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by sitharus 10y ago
In New Zealand most of the pedestrian crossings don't show any lights until someone pushes the button. Occasionally someone will stand at the lights staring at a completely unilluminated crossing light until someone else pushes the but
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by sitharus 10y ago
Definitely no requirement to refridgrate eggs in NZ, they're sold unrefrigrated. After laying eggs are lightly brushed clean, date stamped and packaged, there is no other treatment. Shelf life is around 3 months, normally about a month
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by sitharus 10y ago
Fair points, I was speaking to commercial aviation.
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by sitharus 10y ago
You're thinking of the Gimli Glider, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider Boeing had just transitioned their FQIS from lbs to kgs (aircraft fuel is always weighed, volume changes with temperature). The fli
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by sitharus 10y ago
Funny, one of the reasons I switched to fastmail was because my mum could understand their interface but gmail kept changing every month! I haven't had a support call asking where the new email button has gone since. One of the biggest
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by sitharus 10y ago
It's not really that your device draws more than the claimed wattage, it's how the power arrives. Resistance is proportional to current (I = V/R) so drawing 100W at 240v will result in a lower resistance than 100W at 110v. In
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by sitharus 10y ago
Everything's impossible until it isn't.
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by sitharus 10y ago
That what my impression was as well, it's not supposed to be a vacuum tube, it's a low pressure tube and the vehicles create a lower pressure zone in front.
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by sitharus 10y ago
Yes, but for a someone to be truely unbiased they need to be completely independent. If there's any sort of relationship to either party they will be biased somehow. A good approach would be the random selection of a few members of the
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by sitharus 10y ago
I don't think so, it means that the stdlib team will adhere to the requirements for ABI compatibility and the compiler will support this. Third party vendors will have to adhere to the same requirements to be ABI compatible, because no
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by sitharus 10y ago
You underestimate the power these employers had over their employees. The company owned everything. The only way out without paying for company run transport, which you won't get without settling your debt, is to walk. Walkers are easi
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by sitharus 10y ago
Also very widely in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Some American visitors were recently surprised when I said interbank transfers clear within the hour. The environment in the US is quite different to the rest of the world.
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by sitharus 10y ago
No, a regular car will not engage brakes without human interaction. The fail-safe is having two independent systems - hydraulic for the foot brake and wire rope for the hand brake in most vehicles. Additionally automatic transmissions have
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by sitharus 10y ago
Haskell's web frameworks help, but it's nothing to do with purity. In fact any web framework can do this, you segregate user-supplied data and ensure it can never be supplied to an untrusted function without explicit cleaning. Per
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by sitharus 10y ago
I don't think they should be identified. Look how drivers treat learners of they're marked - the marking are supposed to indicate 'this driver is inexperienced, be patient and expect them to do the wrong thing' but peopl
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by sitharus 10y ago
There are a lot of NTFS features that Explorer doesn't handle properly, like file paths greater than 255 characters.
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by sitharus 10y ago
Sort of true, but at the price taking the blade out of the handle and storing it isn't really worth it.
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by sitharus 10y ago
You are correct, but I'm constantly surprised by how many people think the pilot taxies to the runway and pushes 'go'. Tesla autopilot works like an aeroplane autopilot actually does, not how people seem to think it does.
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by sitharus 10y ago
it's not a physical wobble, it's a data track written in a wave-like path. You can't write it as all CD-Rs already have the spiral track so it's very hard to fake. It's similar to the Gamecube using the burst-cuttin
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by sitharus 10y ago
They're human beings with a job to do. Part of this is engaging with you, but different cultures treat the boundaries differently. In the US this involves small talk and as it makes people happy I do it in situations where it is normal
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by sitharus 10y ago
On the contrary, you sound like someone who's only worked these jobs in countries that expect small talk. It's all about what you expect. The US culture values small talk and makes affordances for that. Other cultures do not. Neit
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by sitharus 10y ago
As a non-American who's interacted a lot with Americans I'm still confused about small talk with people serving you. Why would a barista (/waitress/waiter/any other serving staff) be interested in you? They serve hu
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by sitharus 10y ago
Post some! NZ laws are some of the least restrictive in the world, especially when it comes to business.
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by sitharus 10y ago
I think GP means Indians from India instead of American Indians but is using a racial stereotype to describe this.
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by sitharus 10y ago
Yes, there are tools to do this. It varies by database server and may need custom integration with your deployment system but they definitely exist. The alternative is the old StoredProc_v1, StoredProc_v2 etc in the database and have the ap
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by sitharus 10y ago
It depends a lot on the terminal. I've been using a chip card for over 6 years now, and here in New Zealand we use cards for almost every payment. The first generation of chip terminals were horribly slow, they took far longer than a s
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by sitharus 10y ago
Hardware/Software 2FA tokens are based on a PRNG with a shared seed. If the table with passwords was accessed it's likely the table with 2FA seeds is hacked. Twitter uses a one-time code sent via sms so I don't think this wou
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by sitharus 10y ago
Yes, exactly that. For example: tell application "Finder" to duplicate (every item in folder "Documents" of home whose modification date comes after (current date) - 7 * days) to folder "Documents" of dis
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by sitharus 10y ago
Fluorescent lights do use filaments. At each end of the tube there's a hot cathode - essentially a small incandescent filament designed to emit electrons rather than light. This is the source of the electrons that excite the gasses. Wh
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by sitharus 10y ago
I suspect GP means AppleEvents rather than AppleScript. AppleEvents are a high level event framework, it lets you tell applications things like 'select the 5th word of the 2nd paragraph', or 'import all mp3s from /Volume

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