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by jzwinck 12y ago
Wikipedia says Rena was New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster. Its overall worst maritime disaster was of course the 2013 America's Cup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_America%27s_Cup
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Shipwrecks are all too common even in the 21st century, even without the stress of competition. I saw a very recent one in Namibia a few years ago: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tatyana-k/4691269078/ That&#x
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by jzwinck 12y ago
This case is less "Google News is not accessible to people in Spain" and more "Google News can no longer publish content originated in Spain." The effect may be similar because Spaniards often want Spanish content, but
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by jzwinck 12y ago
You may be interested to visit (or at least read about) Milton Keynes, then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes It's notable for three things, to me: the perfectly planned grid of roads with bike paths, Bl
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by jzwinck 12y ago
"The Man in Seat 61" has all the info you need. Start here (warning: you may spend as much time on the site as on your trip): http://seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm#Fares
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Most people using NT knew it as version 4. Some folks knew that Windows 2000 was version 5. After that, things got weird: Vista is 6 but Windows 7 is 6.1 and Windows 8 is 6.2: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library&#
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by jzwinck 12y ago
For comparison with this article (which refers to the US), The Economist has several interesting articles about drinking in Britain. Here's one: http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21569025-britains-drin...
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Try this [1]: #pragma GCC push_options #pragma GCC optimize("O2") #include <something> #pragma GCC pop_options [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Specific-Option-..
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Your comparison with "mining precious resources in the 3rd world" is interesting, because China is doing that too: http://en.starafrica.com/news/mozambique-chinese-firms-clinc... http://www.ide.go.
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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hitthebid.asp - there's one term from the article defined for you. The site has lots more. If there are still terms you can't find, post them here and I'm sure s
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Then you will also enjoy the naming scheme for runways, e.g. 22L means 220-229 degrees magnetic heading, Left (runways with no parallel will have no trailing letter).
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by jzwinck 12y ago
From the very first paragraph: > This article was published in the journal of the Air Line Pilots Association, Air Line Pilot, in December of 1994. [...] I do keep this online version updated.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
DUB is Dublin. I guess they could have used DBI....
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I have used an Olympus E-P2 and Sony RX100. These are good cameras, but not great, and not approaching a Leica M for one reason: the viewfinders (or lack thereof). An optical viewfinder is an essential feature which connects the shooter to
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Disclaimer: I agree there is a real social problem here. The rest of this message is solely about statistics (inspired by the language of statistics used in the article, like "A/B Test," "statistical significance,"
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> few factory workers [...] would consider their work 'basket weaving'. I had the pleasure of working with a machinist named Bill who was probably 70 years old. He was an artist with tools twice as old as I was, sometimes five
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Here's one more tip: did you ever notice that "ls" displays multiple columns, but "ls | cat" prints only one filename per line? Or how "ps -f" truncates long lines instead of wrapping, while "ps -f |
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by jzwinck 12y ago
You're right, myriad popular tools are not totally consistent (ls -h and du -h are similar but grep -h is very different). There is a bit of hope however--the GNU folks have documented lots of the options currently in use so you can t
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by jzwinck 12y ago
My takeaway was more like "Developers need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their chosen platform, and be cautious not to degrade performance during refactoring." Certainly it would be much easier to just go back to t
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by jzwinck 12y ago
One reason why Air Asia is cheaper in MYR is because it's a Malaysian company, so they don't take foreign exchange risk nor pay bank fees when selling to you in ringgit. For even more fun, try buying KTM (Malaysian rail) tickets i
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> It's invariably cheaper to go online and book through an aggregator. Depends on the country. In less-developed places, proprietors of smaller hotels pay relatively large fees (think 25%) to online booking services. If you are al
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Fear of this sort of "DRM lockdown bullshit incompatibility" is what stops me from buying devices like Chromecast. I have a high-end receiver and a high-quality mini-DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter. If I plug these together, iTunes
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Here are some: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Solaris_Studio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_aC%2B%2B http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_XL_C%2B%2B Notably, each of those
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I agree. From the article: > I can take a pretty obvious guess as of the external manifestations of their new motto: it means they break fewer APIs on their platform. I found this absurd. The idea that "move fast and break things&
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by jzwinck 12y ago
That 683 lumens per watt number is, as you say, for a monochromatic light. This is not useful for humans to see with[1]; the actual limit for human vision is about 300 lumens per watt[2]. That's an upper bound even ignoring losses, a
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Lua's standard library is so small, in fact, that until 2012 there was popen() but no pclose(), a bizarre situation that persists today for people still using Lua 5.1 (which is probably the most popular version deployed). So you can sp
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by jzwinck 12y ago
If "CMFX is one of the most reputable Forex markets around," why can't I seem to find their official website? Do you have a link?
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by jzwinck 12y ago
If you have numeric data in e.g. NumPy arrays and you care about performance, numpy.savetxt() followed by text parsing in C++ will never match the speed of just storing the binary data. For example, use numpy.save() then load the NumPy for
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I can speculate: __printf(), having two leading underscores, is a named reserved for "the implementation," meaning the compiler and standard library. This enables at least one useful thing, which is that the standard library (or
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Glibc may have register_printf_function, but GCC does not have register_printf_attribute, so this is not as practical as it could be. That is: __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2))) attaches to a function declaration to indicate

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