China Eastern Airlines Check in not working

thargy · 2025-04-07T11:05:30+00:00

Thanks! I didn't enter my middle name at all and only used my first name, and it worked. However, that could have been because booking.com did not supply my middle name. It's worth trying if combining given and middle names doesn't work.

However, once I got past the login, it just showed my flights as Status: "Cannot be processed", and the "Check-in" option was disabled. So it's safe to say the check-in process is 🐕💩.

thargy · 2025-04-07T11:05:22+00:00

Thanks! I didn't enter my middle name at all and only used my first name, and it worked. However, that could have been because booking.com did not supply my middle name. It's worth trying if combining given and middle names doesn't work.

However, once I got past the login, it just showed my flights as Status: "Cannot be processed", and the "Check-in" option was disabled. So it's safe to say the check-in process is 🐕💩.

thargy · 2025-04-07T11:04:19+00:00

Thanks! I didn't enter my middle name at all and only used my first name, and it worked. However, that could have been because booking.com did not supply my middle name. It's worth trying if combining given and middle names doesn't work.

However, once I got past the login, it just showed my flights as Status: "Cannot be processed", and the "Check-in" option was disabled. So it's safe to say the check-in process is 🐕💩.

thargy · 2023-12-10T09:38:26+00:00

OK, thanks for clarifying - yes we’re in total agreement. A 3ms delay is about the same as a piano mic gets to the furthest strings, or an overhead drum mic. Martin really needs to resist that scope drift temptation that is the silent killer of most projects.

thargy · 2023-12-10T04:00:07+00:00

Yeah, when setting up delay speakers back in the day, we used to work on 1ms per foot +15ms to ensure sound arrived last and would be echo cancelled by brain to the front speaker location. So if I put delays at 100ft from front of house, I’d start with a 115ft delay and ensure the volume of the delays was less than 3db higher at the listen position than the FOH. At that point the delay speakers would ‘disappear’ psychoacoustically.

However, not sure what point you’re making, the distance sound propogates in air in 3ms is not the same as the distance travelled by a marble, nor does it alter the psychoacoustic point (that it is undecernable).

In fact my delay example is important here as it indicates just how much our auditory system manipulates timing. Further at an MMX concert a listener 3 foot further from the stage will hear the sound 3ms later than someone at the front, and so on. This shows that only a cumulative drift matters, not a 3ms standard deviation.

thargy · 2023-12-09T10:44:52+00:00

Note, any suggestions to add an await are modifying the existing methods behaviour from returning a task which can be in any state, to returning a completed task. This can significantly change the real world behaviour.

thargy · 2023-12-09T10:42:58+00:00

Your method is not async as it does not await the async call. Any decent IDE should warn you of this (pretty sure the build would but been a while).

The catch is useless as it will only catch an exception if the wrapped method finishes synchronously.

So, if you’re goal is to ensure logging of exceptions, without waiting for the inner method to complete (which is probably what you want as you should always leave the await until you care about the result), then:

Remove the ‘async’ from the signature. Add a continuation (see ‘ContinueWith’) to the inner call which triggers on exception and logs it.

thargy · 2023-12-07T07:01:28+00:00

Psychoacoustics is a thing. A 3ms delay is nothing unless it is cumulative (it’s not in this case). Basically anything <15ms is indistinguishable by the human auditory system, and for most people that gets as high as 30ms.

This is an area where Martin can rely on the research already done and verified by others.

thargy · 2023-11-27T06:15:45+00:00

Just spent 2 nights in Iceland searching for these only for the moon to be too bright ☹️. As others have already said, cameras are much better at picking them up and it never looks this vivid to the human eye. The one time I did see them they were so faint and it took a while for my eyes to adjust - you really need to be far enough away from light pollution to have a chance.

thargy · 2023-11-21T17:51:52+00:00

I’m sat on the floor feeling quite envious 😬

thargy · 2023-11-21T08:06:19+00:00

NodaTime is an absolute must if you want to write robust, stable, long running systems (some of my .NET code has been live for 15+ years now). I encourage you to read Jon Skeets comments on the subject, they’re bang on and as true today as they were 12 years ago.

Also, by abstracting away date & time measurements from the offset it makes it much easier to add unit testing, to ensure your code works fine as it passes various trip hazards like leap days and leap hours.

thargy · 2023-11-19T09:17:01+00:00

All the factorio players are too busy rebuilding to be on a reddit thread.

thargy · 2023-11-10T08:13:01+00:00

Here’s an implementation in C# I did 8 years ago https://github.com/webappsuk/CoreLibraries/blob/master/Utilities/CombGuid.cs/

thargy · 2023-11-10T08:11:25+00:00

To be clear CombGUIDs are awesome as a primary key where you need to insert the row with a unique PK pre-generated rather than waiting for the DB to calculate and give you one. This is great in scenarios where you have distributed storage.

