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It doesn't sound like he is trying to justify it. He's suggesting that the popular alternative is just as bad. In no way does that make Microsoft's action any better.

Tube stations do have bins now, but they're just clear bags on a hoop so that its easy to see the contents and so that there is nothing there to act as shrapnel.

You can still see in lots of stations where old bin were, often moulded into the walls and covered over with plates. Often they still say "Litter" above them.

It says its the longest metro service in Europe... I assume they are not including the Elizabeth Line in London that will be 117km in total.

H&M is much, much bigger than Forever 21. Forever 21 barely exists out side of North America, but H&M can be found everywhere. I mean everywhere. That may be a factor in how cheap they can be - The scale of the business.

Damn thanks for pointing this out! Just canceled the auto-renewal of the two .uk domains they added for me.

This is absolutely the WRONG message. Everyone should not have their own vehicle. That is insane. Especially in big cities.

"a programming language for people who are sick of programming languages" is nonsense.

That is NOT the approach in Europe at all... Maybe in one or two countries, but not in Europe as a whole.

Everyone on an ESTA has their photo taken when they enter the US (at least first time you enter on an ESTA. I don't always have it taken on subsequent visits). I would assume that is enough for them to match you.

I always assumed they are storing every photo to help recognition because it definitely seems to get better the more you use it. You're right there is a human there though monitoring it, I assume they only step in when the system cant identify you.

Barbican is one of the best examples of Brutalism in the UK and I love it! Its far from Ugly. Its functional and interesting, far more so than the bland glass builds down the road in the city.

Sequel Pro doesn't support PG though... Unless I have missed something? If you can tell me how to use it with PG I will be very happy :P

Ehh, I've seen that happen in the UK, but only on the small scale. You cant do that if you're making 10% of the workforce redundant but if its one or two people you can. They moved them to a new role, gave them very little work to do and genuinely made them hate work, then after a year (I think they hoped they would have quit by then) the positions magically became redundant and they had a months notice.

Safe to say I left that place of my own accord not long after.

I moved from Java to Scala this year and I am loving it. What started as a rather basic understanding of FP (from a Haskell course in Uni) has come along leaps and bounds. I now understand what people are talking about when they go into Monads and Applicative Functors, etc. It's brilliant. I wasn't sure on it when I started but FP is something I have really come to love.

I've also played with Go, although while I like some of it I am still not convinced.

Another thing I have started using and really like is DDD and the onion architecture pattern. Its produced some of the nicest code I have seen and has helped make the code base super maintainable, adaptable and clean. Very cool.

There are also a few electric-only buses rolling out. Along with a lot of them being hybrid with auto start-stop now so they aren't polluting while in traffic. Id like to see more of them move to electric only though!

Or Apple switch them to the A series processors! Although I really cannot see that happening on the pro lineup anytime soon (Although I think its highly likely on the air and non-pro MacBooks)

Where did you get that nonsense? I use it all the time in the UK and there are always tonnes of other users on the map. It ALWAYS knows about broken down vehicles, etc that users report. So I'd say its pretty well used outside of the US.

I was wondering if it was the same project I remembered! I used to use it in high school, with its stored on a USB stick that i'd carry around on my keys. Was pretty useful at the time, wouldn't want to carry around a USB stick now, but using dropbox is interesting.

I hate to defend IBM (I used to work there and have nothing good to say) but its likely they were using the "Private Cloud" which is exactly what you say, co-location in the IBM Datacenter. Its just marketing rubbish.

English words of French origin are normally considered formal. Back when the French invaded England the rich spoke French, while the poor spoke Anglo Saxon. The words mutated and changed but words of French origin are now formal because of this.

is it? I have never, ever seen it used and I've lived in the UK my whole life.

I believe the EU would be the lesser of two evils here. If we leave it up to the UK Government and Mrs May we will have it far worse. She has tried several times to ban WhatsApp and encryption in general. I wouldn't put anything like this past her.

As do Monzo, infact the magnetic strip is disabled as default and you can only enable it for 24 hours at a time.

They will almost certainly have assigned reps in the other company they can reach out to for things like this. They may be competitors but they're still active on the other platforms.

I agree, I think it trades off being ever so slightly easier to read with being so damn ugly I don't want to read it. I actually think Comic Sans (as ugly as that is) is easier to read and less ugly than this font.

Do you understand the difference between a first order effect and a second order effect?

Wait they called their studios Pinewood? As in the same name as the famous British studios where they film James Bond and stuff? Come on Atlanta get your own studio name! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_Studios

This is perfectly possible. I used to work on something that did just this but at the time used a small battery and an SSD to quickly dump the volatile state before power loss. This meant we had to limit the amount of volatile data that could be stored in ram (due to the transfer rate and up time on the battery). We were eagerly awaiting 3DXP DIMMs so that we could remove that limit. It really will have a big impact on critical systems where any data loss is not acceptable.

That just gives the party with the money the upper hand. Thats an awful idea.

Interesting in the UK they have their own courier who tend to be better than the rest, until it goes wrong that is. Then its a pain in the arse.