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by inkyoto 2y ago
Salesforce have been on a shopping spree for quite a few years now. They have purchased MuleSoft (an integration platform) and Slack amongst the others. Salesforce is anything but a CRM software company nowadays.
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The main product of AMEX is not a credit card. It is a charge card which sets them apart from the credit card business and brings a higher yield to AMEX, the business.
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by inkyoto 2y ago
No, not all of it ends up as heat. Energy conversion efficiency[0] describes how much of energy type A is converted into energy type B to perform a useful activity, with the remainder being lost as wasted heat. For instance, internal combus
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by inkyoto 2y ago
The cited text has an extra detail: «… and it is customary to draw a line above all the letters making up the number, the dots of i and j being put above this line; for example, xviij» So, XVIII would have been written likes this:
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Answering the question with a question: do you withdraw hundreds or thousands in your local currency and keep it all under the mattress for that random black day? Cash has a habit of running out from time to time, most annoyingly when it is
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I suppose local market specifics come into play, and for a reason unbeknownst to me, most domestic debit cards where I live are MasterCard branded.
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> It's still objectively a monoculture, as Amex and MasterCard are pretty rare on global scale, while visa is basically everywhere I can't think of any part of the world I know of where only Visa cards are accepted in 2024 and
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by inkyoto 2y ago
The interesting thing is that it was only the last mile of the payment processing that has failed whereas the core payment processing (payment networks) and intermediate layers (acquirers and mobile wallet infrastructure) have held up. Repo
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Cash has to be dispensed first, and ATM's run on Windows, and so do banking terminals at bank branches. I do not have the information about what happened to the ATM's during the meltdown on Friday, but the bank branches where Crow
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Not disagreeing, however: 1) the prevailing majority of laptop and desktop PC installations (home, business and enterprise) are not Windows Server; 2) kiosk style installs (POS terminals, airport check-in stands etc) are fully managed, unsu
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I was largely joking. Even though the capability is there, it is not computationally practical nor possible to accomplish such a feat for any sufficiently complex programme. In the most extreme case, attempting to run a complex Prolog progr
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The cyber unit within IT is more likely, those ones are besotted with ticking compliance checkboxes, the delegation of responsibility and a game of musical chairs at any cost. It is even more likely that IT was at loggerheads with cyber, bu
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> Why don't orgs test their updates? Because historically orgs have been really bad with applying updates: either no updates or delayed updates resulting in botnets taking over unpatched PC's. Microsoft's solution was to f
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I concur, Prolog particularly excels at being an advanced configuration, embeddable DSL that allows one to express system configurations that would otherwise be not easily possible using a bespoke configuration language or a format. I have
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by inkyoto 2y ago
A unique property of Prolog is that, given an answer, it can arrive at the original question (or, a set of questions – speaking more broadly). Or, using layman terms, a Prolog programme can be run backward.
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> I don't know if CP/M (and in turn CMS) was inspired by UNIX in that way, or whether the "file" concept came from a different common ancestor, […] CP/M drew heavily on DEC operating system designs, notably RSX-1
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by inkyoto 2y ago
That was the premise of UML and the dream Rational was trying to sell with Rational Rose – that in the future, there would be no conventional programming languages, no software engineers, only architects, philosophers and visionaries wearin
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by inkyoto 2y ago
If the organisation doesn't use SSO coupled with MFA and the enforcement of the least amount of privileges principle on a cloud platform, then they have no right to complain about security breaches.
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by inkyoto 2y ago
It has nothing to do with the country, and it has everything to do with: 1) the transaction type, and 2) personal wealth. Transaction types. There are two: a) customer present, b) customer not present. Instant electronic funds transfers fal
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by inkyoto 2y ago
A debit card linked to an account with insufficient funds in it is not a sustainable solution with many banks as many of them will honour the transaction (usually within a small limit, e.g. ⩽ $50-100 but can be more), AND will apply the o
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by inkyoto 2y ago
It is a standard feature that all card networks have provided for a very long time and is known as the «recurring payment» flag on the card charge that follows the card account number, not the card number (both may or may not be the same)
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Yes, I am in a full agreement on the best of both worlds, with a couple of caveats. Apple Wallet supports neither the Montreal (the subject of this discussion) nor Boston CharlieCard transit cards nor many more. Apple Wallet has promptly sh
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> […] dedicated card purse-based systems can be better for regular commuters. I suppose it is a matter of personal or circumstantial preferences so I won't go into that, but through reading this discussion, I have learned that, e.g.
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> I agree in that they are much more convenient for tourists and occasional users […] I would argue that contactless debit/credit card or mobile wallet taps are substantially more convenient for tourists and occasional users – if yo
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The preceding comment was about the CPU cache coherency, which is the bane of the symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system design. The problem arises due to the fact the main memory is shared across processors (or CPU cores). Consider this rou
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> And you don’t drive on the right side of the road. Well. There is nothing left to discuss then.
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Australia's most venomous spiders are actually small. But yes, pretty much everything in Australia will try to kill you: it has world's most venomous snakes, world's most venomous spiders, saltwater crocodiles, sneaky dropbea
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> Surely there's some way of transcribing sounds in languages like Chinese for foreign languages. Same as in all other languages, with an extra step: first, sounds from the source language that are missing from the target language a
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Classical Chinese (Ancient or Old Chinese – multiple terms are used), the language the quote was written in that predates Middle Chinese and, by extension all modern Chinese languages, had a very different grammar with many features of it h
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> It's been interesting watching the reactionary rally against dairy over the last 10 years. Watching laypeople with zero scientific background write editorials on nutrition-adjacent topics is always a great workout of patience. &gt

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