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To be clear, the currency scam was a last straw, not the major dark pattern. When you compare list prices for flights with them versus almost any other airline you are comparing apples with oranges. T…

Ubiquitous currency exchange at the point of sale does not though.

Point of sale terminals also do this when travelling - it wasn't especially surprising, just one straw too many. Of course foreign exchange offices have been doing this scam since forever ("…

"O’Leary accused the travel agent industry of scamming and ripping off unsuspecting consumers by charging extra fees and markups on ticket prices." That is ... pretty rich. A couple of yea…

I'm no chemist, but I was under the impression that high pressure might allow for the creations of fullerenes even at these kinds of temperatures. I didn't think they would float (but I can …

This is the result of the tape from 1973 found at the University of Utah being sent over to the Computer History Museum for retrieval by bitsavers.org Prior discussion: https://news.ycombin…

It could in principle be legit. But there's a trail of previous bad faith behaviour around the same windfarms.

It depends a lot on the domain. I've mostly worked in high compliance/regulation worlds. It can be kind of stifling, honestly, but "oops maybe we had the feature flag turned on" is…

I wonder if there are bucky balls full of helium hanging out under pressure in there?

Conversely, feature flags can create annoying issues due to compliance requirements. I worked on an underwriting system where we had to be able to explain the reason for a decision. This meant that yo…

Terrific, thank you.

Oh, excellent, these slipped under my radar. Sounds extremely promising and I do mostly work in Java!

Could you drop a few specific posts here that you think are good for someone (me) who hasn't read her stuff before? Looks like there's a decade of stuff on her blog and I'm not sure I w…

FreeCAD is open source and has parametric capabilities. Personally I find it unusably buggy, but apparently there are lots who don't - ymmv. SolveSpace is open source and has parametric capabilit…

I've generally found that structured logs that include a correlation ID make it quite easy to narrow down the general area or exact cause of problems. Usually (in enterprise orgs) via Splunk or D…

I wonder if he's using TinkerCAD or something similar? I often use that, 'cos it's quick for simple things that are one-offs, but it has exactly this issue as it's not at all param…

This clarifies it I hope? It has audio & proper phonetic alphabet spelling for US vs UK. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/yacht …

Heh, very different to me then, thanks!

Aside from your conundrum I'm wondering what "ah as in yacht" could even mean; to this puzzled Brit there is no "ah" sound in "yacht". I'd spell it phonetically…

Amos is horrifyingly productive!

These all seem reasonable. On the topic of "Put less text on your slides" it always amazes me in a bad way how common it is for internal presentations to consist of reading the slides to the…

The New Yorker house style. https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-... Seems weird to me, I'd just use a hyphen, but that's how they roll…

Hallelujah! But I have to say, big regulated orgs are often not competent to do things this (the right) way but don't have the option of not doing it at all.

> I can't fathom why anyone competent would want to implement this Compliance. Big financial orgs. and the like must show that they are doing something about "data loss" and this…

Yeah, and Java has its nice cacerts file so that should have been easy, but then we were using Bazel which does the "hermetic builds" thing so that had to be told about it separately, and on…

Netskope and the other DLP tools at my last gig would completely lock up my network connection for around 30 seconds every hour or two while maxing out 100% of a core. Fun times. The issue was still t…

Respectfully you seem to be making up a definition to suit your argument, so I'll leave you there. Mine's from the OED fwiw.

Look, like Humpty Dumpty you can mean whatever you want with the word, but the unless you're talking about football or something the dictionary meaning is: "The object of one's ambition…

Meetings didn't generally require computers back then. We're talking about The Overhead Projector transparencies era.