Or your QA end up spending all their time tinkering with the existing corpus of regression tests to keep them passing as new features or other changes that break tests are added to the product, or even just investigating whether the failures are regressions or a valid change.
There's no reason why a cashless society should be cheaper given that they start incurring transaction charges. Once cash has gone, who's to stop those charges going up? The recent change in the EU that ended separate credit card fees is even worse because this helps hide these fees. Personally I think card fees should be charged directly to the card holder rather than hiding it in the merchant's prices. This might introduce competition and an incencitve to shop around for card providers.
I always thought that prices that end.99 were playing a psychological trick that they appear at first glance a whole currency unit less. When it comes to pints, this is silly - who shops around for a pint? Pick a pub and order a drink. Change the scene if it's offensively expensive like £2/pint more than everywhere else around there. To be honest though, as a Londoner, I've rarely seen a pint ending.99. I think it's more expensive than Amersterdam because the cost of living is so much higher anyway.
Sorry, but thatâ(TM)s bullshit. Londonerâ(TM)s hid in the Tube because it was safe from the bombing. Itâ(TM)s the oldest system in the world, but it makes NYCâ(TM)s system look antiquated. For example, WTF is it with having to still use physical tickets, or why isnâ(TM)t the ride from Hoboken to Manhattan (1 stop) integrated in to the same system?)
HTML has nearly always rendered one space, irrespective of how many spaces you put. For all it's bugs, you can't blame/. for this.
As for it's shitty handling of our national currency symbol, or the default quotes on an iPhone, somebody at/. needs to get off their arse and fix it. This is not a client side problem, despite some twits trying to make it so and asking people to change what they type.
I bought one for exactly the same reason when I was doing a lot of business travel 12 years ago. My colleagues even started trying to get a room near mine when we visited Shanghai just to get some reliable WiFi.
You can take Cisco off the list: our IT department gave me a 64-bit client when I reported the issue after updating to 10.13.4.
Unbelievable that you have McAfee on your list. That crap should just die.
Maybe Apple will finally kill off their DVD player? Itâ(TM)s not like theyâ(TM)ve ever been very enthusiastic about shiny discs, even in their hey day (see their BD support;))
This is all great... once weâ(TM)re cashless youâ(TM)ll love the convenience of negative interest rates or addition transaction taxes or fees.
Iâ(TM)ve gone back to using cash. Itâ(TM)s really not that inconvenient. And if you choose human interaction instead of the checkout machines, not only will you be annoyed less by the irritating machine, youâ(TM)ll have time to pack your bag whilst somebody faster and more efficient scans it and have some fun calculating the perfect amount to get fewer coins back in your change. Oh, and a moment of human interaction.
Per what we had to memorise for the UK driving test, stopping distance (including thinking distance) at 40 mph is 118 feet. See the table in rule 126 of the Highway Code: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/th...
What youâ(TM)re saying is that they have no excuse if they should have seen them at 285â(TM).
Take with a pinch of salt: low light, high contrast and over compressed. How much do you really expect to see in such a video?
More interesting is what he human driver was looking down at instead of having their eyes on the road. If they weee looking at a screen then they also compromised their night vision.
It would probably have taken you less time to Google search this than post a "I must mention Linux" comment. GPAC for instance made an announcement at the same time that Apple announced this at WWDC2017.
The container is ISO Base Media format, a.k.a. MP4. moov, meta and mdat atoms, as would be expected. MP4 is about as ubiquitous as they come. What's your problem with this?
It seems to me that most translations are far too literal, and this is the challenge: translating idioms and other particular expressions from the vernacular.
Itâ(TM)s interesting seeing where the focus is going with translations. Iâ(TM)ve worked for years with teams in Germany, Russia and China, and even speak a little German myself. Google translateâ(TM)s Chinese to English beats Russian to English hands down, yet Slavic languages are common across a swathe of Europe and surely closer to English. Even German to English is disappointing and the errors obvious to somebody with my limited skills in the language, and to think something like the most common 1.500 words of English are basically German, courtesy of the Angles and Saxons.
We don't need street names in the UK, just building number and post code. I can see that this Google proposal could physically locate something more quickly, especially given how inaccurate Google Maps can be.
Possibly naive question: canâ(TM)t the cells be arranged in such a way that you deep cycle test on half the battery at a time, so youâ(TM)re running at reduced rather than zero capacity?
Indeed. On my desktop machines I use Google search until the moment I get their thing to agree to their T&Cs blocking the search results. Itâ(TM)s faster to change the browserâ(TM)s default search engine than go through all their different pages disabling things.
