lokedhs

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by lokedhs 7y ago
Interesting how your experience is different from mine. I've traveled to Stockholm via Doha several times, and never had to take a bus. The business class lounge at Doha is the best I've ever been to. You do need to go to the prem
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by lokedhs 7y ago
For anyone wanting to make similar comparisons: I checked returns flights between 1 and 8 March next year.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Sure. With a budget airline I can get cheaper flights in Asia too. The aforementioned flight from Singapore to Hong Kong (1-8 March) is 87 USD on Jetstar. My point was that even though the regular flights are similarly priced in the US and
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by lokedhs 7y ago
That is true. And these airlines never show up in the top half of the airline rankings. However, when flying these airlines you don't expect good service, and no one is going to proclaim that “flying is always a bad experience” because
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by lokedhs 7y ago
To be honest, I don't know. It's hard to compare for the US domestic flights, since you have to decide on comparable routes. That said, flights throughout Asia at distances similar to US domestic flights tend to be reasonably chea
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Or you can do what many other airlines do, which is to make business class so much better that even if econony is nice, business class is so much above that that it's worth the money. I tend to try to travel on Qatar, and their new bu
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by lokedhs 7y ago
One option is to not fly american airlines (with a lower case a). The highest rated US airline is 3 out of 5 stars on Skytrax. As far as I understand, the reason for this is that foreign airlines are not allowed to fly US domestic routes, a
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by lokedhs 7y ago
That's an incredible attitude, and should be commended. I bought the game on Steam even though it's not really the type of game I usually play. I don't doubt I will get my money's worth.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Same. I actually went through and typed my Lastpass-generated password. That was a painful exercise. Anther oddity is that the Android version is free while the Steam version costs money. Is there some other kind of monetisation strategies
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by lokedhs 7y ago
You are misreading the document. The muons are created in the top of the atmosphere and decays after a very short amount of time. The point is that they decay so fast that they shouldn't be able to reach the ground. They manage to do t
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Didn't they do one automated landing? I seem to remember reading that.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
That is true. In the Saturn V case, the guidance computer checked the actual location of the spacecraft and issued corrections that had accumulated due to precisely that.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Running it on a timer actually works quite well. I don't know how this particular system actually works, but for example the Saturn V launch vehicle handled the initial navigation for several minutes from takeoff by executing previousl
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by lokedhs 7y ago
My old ISP gave me only a /64. That's absolutely useless for doing anything more than there most basic of configuration. This seemed to be because of limitations in their own infrastructure as they were using 6rd. I ended up switc
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Definitely nothing wrong with that. When manipulating large sets of data, they are definitely necessary.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Common Lisp does have proper arrays as well, which can be used if the situation calls for it. As it turns out, arrays aren't actually used that much (except for strings of course) in CL code. Most lists are just a few elements long, an
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Thank you. I should have checked for copy-paste errors, but it's too late to fix it now.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
My favourite example of galactic algorithms is the most efficient way to multiply two numbers. As the Wikipedia page[1] states: An example of a galactic algorithm is the fastest known way to multiply two numbers,[2] which is based on
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by lokedhs 7y ago
English is an official language in Singapore though. And it's at least partially official in South Africa too.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I don't think it's fair to call it a successor since it intentionally doesn't implement all the features of Slime. I'm specifically talking about presentations which were removed because the author of Sly never uses them
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by lokedhs 7y ago
As someone who enjoys playing around with MVS on an emulator just to get an idea of how the IBM mainframe stuff actually works, I can understand the pain of job control cards. I heard someone mention that only a single JCL statement has eve
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Most Java developers don't know what to do when something can throw InterruptedException. I'd argue that bugs caused by broken code that catches this exception are much worse than what can happen when not using toString() correctl
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I will take the opportunity to promote Maxima, which is a very nice open source maths tool with a very long history (started in the 60's, and still being developed). It leverages the bignum support in Common Lisp, and has no problems h
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Thank you for the appreciation. The Atari ST was a very important computer for me when I was growing up, and I love talking about it.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I've seen different opinions on the topic. I'm not sure there is anything single opinion of the Unicode Consortium here, but I'm not a member of the Consortium. What we can see is that these characters have become very popula
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The Atari ST did display bombs when an application crashed. But it was never part of the character set. It's a graphic that is displayed by the trap handler in the operating system. The number of bombs indicate the trap type, so three
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I posted a message on the Unicode mailing list, which eventually lead to an proposal to accept a large number of new characters that encodes symbols used in the old 8 and 16-bit micros. My original question was specifically about the C64 ch
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Indeed. Memory usage is a point I never addressed in my comment. When managing large Java applications, that is indeed one of the most important issues that one has to be aware of. Some runtimes tries to be more automatic than others, and t
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The issue here is that while GC does take some time to perform, it's easy to make the assumption that removing the GC will reclaim the performance lost by the GC. This is a fallacy. We can compare memory strategies like so: Garbage Col
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Micah Lee did a talk about how he does it. In essence he uses Tor to connect to the VPN. He also explains how to pay for the VPN anonymously. I think it was part of his Qubes OS talk: https://youtu.be/f4U8YbXKwog

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