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My American sister in law does this when she's posting stuff from America to her non-American relatives. Her parcels tend to bounce around America until some postal worker figures out she meant the original Worcester, or wherever.

I'm surprised they get delivered. Impressed too.

It translates as "The The Tar Tar Pits".

University bureaucrats have spent decades creating new kinds of work for themselves. It is an end in itself. They don't need to care.

It's not the environmental radiation that's the problem, it's ingested isotopes. See e.g. strontium and leukaemia.

Truss was two days ago.

Actually WWI. The clue is in the name of the doc.

Sure, and if it fails move it to the spam folder. In the article Microsoft are discarding emails because the sender hasn't got much of a reputation yet. That's a very weak reason.

If storing vaguely suspected spam is intolerably expensive then maybe just keep a list of discarded messages (sender, title and date). At least users can see what's happening.

The prosecution always overstate their case. The actual judgment says:

> Mr Andrewes has performed valuable services for the hospice and the two trusts in return for the net earnings and, if one were to focus solely on his performance of the services (before his fraud was uncovered), it would be hard to deny that the hospice and the two trusts were receiving full value in exchange for the salary paid.

There was a case recently in the UK. A man fraudulently obtained a senior management position in the NHS. He did the job for more than a decade and everyone agrees he was very good at it. But he was jailed for fraud and ordered to repay a fat chunk of his salary.

The NHS suffered no harm. And as you say, employers routinely perpetrate worse frauds against employees. We have a double standard where people are routinely held to much stricter account than companies. It stinks.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/06/jon-andrewes...

At about the same time, when I was young, my grandmother told me a similar story from when she was young. About a century ago. I don't doubt it is a real phenomenon.

I use Thunderbird. Does gmail take notice of me moving messages to the spam folder?

(Question not directed at you specifically.)

Not lobbying, lobbyists.

lobbyist: A person who is paid to lobby politicians and encourage them to vote a certain way or otherwise use their office to effect a desired result.

Emphasis on paid.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/lobbyist

It's not a sandwich recipe. The bread doesn't matter. The cheese does.

> I've noticed cyclists passing me on the right even when I already had my turn signal on for several seconds.

Had you just overtaken these cyclists?

When you have a system with no spare capacity a sudden spike in demand causes queue lengths to grow but they never get shorter again.

That's the theory. In reality, the rising death rate will cause a drop in demand.

Transactional NTFS:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/about-...

KDE KRunner has some of this, though not on the command line. I'd prefer to have a search engine running locally that handled this kind of thing, just because the browser can display richer results.

No, the seeds are mostly grown in Canada but the product is manufactured in France.

I bought a version that didn't show ads but I did a hardware reset after a few years. Now it does.

Since then they've also added an annoying carousel of sponsored apps to the home screen.

I've never bought an ebook from Amazon so at least I can easily move to something else when the kindle finally packs in.

Knowingly is a crime. Unknowingly is not. In England anyway.

That exception only applies when the license doesn't explicitly reserve the right. Open source licenses could be updated to prohibit use as training data, or at least to clarify the position.

Caller allocates works fine. gethostbyname would effectively serialize all of the result data into the supplied buffer. All of the pointers in the struct would be internal to the buffer (they point to the serialized data) so they don't need to be freed.

Open Educational Resource. And maybe Sold Educational Resource?

Yes. British railway stations have a computerised voice apologising for the delayed trains. If it was a human making these announcements I could imagine them feeling a smidgen of regret. But with a computer I know nobody gives a shit.

> Having more money in your bank than the police believe you should have?

Yes, an "Unexplained Wealth Order" in the UK. If you appear to have too much wealth you can be obliged to explain how you lawfully acquired it on pain of seizure.

I think you are agreeing. C APIs are broadly useful. C++ APIs, not so much.

More like 30 articles per day?

The breathalyser is a lovely idea but couldn't it be defeated with a pair of bellows?

The people with huge AWS bills are already paying a different rate to you. They don't care what happens to your rate.

That's only half the story. You should also compensate employees for being on call. As the article notes, it is a significant chore.