
    Their premium seats are a bit more than twice the price of the economy,(around 1200$ instead of 520$) and well worth it for me, at least the times when I fly alone and I don't know who I am going to be seated next to. :D In economy, they don't recline enough for me to prevent my head from tilting forwards.

      I believe you now can bid on a upgrade and then save some money. A colleague of mine, managed to get it for around 900$ from Copenhagen to SFO(portland).

    https://www.norwegian.com/en/r...

    The air doesn't smell bad and I believe that they use compressors dedicated to cabin pressure instead of the compressor stage of the engines, but I don't know much about these things.

  2. We have some of those at work as well. on As Robots Move Into Amazon's Warehouses, What's Happening To Its Human Workers? (brisbanetimes.com.au) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Stacking bins on pallets that goes out to the supermarkets for all those items that does not require refrigeration.
    The software knows the layout of the supermarket so the bins that ends up on top, are for those shelves closest to the back entrance and the ones at the bottom are furthest away.
    The arm that stacking the bins, are getting them in the right order from the automated warehouse holding the bins.
    Humans are (still) involved packing the bins with goods from other bins and pallets from a larger automated warehouse.
    The area where goods are moved by humans are a decreasing area for pallets moved by forklifts controlled by humans, but they are just following orders on a screen so they are not making any decisions at all. And more and more of the pallets are in a fully autoautomated warehouse.

    In the beginning there were some problems that require humans to see it, and who knows perhaps it still exists. The human controlled forklifts told us that they sometimes got an order to move the same pallet multiple times in a few hours between storage locations. So the system was kinda doing defragmentation until everything was placed like it wanted it to be. :)

  3. that so fucking annoying and it's not like our PC monitors are getting smaller and screen real estate are at a premium.

  4. Yes it does on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have cable, I don't have Netflix, HBO or any other streaming. What idle time I have, are spent on YouTube videos that are more interesting and informative than anything that comes from cable.

  5. So it almost needs a soul when it needs to make life and death decisions, sort of a
    Complete holistic reconnaissance intelligence system to intercept necrosis events.

  6. picture of keys on Hacker Helps Family Recover Minivan After Losing One-Of-A-Kind Car Key (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now that they have posted pictures of their analog keys, I hope they have replaced those too.

  7. Re: After 2021 on Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would AC matter that much? These EVs have sometimes a 60kWh battery.
    My split unit mitsubishi usually hovers around 300W and manages to keep things cool. It uses 600-700W when cooling things down.
    So lets say a car AC to uses 2kW to keep a car cool, that's 1,2 percent of the battery capacity pr hour?
    What am I missing from the equation? Do they use more than 2000 watt?

  8. Re:How about telling it like it is? on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The old and former respected media are so busy calling everyone not to the left, for "alt-right" and the left are busy calling everyone not to the left for nazi's.
    Imagine my surprise when I discovered that for once they could be called "alt-right" and indeed it WAS nazi's.

  9. Craig Ferguson on David Letterman Returning to TV With Netflix Talk Show (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd prefer Craig Ferguson. He had some bloody good shows.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Perhaps the only late night talk show I miss.
    Of course not all the shows where good but I liked them.

  10. So that is why they shut down Jordan B. Peterson? :D :D
    https://twitter.com/jordanbpet...

  11. Size limitations on Are App Sizes Out of Control? · · Score: 0

    Didn't they have size limitations on apps a long time ago? Of course it makes sense(for them) not to have it.
    Why would you buy a 256GB iPhone 7 if you store everything in their cloud?
    To make room for apps of course!

  12. You are right, maybe it is time for me to move on. :)

  13. Re:Tremendous medical costs! on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    well, sure the military can handle gender reassignment. Get some shrapnel in the crotch, and then you can decide you new gender by what ever you feel it looks like the most after they stitch you back together.

  14. I am sorry? on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is this in any way relevant for a tech site?

  15. Bullshit website on Having a Woman On Your Team Ruins Your Chances For VC Funding (theoutline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I looked at the other "articles" from that website.
    It has golden nuggets like this " For as long as America has existed, its criminal justice system has maintained the supremacy of white people. "
    I must admit that I choose to skip the "placenta osso buco" article.

