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> same with the front passengers, who don't have anyone reclining against them. You pay economy, you get economic space Front-row seats and exit row seats are paid upgrades because…

Hey, producing indoor maps of private spaces is an area I've been working in for the past few years and I know exactly what you're dealing with. I'd be happy to talk more about thi…

Every so often, posts from Bruce Dawson's blog get posted here - one such post was about using Event Tracing for Windows to diagnose an issue with an NTFS lock being held causing 6…

I bought a new HP Stream recently and it's been delightful to run Lubuntu on - everything worked out of the box. Even two finger scrolling in Firefox with the trackpad. I have othe…

I work on an app that edits and renders fairly complex indoor floorplans to SVG, all using React. We deal with large hospitals and airports, so it's normal for us to have tens of t…

I couldn't resist trying this and making some more detailed instructions for getting better images out of iOS. Turns out that you can get fairly good results without any fancy soft…

It is worth noting that while it's totally possible to fly domestically in Australia without having your ID checked, you're still required to have one. I'm actually quite happy wit…

Parking minimums in residential areas are one of the few times I think they can make sense. Suppose there is enough on-street parking for other non-residential uses. You don't want…

Daylight saving time doesn't apply to the winter though. Winter time is standard time, and DST is in effect during the summer months to better make use of the extra light available…

As a data point, my company is using yarn workspaces where one of the projects is an Electron app, and another has a Node server with native dependencies. Our nohoist section curre…

JS (and eventually wasm) calls the OS via requiring native modules, which is why we're concerned about keeping them around.

Wasm is designed to deal with the VM sandbox, which if you're writing a server is fantastic compared to actual native code as there's better security properties. It's not fantastic…

I hope by smooth you're referring to the graphics being vector vs bitmap, because Flash performed really badly once you added any kind of complexity to a scene. (edit: simple thing…

Their current Animate product (they renamed Flash Pro) is pretty much what you're looking for, if I'm not mistaken.

Clearly you don't live somewhere where speed limits are rigorously enforced. Setting a limiter frees you up from having to match the limit yourself and allows you to pay more atten…

It's worth pointing out Qantas is the exception to your point. More incidents on Qantas flights are due to causes outside of the crew's control than due to human error. Even then, …

It's more that you can't tell the difference between 30C and 30.5C. No one ever forecasts temperatures using decimal degrees here in Australia. You only need decimals for highly ac…

Australia. It's all covered under the Sex Discrimination Act. https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sex-discrimination/p...

No. At least in my country, all of the ways that females can be discriminated against in the workforce that are usually brought up are illegal. (Pay gaps for the same work, promoti…

Not until Windows HiDPI support stops being a disaster.

The definition of Retina varies based on viewing distance. The DPI needed for Retina in VR is a heck of a lot higher than what's needed for a smartphone. IMO we need to go through …

It isn't?

It's fairly common in Hong Kong's denser parts like Central. I was able to get around much of the heavily trafficed areas without needing to be at street level.

I noticed this behaviour in the smaller streets of Hong Kong as well. Makes a ton of sense to me.

It's interesting that a lot of people act like living in those big cities is a necessity rather than the luxury that you've pointed out it really is.