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> it's not a criminal offence for an employer to ignore those rules if they're happy to take their chances in an employment tribunal

I'm not an employment lawyer, but to the best of my knowledge this is incorrect - mass redundancies of 20+ people need to be notified to the government in advance, and failure to do so carries criminal penalties.

P&O seems to have escaped this requirement (at least for now) owing to maritime employment being a special case and jurisdictional issues

https://www.rsmuk.com/ideas-and-insights/legal/mass-redundan...

Perhaps it's as simple as "blow another one" - since they propose constructing them in space one might keep the construction mechanism nearby to replace any that are prematurely popped

Hi Dom,

Enjoyed your pitch at Thinking Digital last week, good to see it popping up on HN too! How do you get all the show data backing this - is it scraped from the individual theatres? (since I'm guessing there's no nice API ...)

This sort of "feels wrong" non-native yet grammatically correct use of language is precisely the kind of thing that would be fine on an internal doc where comprehension is the name of the game, but falls flat on its face on external communications where a more fuzzy "trust" is trying to be engendered.

Or to put it more abruptly - if the release marketing is so low effort they haven't even bothered to get a professional translation, it suggests the same care and attention may have been lavished on the product.

I guess I'd caution that there might not be an issue now in a strictly legal sense, but come trademark registration time Argos-the-retailer might decide to put up a fight.

My more cynical side wishes to express that this would make the lawyers very happy.

Major incidents aside, I always think that cache-related bugs are some of the most likely to go undetected since if you don't test for them end-to-end, they're really not that easy to spot & diagnose.

An article sticking around too long on the home page. Semi-stale data creeping into your pipeline. Someone's security token being accepted post-revocation. All really hard to spot unless (1) you're explicitly looking, or (2) manure hits the fan.

> Amazon keeps boiling the frog with pricing

Do they?

AWS's pricing may be eye watering in a few cases - looking at you egress - but one thing they definitely get right from my PoV is rarely if ever hiking prices

> How much rust software actually runs on those?

Some of rust's most well-known and widely distributed success stories for a start - Firefox & Dropbox

As a (virtual) pager carrier, you've got my vote to mandate it for every service!

Their internal platform is likely analogous in terms of accumulating complexity (and a bit of cruft) over time though

A bit easier but more or less as effective is

redact on pc -> print -> scan

Pretty much as infallible and saves a huge amount of scissor time.

> outfits like Blackwater

Unless the mercenaries are back and diversifying into real estate, I think you might mean Blackstone?

If you click through to the interview topic [0], it lists another article [1] with exactly the same format of a large profile shot pre-article. Makes sense to me - it follows the usual style of interviews having a photo of the interviewee front and centre, and after all they're interviewing a person not a rack of servers.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/tag/interviews

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16762/an-anandtech-interview-...

I think the problem with the UK is on the whole we never really got past seeing software as an administrative / back-office concern, which leads to naturally wanting to place developers etc into "low-paid, low-leverage" positions (think mindlessly running a few SQL queries or adding a few fields to an internal tool) vs having them radically improve the business proposition.

This really presages trouble with industries being upended on the basis of technological innovations. The light at the end of the tunnel is that long-term, companies that value and can utilise technical talent to innovate rather than sustain will win out and heat up the talent market.

If your product has a lot of corporate customers, and paying yearly doesn't put them above their personal expense authorisation threshold, I wouldn't be so surprised - filling out 12 expense reports is a lot more irritating than 1.

It's not a special employment status. As a contractor in the UK you have fewer rights (pensions, notice periods, unfair dismissal, etc.) than an employee, but used to have not-inconsiderable tax benefits to trade off against this.

Thanks to HMRC reforms known as IR35, a lot of contractors are now considered akin to "disguised employees" and taxed as such - thus being taxed like an employee without the requisite legal benefits.

Whilst there might be some gains from bringing everything under one roof, cutting out the need for shareholder returns isn't going to do much for the average ticket price - IIRC most train companies in the U.K. have long-run profit margins of 2-3%.

Well they don't "have to", but completely non-hierarchical / flat organisations have a habit of either (1) descending into anarchy, or (2) developing hidden hierarchies.

> If we measure by view counts the things that are around the mean in terms of skill will be more popular.

I would instinctively have thought material conveying the basics would be the most viewed in the long run - since skill is cumulative, everyone at some point will have had to learn the basics, and only those who succeeded would go on to view intermediate content

If you're going against an adversary capable and willing to drop multiple zero days to breach you, let alone 11, I wouldn't wager much on a simple system wipe getting you back to a good state (iOS or not).

Given the price of iOS devices vs good security consultant hourlies, the easiest and most effective clean-up for a few devices is likely just starting over.

Until 2018 at least it was ... wait for it ... a single server!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496344

(Anyone know if that's still the case?)

Every new Vim instance would show instructions on how to :q and a million StackOverflow posts would become redundant

> And even if you get billed for hundreds of hours of the most premium legal minds thinking about it they can still be wrong.

And that's if you can get said legal minds to take a firm position in the first place, instead of the more usual five - six figure "maybe"

> Somehow the world simply tolerates all the blatant espionage they perpetrate with zero diplomatic repercussions

Because pretty much every other country with a security service is either pursuing similar operations or wants to be. Sure when something becomes public a fuss gets made, but oddly enough no concrete repercussions ever follow.

The FT has some better reporting on this, e.g.

https://www.ft.com/content/44c47737-5d8b-4aca-8ff3-dbcc8349b...

The main issue seems that Greensill has a (very) large exposure to the collective 'network' of Gupta's companies, and regulators / counterparties decided this was too risky. Supply chain financing has a bit of a record for being used to prop up failing companies in their dying days by disguising borrowings.

If all Google wanted was GPL- and AGPL-free code, they're quite capable of assigning their own engineers / contractors to work on it rather than the more tortuous route of going via a 3rd party

I'd also vouch for the near indestructibility of the normal USB-A variety - mine is still humming along despite being subjected over several years to no end of mishaps and abuse that would've killed any regular USB drive several times over

> implement this API but set it to return a hardcoded generic set of "interests" for everyone

Or just let people select their own interests. There's quite a few (particularly news / media) sites I'd be fine in disabling an ad-blocker on if the ads I was served were in any way useful to me rather than bottom-of-the-barrel "one weird trick"s

> and programming Factorio extensions themselves

Ah, good old extensionFactoryFactory, I knew that Java would come in handy one day

To update an old teaching for modern times: He that is without security lapses among you, let him first impose sanction on those who have.

Or to put it more bluntly - all users have flaws, and if your system relies on users not having flaws for being secure, it isn't.