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According to Zillow, the median rent (for all property types) is $3,300 is San Francisco, but it is $3,400 in the neighboring San Mateo county, so yes, SF is indeed cheaper ;)

> Did you see AAA777 to Las Vegas. That's just a typo in the article, the actual flight number is AA777 https://www.airportia.com/flights/aa777/dallas-fort-worth/la...

30 years ago that was an option in Almaty (was extremely convenient for me, as we lived literally 2 block from there). You could check in, drop baggage, go through security and the…

I strongly believe that "having the two fields get initialized to Environment.TickCount" is the correct fix and using unsigned arithmetic is just a workaround. If you save the time…

The table includes post-USSR chips too: > Newer devices from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine are listed here if they are labelled according to the Soviet integrated circuit designatio…

> Only below 40mph > Only on specifically mapped freeways Those two seem to contradict each other - there are no freeways in CA or NV where you can (safely) drive below 40mph

This is very unlikely, because Asiana 214 crash happens in broad daylight at 11:28am, so it could not possibly trigger a rule forbidding visual approach at night.

Consumer Report is an American organization and they only report on cars sold here, so no Renault (not sold in USA) nor European Golf in the list.

My understanding is that at Columbus time they did not measured sun / moon positions, but instead based their predictions on the eclipse cycles - if you have long enough record of …

> lack of scrollbars on macOS Do you know that you can tell your Mac to "always show scroll bars" on System Settings -> Appearance page? Anyway, while I tend to agree that Snow Leo…

Do you know that Gucci has on-line store, also available 24/7 from your living room?

Yeah, looking at English-Russian names for boys, there is no way for names like Brody and Orell being Russian!

It's not the background metric but the space geometry is assumed Euclidean - in non-Euclidean geometry the ratio of of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that is no…

> Most animals prefer to work for their food—a behavior called contrafreeloading Want about humans? are humans contrafreeloading animals or not?

You meant Titan, didn't you? - Triton is Neptune's moon ;)

Hmm... Looks like train signals (usually? always?) have colors in the opposite order indeed. Probably, parent comment did mean driving a train? ;)

Where do you live to have green light on top? I thought it was an international standard to always have red light on top, and this article claims the only exception exists in Syrac…

Nah, "1.1" is a valid IPv4 address (Cloudflare DNS) and it's shorter

This story is embedded into their novel "Жук в муравейнике" ("Beetle in the Anthill"), so it does not have a name, never being a separate short story.

The latest version of macOS Outlook (I have 16.64) can open EML files - for some reasons it cannot preview them, but opening works fine (although I vaguely remember that not workin…

A lot of elevators in US do indeed have G for the ground floor, but that's because they are made by ThyssenKrupp AG, a German company ;).

Git has "reset" in addition to "revert" (the former mutates history but the latter does not). What Mercurial has for removing the wrong commit? For amend option - well, we switched…

It is kind of true, though. From Mercurial docs: >The public phase holds changesets that have been exchanged publicly. Changesets in the public phase are expected to remain in your…

> The ability to hit Win+Shift+S, screenshot a part of the screen, then immediately paste it somewhere? Huge. MacOS has nothing like this Ctrl+Shift+Cmd+4 (default shortcut, you ca…

No, because while macro can add the opening bracket for the block, it cannot add corresponding closing bracket.