Aren't those things organised the same way Apple face id is organised where the app itself can't get the biometric information, they just get a yes or no? That would be stupid as hell.
In Finland the government has allowed banks to offer (2fa) identification services to those that are using their services. If I sign into a government site using my banking ID, the bank gets paid for providing the service. To my understanding none of my actual ID information is transferred to a party wanting to identify me.
The Linkedin 'validate your identity' was the first time i was asked to actually take a picture of my passport/scan the chip. I'll refuse until they'll allow me to identify with my banking ID.
One thing to add: If you want to think even less in the morning. Just weigh the beans and water with a kitchen scale. 18 gr of beans, 160gr of (boiling) water (basically a 1:9 ratio regarding on the size of your basket).
I was lucky that I could use some corporate benefit for that, but even out of pocket it would be 30-50 Eur? And most things were within baseline, and things that weren't were close enough (I.e. I don't feel like stressing about cholesterol just yet), but I like I have a baseline to refer to.
In terms of pricing model Adobe is generous compared to Figma. Someone with their own creative cloud subscription can open my .psd's. But if I want to collaborate with someone in Figma, I need to pay for their access even if they have their own paid Figma account.
But even so, Figma's prices have been increasing, the product is being segmented, they're increasingly pushing for various addons, even if Figma still is cheaper than Adobe.
What permanent bad effect do you think it has left? I do wonder about this too.
I binge drank between 14-16 years old, started smoking weed around the same time - and smoked daily from 20-25. After that I did a short bout of therapy and walked away from it. I'm now 40 and I do often wonder what damage might have been done.
If I'd have to guess how damage could materialise i'd point to the fact that my thinking was polarised for a long time and I had trouble controlling my emotions.
But those traits could easily be attributed to verbal aggression and a lack of trust and empathy in my childhood - which most likely contributed to the substance abuse in the first place (1) Or it could even just be attributed to the male brain taking a little more time to mature.
I skateboarded, drank and smoked with this guy when I was about 15/16 (he was just part of our little group that skated etc, not a close friend, more just someone I knew). He was really out going, funny, confident. Whatever happened I didn't see him for another five years or so. Then at about 21/22 years old, me and another mate met him randomly on the bus... Right away it was obvious that something had gone badly wrong for him. He seemed jittery and withdrawn. We all laughed at a joke together, ten minutes later he asked if we'd been laughing at him, it was so surprising. He explained he was no good at doing jobs and had failed at chefing. He also explained he'd been living in a house were they were they had been doing Es everyday (he'd moved out and stopped that). Some of his house mates I knew of vaguely, I knew them mostly as dodgy bastards that should be avoided at all costs.
Anyway he seemed to be a wreck of a person. Judging the character change I doubt it wasn't permanent damage, but I'm no expert.
Bizarrely this encounter was 20 years ago, and I remember it clearly because it was so utterly shocking to me.
Thanks for the link by the way. Ever since my daughter was born I've been stopping my wife from shouting at her or labelling her something negative, because I know all too well what it did to me (it was totally minor for me, but it's there). My wife has finally accepted this and it's stopped. Hrm, one positive impact I've had on the world I guess :)
Likely due to reporting. It seems that news articles are used as the source. If the DJI marketing team maintaining this map is English, it's probably easier to find or verify English news stories. Most fire departments in Belgium now have a few drones as part of a pilot project, and I found a (Dutch) news article of an incident last month were they were used, even though the map is blank for Belgium.
I doubt _all_ rescues that involved drones are on this website. It clearly serves a promotional purpose and the builders of this platform might have more connections to people in the UK who to some degree participated in these rescues.
I can think of a few factors that might be relevant.
British police have been enthusiastic adopters of drones due to ongoing budget constraints. Drones are a lower-cost alternative to helicopters or large search teams.
British geography is well suited to small quadcopters. Helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft are much better suited to SAR operations in large unpopulated areas, but a quadcopter is often a better solution if you're searching a small area with dense terrain.
Britain has an exceptionally large number of CCTV cameras, which has created a base of knowledge and experience in using remotely-operated cameras as part of a search operation.
The Civil Aviation Authority has taken a relatively progressive approach to drone regulation. It's fairly easy to get licensed as a professional operator, and comparatively straightforward for those operators to get permission to fly in potentially high-risk scenarios (e.g. night flying over a densely populated area in controlled airspace).
Part of that could be that emergency services funding has been cut so much that the UK emergency services have to replace people with tech wherever possible, and sometimes where not so possible too. If you can't get 20 people together for a search then 1 drone is the next best alternative.
I think it's more likely that SAR is almost exclusively charity-funded in the UK and so the teams are more likely to promote the individual rescues are part of fund-raising.
It's not a new phenomenon, either. The RNLI has operated without government funding for 199 years.
You might want to read 'The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir' by Sarah Ramey (Known also from her band Wolf Larsen). She goes back and forth between providing an overview of this 'mysterious illness' from different angles, and her gutwrenching absolute trainwreck of a personal experience of it. It seems you already found your way the same way she eventually did, though.
As the title says, the book is womens body specific - but also a guy i still found it very insightful to read.
Another book to suggest, "The Comfort Crisis" by Michael Easter. In it he does a solid and helpful flyover on how humans evolved vs how we actually live now, and how the disconnect is impacting (negatively) our physical and mental health.
While there are few individual ah-ha moments, seeing everything laid out end to end to end aggregates into a realization that The First World lifestyle is extremely unhealthy and often (premature death) deadly.
Fwiw, in some ways The Comfort Crisis was like physical (and mental) health version of The Coddling of the American Mind, but without the PC-ish type baggage. Note: this comparison - for me - is a compliment as both books look to challenge mainstream narratives and normalizations.
Second this. Happy to pay for 5km2 although i'd probably crop out 1km2. But I'd love to be able to understand what size i'd be able to print that 1km2 at using 300dpi. I guess art prints aren't exactly the core use case for this though.
Round numbers: 0.5m per pixel at 300dpi is 150m per inch so a 1km box is 7 inches by 7 inches. My city website has aerial survey data that looks to be much higher resolution data so you could also try there.
In Finland the government has allowed banks to offer (2fa) identification services to those that are using their services. If I sign into a government site using my banking ID, the bank gets paid for providing the service. To my understanding none of my actual ID information is transferred to a party wanting to identify me.
The Linkedin 'validate your identity' was the first time i was asked to actually take a picture of my passport/scan the chip. I'll refuse until they'll allow me to identify with my banking ID.
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