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I think it's semi deliberate. They put systems in place to catch errors that cost them money but they don't go looking for errors that cost their customers. The result is inevitable but there is enough plausible deniability to avoid any serious consequences for the company.

They used to be waxed back in the day. They worked, but if you were careless they would collapse. I think it's a reasonable trade off, but many people hated them.

This isn't entirely random. When Unicode started including colourful emoji rather than just monochrome glyphs they added an attribute to each character to say whether it should be rendered in colour by default. And they retrospectively gave a bunch of existing symbols the colourful attribute.

As you noted, this broke a bunch of existing use cases. It is infuriating.

Alt+1, etc. selects tabs in Firefox on Linux, with Alt+9 always being the rightmost tab. Ctrl+1, etc. works in Firefox on Windows.

What I get is a crash when I open a new tab because the process launched to manage it is using the newly installed binary, which isn't compatible with the old binary that's running.

Similar problems occur if you do in-place upgrades of software using dynamic libraries.

If everybody did the same amount of listening the two schemes would be the same. Since they don't, your proposed scheme gives an outsize vote to people who listen less. The current scheme gives a bigger vote to those who listen more. Spend more time than average listening and your preferred bands will get more money from the royalty pool than you put in.

I have the same issue. I do wonder if it's sometimes people who don't have an email address, or don't want to share it. A company insists so they give the obvious gmail address, which is actually mine.

In a linked post Barbara Beeton says not. She collated these characters while working for the AMS so she should know.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/640588/what-is-%E2%8...

My (rather out-of-date) experience with banks is that they have no problem adopting new tech but they don't retire the old tech. Add in a bunch of mergers and you get an unholy mess.

Best of all is the three boxes+javascript option when it responds too slowly and drops some of the digits you typed. And then the "automation" interferes with your attempts to correct the number. Aargh!

Electric leaf blowers are still noisy.

And a lot more fun.

It never occurred to me to try a wildcard. I was getting sick of adding sending identities in fastmail. Thanks for the tip!

A branch is not a subsidiary. Like a branch of Tesco, it is the same company. There's a clue in the company number prefix FC: foreign company.

There is no separate legal entity "Amazon UK". So why should a Luxembourg company get UK card rates?

"Amazon UK" is actually Amazon Luxembourg. Visa wasn't picking on them, they were applying the standard cross-border tariff.

There are additional rules for critical national infrastructure. The gas company didn't follow them and this gave the government the legal right to seize the business.

There was a post on here years ago from somebody who sold software to corporations for "anonymous" employee surveys. He said that executives always wanted to deanonymise the results and, sadly, he was happy to oblige.

Me too. If I could change one thing about modern web dev, I would make the default size for SVG icons something like 32x32 pixels. Many sites use massive icons more like 1000 pixels wide. Also, animated grey backgrounds in placeholders are obnoxious.

Same problem in the UK. The dumbphones are all 2G, which is going away eventually.

All the "dumb" 4G models I can find come with a Facebook app, ffs.

To turn it round, do you spend time looking at other people's emoji-obscured photos?

I don't, so I can't see the point of posting them because I don't imagine that anyone would look at them. But I could well be wrong.

Star Cars in Birmingham had an app before Uber.

It only takes a couple of seconds to acquire a certificate. Not long enough for people to raise support requests.

> they are about to force the entire playerbase of Minecraft to give a phone number by pushing them to Microsoft accounts starting a day or two from now

Insisting on phone numbers would be a breach of the GDPR. Having entered into a contract a business cannot then demand additional personal information as a condition of fulfilling the contract.

Afaict, the person complaining is a Russian passport holder but not a resident of Russia. They aren't trying to do business in or with Russia.

People forget there were two separate leave campaigns. This not only gave them double the spending cap, but also let them make wholly incompatible claims about the kind of brexit we would get. They could never have both been right so it was obvious at the time that the claims were merely aspirational.

That footnote is clearly talking about Old English.

The current agreement ends in 2027 and the current government has said they won't renew it. Whether they are still in power remains to be seen.

I guess the plan is:

* Randomly remove features from MDN

* See which ones people complain about most

* Reintroduce these as part of the new paid subscription

* Profit!