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He speaks Finnish too (though I believe with an accent). https://youtu.be/Pt-X82HZlOU

It’s helpful to put this issue into perspective. But dismissing issues as not worth caring about on the grounds that there exist larger problems is fallacious and, to me, quite a d…

In principal, neither do I. What I take issue with is crafting elaborate but completely false bios to make these sound like real artists. That seems slimy to me.

At Monzo we stuffed cards into envelopes by hand, printed mailing labels on thermal printers using slapped-together Python scripts, and filled up mailboxes in the local area every …

You are right about performance, but does it really matter? It feels like this is the sort of tool one needs (very) infrequently, and those cases don’t seem like the sort of thing …

Without understanding the minutiae of this, couldn’t someone just write a program that we can pipe any output to, which strips colour commands from its input before writing it back…

TIL. Such a useful tip, thanks.

We have very different expectations. I'd be pretty annoyed if I couldn't browse and sort my photos by date taken.

I think Notion might actually work best in personal/small environments, and this seems like a smart move to encourage more of that kind of use. My exposure to it is at a large comp…

You just typed your comment into a

I’ve been thinking about going the other way a bit recently: having bots consume input from and add their output to a Google Doc. There are so many processes in most businesses whi…

That post, which was very popular, immediately came to my mind too. It also feels like the logical next step to the very widespread testing found in countries like South Korea.

I think the parent is talking about compilation speed not runtime speed.

I don't think an equivalent of the Current Account Switch Service exists in the US, which is a shame. But I don't think this is crucial. We had around 5,500 switches via the Curren…

Many millions of dollars per year. I care about how my providers behave when they have issues, and I can't see why you think it's not at all relevant.

I mean, I care. All else being equal I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want good communication to your customers.

I really don’t get this. There’s a huge number of complaints about poor communication from companies like Google and AWS during every outage. Yet they remain seemingly indifferent …

The question of whether the driver should have had their hands on the wheel (clearly they should have) is distinct from the question of whether the Autopilot should have avoided th…

The amount of fraud in the system is eye-watering. Everyone pays the price of that whether they realise it or not.

Yes, though your bank has to also support it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

CVCs cannot be used for recurring payments (beyond setting the subscription up) and merchants/acquirers are forbidden from storing them at all.

It’s definitely a thing in Europe, but many merchants don’t bother to support it. Large ones like Amazon definitely do though, as do all merchants who use Stripe.

This isn't new and has existed for nearly 20 years. Visa's implementation is called VAU (Visa Account Updater[1]) and Mastercard's is ABU (Automatic Billing Updater[2]). Issuers (b…

My understanding was that in At-will states, an employer-employee relationship could be terminated without reason or notice unless there is a contract in place that says otherwise.…