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by nmcveity 2y ago
This gem from the ABC news coverage has my mind 100% boggled: "711 has been affected by the outage … went in to buy a sandwich and a coffee and they couldn’t even open the till. People who had filled up their cars were getting stuck in
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by nmcveity 2y ago
All with similar sounding names but vastly different purposes.
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by nmcveity 2y ago
But sometimes not fast enough. IIRC, you can wait for a HPROCESS in Win32 with the WaitForSingleObject call but that is signaled when the application code finishes _not_ when the OS has finished it's clean up. So if the process you wer
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by nmcveity 3y ago
Pre 9/11 I used to routinely fly a commercial route with no security screening process. There was once even an attempted hijacking and the (lack of) procedures remained. The grandparent is correct, everyone went insane after 9/11.
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by nmcveity 4y ago
I used to drive this road to work. I am glad I don't any more. A fulcrum of human stupidity.
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by nmcveity 4y ago
There was a PBS SpaceTime on the solar gravitational lens proposal not that long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0EGIt1SPc
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by nmcveity 4y ago
From this very page, a survey popped up for me. "How likely is it that you would recommend TechCrunch to a friend or colleague". Can't tell if satire or not.
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by nmcveity 5y ago
Why would the rest of the world get a say in what the ADF is used for? isn't that precisely the point of a military?
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by nmcveity 5y ago
As a Melbourne resident I really want a citation for this. Maybe the whole thing has been a nightmare and I will wake up shortly, who knows?
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by nmcveity 5y ago
I couldn't give up induction now and I have used gas plenty. FWIW, my induction handles 4-11" and I had no pans that were not induction-compatible, but that might depend on where you live I guess. > Nothing beats gas for output
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by nmcveity 5y ago
There is no explicit call for caramalisation here. As the sibling post points out, that is not what you would normally do for Indian cuisine. I found it a bit amusing that the article leveled the accusation of lazy writing, with a pretty la
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by nmcveity 5y ago
I don't think the Madhur Jaffrey recipe actually calls for caramelisation but I don't have the original in front of me. It would also use red onions and be done in a pan that is more like to a wok than to a western pan, iirc.
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by nmcveity 5y ago
A ticket on the Ghan starts at around $2600, it's a luxury service ... it's not "rail" like you might suppose. It _is_ a weird sentence though. I guess they wanted to say its only accessible by road? But that's also
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by nmcveity 5y ago
And it was still the most insightful interview given that week.
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by nmcveity 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_a_Dark_Background Paints a bleak picture of a civilization in this situation. Great book though.
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by nmcveity 6y ago
All my walls are solid concrete. I recently had the house cabled up because the powerline stuff dropped multiple times a day for 5 minutes at a time. It was infuriating. The cabling runs through the ceiling and dropped down to port height v
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by nmcveity 10y ago
Not sure about the machine linked in the article, but sometimes the operating system might prevent you from marking heap allocated pages as executable. However, in that case you are only prevented from using the JIT compiler and should stil
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by nmcveity 10y ago
If you are in the LA area you can take a docent guided tour of the Mount Wilson facilities, including the solar observatory mentioned in the article and the dome where Hubble observed. For someone interested space and astronomy, it was a th
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by nmcveity 11y ago
I was in Grand Teton a few months ago. It has 110 private inholdings[1] and our guide talked a length about them. You drive by a few of them on the road north of Jackson Hole. Just the drive-by made me think that these must be some of the m
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by nmcveity 11y ago
>> U.S. citizens must use an arduous “new form implemented on the basis of reciprocity” that has 41 often-intrusive questions. I got a chuckle out of that. Reciprocity indeed! Apart from the military and charity service question, it s
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by nmcveity 11y ago
Nothing generic about the Walt Disney Concert Hall either :) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Walt_Disn... But as you say: less well-known.
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by nmcveity 12y ago
My experience is similar to yours, except it starts "I work at a game company...".
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by nmcveity 12y ago
Another answer is in the movie "Never Let Me Go", one of the most bleak movies ever made.
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by nmcveity 12y ago
Some services like Gmail allow you to sign out all other sessions from a session. So in the case of logging out from a unsecured computer, you logout as normal and then immediately sign out all sessions from your mobile device - it's a
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by nmcveity 13y ago
There is an A-12 (trainer) at the California Science Center in LA. Apart from the shuttle I think it's the most interesting thing there... and it's outside next to the parking lot!
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by nmcveity 13y ago
I'm sorry, but isn't this exactly what beatport does now?
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by nmcveity 13y ago
Even if they have internet and software support, it's not reliable enough for streaming services. I was reading your post when the soundcloud feed I was listening to dropped out (literally). I don't think any EDM DJ would accept
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by nmcveity 13y ago
I visited Mt Wilson on the weekend and took the tour there. One part of the tour took us inside the 150ft solar tower operated by UCLA. I was surprised to see that they recorded sunspot activity by sketching diagrams by hand. And they put
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by nmcveity 13y ago
NFL offers a fantastic service, similar to the one you want, called gamepass. There is a catch (of course!), you just need to be in an international market. Its been a few years since I moved to the US so my memory is probably a little spo
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by nmcveity 14y ago
The only time I've been through a body scanner is in Australia. Just recently returned to the US through Melbourne airport where I had a 'wtf' moment when I saw the scanner. I was selected (about 25% of the people went through it, I'd gue

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