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Buying an additional vehicle is more expensive and more wasteful than using a single vehicle even if that may not be economical

Ha, I've found this attitude from a bunch of people in other parts of our extended company. Cloud means 'AWS', apparently. Servers only run Linux, supposedly. btw, Windows Clusters…

>> We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage. That sounds like very dubious advice to me, even if given with best intenti…

I use booking.com but the user experience does really grate. Simple things such as putting in the location and date, to get back a list of properties that aren't actually available…

As per https://youtu.be/k_Gn6a3WbYw?t=46

Yep, technical debt and atrophy. If not paying-down that debt, it becomes like compound interest from a loan shark. If not applying maintenance, atrophy sets in and things get wors…

I believe the topic is about the miscarriage of justice based on how the post office and fujitsu wrongfully harassed and took people to court over bugs, which were known about by t…

I do not agree with this argument >> The horrible truth is that if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept that crash…

In the UK at least, I'd say we have ended up in a situation where banks found that their approach to 'selling financial services' vastly abused their customers and now they are hav…

Search for "Laiki bank account" and that gives plenty of info about Cyprus money re-appropriation, for example. Iceland bank issues were widely covered too

Wow, that's a very sad and scary tale! Is this from around 2013, or more recent?

Bit like how people post pictures taken with their phones, using a 'nofilter' hashtag, entirely unaware that the phone software has applied a filter of some sort automagically. The…

> No one has ever prevented a climate change induced event so far Well apparently the ban on CFCs has had a beneficial effect and the hole in the ozone layer is no longer the issue…

Excel definitely opens CSV files, and Windows file associations tend to set that up by default. However, Excel then goes ahead with changing the content to often wrongly-assumed fo…

Surprised you would think that JSON is more human-readable, as the layout of that makes it visually quite appalling - not so bad when through a pretty-printer utility, admittedly, …

Agree that the commma delimiter is a pain, as it is a frequently used character in the content. Then adding escape-type chars or quotes around fields just makes things more and mor…

Useful economy figures, for sure. It's the average across Europe that I'd find really surprising, given how many older vehicles there will be, and not all diesels

Wow! Average 57 mpg in Europe - really? Even for diesels, that sounds extremely optimistic; is that from manufacturer-supplied figures? US gallons happen to be smaller too, fwiw

Yep, got a tablet here that is now a brick as Windows RT is no use

That is only likely to apply in very small-scale environments or companies. And if only a single binary is produced, quite likely a single source code repo would be used as well - …

We still receive junk mail with the postal deliveries a couple of times a month. Brown rubber bands too.

> Engineers spend so much time waiting on compile, build, and deployment time Slowness in this processes can certainly frustrate and extend overall timeframes, but surely engineers…

That lead developer was effectively the manager then. But you can't just leave all choices to developers, there has to be a commercial point to it all - that isn't something a lot …

That wouldn't necessarily be true though - some people could not afford to go through the work involved in upgrading from Java 8

This is where a Docker/K8s containerised setup can help. Not trivial to get to, but for deve/test environments it can be really beneficial. Can also mean the same clean starting po…