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by jzwinck 7y ago
I immediately thought of bing.su: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bingsu It is taken, but not by Bing.
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The Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro has very good cameras and a headphone jack for about 430 USD: https://www.mi.com/global/mi-9-t-pro In some markets it's called the Redmi K20 Pro.
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I too have visited Terengganu. Your impression of the language vs standard Bahasa is far off the mark. Wikipedia says: > Terengganu Malay is one of the most aberrant from all the Malay varieties in the Peninsular along with Kelantan-Patt
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Doesn't this mean BitBucket will die? Slowly, sure, but Mercurial support seemed like a key differentiator relative to GitHub.
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Quite a few of the keys have awkward action with excess stiction. Not great for programming (and indeed many Bloomberg programmers used other keyboards when that one was current).
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by jzwinck 7y ago
It already has, in Singapore. There are Starbucks which close at night simply by drawing a plastic chain across the storefront and emptying the cash registers. I think they still lock the Frappuccino fridge, but no one knows for sure becaus
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Not every game or sport has to devolve to angling for loopholes. Sure, get a friend to buy it, never be invited to compete again. Congratulations, you cheated to win a race almost nobody knows or cares about (if people did care so much ab
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Definitely not.
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by jzwinck 7y ago
It would be unethical to do so explicitly ("Airline kills poor people"). It could happen automatically due to demand based pricing, but many people don't know the difference and would price the risk at zero. So I think it&#
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I like http://507movements.com/mm_398.html which is a programmable drive system. Constant rotation input can give you a cyclic but irregular and arbitrary output movement. Another good programmable mechanism is a spring ma
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by jzwinck 7y ago
No test suite, no problem. Just run in a production staging area or deploy to beta users.
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Position Independant Executable (PIE) files are detected as shared libraries because they use the same old identifier as position independent shared libraries. The ELF folks could have added a new type but did not, leading to some confusion
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by jzwinck 7y ago
I have some unproven factors for predicting certain popular low-scoring questions: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/373412/require-conf... A lot of questions that should have a very low score get fixed by
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Hong Kong is part of China and also not part of China. So it makes perfect sense that a Hong Kong company is both Chinese and not Chinese.
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by jzwinck 7y ago
So even now Boeing will not include all safety features for all customers. Not that Airbus is doing better, but this indicates that Boeing is not concerned that it could face serious charges for continuing to sell planes with some safety fe
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Even better, many foreign visitors can use the same system to enter Australia. Lots of countries have fully automated entry for citizens but by doing it for foreigners, Oz is ahead of the game.
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by jzwinck 7y ago
It isn't about temperature directly. Recent Intel CPUs instantly incur a noticeable penalty as soon as certain 256 bit or wider instructions are encountered. It doesn't matter if it's only a single instruction, you pay the p
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Young people with jobs might be less likely to count votes. At the extreme, if you believe you are about to die and want to leave maximum money to your family, counting votes was a sound strategy (due to the benefit paid to families). And i
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Sure you get free unaligned access for scalars on x86, but unaligned arrays are still trouble if you use SSE (which basically everyone does).
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by jzwinck 7y ago
I had my credit card number stolen and the thief used it to subscribe to Netflix. 16 times. That's right, they created 16 Netflix accounts in one day using the same credit card details. Apparently a basic sanity check like "Are
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by jzwinck 8y ago
> If you had to Google what `std::ref` is then you aren't a very proficient C++ developer I can't recall the last time I saw someone use std::ref. Maybe once in the past 5 years, and I think I deleted it after I fixed somethin
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by jzwinck 8y ago
...and stipulate that the employee may work for any non-competing entity while still being paid by their old employer. This way the employee can make even more than their original wage, to offset the facts that they aren't being allow
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by jzwinck 8y ago
for (double x : { -10, -0.4, 1.1, 0.3, 1.3 }) h(x); Shorter, better.
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by jzwinck 8y ago
FYI most people don't know what a lac (lakh) or crore is. And if you simply Google "1 crore in USD" it converts 1 crore of your geolocated currency (which won't be Indian Rupees unless you're in India, which you won
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Washington Senate approves bill backing permanent daylight saving time(spokesman.com)
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Of course you should be able to refuse 1000 pennies. Singapore has a very simple law that solves this cleanly with no fuss at all: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/what-you-should-know-...
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You assume there is no economy of scale for government spending. For example, building a road to serve 10 million people may be cheaper per capita than a road for 1 million people. Same on the revenue side: doing a single large deal for $27
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I think you're mistaken: > The Jones Act requires goods shipped between U.S. ports to be transported on ships that are built, owned and operated by United States citizens or permanent residents. https://www.investopedia.c
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This applies to hospital and doctor charges too, not just prescription drugs. I was shocked when I found out that "20% copay" is simply a lie.
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There is some truth to this. A couple years ago I bought three tickets from AirAsia. A week before the flight there was a volcanic eruption which canceled all flights at the destination. They issued me a credit voucher for future flights. H

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