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by jzwinck 8y ago
Wait, their customer facing UI only supports a timezone that virtually no humans use? That doesn't sound like a datetime library design problem, it sounds like they totally neglected to use a datetime library at all.
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eBay had a bug sort of like this that prevented posting items for sale for about three years. "Works on our machines!"
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Air Asia, like many discount airlines, charges different fees depending on payment method. Paying by bank transfer carries roughly half the fee of paying by credit card. So a lot of people can't do chargebacks.
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Air Asia, like many discount airlines, charges different fees depending on payment method. Paying by bank transfer carries roughly half the fee of paying by credit card. So a lot of people can't do chargebacks (which is part of the rea
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The Ryanair booking website has several bugs exactly like what you describe. If you use it too quickly it won't sell you plane tickets. If you use it more slowly it works fine.
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Companies will underpay by an amount related not to the cost of the immigration paperwork (which is low) but to the perceived value of the outcome for the employee (which for professionals from many countries may be closer to $300k than
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by jzwinck 8y ago
Using Zip archives on Unix doesn't feel right, but it can solve a bunch of these problems straight away, while remaining highly portable.
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I'm surprised a sport like basketball would allow players to wear apparel which improves their performance using electronics and a motor.
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It will also make the flag of Côte d’Ivoire be perceived as that of Ireland.
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Yes, the AS/400 9401 "Advanced Portable" is the size of a regular desktop PC. Some pictures are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/31231773@N02/albums/7215762371... I have one. Even at the t
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Maori make up just 15% of the NZ population. They do however have more obese despite fewer who are only moderately overweight. Since the BMI ranking is by arithmetic mean, extremely fat people will have an outsize effect. Ref: https:/
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In that case doesn't it mean there are 40 bytes of TCP/IP headers and 5 bytes of ATM headers plus a mere 8 bytes of payload per TCP packet?
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Aren't TCP ACKs 20 bytes by themselves? The 40 byte total includes IP, which would not be needed if running on ATM, right?
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The Piaggio museum in Pontedera (Tuscany) is impressive and I'd recommend a visit. https://www.museopiaggio.it/en/museo/ There you can see first hand a lot of this history. And unlike all the museums of car m
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I imagine that means it's OK if my network connection goes offline 4% of every hour. But what if I'm offline for 4% of 90 days, all at once?
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Yes, AIS shows self-reported positions. Basically it broadcasts your GPS coordinates, your ship's name and other details, plus (unfortunately) any random messages you want to send. Ships have radar too. But my point here is not about
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> my several years old car will scream with alarms if I'm closing on an obstacle, and eventually even start handling the danger for me. I have to assume the same systems exist for a huge expensive warship. So not only was the AIS tu
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People don't want to be picked up and dropped off at freeway exit ramps or Cracker Barrels.
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In a Boeing, absolutely. The designers know it is important, and they devote a slice of cockpit space to a comically large "trim wheel." It has a white stripe to highlight automatic movements, and a large handle to allow manual co
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That's because it is designed to be installed indoors. It's more of a prefab datacenter aisle, not a standalone structure. They explain that the central exhaust plenum is to be connected to the building's HVAC, and say &quo
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Memory mapped I/O actually prevents the use of huge pages if the backing storage is an actual disk. See https://lwn.net/Articles/718102/ Do you know of a way around that, aside from building your own patched
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What about the 45% efficiency of a natural gas power plant? Yes induction is efficient if you only look at the part inside your house. But most of the losses are outside your house. If you live in a place with advanced wind or solar power l
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Induction stoves are unpleasant and ineffective to cook on, not to mention inefficient. And if you want to use a wok, well, you can't. They are definitely better in appealing to first time buyers who may not know or care about their sh
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"GitHub isn’t vulnerable [...] my guess is you’ll be left with a small handful of random sftp servers or IoT devices and little else!” That sounds reassuring. It's not as if hacking some random IoT device is going to win the ja
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"Do I need to bring a table or just my computer?" She stared. "What?" "I have a 21 inch monitor and I can bring a folding table," I said. Still clearly confused, she asked, "Why would you bring a computer?
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Wall Street Analysts Give Investors What They Want(bloomberg.com)
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I too realized the author was looking at Jupyter when I saw In[3] and so on. Absurd. The author is conflating a typewriter with a story. And starting from such ignorance, I wasn't about to find out where it ended up.
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> There's a reason most high-performance Python libraries are not written [with Cython], and core routines are just written in C instead. Pandas, Scipy and lxml are large, very popular Python libraries that use Cython. The article
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You're right, apart from np.einsum() and numexpr which is a separate package (albeit less drastic to use than Numba, because with numexpr you don't write your own loops).
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I would love to see that list. Have a link?

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