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Anything over 150 seats means you need to pay at token rates plus the $20/user. My day job is operational (no coding at all) and I'm spending ~$300 a month on a few chats with Clau…

Hospital admissions are reliable indicators for violent crime and stabbings in particular - if you get injured you're going to need a doctor and they will record it - and these are…

Lumibricks is fantastic, built in lighting (or rather you build it in as part of the model) and as someone who has always turned their nose up at off brand Lego, the parts are defi…

The gap is reducing significantly - I have collected and built Lego for a long time and had this opinion but have recently discovered Lumibricks (formerly Funwhole) - excellent des…

Usually it would be either the full day (ceremony, meal and ‘evening party’ which we commonly call the reception) or just the reception. No one is being asked to skip the middle pa…

Weirdly on Reddit I keep getting the doordash and ubereats communities pushed at me - there is a very strong view amongst people using these apps that anyone who says they will "gi…

All that this does is ensure you don't get stacked with another order ahead of you (so the delivery is direct from the restaurant to the person who ordered) in theory. It doesn't h…

Other than Amex for airline points I don’t spend a penny on banking, all the standard services (eg transfers, bill payments, cash withdrawals, deposits) are free (in the U.K.) with…

Most of the time we knew because people are generally honest and tell the truth. A few times where we had concerns we'd apply for a police report - even if someone will lie to thei…

In the UK where I am, most standard (not budget) property policies would cover theft from an unlocked entry point. Two main exceptions: 1 - if you are letting the property to someo…

Lots of insurance covers these types of situation which are the result of careless acts... Don't take the right safety precautions and burn down a customers house - liability insur…

I don't think that's particularly true but even if it was, the site is overrun with crypto spam and porn bots that will drive people away. I know 3 people who have deactivated thei…

I may have misunderstood the parent comment - with gmail, you can add dots anywhere in the mailbox and it all goes to the same place (standard gmail, not workspace) e.g andrew@gmai…

This works for some providers (Google) but definitely isn't universal - MS/Outlook doesn't support it for example

I'm fairly sure that most podcast platforms now include dynamic ad segments - I listen to a few and whilst some (usually where the hosts record ads themselves) seem to have static …

Some operators do have their own infrastructure and most large ISPs have equipment in local exchanges and operate their own backhaul. Lots of it is just about marketing though.

I’m fairly sure it was confirmed they don’t have any standalone cyber cover so probably no insurance will be picking up the tab. I work for a cyber insurer (who are trying to reduc…

I work in a related field (cyber insurance response) - typically takes a few months to identify exfiltrated data and then analyse it to understand what is in it. This might seem si…

The UK motor insurance market is one of the most competitive in the world. Aggregators have created a situation where every insurer is looking for the slightest competitive advanta…

Which isn't even legally permissible, there is no way to 'give it back' (although you could stop using the title) - it can only be taken from you, which has to be done by the king …

Is this not just Bing searching the web under the built in web search integration?

Appreciate the focus is on the US but for contrast in the UK, 'theft by finding' is a specific offence - whilst you can generally keep unclaimed lost property you should make some …

I suspect the unit would be funded directly by Sky - the advantage to doing it that way is that they have access to the CPS and police intelligence, as well as all the powers the p…

For someone working outside IT but who has coding skills, it's great. My previous work computers have been tightly controlled by IT and installing libreoffice on them wouldn't have…

What stack can handle 500,000 orders per minute - 22.3 billion a month - on a $6/month server?