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  • The most common modifications cities are doing to roads that are easy to speed on is to add either:

    • sidewalk extensions, narrowing the road at the most crossed point;
    • speed bumps, as seen here;
    • and/or chicanes, which break up the straight and require a driver to be more active in their steering.

    All these techniques are effective at slowing cars down on straight roads.




  • The frontend is the portion of a webserver you see. It’s the website after the server has done processing everything it needs to in the background.

    Instances in this case means a webserver which is apart of the fediverse, more specifically one that uses the lemmy API in this case.

    So tldr, a lemmy server could use tesseract in its code to have a prettier website displayed for users.


  • It absolutely is 1/4th of what remains. Rachel will be left with 9 and Tracey will have 7. They’re not going to say ‘what remains of the quarter tracy took’ because it’s nonsensical. Tracy took a quarter so there’s nothing that remains of the quarter tracy took. they’re not going to mean ‘there is only one quarter left and tracy takes It’ either, because that also is nonsense. The only meaning that makes any possible sense, then, is ‘tracy takes one quarter of what remains’, which is 12/4 = 3. Tracy takes 3, that’s the only answer that makes logical sense.






  • How many people actually live in the Falklands? Looks like there’s mostly nothing on that island. Edit: Looked it up, it’s about 3,600. So an incredibly small population. Census shows over 60% of that population is labelled ‘immigrant’, so non-indigenous.

    I know Falklanders want to remain in UK control majority-wise. I also somewhat get why Argentina wouldn’t want what is essentially a potential base of operations off their coast (though realistically they couldn’t really do anything about it even if they did have sovereignty over it).

    EDIT: as mentioned in another person’s comment, Argentina also wants it for the fishing rights. The fishing rights area is fairly sizeable, but not, like, HUGE

    At the same time, i can’t really make sense of why the hell have the british fought to keep ahold of the Falklands. Maybe just because the british just love collecting shit that means nothing to them but have major significance to other nations’ people? I don’t really get it.

    Edit: someone mentioned that the UK wants to keep the falklands in order to maintain claim to Antartica. Weird but okay. Have not looked into that one.