Lloyd's Insurers Stumble over Computer Leasing (1979)nytimes.com3 points·by cett·3 years ago·1 comments
cett·last month·discussReminds me a bit of how in the UK the guinea coin ceased to circulate decades ago but it's still used for bidding on racehorse auctions.1 guinea = 1.05 poundsYou purchase the horse in guineas, seller gets paid in pounds, auctioneer keeps the missing 5% as commission.
cett·4 months ago·discuss'Universal' 110V AC sockets are definitely feasible and offered by some airlines (on some equipment).E.g ANA: https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/guide/inflight/service/seat_plug...Related Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmPower_(aircraft_power_adapte...
cett·2 years ago·discussIt's more likely that the flight in question was using the three letter ICAO code in its passenger facing flight number. I have never known a three character IATA code to be used despite it technically being within the specification.
cett·3 years ago·discussI found that partitioning the table to allow parallel auto vacuuming was necessary to scale.
cett·3 years ago·discussDefinitely doable with HAProxy + lua. I've used it extensively for load balancing stateful apps.
1 guinea = 1.05 pounds
You purchase the horse in guineas, seller gets paid in pounds, auctioneer keeps the missing 5% as commission.