swish_bob

It's not really about the offer being made on the basis of public information though, is it.

If the eventual settlement is less than the original offer, then the plaintiff is liable for costs that occurred after the point the offer was made.

As far as copyright law goes, it seems almost sensible ...

This is explicitly why I did so well at Maths at A-Level. Once I could explain something to my less gifted peers, I had it. Completely and without the need to do the endless repetition I found so boring that is otherwise normally used to get good at solving those types of problems.

Numerous studies appear to show this.

No, it's not. Doubling down on making their shit lives worse isn't the solution either, though.

That turns out not to be the case. As is discussed at length in the article we're commenting on.

So, given the limited set of US States I've driven in, I don't appear to have been guilty of any violations.

Thanks.

Wait, "right turn on red" is a state-by-state law? It's been a while since I drove in the States, but I always thought this was the rule everywhere.

You should try Amsterdam if you think it's bad in London ...

People who've been using an OS for a fairly long time tend to accumulate applications. Many of them will have been 32-bit at the point they got them. Many of them still will be, or will be fairly awkward to update. While I'm happy I should be able to find 64 bit versions of everything I want to upgrade, I'm confident I wouldn't be able to talk my mother through it on the phone.

It's been flagged that it's coming for a while, but _at best_ it's a massive ballache for an awful lot of customers. Apple are going to need to provide me with a pretty compelling reason to persuade me to willingly undergo that pain ...

However at work I am explicitly disallowed to run Docker locally, and instead I'm expected to build my images directly in my dev OpenShift environment, yes, from a Dockerfile, but no docker-build for us ...

The ones who aren't _yet_ editing videos aren't.

You have full local admin access, right? And a dedicated workstation that's powerful enough for the job?

I'm not in the target market for this, but I can absolutely see a class of people for whom this style works completely.

It took a _lot_ of practice. I think I managed to successfully do it about 3 times ...

I guess it's not the public money they're trying to save!

Except it's still mostly pronounced WUSS-ter sauce in the UK.

> what do we expect them to do? Tell the office manager that her beautiful design had to be screwed with just because of some senior engineer doesn't fit there?

Yes. Literally that. Seriously. I ruined my hearing sitting in a server room for a year when I was younger. Don't fuck up your body for any company, you will regret it.

Also most countries have accessibility legislation of some sort. It's not just for "disabled" people, this sort of thing is normally explicitly part of it.

If the current appliances are already set to last and be reparable, then the regulation is a NOOP as far as business is concerned. So there's an insignificant cost to the business, and the consumer's get some reassurance. Seems like there's no need to argue against the regs, then.

It seems likely. It was _quite some time ago_.

Ironically, perhaps, the case I was thinking of when I wrote the comment was my friend's insurance refusing to pay out on his CD collection being stolen because there was no sign of forced entry (he'd left the patio doors unlocked).

This was a number of years ago though, whether thieves still take CDs is an interesting question.

Your household insurance might well refuse to pay out if there isn't evidence of forced entry. That's a fairly sizeable variation in the cost of being broken into ...

The vendor experience with PayPal is appalling though. They'll randomly take money back off you when a customer hasn't even complained, frequently they'll just freeze you out of your account for months at a time. Better not rely on that seasonal income, half the time it'll be delayed by three months ...

Except it isn't, because most of your developers will be using an environment that includes syntax highlighting and probably some linting. Except within string literals.

Code inside string literals is less readable and more inclined to be wrong/buggy.

Well, those aren't incompatible statements. It just pre-supposes that GP doesn't like the sort of people that WeWork attracts, but that they like each other.

Personally I have no experience with WeWork, but I've never really found the urge to make much of an effort to know people from other companies in shared office environments. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. But don't try to make me socialise with them, thanks ...

Back in the dim and distant past I worked Tech Support for Psion. One gloriously quiet morning our number was redirected to the house of some poor woman in South London who eventually just gave up and left her phone off the hook.

Sadly I couldn't enjoy it, as I was running late for work and mistimed my jump onto a bus, breaking my ankle ...

Paternity leave in the UK has been two weeks since at least my eldest was born, 15 years ago.

We wouldn't even have gone into hospital for the second one, except the midwife was unable (or too uncomfortable) to sew up the worse than expected tearing my wife suffered. Even after being whisked to hospital in an ambulance (at about 3 am), my wife was back home the same day.

Mostly, I believe, driven by the fear of infection.

If you're carrying a tube connected to a water supply, you're already carrying something you could use to transmit power ...

It's pronounced "rooter" in the UK. The wood-working tool spelled the same way is a "rowter" though.

I left my iPod on the desk overnight once while working at a large international investment bank. It vanished, presumably lifted by the cleaners. Security were remarkably uninterested in this, refused to do anything whatsoever (including checking the CCTV) although they did ask me to give them the crime number if I reported it.

I'd be happy with the leaders of those countries being told to sit in a corner and shut up until they could stop encouraging violence.

That wasn't my point though, and I'm pretty sure you know that.