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Not exactly the same as eye contact :-)

Cycling in Amsterdam often involves eye contact between cyclists and drivers at busy junctions that don't have lights. I don't think self driving cars would be very good with that subtlety.

The main safety feature for cyclists in Amsterdam, is that almost every driver is also a cyclist. They know what cyclists are going to do and how much room they need.

Isn’t Google responsible for this? They rank results based on how long users stay on the page, plus how much they scroll. Forcing all those “when I was a girl in Sicily…” stories at the top of a recipe that nobody wants.

Indeed, it was Azure DevOps. I had linked it with Teams as it was accessed through that, or so I remember.

I worked for a large department in a large bank that changed from Jira to MS Teams Scrum, as the new licence for Jira was too much. No way that it had as many features as Jira, but it worked fine, maybe was simpler.

So it ain't nonsense, users do switch.

Very true, effectively French speaking Vikings. Who changed the English language to include lots of French.

We can see the fingerprints in the way food is named: pork/pig, beef/cow, etc. The French word was used when serving the Normans at the table, and the English word was used in the field.

And the Norsemen/Normans invaded England and took over. They went native and became English after a while. Then started The British Empire.

-- Calling such people ‘Vikings’ would be like calling 18th century British, French or Dutch naval officers ‘pirates’ simply because they wore vaguely similar hats and sailed vaguely similar ships to Blackbeard.

Thing is, pirates like Blackbeard were doing the same thing the British navy were doing, they just stopped giving the loot back to the Empire. Where do people think they got the boats from? So the navy kind of were pirates, or at least engaged in that activity, albeit sanctioned by government at home.

Be careful in case it is a scam like this. They seem to put a lot of time into convincing people that they are genuine.

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The Netherlands is 17th, 18m population. With the population and resources Russia has you might expect them to be higher up.

I've also heard that this wasn't the case, but that it was to force the cashier to "ring" the transaction through to get the cent to return and not just pocket the $2. And that the custom just stuck.

Was not clear to me.

Same thing happened somewhere I worked, except all mail was being sent to the company HQ. It was loaded on lorries but someone at the sorting centre had the foresight to phone up and ask "is this correct"?

Or tap water.

I remember that the site used to have a message from the developer saying that if he got 30 sales he would go full time on the project. 30 sales were faxed through and he considered it a message from God.

Couldn't this be a positive long term benefit of Corona? A push back against globalisation and more domestic production in each region of the world.

Seems like a valid point to me, not sure why down voted. If Republicans won those two Senate seats would companies (including Facebook, Twitter) be acting the same.

Yep, I got your original point. I heard the GDP figures I mentioned on an economics podcast last week and had to shoehorn them in ;-)

-- more than a third of the world GDP

When the British took over India it was 31% of global GDP. When they left India's share of global GDP was 2%.

-- under GDPR regulations, which are similar in the UK and the Netherlands...

GDPR is an EU law. What is the "similar" UK version post Brexit?

But MapReduce has long been superseded by Spark outside of Google right?

Brought to you by the NSA ;-)

> Highly recommend everyone watch/read about the dam they built in the North Sea.

Watch what?

I don't think it's dreadful (but maybe no. 3) and I think Microsoft are the best out of the 3 at Enterprise sales. Google prob the worst of the 3 in that regard (and no. 1 with stack).

CDC you are looking at the change logs of a Relational Database typically.

With a (batch) Data Lake you accept as input different file types (JSON, CSV, AVRO) from various systems. Could be Hadoop systems, could be from a COBOL system on a mainframe.

DIY is probably the biggest alternative. I think Databricks saw so many customers solving the same problem and decided to make a service of it. Great idea and a bit surprising that it hasn't continued as an Enterprise feature that they only offer customers.

That link seems to say that you must pass on the left unless "An open highway is clearly marked for two or more lanes of travel in your direction." and another reason.

I guess the multi-lane open highway is the reason it's ok? Does that make those multi-lane open highways a free for all? No concept of a fast lane, overtake wherever you choose?

It overtakes a few cars on the inside in that video. Is that allowed?

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There is no y in the Irish alphabet, could be the reason it sticks out.