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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 the shop because they couldn’t pay."
Can't even take CASH payment without the computer, what a world!
All with similar sounding names but vastly different purposes.
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 were waiting on was an application that would write, say, "a.txt" and you wanted to wait until that process was done so that you can read "a.txt", it is possible that you fail to open that file because the OS had not released the file resource.
Of course, I wouldn't put that clean up in an atexit.
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. And this wasn't even in the same hemisphere as the USA.
I used to drive this road to work. I am glad I don't any more. A fulcrum of human stupidity.
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.
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?
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?
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
Yeah, maybe if you have a huge wok burner? my induction boils water substantially quicker than any gas stove I have used.
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 lazy example.
Made all the more amusing since the author is absolutely right and there are many, many good examples available to support their argument.
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.
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 a bit weird as that describes 98% of towns in Australia.
And it was still the most insightful interview given that week.
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 via electrical conduit on the external side of the wall. It was expensive but I would have paid more considering the quality of life improvement.
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 still be able to take advantage of the high-speed interpreter included.
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 thoroughly enjoyable day. The view from the San Gabriels into the LA basin is also a marvel.
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 most desirable properties in the US.
There were also interesting stories regarding the formation of the park [2]. An interesting story, for sure, but it also helps illuminate why there are inholdings in the park in the first place.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_River_Land_Company
>> 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 sounds like a copy paste of the US' own DS160 form. It does seem to be missing my favorite questions from the DS160 though: 1) are you a terrorist and 2) have you committed genocide?
My experience is similar to yours, except it starts "I work at a game company...".
Another answer is in the movie "Never Let Me Go", one of the most bleak movies ever made.
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 bit like a two factor logout to go with your two factor authentication.
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!
I'm sorry, but isn't this exactly what beatport does now?
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 that risk. This would support your argument that they'd be targetting a new audience.
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 them on the web. If you want to see "puzzling" lack of sunspot activity, here it is:
http://obs.astro.ucla.edu/cur_drw.html
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 spotty but I seem to recall all games, live, HD with the ability to replay on demand (like gamerewind). You could also have the feed use the audio from teams radio network instead of the TV commentary. Man, I really miss that feature!
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 guess) and when I said I'd rather have a pat down - as I do in the US - they told me that if I refuse, I would be escorted out of the airport and banned from returning for 24 hours.
I argued for a little bit but eventually had no choice, not really being able to miss the flight.
The old system with metal detectors and xray screening of luggage was more civilised, imo.
Things have really changed, ... When I was a child I used to fly from Devonport (a small city) to Melbourne a lot. In those days, you didn't even go through security to get onto the plane in Devonport - they put you through security after you disembarked in Melbourne!
