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by stephenr 3y ago
Isn't the point that food in economy class is often worse than it needs to be for the cost, and food in first class is not good enough to justify the massively increased ticket price?
632.
by stephenr 3y ago
> so that you should show an indicator in the password field So I take it none of the OS/browser vendors besides Apple are doing this natively yet?
633.
by stephenr 3y ago
The article doesn't explain the cause but it sounds exactly like something that could be turbulence: > In the incident on Monday, passengers arriving in Aukland told local media that the plane quickly lost altitude, flinging those
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by stephenr 3y ago
Just how fast and loose are people getting with their copy-paste-run workflows that this is necessary?
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by stephenr 3y ago
Even a broken clock is right occasionally.
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by stephenr 3y ago
Many moons ago my first job in the industry was working in an IT department for a technical college; this was the days of windows 98/xp and Novell netware; Even then unless it was a trivial issue, it was often a simpler fix to just re-
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by stephenr 3y ago
> when I'm on the desk, I always have the charger in. Unless the machine specifically handles this scenario, this can artificially wear the battery. Newer MacBooks handle this better with "intelligent" charging (I couldn&#
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by stephenr 3y ago
It boggles the mind that print media managed to make anonymous advertising work for the best part of 400 years, but somehow the advent of the internet means we're expected to believe that it's impossible to have ads that are top
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by stephenr 3y ago
As much as some will proclaim neither is required, I think `null` has genuine use when representing data. It's the data-model equivalent of "no preference"; "use the default"; "automatic"; or even "no
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by stephenr 3y ago
Congratulations on completely missing the point and misspelling a two letter word at the same time. That's quite an accomplishment.
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by stephenr 3y ago
You don't need to show the user errors for this approach to work. At a client of mine, the load balancer is setup with a customer friendly fallback page to present, in cases where none of the backend servers are available. This is us
642.
by stephenr 3y ago
I'm 100% behind ad blockers in a browser, but this is some grade A victim blaming right here.
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by stephenr 3y ago
> With all of their WSL work, they could release a Linux / Windows phone I don't think "we need to run a VM with a distinct OS to have a chance of being successful" is really a great basis for building a mobile phone
644.
by stephenr 3y ago
Very non -pro tip: if you can't find Arborio rice, use sushi rice. It works really well for risotto and for most home cooks will likely be indistinguishable when the dish is finished.
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by stephenr 3y ago
Sure, nothing much has happened except the last 9 years are the hottest on record, and weather events are becoming more extreme around the globe
646.
by stephenr 3y ago
Boeings own staff said they wouldn't fly on the 737-Max. Either they're being hyperbolic and there's zero risk to the board members, or they aren't and thus the board members have a vested interest in making sure the pla
647.
by stephenr 3y ago
You're both thinking too small. Force the members of the board to constantly fly on the affected models until questions are answered and fixes are delivered. Call it "ultimate dogfooding".
648.
by stephenr 3y ago
Why is that obvious? The author was apparently surprised to find things didn't work as expected, which doesn't really support your hypothesis that this was a deliberate choice.
649.
by stephenr 3y ago
That would certainly bring some more excitement to the Olympics. Let a herd of feral camels or pigs or what have you loose at the start of the archery and the javelin. Gold medal comes with a side of ribs!
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by stephenr 3y ago
The key thing is to learn from this experience. I made the mistake of trusting Airbnb about a decade ago. Never again. As they say: fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... can't be fooled again.
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by stephenr 3y ago
> has to give Apple my credit card to get it to work Get what to work?
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by stephenr 3y ago
... it boggles the mind to think that because they use Mac's to develop on, they never tested things on other devices. Until very recently (the arm switch) it was possible to use a Mac and test on every major (and most minor) desktop
653.
by stephenr 3y ago
Not really changing my opinion that they're just being childish, to be honest. The ddos argument doesn't hold any water either because they don't actually refuse connections with a referrer from the offensive sites - I guess
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by stephenr 3y ago
Even then I don't really get it - he's clearly not tied to a specific location. I'd be willing to bet that even a regular home (unit/flat/apartment/small house/whatever) can likely be rented for 1/5
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by stephenr 3y ago
"Eating at the first class lounge" doesn't quite mean what it sounds like though, if the reality is "get a small snack".
656.
by stephenr 3y ago
And no facilities most of us take for granted: a shower when you want; a washing machine; a kitchen with exactly what you want in it; private space; an actual bed....
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by stephenr 3y ago
Does that ticket also give him free access to a dryer ? Or is he just going to hang his clothes up in the train for everyone to enjoy?
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by stephenr 3y ago
Probably also increases the need for a change of underwear in the carry on bag you now can't take with you.
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by stephenr 3y ago
How exactly do you imagine TSA precheck will help on a flight between UK and Australia?
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by stephenr 3y ago
> I wish my company would just standardize on some supported variant of a Linux Desktop I mean, it doesn't sound like your current windows desktop is particularly supported .

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