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> The company has used the amount of code shipped as a major indicator of engineering output. > That metric is controversial.

An important point that’s buried quite a bit down the article. Grindr seems to be measuring AI success not on features shipped or business value created, but on number of lines of code generated which seems a fairly flaky justification for such a large AI spend personally.

Some banks only provide access via apps (at least in the UK) so loosing access to the app also means you loose access to the bank account.

Happens to the best of people. Appreciate you’re fast and open response.

A package on the list called ‘simple-swizzle’ turns out to be used in OpenNext which is an unexpected attack vector for sure.

They’re API used to work via just providing a VIN however that also allowed remote control so you could just run through all the VINs Nissan uses and turn on remote heating, etc.

This was reported in the media which caused Nissan to start locking down their API something fierce.

Then the three years free of many services have started to expire for most vehicles, so locking it down more became a potentially profitable exercise so now they actual have development work against it.

They also run facial recognition on anyone who uses them though :/

This article mentions the south of England but they’ve rolled it out country-wide since:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coop-facial-recognition

They generally pre-auth for either £20 or £40 and then update the amount post-transaction.

In terms of PIN check, the card is just declined with an appropriate error message because you can’t insert it and the next time you use a contactless machine it asks for the card to be inserted and a PIN entered.

For petrol (gas) pumps in the UK it generally auths either £1 or £99.

In the UK you’re taxed more on vehicle excise duty if a car costs more than £45,000 as it’s a luxury.

First thing I do on MacOS is turn on always show scrollbars tbh.

They block your site at the ISP level. They’ve been doing that for years.

They’d fine you as well but that’s probably less enforceable.

What I really don’t understand is why parents aren’t responsible for monitoring they’re children's access to the Internet anymore?

Why does it need to be done at each website instead of at the point of access?

In the UK the government sort of does manage a map that’s used as the basis of a lot of others maps called Ordinance Survey Maps.

Isn’t this just 2 tables with one hidden at a time?

It’s as much as the sign up tbh where it automatically adds Prime to your basket and makes it hard to realise your signing up to a reoccurring payment.

People feel they have to come in if they’re mildly sick for a variety of reasons.

Honestly I think by that point owning one won’t even be a thing. You’ll rent it from the manufacturer on demand or via a subscription with your subset of features enabled just for your trip.

They won’t park, they’ll just move from one job to the next (like taxis and ubers).

Interesting video on how increased automation doesn’t seem to be making employment better. Some of the takes are a bit extremely one sided, but it the general research poses some interesting points.

I assume it’s more people who’ve bought a house, sell it to downsize once the kids have moved out and use the excess towards their retirement (to make up the difference between the low amount they’ve been able to scrape together over the years)

I think that’s the way at most companies unfortunately. Maintenance is a cost centre while a new product is a potential revenue stream (until it too becomes a cost centre).

Wasn’t there a whole scene in Silicon Valley with Gavin Belson that basically mocks this kind of language?

To clarify, only the latest version as well.

It’s a pity it’s not accurate as to do a full loop you have to leave on a slip road and use a roundabout to rejoin (Simister Island).

Wonder what happens with the fact it’s a smart charger so requires the cloud to operate?

If your camera is down for an extended period that would probably be enough of an alert?

Layout shifts on ad sites are more usually related to the fact that ads come in various sizes and to make sure one is always displayed (and the company makes a tenth of a hundredth of a local denomination of currency) so you can’t prefix the ad space to take out of the page.

Then UX and your ad team will duke it out for if it should be a fixed size or should the company make more money and the user always loses :(

Although cool, it kind of ignores the responsive design-ness of modern websites if I’ve understood the implementation correctly?

Everything seems based off knowing the exact size of the original and the new container, so if the proportions of the container change, so will the clipping?

Could probably fix with a lot of breakpoints and the like, but it feels like it would be better generating a cropped version of the image beforehand instead of using this.

An interesting side effect of these networks shutting down seems to be a lot of car manufacturers have been cheeping out for years and relying on 2G and 3G networks on even quite modern cars, then blaming the network providers when they stop working after being the network is shut off instead of offering upgrades to the telecommunications modules to a more modern standard.

Record profits and unwilling to provide decent payrises, using the excuse of the pandemic uncertainty.

Wasn’t there evidence that anonymity doesn’t actually play as big a part as people keep saying? Most of the Twitter abuse, you can generally identify who it is behind the account, it’s more the forum than the anonymity?

Don’t you have to report that you’ve attended the course nowadays and Insurers generally increase the premium by the same amount as if you had points?