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That's not right, I'm afraid - the Underground is usually profitable and subsidises loss-making forms of transport (particularly buses). Here's some high-level, pre-pandemic figure…

> The point of looking at the monetary value is that it's a way to quantify how unavailable they are. Land costs money. Where land is scarce, it becomes expensive. Where land is ab…

I'm a big fan of The Old Reader. The UI is quite similar to Google Reader (as I remember it), and because it's only focussed on feeds it's not cluttered with other functionality. T…

"Submit autopsy report" is in the top navigation bar, although it links to an external form service: https://siftery-track.typeform.com/to/n5IT7u .

If you're a "data controller," then you may be required to register with the local DPA (Data Protection Authority). In the UK, for example [1]: "The Data Protection Act 1998 requir…

I don't agree with this strategy. A spare PC under a desk might work perfectly for years without any trouble. Alternatively you might spill coffee over it next week and destroy the…

Clearly it's possible for the Swedish prosecutor to find a means to interview him in the embassy. They could use the telephone. They could use a videoconferencing system. They coul…

> The reasons given, that XUL requires maintenance that Mozilla engineers don't enjoy doing, is a joke considering the amount of effort to maintain XUL is less than 1% of the amoun…

Although they don't seem to be in any rush - only 19 of 28 EU countries have joined the Euro according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone .

Why not just expand the original query? A search for "devise ruby" works pretty well ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=devise+ruby ). I've long given up searching for trendily-named Java…

A few years ago there was a series of adverts in the UK advertising exactly this danger. You might think you're OK with only a broken nose, but you've just crushed the person in fr…

Are you sure the button becomes difficult to use? I might be very wrong here, but I'd at least hope that "release easily even when hanging upside down" might be a design requiremen…

I agree with this - the right place to restrict the number of concurrent database queries is the database, not the whole IO layer!

The article addresses this: > The -F for grep indicates that we are only matching on fixed strings and not doing any fancy regex, and can offer a small speedup, which I did not not…

I agree with this completely. I think the point of all interviews should be to start a conversation - and the sort of broad technical conversation this question inspires is a reall…

I found sed great for messing around with SVN repository dumps. Delete a few lines here to remove the commit that added a directory... change a few paths to pretend the files in th…

> Of course I know about HTTP verbs PUT and DELETE and HEAD-- is there really any web dev who doesn't? Yes: I've interviewed some. Very few realise there's any more than GET/PUT/PO…

Only the other week I managed to mouse-twitch into existence a file that rm refused to remove.

Personally I much prefer the Bakerloo. The seats are much more comfortable than anything more recent. The Bakerloo is pretty low down the list of an upgrade, apparently. Counter-in…

Care to share any? Reasons I can think of: Existing automation may be insufficiently good to cope with adverse weather and unplanned situations. Technology has moved on considerabl…

Communication from CloudFlare to your server is over the open Internet, whereas that from an ELB to an EC2 instance is within Amazon's datacentre.

It is an option, but not always the best option. I think it was one of the Mars landers where they disabled error detection for landing. If the system reset near the ground then th…

But those frequencies don't get to the speaker 'cause the amplifier doesn't send them...