jon-v
Re:Where oil rigs go to die (2017)
on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @09:46AM (#35961845)
But what it's becoming isn't the point, the point of the loose translation is that the location of the furnace melting it down to become nails isn't specified in the original statement. The rest of the article implies it most likely went to Malta for resale and then somewhere else to become nails.
Re:European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mortality
on Friday April 24, 2020 @06:58AM (#22966689)
The main effect we expect to see on excess mortality is not from the lockdown, but from the overloading of the health care systems.
Re:World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Is Now World Fantasy Premier Le...
on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:37PM (#21792049)
What do you think luck is?
Re:Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier
on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:24AM (#21232206)
The Salazar scandal involves a case in which doping of athletes was very specifically not proven.
Re:British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures
on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:30AM (#20633433)
But you don't actually need IT systems to record who is on the flight - all you need is a pre-printed list of legit passengers and a pen.
Re:British Airways passengers facing delays after IT failures
on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:29AM (#20633429)
I have on multiple occasions been boarded by pen and paper in the US when technical issues prevented the electronic systems from being used - somehow airline/ground staff in the US often seem more empowered to do this sort of thing than their European counterparts.
Re:How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley
on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:55AM (#11875701)
When the actor was on Colbert he said he based the character on his mother.
Re:RCP 11 – Stream data type proposal for Redis
on Monday June 06, 2016 @03:05AM (#11845123)
Agreed. I'm currently considering Kafka for a project but am hesitant because ideally we need a zero maintenance solution, and Kafka seems to always end up requiring some handholding.
I'm not familiar with the Redis dev process at all. How long might one expect it to take for a feature of this complexity to make it from RCP to production-ready?
Re:Ask HN: Tabs or Spaces?
on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:33PM (#11803334)
This is actually the only truly rational defense I can come up with for my preference of spaces vs tabs. (The generic argument is that the code will look the way I want it to even when rendered by a tool where I can't control the tab width, but Github is the only real example these days.)