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In my past experience, any decently long lived bit of software (i.e. 5-10 years) goes through migrations to at least 2 different database engines (Usually as part of various other …

Cambridge for embedded stuff

Get a copy of the Open University (UK distance learning uni, been around since the 70s) books on EBay. A full set of books for MU123 (The most basic maths course, basically school …

> Are they missing a check to see if their homepage is responding? I would be surprised if the health page is actually connected to their realtime monitoring system In most cases t…

Yeah, we used Hetzner in Germany a lot at a former workplace where I was for a number of years, for production traffic, and we had a good experience. Most of our other infra was in…

In my experience (Fintech), status pages aren't actually hooked up to monitoring systems, they are updated manually. But yeah it sucks that they haven't noticed and updated it.

companies more so than the tech, I do Java in the banking space and its the same story.

They aren't that common. Only 2 of the high street banks offer them, and one is moving away from them. The rest are all Mastercard.

Other than some occasional small restaurants/pubs, and a few small indie shops, its basically accepted everywhere here in Edinburgh, I have a corporate amex and use it for expensin…

Totally agree. All the major banks apart from Barclays and HSBC use Mastercard for credit

Quite the opposite in the UK, at least over the last 10 years or so. 99% of debit cards are Visa, and most people buying stuff on Amazon would be using a debit card, folks only rea…

Basically the same as in 2010, except disks are now commonly NVM/.M2 rather than regular SATA, and SSDs are a lot cheaper.

Revenue doesn't mean profit. Netflix makes hardly profit, so thus pay little tax

Many men? If you are wearing a suit, a smartphone makes the trouser pockets bulge a lot, so it's common to keep it in your shirt pocket or jacket inside pocket - Both of which is n…

> Taking your beautiful game that you've spend 5+ years on building and hacking it to pieces to run on older hardware My understanding is that it was the other way around, which is…

"You need to sign in or sign up before continuing." how about no

There is an open source version AND a commercial version, which extends it. The binaries they provide the latter, which are are commercially licensed and include proprietary parts,…

I had it in Atlanta and it was great.

eInk would be a poor choice, the flash caused by updating the screen, every time you type a character, would be extremely fatiguing. This refresh would be very very slow on a decen…

We used Hetzner in Germany, when I worked for a startup a few years ago, for some stuff which was getting too expensive on AWS, and which had to be located in Europe for certain re…

> Non-compliant. The CovidSAFE application heavily uses source code from https://github.com/opentrace-community/opentrace-android which was released under GPL v3 That's not to say …

UK employee of a US company, its happening in both, contractors are gone everywhere and the US side has been particularly brutal with pay cuts - 7-10% here and 20% cuts in the US (…

When registering for a doctor or something, you generally just tell them where you live and your name. You might also need your national insurance number. If they want more, its us…

I'm surprised they got paid at all, let alone anything more than minimum wage.

No - We don't even have a single standard state-issued physical ID, here in the UK, let alone an electronic version.