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Which aircraft have flaps or gear controlled by an autopilot? I'm just an armchair "Air Crash Investigations" fan, but I've never heard of any aircraft where either flaps and gear …

Perhaps set size is a contributing factor? I've bought two sets over the last few years, and both of them have had a piece missing. One was 1969 pieces (no prizes for guessing whic…

When a fake candidate accepts an offer, the first real runner up candidate gets a rejection and has fewer offers to choose from.

I can forgive the URL bar swipe to change between tabs, because there is a visual cue that the other tabs are there - the URL bars of the adjacent tabs peek onto the screen.

I bought a device with some kind of cloth pads held opposite each other, and when you close it they brush up against an inner pad which presumably removes grease from them. It cost…

I've been a recipient of the "we're really sorry but object in bucket X at path Y has been irretrievably lost" email a couple of times. Once you're storing a few million objects at…

Happy to take a look (next week, realistically, as I'm UK based) - you can dm me twitter.com/nickrw

Hey, I work on Twitter's search team. This sounds like a bug we're aware of where an account that goes public -> private we'll reliably purge their tweets from the public index, bu…

I'm not suggesting they aren't criminals. But there is a spectrum of criminality and I am suggesting they are considerably less so than the leaders of the fraud ring. These ads are…

You see ads on instagram offering to buy or borrow your bank account for £50... and when they're used for muling guess who it is that gets their account banned and then a CIFAS mar…

It's still possible to design a badge system on an independent network (think just switched within a building) which syncs a local copy of the authoritative ldap from the corp doma…

There's another great example of this in maps, where it will refuse to let you favourite your home or work address if it's not in the right format. It won't even tell you that it f…

This could be very dangerous, depending where an exception happened. Variables can contain critical secrets, like your TLS keys or a user's password and if your stack trace printer…

More than a decade ago I had an amazon interviewer write some perl on a whiteboard, and ask me to find the error. There were two - I pointed out both and they didn't seem super hap…

This is a website which serves the sole purpose of encouraging people to copy snippets of text and paste them into their terminal, and there are plenty of techniques that ensure wh…

It's particularly frustrating because the framework for this feature already exists - if you link a new phone it offers to sync your history to it.

In this case Face/Touch ID represents something you have (the iOS device with a persisted credential in its secure enclave), and something you are (fingerprint/face).

Your editor should be able to help with that. For example in vim: `gqap` will reflow the current paragraph, or while in visual select mode you can use `gq` to reflow your selection…

The interesting thing about working for a UK challenger bank - I now have visibility into all of the outages going on at large, high-street banks here. Complete outages are rare, a…

Your card issuer (at least in the UK) is obligated to block recurring payments from a particular merchant if you request it https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/continuous-paym…

Ah, here's a video of a note 10, which has the same fingerprint sensor as an s10, being fooled by a gel _case_ after being trained with a fingerprint normally. https://twitter.com/…

Is there any indication of whether this only happens if the screen protector was present prior to training the fingerprint? > After buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lis…

Specifically this class of incident? Yes. They seem to be reasonably good at operational runbooks for known flaws, so I can imagine this class of incident being handed faster in fu…

It happens all the time, and they just don't tell you. We get automated notices when banks connect and disconnect from the Faster Payments network, something happens every few days…