Re: I remember Travelex
Oddly, there's a station selling $7/gallon gas just north of the Orlando In'tl airport.
They were rather put out when I started taking pictures of the gas pump prices.
I seem to see a pattern.
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> anything other than a boneheaded decision
Actually, the change was to fix boneheaded design decisions in the original language, and Guido Van Rossum basically stated it as such. There wasn't a good way to do it w/o breaking backward compatibility, so as another poster said, they "grasped that nettle and moved forward"
> fully integrated unicode support turned up a lot of latent user application bugs
Can I have a "oh fuck yeah" upvote button please?
However, the "EVERYTHING'S UNICODE" mindset does make it a lot more difficult to write out bytes to things like image files and embedded devices.
>> first moment when the Empire Star Destroyer flew over the camera vantage point in the original Star Wars back in the day.
> "As impressive as the CGI in Star Wars." Not sure I'd take that as a compliment.
Pedantic bit... that moment was most definitely not CGI. It was filmed with a large model and some of the first computer-motion-controlled cameras.
> The Ops team had a list of names and numbers for the different application suites
That's the way it should work: the people responsible for the code are the ones that get bothered.
It's amazing how quickly the code gets fixed when that procedure is followed.
> where if something shows up that "shouldn't exist", the reaction is to make reality match the paperwork, no matter how critical the equipment might actually be
You'd be looking for the "offog" and and Eric Frank Russell was looking for one in 1955:
https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1439133476/1439133476___3.htm
I made a useful IoT device, with a Wi-Fi-capable Arduino board and a high precision temperature sensor board from Sparkfun. It's housed in a Stevenson Screen I 3D-printed.
I have a cron job poll it every 5 minutes and stick the info into a sqlite3 database. A Python script using matplotlib makes pretty pictures. I already have an Apache instance running for other things.
However, the basic reason for its existence is to help me decide what to wear on the motorcycle to work. I got tired of squinting at shitty thermometers, and the nearest weather.gov sites are 15 miles away and only updated once an hour.
I was NOT going to pay $150 for an inaccurate "weather station" piece-of-shit from Acurite or Lacrosse. Those c*nts have captured the market here, and they suck.
So it's "genuinely useful to me" and serves my purpose.
The Democrats have completely played into Trump's big orange hands, and made total fools of themselves. They've jumped up and down and yelled, then come up with really weak charges.
You want to know how people like Trump get elected? Because the other party is, amazingly enough, even stupider. With the Democratic party infighting and general idiocy, I expect there will be no one to gather enough of the splintered votes to oppose him. :-(
I go to McDonald's solely because they have a *working* self-order screen. (as opposed to the useless broken shit at places like Wendy's)
Finally I can order without explaining it 4 times to someone that doesn't speak English as a first language and still getting it wrong 50% of the time. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, but a language barrier when I've got to get something to eat is not welcome... the language barrier is partly my fault as well, due to my rough Southern accent)
I certainly don't go there for the food, but they've got my business because of the technology.
That's because those stickers are illegal on this side of the pond:
"FTC Gives Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 Days to Get Rid of Illegal Warranty-Void-if-Removed Stickers"
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw7b3z/warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-sony-microsoft-nintendo-ftc-letters
One of the extremely few places we're slightly better than European consumer practices.
> Unlike NASA, which operates on a year-to-year basis (albeit with a much bigger budget), ESA's budget gives the agency five years, which makes planning a tad easier.
That's a corker. NASA has been not-so-royally f*cked by the space mission du jour "planning" where we just do robotics go to the Moon Mars Lunar Gateway Moon is it still the Moon?
The president tells NASA to do something, mainly for a sound bite, NASA dutifully spends a couple hundred million planning, then get told to trash all that and do something else.
So our future in space comes down to wacknuts like Musk and Bezos spending their personal fortunes. Then some fruitcake goes "but that needs to be spent here on Earth for the poor!"
Because the standard word-prediction logic in the standard keyboard is shit, and there's much better available elsewhere.
Plus I like my keyboard with arrow keys, and keys designed to make selection/copy/paste much easier.
Plus there are indeed specialized keyboards, such as ones designed to work with ssh terminal apps like ConnectBot.
Only the download and subscriptions checks are in the cloud
Yup. Meaning the applications "installed and running locally" tell you to piss off when your network connection is down and it can't contact the Adobe license server. So it's "network's down? artists are down"
If you look at the history of Silicon Valley firms, especially the early days of semiconductor firms like Intel and Fairchild, you'll see this is a big part of what caused it to grow. People didn't like their current job, they were free to get another one, or even start a new company.
WTF. It's already there!
Edit->Preferences->Privacy
Select "Firefox will use custom settings for history" then "Accept third-party cookies: Always/From Visited/Never"
This is in FF 43.0.4, the last version before they removed fine-grained cookie control. So they apparently took the shit out, and put it back in, to rounds of applause for being such a wonderful browser maker??
Perhaps this explains why "Firefox has long since passed its glory days when it was a real player in the browser wars"