It probably did. I was in the us this summer and was similarly confused that the pump wanted a us zip code for a foreign card. I input the zip for the address i was staying at and it worked...
Huh. I'd always assumed the zip code was validated against the card's billing address but maybe it's actually for some kind of market research. I'll have to try myself.
Following up: I tried a valid but incorrect zip code recently and the transaction was declined. Presumably this is because there is a valid one associated with my account?
I just experienced an interesting exFAT issue yesterday. Apparently it has a 2 second resolution on mtime. Got a bug report and just formatted a new partition with exFAT in windows 11 and it was unable to set modified timestamp to an odd number. Or rather i got no error when setting it, but it did get rounded up if it was odd. The wiki entry for exfat says it has 10ms resolution up from 2s in FAT, but that didn't seem to be the case for me. I thought about it being FAT and windows just lying to me but i couldn't confirm that was the case.
Looking at the specification[1], it seems ExFAT uses an old style 2 second granularity FAT timestamp, but with an extra separate single byte field to give 0-199 * 10ms extra for fine(r) grained time stamps. It's possible Windows just ignores the high resolution field? Bit odd for Microsoft's own implementation to ignore their own enhancements though.
I do have to ask the idiot question that you are sure you formatted the drive as ExFAT and not FAT32?
Plants. I didn't have many before covid/wfh, but they really make the place more liveable/ejoyable by just being there and this became increasingly important as i spent so much more time at home
Plants are amazing. I have created a small garden all using plants in the pots in my front patio at my apartment and have grown veggies such as tomatoes, bell peppers and lime along with flowering plants. I also keep a bird feeder and a bird bath nearby the bushy plants. Totally worth it as it keeps my and my wife's mood cheerful just by looking at bees, butterflies and hummingbird coming to flowers and birds coming to feeder and bath. It also keeps my engineering mind occupied with processes such as watering, fertilizing, weeding and pruning etc every few days to see outcome of more flowers and more veggies growing from well taken cared plants.
Same here. My better half got into it and now it's green everywhere with so many different species (some images: https://twitter.com/LaurasGarten) including various veggies like salad and tomatoes. Add the birds that visit the feeder I can see from my work desk and it's perfect. In general hiking though nature, which I've never really done before, has probably been the best activity I've picked up during covid.
I got dwarf tomato plants this year, my very first attempt at growing tomatoes or any other vegetables for that matter. I'm growing them in containers on my patio. So far, they have sprouted two tiny green tomatoes each and, for now, they don't need a cage to support the growth.
Fungus gnats and aphids and making this hobby a living hell for me right now. I’ve been watering my veggies with BTI and spraying aphids with Spinosad(sp?), any tips on ending this infestation nightmare? I’m so close to calling it quits. Have about 12 different veggies going in raised planter boxes.
I had a really bad fungus gnat infestation. I tried sticky traps, BT, and water with Fels Naptha soap. In the end, drying out the soil was the only thing that worked for me. I did it two different ways, but not sure if this is doable in your situation with veggies and planter boxes. For an avocado plant, I let the soil dry completely and then some before watering the plant again. The other was a money tree where I couldn't get the soil to dry fast enough, so I ended up repotting it with cactus mix. Once deprived of water, the fungus gnats disappeared.
Recently, I did too. Being trapped at home during Covid, I wanted to pick up a new hobby. I was looking at fish tank, because while beautiful, they are also very geeky, researching plants and fishes. All those gadgets that go in the aquarium to maintain equilibrium sounded to me like setting up servers and loadbalancers. But margin of error is very small in fish tanks and upfront cost is huge.
So we decided to buy one plant per month instead. Plants are great, they look nice, can turn any boring room into a cozy space, and there is also a lot of geek factor when researching plants, maintaining proper watering and feeding routines but unlike fish tank, plants can survive when you are on vacation or accidentally over-water.
Its not all about cash vs non-cash. It can also be about privacy. You might not want some embarrasing item on your bank statement for a number of reasons.
I would love a reloadable prepaid anonymous card i could use instead of my own in my everyday life. I would probably use only that if i could find one. There is no such option afaik where i live though. And we are transitioning very fast to cashless. ( Norway )
Well its not an impossible argument to understand from a game theory perspective of civilization.
I don't agree with it. Much as i don't agree with the Dark Forest premise set forward in the Three Body Problem series, I thought it was very interesting nontheless and worth spending quite a bit of time musing over. As with Nick Bostroms thoughts.
Just because we disagree with a concept on ethical or practical or whatever reason doesn't mean we should be discussing it or that we can gain something from discussing it.
At least he can argue his side, unlike the politicians constantly pushing for a more and more draconian state.
I used to believe this because I used to believe that toy models were exercises in the capability of our thoughts, and any such exercise is worthwhile. But we have a discipline for that -- theology. Towards the end of the 20th century philosophers that are widely considered to be a part of the modern canon (in particular William James and Peirce, Wittgenstein too) thought practice as being indispensable to theory, and that theory that is formed without practice just cannot have the experiential fodder necessary to ground theory in factual principle.
It sounds obvious when you say it, but here we are. Philosophers themselves have either (a) taken an "ethnographic turn" (c/o John Dewey) where they realize the limitations of there own expertise and figure the standard they should strive for is being stronger describers of reality, disentangling its confusions, or (b) acquired expertise in the thing they are philosophing about, which makes them a kind of theorotician or highly informed historian.
If Bostrom ain't writing code how do we know if he is grounded in anything?
Do they really though? I don't know any numbers, but i would imagine that the airports at least make up some if not all of the cost of equivalent railroads? I get that the airport can service a lot more destinations than a trainstation( overseas etc ), but i'm not totally convinced that rail infrastructure is that much more expensive than for air.
The cost of airport security etc should probably also be thought of as infrastructure costs.
The new high-speed connection between Berlin and Munich cost about eight million Euros per kilometer. That was a bit on the high side because acquiring the land was expensive. Switzerland spends about two billion Franks a year on maintenance of its tracks.
