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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I've just tested against GCC master and can confirm that -Wint-in-bool-context does not trigger on this very, very standard case. Per the examples in the documentation, it does trigger when you do something silly like "if (i &lt
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Thanks. Interesting to know - I wonder why banks over here don't think they're particularly necessary. (I got my first credit card, unsecured, when I was still an undergraduate working part-time and receiving government welfare pa
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I think you'll find there are plenty of conversations here where "scale" is used in reference to stuff like the business models of "gig economy" apps, or at what point your startup has enough scale to need an HR dep
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but what exactly is the point of a secured credit card - how is it really different from just paying in cash? (I'm from .au, where secured credit cards apparently don't exist, but
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Interchange fees charged per-transaction by Visa/MC/Amex.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Here in Australia, US-style cashback cards basically don't exist - there have been a handful of banks that have tried things like a 2% cashback on debit cards for using Visa PayWave, a few cards which have introductory (e.g. first thre
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I clicked it, making that same assumption. But alas not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
MPEG creates the MPEG codec standards, MPEG LA is a separate organisation that exists to sell patent licences required to actually implement the MPEG standards. They don't particularly need to be affiliated.
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Australia: Increased Passenger Security on Flights from Middle East(minister.infrastructure.gov.au)
1 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
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Not Leadership Material? Good. The World Needs Followers(nytimes.com)
1 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
...is this a common feature? I think I've heard of it before, but I don't think I've ever actually seen a ADSL/3G modem in the field...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Singapore and Malaysia have a history of quite significant race riots during the 1960s - some of my family members (who weren't rioters) ended up on the wrong end of a tear gas cannon in Kuala Lumpur during that time. It's not ent
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The UK restrictions do affect BA, EasyJet, Jet2, Monarch, Thomas Cook and Thomson.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Also note that IBM mainframes can run 64-bit Linux just fine. Indeed, IBM's been marketing its LinuxONE mainframe line as a z series machine that doesn't run z/OS at all. (disclaimer: IBMer, but not a mainframe person)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Not GP, but it sounds awfully like they're trying to get rid of a >3MB flash chip on the next iteration of the product they're making by moving it into a more limited amount of flash that's already on another chip, which w
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I don't have a source other than to say this is what my real estate agent mentioned to me if I recall correctly, but at least in the ACT in an apartment block it's a requirement to provide a dryer if you don't provide a prope
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Here in Australia, my apartment came with a dryer (required by law), a dishwasher and an oven. We had to buy the washing machine and the fridge, though.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The fact that it was added relatively recently is exactly why it's so obscure. Unlike if, of, bs and count, I haven't had status=progress drilled into my head by every single dd command I've read out of a manual or tutorial,
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
That happens to be the justification that my country uses to make bicycle helmets mandatory (though there's significant debate about whether it's actually helped reduce injury rates, and it fairly clearly depresses overall rates o
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
As commerce has become more mechanised, we've lost the ability to bargain and haggle in consumer business relationships. Forget about sacrosanct privacy rights, I can't even choose to pay to opt out of a lot of data collection. We
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
As commerce has become more mechanised, we've lost the ability to bargain and haggle in consumer business relationships. Forget about sacrosanct privacy rights, I can't even choose to pay to opt out of a lot of data collection.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It may not have been used as consistently, but I've definitely seen the indicator arrow on cars that are over 25 years old.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Good for you. I'd rather not have to try and climb over your dead body when I'm evacuating.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
In commercial aviation specifically , we worship health and safety even more than usual, in large part due to the high psychological impact of aircraft incidents. Given the complexity of aviation systems and the number of catastrophic fail
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Clicking the "Sign Up" button on the home page goes to the blog post explaining that they've shut down.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I suspect that really depends on exactly what makes you and your brain get interested in a particular piece of engineering work.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Am Australian, I don't see it here much but I think most white-collar workers would definitely have seen it.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Oh, huh, I didn't notice that!
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
ISTR from my days when I was a primary school kid playing around with my grandmother's Mac running System 7 that there were some (fairly lame) third party tools that attempted to implement a DOS-style CLI.
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SMTP over XXE − how to send emails using Java's XML parser(shiftordie.de)
2 points by ajdlinux 10y ago|0 comments

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