Miiko

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by Miiko 2y ago
According to Zillow, the median rent (for all property types) is $3,300 is San Francisco, but it is $3,400 in the neighboring San Mateo county, so yes, SF is indeed cheaper ;)
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by Miiko 2y ago
> Did you see AAA777 to Las Vegas. That's just a typo in the article, the actual flight number is AA777 https://www.airportia.com/flights/aa777/dallas-fort-worth/la...
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by Miiko 2y ago
30 years ago that was an option in Almaty (was extremely convenient for me, as we lived literally 2 block from there). You could check in, drop baggage, go through security and then ride on a bus directly to the plane. Same in Moscow, not s
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by Miiko 3y ago
I strongly believe that "having the two fields get initialized to Environment.TickCount" is the correct fix and using unsigned arithmetic is just a workaround. If you save the time of some event in some field, you either need to i
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by Miiko 3y ago
The table includes post-USSR chips too: > Newer devices from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are listed here if they are labelled according to the Soviet integrated circuit designation.
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by Miiko 3y ago
> Only below 40mph > Only on specifically mapped freeways Those two seem to contradict each other - there are no freeways in CA or NV where you can (safely) drive below 40mph
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by Miiko 3y ago
This is very unlikely, because Asiana 214 crash happens in broad daylight at 11:28am, so it could not possibly trigger a rule forbidding visual approach at night.
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by Miiko 3y ago
Consumer Report is an American organization and they only report on cars sold here, so no Renault (not sold in USA) nor European Golf in the list.
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by Miiko 3y ago
My understanding is that at Columbus time they did not measured sun / moon positions, but instead based their predictions on the eclipse cycles - if you have long enough record of past eclipses, you can notice that they are not random
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by Miiko 3y ago
> lack of scrollbars on macOS Do you know that you can tell your Mac to "always show scroll bars" on System Settings -> Appearance page? Anyway, while I tend to agree that Snow Leopard UI was the best and it went downhill si
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by Miiko 3y ago
Do you know that Gucci has on-line store, also available 24/7 from your living room?
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by Miiko 3y ago
Yeah, looking at English-Russian names for boys, there is no way for names like Brody and Orell being Russian!
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by Miiko 3y ago
It's not the background metric but the space geometry is assumed Euclidean - in non-Euclidean geometry the ratio of of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that is not a constant, it depends on such diameter (so you simpl
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by Miiko 3y ago
> Most animals prefer to work for their food—a behavior called contrafreeloading Want about humans? are humans contrafreeloading animals or not?
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by Miiko 3y ago
You meant Titan, didn't you? - Triton is Neptune's moon ;)
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by Miiko 3y ago
Hmm... Looks like train signals (usually? always?) have colors in the opposite order indeed. Probably, parent comment did mean driving a train? ;)
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by Miiko 3y ago
Where do you live to have green light on top? I thought it was an international standard to always have red light on top, and this article claims the only exception exists in Syracuse, NY: https://uncoveringnewyork.com/upsid
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by Miiko 4y ago
Nah, "1.1" is a valid IPv4 address (Cloudflare DNS) and it's shorter
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by Miiko 4y ago
This story is embedded into their novel "Жук в муравейнике" ("Beetle in the Anthill"), so it does not have a name, never being a separate short story.
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by Miiko 4y ago
The latest version of macOS Outlook (I have 16.64) can open EML files - for some reasons it cannot preview them, but opening works fine (although I vaguely remember that not working previously, not completely sure). Using both Outlook and
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by Miiko 4y ago
A lot of elevators in US do indeed have G for the ground floor, but that's because they are made by ThyssenKrupp AG, a German company ;).
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by Miiko 4y ago
Git has "reset" in addition to "revert" (the former mutates history but the latter does not). What Mercurial has for removing the wrong commit? For amend option - well, we switched to Git at time of Mercurial 2.1 (I said
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by Miiko 4y ago
It is kind of true, though. From Mercurial docs: >The public phase holds changesets that have been exchanged publicly. Changesets in the public phase are expected to remain in your repository history and are said to be _immutable_ Note t
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by Miiko 5y ago
> The ability to hit Win+Shift+S, screenshot a part of the screen, then immediately paste it somewhere? Huge. MacOS has nothing like this Ctrl+Shift+Cmd+4 (default shortcut, you can change it to Cmd+Shift+S, if you wish)
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by Miiko 5y ago
No, because while macro can add the opening bracket for the block, it cannot add corresponding closing bracket.
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by Miiko 5y ago
> Moreover, teams target audience is not people in HN. Yep. I believe, the key in Microsoft success was Bill Gates realizing a simple truth: - Users of office software are not those who decide to buy it, that's their manager who are
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by Miiko 5y ago
I believe, this statistic does not say anything about what language Arch packages are written in, but rather what languages Arch users really use for their work.
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by Miiko 5y ago
Cannot tell about all other languages, but it does hold up in Russian: широта (latitude) coming before долгота (longitude), 'i' before 'o'
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by Miiko 5y ago
It is not, in most of the world (including US and EU). "Polygyny is legal in 58 out of nearly 200 sovereign states, the vast majority of them being Muslim-majority countries. Polyandry is illegal in virtually every country and strictly
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by Miiko 5y ago
Probably, your search history made Google believe that you like alternatives more than the originals? ;) Tried this search on Google myself, got clamav.net as the first link and alternativeto.net at #20

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