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by lol768 3y ago
> what makes it 'clearly not right' It doesn't add up with my experience of how banks (incl. HSBC) deal with transfers. > Victim blame much? If we can't have a rational conversation about the actual factors leading
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by lol768 3y ago
"@HSBC_UK allowed fraudsters to transfer all her savings for a period of 6/7 weeks comprised of c.150 transactions to one external account" This doesn't sound right, and the Twitter thread is devoid of much detail as to
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by lol768 3y ago
An equally confused BrE speaker reporting in! Can confirm it's not just AmE.
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by lol768 3y ago
The legal system isn't the only means to a "resolution". Public shaming can work pretty well too, sometimes.
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> This is why in a place like Coventry (where I am from) there is a really serious amount of crime (violence against people is third highest per capita in the UK) but stabbings never get reported in the newspaper, unless it was a young c
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by lol768 3y ago
Cats have been domestic pets in the UK since at least the times of Roman civilisation, and have been allowed to roam free for much of that time. It's odd to me that there's such a contrast between attitudes towards cats roaming in
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by lol768 3y ago
I've asked some friends at Amazon this and never quite got a satisfactory answer. It feels really disrespectful to waste my time, when I've bothered reading the preparatory material, because X number of other attendees haven'
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by lol768 3y ago
I noticed it mentioned that in the article. Did those get discontinued in the US? They're definitely still a thing in the UK, along with the McPlant (which I'm not sure was ever successful stateside). It's interesting how the
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by lol768 3y ago
> Almost none of them include meaningful release notes. "Bug fixes and performance improvements"
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by lol768 3y ago
I still find it very odd they call the central heating boiler/heat pump a "furnace". A furnace is what you use to make clay set into a pot!
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by lol768 3y ago
> Really all modern residential connections in Europe are 400V three phase electric power Not the case in the UK.
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I assumed it was using one of those old pay-by-SMS mechanisms to bill the user, so they have to first type in their phone number?
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by lol768 3y ago
I think this is a tricky one. Certainly I wasn't particularly impressed with how the science was communicated in a few areas: - The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, and the risk/benefit analysis, particular in younger adult demo
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by lol768 3y ago
Does this imply it's writing a file to the fs for its internal storage, with the name matching the channel's name instead of a channel ID?
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by lol768 3y ago
> There is a major difference: user-facing applications don't need to maintain backward compatibility. Of course they do. Users still use extensions and web-pages that they expect to work. Firefox moving from e.g. XUL/XPCOM to
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by lol768 3y ago
Because major version bumps are 'sexy' nowadays. Have you seen the insane abuse that the Chrome (and later, Firefox) teams have subjected their version numbers to? In the first ten years Firefox existed, it went from version 0.1 t
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> I too have colleagues who reflexively ask for a meeting in response to any email longer than a few lines, even though the issue is clearly communicated and obviously requires someone to read it and build a proper response. I have spent
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by lol768 3y ago
> ctrl+f "mastodon" Would this necessarily match all links to Mastodon instances?
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> And while IE11 was the least bad of the IEs I don’t think you get to use it as a goalpost. I compared the versions of Safari I had to support in 2017/2018 to the versions of IE I had to support in 2017/2018 (11) for that spec
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by lol768 3y ago
Safari caused me by far the most issues, back when I was doing frontend in ~2017/2018, in terms of how it complied with web standards (I wasn't as fussed at the standards it didn't support - at least I knew!) and rendered
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by lol768 3y ago
Previous discussions: Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 - This particular discussion includes a comment from Cloudflare's CEO, referenced in t
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by lol768 3y ago
> Such is the US's reward for building out the nascent infrastructure of the early Internet. Like the world-wide-web we're all using to discuss this topic via? Oh, wait. > Also, this is a US centric site run by a US based co
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by lol768 3y ago
Water privatisation has been a complete failure. Water isn't a commodity, and private equity has no business being involved in water companies. We all have Thatcher to thank for paying an extra 350% since privatisation. Thames Water ju
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by lol768 3y ago
Does the PDF import work for anyone? I've struggled with it since version 1.1 Thread 1 "inkscape" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff5194a34 in GooFile::size() const () from /usr/bin&#
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by lol768 3y ago
> It's kind of implied, right? No. https://gov.uk is a "government URL" and it's one that doesn't end in ".gov". The title should be "US government URLs that don't end in .gov&quot
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Yeah, agree with this. The design was miles ahead of what has actually been shipped. It's a shame, I feel like it could've done with more time spent on development to translate the designer's vision into code. They haven&#x27
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> If you ignore them, it’s basically as if the DMCA never existed and they can just sue you. Pretty sure jes is in the UK though, and it's not the sort of thing you'd ever be extradited over... so not really sure why the notice
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> So would I see this message if it was pulled in a script, by npm, go install, cargo or another such tool? The repository maintainers would, every single time they updated the code. For your own scripts, you'd see a 301 Moved Perma
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by lol768 3y ago
I assume the author of that README is from continental Europe and the decimal separator that has been used is a comma.
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I'm pretty sure GitHub warns you every single time you pull from or push to a repository where the organisation or repository has been renamed and you're relying on an alias that is not permanent. Why is this news, and why does it

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