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by lbriner 5y ago
Doesn't always work though. It might help but there are plenty of times where passengers take things into their own hands and follow survival instinct against the advice of a driver, both above and below ground.
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by lbriner 5y ago
This isn't really the argument though. Sure, we want a member of staff to help but they could be a £30K train manager instead of a £70K driver.
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by lbriner 5y ago
4000 drivers at an average of around £70K per year is not chump change (£280M) + employer costs for staff. Out of a budget of maybe £5B per year, it is not insignificant but I would expect there are other areas where savings could more easi
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's probably annoying and upsetting but it is no different from any other legal dispute. All you have to remind yourself is that legal stuff is business-as-usual for any sized company about a handful of people. Are they correct legall
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by lbriner 5y ago
It's not called a monopoly. A monopoly is a single provider of a particular service or product allowing the supplier to abuse their position. These farmers do not have to buy John Deere. If they don't like being tied in, they shou
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by lbriner 5y ago
Maybe a major issue with politics in the current western view, is not that it is identity-based but that it is a large atomic decision. You either get everything from the Repuplicans/Conservatives/Right-wingish or everything from
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by lbriner 5y ago
That's exactly what I thought. There is a ridiculous amount of power that gets attached to a capital city, which means we can't do the sensible thing which would be to spend far less creating new towns or cities with modern sustai
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by lbriner 5y ago
As others have said, MFA would be a decent tool but not all attacks are against VPN so it wouldn't always be so useful. As everyone always teaches, security has to be in-depth and the one largely simple control that is very often missi
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by lbriner 5y ago
The G7 won't be able to make a decision on behalf of the world! Why do companies already register their ships in Panama or hide their money in the Cayman islands? (Other havens are available) Because these countries have decided they w
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by lbriner 5y ago
Not really related to the sale but it might be an opportunity to completely rebase the score system. You can ask a dumb question that lots of other people upvote, like "What is a null reference exception" and end up with a score o
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by lbriner 5y ago
I suppose that Oxford and Cambridge might be a poor example since I went to Warwick, still a top-5 uni (depending on who you ask ;-) and found the people there to be very welcoming to me, as someone also from a London Comp and a working cla
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by lbriner 5y ago
There is probably an easier conclusion and that is the cost/benefit analysis of chasing illegal money. Firstly, a lot of what is happening is legal or at least a grey-area. Secondly with the complexities of multi-juristiction money and
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think my pet peeve is the icons in the Finder. I don't consider them intuitive in the slightest, you just have to learn what they are by Googling it or clicking them. I also learn about hidden key strokes for navigating the Finder to
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by lbriner 5y ago
> The most intuitive thing is the command line Are you joking? Searching in a windowed app usally brings up a dialog with various search options that can be ticked. Learning options for grep/awk/sed etc. is incredible tedious.
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by lbriner 5y ago
That depends on your opinion. Deleting an app folder on MacOS is no less intuitive than right-clicking an app in windows and choosing Uninstall. Certainly in most OSs (I think), there is a good chance that more got installed than just a sin
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by lbriner 5y ago
"single, well-protected server" It doesn't sound like it. Even our production servers hosted by a "rackspace" company have outgoing ports closed by default, we earn a tiny amount compared to RSA. I know there will b
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure if anyone has ever written about the problem with the staff being less committed than the software. It is easy for me to make some big long-lasting decision about something that gets encoded in software and then I can leav
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by lbriner 5y ago
I wonder whether there is a curve of profitability that peaks in the middle and then goes down in both directions. We all know that most startups struggle to make a profit because they might not command premium rates and are growing. On the
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think there is a bit of snobbery about those that "use Salesforce" vs the underclasses who don't. Of course, once you start using it and wire in all of the integations to everything else in your company, it would be so diff
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by lbriner 5y ago
So true. I commented earlier on another thread about enterprises being intent on very specific implementations and premature optimisation, which leads to very bespoke and therefore expensive software. We have a customer who "needs&quot
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by lbriner 5y ago
> awarding the multi-year contract to the elected government is strictly better than to a private company This is objectively not true otherwise no-one would every privatise the railway. Although the answer is not agreed, my own experien
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by lbriner 5y ago
Haha, yeah, don't really get any support anyway except those forums where they tell you to reinstall Windows if it is still not working :-)
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by lbriner 5y ago
The oil and gas sector are not going to be using 2-year old software to develop safety critical systems. Can you honestly imagine using Ruby on Rails for monitoring an oil rig? The timescale for a supplier to be in-business in order to prov
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by lbriner 5y ago
I think many companies have a short and medium-term view but not a longer-term one. People should know that hardware will become obsolete or fail, that software will become unsupported, the supplier might go bust etc. You need to be able to
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by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not sure you appreciate how much work it is to both "write a detailed spec" and then also to "write a more modern client". All of that on top of a system which has likely changed in the intermediate years. Basic
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by lbriner 5y ago
> Here's hoping that this deprecation removes the expectation that things support IE11, however! Always sounds good in theory but when trying to maximise reach, it can be hard to instantly tell a whole bunch of the web, who might be
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by lbriner 5y ago
I often think that EBay are outdated in almost every regard. Their UI is confusing, spaghetti code, an obvious mixture of old pages and new pages and until recently, still seemed to use some bootstrap dll for requests. I guess your damned i
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by lbriner 5y ago
Why? because nationalized organisations never get hacked?
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by lbriner 5y ago
The EU might have good intention but with the current system (technical and bureaucratic), you still cannot know that data has not been hacked and misused - it only takes one screwup and with the people I have worked with over the years, th
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by lbriner 5y ago
The hardware, software and protocols are written by humans so they are definitely part of the problem! Massive fines sounds like an easy win but it doesn't work in practice in the sae way that massive fines don't stop corporate po

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