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Food delivery company I worked for, one of those mentioned, Valentine's Day was the second busiest of the year.

Dunnhumby is owned by Tesco in the UK afaict. Kroger is just a customer.

My guess too. In which case why don't they put him entirely inside a sealed environment?

Jesus Christ I didn't know that. Wow.

They made no honest mistake at all. I used them two years ago, did the unsubscribe thing three times since and still get spam from them. They know exactly what they are doing, same as beer53.

This discovery a few years earlier would have ruined at least one Frank Zappa song

I'm stealing this, thank you!

Yeah, when I replaced my crap electric hob with induction I literally sent a video to my mum boiling a pan of water to show how crazy fast it was.

I'm in the UK though, maybe it's something to do with having 230v supply?

Not surprised as it knocked my outdoor Christmas tree down...

B&O are weird. I used to live in Cheltenham UK where they had a store.

Was helping a friend install a £40k kitchen island top and a guy from B&O came round at the same time - sharp suit, laptop, briefcase. Turned out he was out to do his 6 monthly retune of the Freeview or whatever channels on the B&O TV. Plugged the laptop into the TV, which must have been 10 years old at the time (it was one of the first fat flat screens I think), pressed some buttons then said goodbye.

Some of their audio stuff was awful, form over function, especially anything with Bluetooth. But they do look nice and again from memory stuff was upgradable, so even if you paid through the arse for a portable speaker, it would support BT5 in the future or whatever.

At a previous role we had our origin servers attacked by Cloudflare IP ranges even though we were locked down behind them. Seemed at the time anybody could spin up a CF worker and bypass origin restrictions.

This was the one posted on r/buttcoin https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-ceo-changpeng...

Yeah. I quit as after WFH 200 miles away from my office for 3 years after COVID lockdown I was expected to come in 3 days a week. They were perfectly happy with me working from another office 100 miles away - our call centre.

What exact benefits growth or knowledge wise do I get from there?

I've turned off every email notification from LI. Which is difficult as they add new ones and opt you in, plus they move the notifications around so when you click unsubscribe on an email you need to click on every option to find the one you need to turn off.

But... you can turn off notifications of new messages. However you cannot turn off notifications of replies, despite the email having an unsubscribe option at the bottom (which takes you to what is described in the paragraph above)

LI is a rats nest of dark patterns.

Ha, I live in northern England right near one of their stores.

You need to remember Booths are probably the 'poshest' supermarket in the UK. They don't compete on price, they compete on service - I remember the first time I bought a box of eggs and the cashier checked each individually for damage.

Personally I like this - assuming they have plenty of staff on the tills.

I used to work there until April - all I can say is good luck enforcing it, they've got no chance. One of the few things I miss about living down south is Bristolians who will not miss an opportunity to poke the bear on this.

Eh? Our road signage is top drawer and leagues better than anywhere else i've been.

It's not Twitch, video is encoded in advance in various formats for different devices.

Embedding the ads into the stream is pretty difficult.

Company I used to work for had an AWS bill at 7 figures and sometimes 8 (a very time based offering)

AFAICT we had a blanket 20% off the bill, nothing special about egress.

Eh? If you're delivering video at scale there's no way anybody is going to do that for free?

Whereas with AWS they charge you for traffic between AWS regions last time I checked?

Do you need to ask? It'd be hilarious and a badge of honour from the hackers pov.

Note - I have a smets2 meter and think it's a good idea.

It was ridiculously bad, even worse with having a dog who brought them in the tent through no fault of her own. Love the place, but Bill Gates needs to spend his money to sort them out.

The first Windows Mobile phones (the XDA etc) were doomed from the start as they didn't haave hardware acceleration, so the screen redraw was dogshit.I loved the idea, but the execution was appalling.

Yeah, had a car once with a Windows sticker near the gear stick once, funnily enough the head unit was a bag of shit.

They're still around though - seen plenty of scanners in supermarkets in the UK (for the self checkout thing) that run it. God no.

The Miata is called an MX5 in the UK. I used to own another variant, the Abarth Spider - which is best known here as an MX5 in Italian clothing as it had a few improvements, but was based on an MX5.

The headunit was trivially easy to hack iirc - was based on an old version of Android obviously without security fixes, think it was from a website called mazdahacks? From there I had full AA without restrictions.

No idea if the site is still around but...

Same, but also more mainstream ones where the promoted tweet is from a year ago - I wonder if they're repromoting completing campaigns to boost the stats?

> And from the advertiser point of view... that is really theft: i get served the same ad for the same product like 12 times in a row in the same video. And it's not even sold in my country. Youtube is literally stealing money from their advertising customers, and yet the issue is ad-blocking.

That's a really good point. I subscribe to YTP (costs £20 per month for 6 of us, bargain) so not an issue for me however those advertisers must be querying the value of this?

It's not unique, there's quite a few and I like them. Friend of mine I knew in Cheltenham UK managed the same when she moved to Gloucester https://metro.co.uk/2023/06/01/rainbow-road-artist-unveils-l...

Did that a couple of months ago, was amazing! Apart from the midges..