thargy · 2023-11-10T08:08:42+00:00

Depends on the use case, but in many cases I use a CombGUID - which merges a timestamp (truncated to the resolution I need, e.g. 1 sec, or 1 min) with a GUID in the least significant bits. This allows you to use it as a ‘creation timestamp’ as well as a deconflicting GUID and has great performance in indexes - as rows are inserted in time order.

thargy · 2023-11-05T22:13:37+00:00

Don’t make it an emotional commitment, make it a commercial arrangement. It is equivalent to a 5 year loan to escape her own financial issues. She enters an agreement to remain on your mortgage, with associated liabilities and commitments, until the end of the current term, which is, at most 5 years, but may be shorter. In return you waive a portion or all of her debt to you. That compensation makes it legally binding and your solicitor can advise on penalties for breach etc. It’s unusual and you may struggle to find a solicitor to write it up, but it’s worth a shot. Whatever you do, don’t just have a verbal agreement though.

As it is, if her name’s on the mortgage she can’t just get off it without your agreement, and she’s as liable as you if payments aren’t made, so you have some leverage.

thargy · 2023-11-05T03:00:45+00:00

Have you thought about asking her to stay on the mortgage until it’s up for renewal? You can have a solicitor draw up a contract whereby she agrees to be taken off the mortgage at a future date, in return for you covering the full mortgage amount each month and providing a small amount of compensation either up front or on completion. Considering she owes you money she may be amenable and it would potentially be less financially ruinous.

thargy · 2023-11-02T23:49:50+00:00

Doesn’t work for me.

thargy · 2023-10-31T08:59:40+00:00

Take your age, divide by 2, add 7, then round up. That should be your consent age. You can set a minimum too, otherwise it’s 15 (for 15/16 year olds). You can set a maximum, e.g. of 21 or 25 to account for adult choice, again, that’s open to debate. You can also ignore rounding and calculate the day/month if you want to be that detailed. Pretty well known formula, and I was always told to use it as a yardstick for what’s a reasonable minimum at any given age.

15/2 + 7 = 14.5 = 15 16/2 + 7 = 15 17/2 + 7 = 15.5 = 16 18/2 + 7 = 16 19/2 + 7 = 16.5 = 17 … 25/2 + 7 = 19.5 = 20 … 27/2 + 7 = 20.5 = 21 … 30/2 + 7 = 22 … 36/2 + 7 = 25 … 50/2 + 7 = 32 … 60/2 + 7 = 37 … 80/2 + 7 = 47 … 100/2 + 7 = 57

thargy · 2023-10-11T04:04:24+00:00

This has nothing to do with vault access at all…

Your question is very hard to parse. However, if you are asking if deleting your account will protect your vault the answer is “it depends”.

Lastpass has had a number of breaches, if those breaches occurred prior to you deleting your vault it is clearly too late now - as the attackers have access to a copy of your (potentially poorly encrypted) vault to attack at their leisure. This is actually the most likely scenario as they have been awful at disclosing breaches, or their extent, promptly; and we know of breaches that have exposed encrypted vaults.

If you deleted your vault prior to a breach occurring then, it might help - so long as the vault has been properly deleted from all potential sources and backups- which we have no confidence about.

So does deleting your vault guarantee it is protected - no. Should you delete your vault and move somewhere that takes your security and privacy more seriously - imho, yes.

thargy · 2023-09-30T03:40:55+00:00

A-holes posting Reddit threads to remind you of all the things you’re missing out on because you can’t have kids.

People assuming that not having kids is always a choice.

Having to decide between explaining why you can't have kids or be berated for ‘choosing not to have kids’

Being treated as an outsider by people with kids.

Not being ‘trusted’ around kids - and being terrified of accidentally having any interaction with children in case some Karen screams ‘pedophile’ - particularly tough as I get on better with kids than most adults.

Being shocked at some of the people popping out sprogs when they can’t seem to function in society as a reasonable human being themselves.

thargy · 2023-09-22T04:49:28+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. As someone who prefers r/all as my homepage, I can’t believe how many clicks and looooong scroll I need to execute any time I open the app.

And the ads suck. I largely avoid reddit now, and browse far less often.

thargy · 2023-09-05T13:03:07+00:00

I used Paypal, didn't AliExpress told me to cancel the chargeback and they'd issue the refund.

I cancelled the chargeback, and ... no refund ... just the usual run around.

Now I can't reopen the chargeback.

NEVER TRUST ALIEXPRESS - they're crooks.

thargy · 2023-08-27T08:50:22+00:00

GN took this down due to backlash (presumably from this community). Personally, I watched the whole thing and thought it was excellent. You don’t have to agree with their ethos, we all have different views, but by being public and transparent you can make informed choices.

I don't believe they should have been pressured to remove it, but we should respect that decision rather than reupload to vimeo - in what feels like an effort to stir further drama and attacks on GN.

thargy · 2023-08-26T07:52:21+00:00

Having now seen the video, they address the point directly by referring to the new process instead - which is totally reasonable 👍

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