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Not true that there is any sort of official rule to this effect. I've slept in a lot of crew hotels that had only semi-decent curtains. It is true that well-behaved airlines, who t…

Where should one go now to get gory details in layman terms of new CPU:s? Ian is my favourite CPU journalist. That insistence on reminding everyone, all the time, that he has a doc…

These are classified as "agricultural equipment", and as such they of course have access to most of the road network (not major highways) and do not need to go fast. Only "unnecess…

Maybe back in 2011 when that was posted, if the swap was for a second hand engine out of a crashed donor car that happened to be on-hand at the independent workshop where the job w…

You are entitled to 5 minutes (paid) break per hour worked in a shift, which the employer has the right to consolidate in various (but not endless) ways. This is on top the right t…

Such a lovely vehicle!

As a fellow swede, I don't feel any compelling need to switch languages for discussing CS topics. On the contrary I'm rather sick of speaking other peoples languages after many yea…

Or maybe you do want to take the pill at 5am, since your are only there for a few days and it is critical that you maintain an exact 24 hour interval between doses. As an assembly …

There is indeed no contract that datetimes without tzinfo are UTC. But there is a contract that they don't have a builtin timezone or DST concept and that you must define handle th…

I agree that python datetime objects are problematic, but for the opposite reason. It is tzinfo that is the sneaky disaster, the plain datetimes are fine. Transparent timezone awar…