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New comment by Miiko in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

Miiko — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:20:54 +0000

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 ;)

New comment by Miiko in "Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers"

Miiko — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 07:54:19 +0000

> 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...

New comment by Miiko in "Why is it so hard to build an airport?"

Miiko — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:17:46 +0000

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 then ride on a bus directly to the plane. Same in Moscow, not sure about other cities (did not fly to other locations back then).

However, this was only partial solution, as it worked for departures only, not arrivals.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Алматинский_аэровокзал

New comment by Miiko in "The code worked differently when the moon was full (2021)"

Miiko — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:23:18 +0000

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 of some event in some field, you either need to initialize that field with current time, or have special processing of "value not set" everywhere it is used, otherwise you're almost guaranteed to have some hard to debug problem somewhere in the long run.

New comment by Miiko in "The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)"

Miiko — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 07:53:51 +0000

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 designation.

New comment by Miiko in "Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights"

Miiko — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:59:10 +0000

> 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

New comment by Miiko in "A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion"

Miiko — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 06:33:29 +0000

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.

New comment by Miiko in "Who makes the most reliable new cars?"

Miiko — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:46:03 +0000

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.

New comment by Miiko in "An asteroid will occult Betelgeuse on December 12th"

Miiko — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 18:24:47 +0000

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 past eclipses, you can notice that they are not random but the same timing sequence repeats after some time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_cycle

New comment by Miiko in "The Decline of Usability: Revisited"

Miiko — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 05:56:55 +0000

> 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 Leopard UI was the best and it went downhill since then, the latest macOS is still very usable and I do not suffer on Mac at all (unlike Windows 11, where I had to install a 3rd party app to at least partially revert what they did with UI)

New comment by Miiko in "Casino-like apps have drained people of millions"

Miiko — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:39:58 +0000

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

New comment by Miiko in "Find bilingual baby names"

Miiko — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 06:58:55 +0000

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

New comment by Miiko in "π in Other Universes"

Miiko — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 05:30:32 +0000

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 not a constant, it depends on such diameter (so you simply cannot define 'pi' in that case)

New comment by Miiko in "Cats prefer to get free meals rather than work for them"

Miiko — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 05:49:32 +0000

> Most animals prefer to work for their food—a behavior called contrafreeloading

Want about humans? are humans contrafreeloading animals or not?

New comment by Miiko in "Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites"

Miiko — Wed, 17 May 2023 03:11:58 +0000

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

New comment by Miiko in "Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness"

Miiko — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 20:07:59 +0000

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

New comment by Miiko in "Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness"

Miiko — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 05:05:38 +0000

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 Syracuse, NY:

https://uncoveringnewyork.com/upside-down-traffic-light-syra...

New comment by Miiko in "I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms"

Miiko — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:23:29 +0000

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

New comment by Miiko in "The Eureka Theory of History Is Wrong"

Miiko — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 04:49:35 +0000

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.

New comment by Miiko in "Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving"

Miiko — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:21:07 +0000

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 working previously, not completely sure).

Using both Outlook and Mail on macOS, strongly prefer the latter, but our IT only allows Outlook for corporate emails :(