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There was also a Cardinal like this in Pennsylvania a couple of years ago - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56189600

You mean the one at the border station? That was a Bentley

Couple of years ago got rid of my 2008 Tucson with 150K on it for a 2015 Audi, currently putting oil in it every 600 miles...

means 'complex' - from Wikipedia " Five petals reflex backwards revealing a gynostegium surrounded by a five-membrane corona. The corona is composed of a five-paired hood-and-horn structure with the hood acting as a sheath for the inner horn"

Old article about it - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-ho...

Maybe by coincidence but a missing apostrophe was in the news today - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/17/hampshire-vi...

That's a very obscure test case...

Which reminds me of he story of sun stopping trains - Services at Lewisham, south-east London, were disrupted because of the angle of the 'low winter' sun, train operator Southeastern said.

The rail firm posted on Twitter: 'We had severe congestion through Lewisham due to dispatching issues as a result of strong sunlight.'

It added: 'The low winter sun has been hitting the dispatch monitor which prevents the driver from being able to see.'

Handyside arcade where I used to buy Viz and sorry, that was me smelling of patchouli

Like the fight between being called a QA and a tester = "we'll get the QA guy to QA the latest release" - oh, you want the tester to check the release as part of the QA process

The Tory attack on 20mph speed limits is already a losing battle - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/02/tory-2...

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Done it a couple of times - so easy to find clay pipes, Tudor floor tiles etc

Every Friday I had to take a bunch of magnetic tapes to the bank so they could look after our backups ( which was a good excuse to pop into the pub next door to the bank...) Oh, and we never ever tested that the backups actually worked

The Brand Toolkit page needs updating - https://about.twitter.com/en/who-we-are/brand-toolkit Not only does it still have the bird it says "Our logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it. Take a moment to think about how you apply it and take a read of our Brand Guidelines for examples of how we like you to use it."

and the Status page

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Which I totally missed until I read about it - then had to replay the scene and totally got it

what's up with these pipes/handrails on this one?

https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=5i0Gvy

Manual testers should definitely know about equivalence class partitioning, one of the first things I learned when I switched to being a tester. Also for "pairwise" testing, been a while since I heard that being mentioned!

It was such a good story I was sure I'd read it before on here and well worth another read

Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3918783

Got married at 45, moved to the US at 49 and have had a great 10 years here and life is good. Before then I was not in a good place, same for my future wife, we got lucky and found each other and then made it work. Some luck/work was involved - met my wife as we were both running websites for our respective daughters soccer teams, got my job in the US because I was active in the online s/w tester community and saw a posting for a job in Michigan which turned out to be the best move I ever made.

Started off writing a typesetting system in BCPL on a PDP-11 with our own custom hardware for display and our own protocol for sending information around with no internet to look things up and a fine of donuts for the team if you blew an overlay with too much code in it which caused hours of downtime. Then Sun workstations came out and we ported everything to C and productivity increased and WYSIWG became possible.

No concept of unit testing, integration testing or CI - customer support gave things a quick look over and the program got sent out so we always scheduled a 2 week Bug Blitz to deal with all the issues that the customers found.

Small company, salary was good, regular hours and a challenging environment with all the rapid tech changes

+1 for the Zen book, been re-reading it since I was 15 which was a long time ago

They hit the streets with the Poll Tax riots

The Guardian had some pictures which really showed it (including one of Greenwich park) - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2022/aug/08/...

wait til you hear about the waitlist for the F-150 Lightning...

and for Mexico