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It seems to be pretty common among European low-cost carriers. Not sure why it hasn’t taken off in the US, perhaps some reluctance to make passengers walk on the tarmac?

It’s possible to process transactions without a CVV, but it often costs slightly more due to the increased fraud risk. In the case of Uber Eats, they’ve presumably decided the incr…

Unlike a lot of countries, the UK has free and near-instant bank transfers which seem to be a de facto standard for things like splitting bills with friends. Incidentally I tried t…

To clarify: the first three links are for each year of the (three-year) undergrad program, the fourth is for the Masters. The Cambridge course isn't perfect, but they do a very goo…

I get the weirdest language bugs with Google: - The info box on the right hand side of the search results intermittently shows up in German - A suggested event (a football match) i…

It's worth noting that ETOPS only applies to 2-engine aircraft; a 4-engine aircraft can travel outside the ETOPS-permitted areas as long as it has enough fuel.

I had a similar class that used Gigs instead and never had any performance issues. It didn't feel as polished as GitLab though.

It's definitely true that in the EU we tend to make most day-to-day purchases with debit cards.

Unfortunately the Econ, Law and Ethics course is still widely derided, even though some of the content is genuinely useful.

What country is this?

You can use red diesel in a generator, I think the legality comes down to whether it's being used to power a vehicle on a public road.

It's illegal to set off fireworks after 11pm except on 4 dates, Bonfire Night being one of them (the others are Chinese New Year, New Year's Eve and Diwali).

Mondo, they had some trademark issues with it and had to change it.

If you start the MySQL Monitor with --i-am-a-dummy, this is enforced automatically

Somebody was asking about this on Reddit (/r/flying I think) a few months back. Short answer is that the FAA does not take kindly to receiving payment if you don't have a commercia…

Agreed. Working on a large Python codebase, I find myself greatly missing Java's improved static analysis, even for simple things like "find the definition of this function".

You'll be pleased to know he's still lecturing Foundations of Computer Science (aside from a sabbatical this year). It hasn't changed much at all, but the beauty of that course is …

Try mbasic.facebook.com As much as they want to force you into messenger, they don't want to cut off users of feature phones.

Wow, I never realised VeriSign was a Symantec brand. I'm not sure what it says that Google doesn't trust the company that operates the registry for .com