    Why do you keep linking to garbage sites like that, what the fuck is wrong with you?

  16. I was thinking of this yesterday in the supermarket here in Denmark. I went past the bakery and I could actually smell the bread, and it didn't smell like bake-off.
    It triggered memories from my childhood in the 80's when we went to Italy every summer.
    I was often sent to the supermarket to shop for dinner and wine(funny now I think about it, I was 12 or 14. :D). I remember that going through the supermarket and it would be smell like food in every section and I really loved it.
    Yesterday, I went through the entire supermarket without sensing any food smells except the unusual smell of bread. Yesterday, I was in the mood for cooking and went to the supermarket to be inspired, but I left without anything but fresh potatoes and some mediocre fish cakes.

    (I usually visit my local butcher to get inspired for dinner but she has closed for 3 weeks)

  17. OS X and iOS have been exchanging WiFi connections for ages so I wonder if you delete it from OS X, if that will delete it from iOS as well.
    I can't test is as this feature for some reason does not work with my iCloud account and I can't get it to work.

  18. Drive behind most diesel cars more than a few years old and you know it is all bs.
    Sometimes I am quick enough to switch to recirculation, and at other times you must sit in the stench for a long time. Some even gets pissed when you overtake them to get away from their stench and the black plumes of smoke they emit when they accelerate.

    The faster diesel cars get banned, the better. Sadly, too many here in the EU drives diesel cars.

  19. After the invention of micro payments, I don't play games anymore on my phone or tablet as they have destroyed the gameplay. So I don't install many "app" these days.

    But when an app pulls a stunt like that, I either block it or delete it. Endomondo started sending me a notification every Saturday morning that I should check how my week went in terms of exercise. I use that app so after it had done that twice, it lost it's privilege to interrupt me.

    I noticed that Facebook and Twitter wanted to train me to check them out all the time, so if it hadn't used the app in 48 hours, they would ping me with a "[someone] posted [something]". What people had posted, wasn't directed at me or I wasn't even tagged, so they got blocked. I have since then deleted those accounts all tougher since their usefulness as a messaging system were negated by the fact that turning that off also meant that I wouldn't get messages that was directed to me.

    Finally my phone has been cleansed of many games that I once played but had forgotten about. Apparently they had embraced the micro payment world and had new features bolted on. The first time they ping me, they promptly get deleted.

  20. Re:The New Formula on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We assume that the 45% we pay in taxes, 25% sales tax etc to the welfare state takes care of things.

    If it works is another discussion. :)

  21. You can't mention that perhaps not all the immigrants flooding into Europe are refugees.
    Also you can not disagree with the Swedens politicians when they say to the people that their country are no longer theirs and they must learn how to integrate themselves into these new cultures.
    Or when the politicians say that their own country has no culture worth mentioning and needs some new and better ones.

    Poland seems to be the only one standing up for their own culture.

  22. And take a look at the old nazi compound in LA, the ruins are still there. that could have been useful later on with all the installations for running independent. :D

  23. Those Germans on Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. (smh.com.au) · · Score: 2

    It's not like they have a history of overreacting. :D

  24. Re:Declining intelligence of Slashdot users on ESA Approves Gravitational-Wave Hunting Spacecraft For 2034 (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    OMG, you're right. I'll start.

    There's something wrong about this article, How are they going to orbit the sun, isn't it flat like earth?
    We have already established that the moon are a hologram, so naturally they can't orbit that.

  25. PC lifespan on The Right To Repair Movement Is Forcing Apple To Change (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    If course they want to make hardware unrepairable. If you bought a computer 10-15 years ago, it would be unusable 5 years later because much faster CPUs had arrived.

    If you bought at decent spec'ed computer 5 years ago, it still perform really good. A new top of the line Intel 4 core CPU isn't that much better, compared to if you bought a computer in 2000 and was looking at a new one in 2005.
    The graphics card might be outdated, and you won't be able to run the latest games at Ultra settings but thats about it.