I disliked AMP so much that I stopped using Google search on my phone, and switched to DuckDuckGo. The last thing we need is more of this crap interfering with the browser paradigm.
And theyâ(TM)ve miss-quoted Mooreâ(TM)s Law by 100%. Presumably reality was a little inconvenient given that this isnâ(TM)t much of a story even with the attempted Mooreâ(TM)s Law connection.
Or if you see the warning displayed and you failed to take the accurate action leaving to a traffic ticket, because you don't have the excuse you didn't know about the road condition.
I don't have much sympathy for somebody getting a traffic ticket in this situation. Maybe they should also be forced to retake the driving test too?
The Chinese government has shutdown all the major foreign competitors to WeChat in China. Perhaps this means WeChat is the only that gave them a backdoor. Or perhaps it's giving them a chance to grow big enough that they can compete with the foreign giants, and then a backdoor can be added later. Why would I install their software on my phone or laptop? This is a country whose police are so tapped in to everything that find anybody within their borders in a matter of minutes using everybody's CCTV and facial recognition from photos everybody has to provide to the government (e.g. national ID or visas).
To be honest I did use this app a few years ago when I lived in China. But now I'm back in the West there's nobody who uses WeChat, so it went 88 pretty quickly.
This might work if you only support one platform. But now you need to do something for macOS (ports, homebrew, appstore?) and for Windows (msi, appstore, something else?) All very different, so I'm pretty sure it's less effort and cost to have a common solution specific to your language. But perhaps there is a place for a language neutral cross-platform package manager, but that would take a lot of effort to overcome the momentum behind things like Perl's CPAN or Python's PiP.
It's a breathtakingly poor development process that led to this collossal fuck-up, Do you really think they haven't tested at all though, or they just don't work in an enviroment that mimics their users, or don't test the same package that goes to users? How does a development change get to users with npm?
I've worked with QA teams that test different build artefacts than the ones that go to customers because they don't want to deal with installers and things like that in their automated environments. And I've seen this approach miss basic issues, but when this happens there's always an excuse and the very next test case gets implemented the wrong way again because it's habit and easier. Very frustrating.
And in fact the story seems to suggest to me that they have poor practices and perhaps work/develop/test as root:
Running the npm update commands as root doesn't result in npm trying to reassign root ownership to all files, so the issue appears to affect only npm update operations prefixed by a sudo command.
The other thing that boggles the mind in the story is:
The bug was first reported a week ago but was left without an answer from npm developers.
Are you serious? A week has passed with something this serious, and they haven't responded in any way? That tells me there is a systemic or attitude problem that won't be changed easily or quickly. Users of npm should consider weening themselves off this and finding some other solution, of which there is a selection to look at and try.
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Or your QA end up spending all their time tinkering with the existing corpus of regression tests to keep them passing as new features or other changes that break tests are added to the product, or even just investigating whether the failures are regressions or a valid change.
You're confusing different issues here.
There's no reason why a cashless society should be cheaper given that they start incurring transaction charges. Once cash has gone, who's to stop those charges going up? The recent change in the EU that ended separate credit card fees is even worse because this helps hide these fees. Personally I think card fees should be charged directly to the card holder rather than hiding it in the merchant's prices. This might introduce competition and an incencitve to shop around for card providers.
I always thought that prices that end .99 were playing a psychological trick that they appear at first glance a whole currency unit less. When it comes to pints, this is silly - who shops around for a pint? Pick a pub and order a drink. Change the scene if it's offensively expensive like £2/pint more than everywhere else around there. To be honest though, as a Londoner, I've rarely seen a pint ending .99. I think it's more expensive than Amersterdam because the cost of living is so much higher anyway.
They must be new around here: /.'s don't read the story!
Sorry, but thatâ(TM)s bullshit. Londonerâ(TM)s hid in the Tube because it was safe from the bombing. Itâ(TM)s the oldest system in the world, but it makes NYCâ(TM)s system look antiquated. For example, WTF is it with having to still use physical tickets, or why isnâ(TM)t the ride from Hoboken to Manhattan (1 stop) integrated in to the same system?)
They were still teaching double spacing after a full stop long after they stopped teaching kids how to use a typewriter.
HTML has nearly always rendered one space, irrespective of how many spaces you put. For all it's bugs, you can't blame /. for this.
As for it's shitty handling of our national currency symbol, or the default quotes on an iPhone, somebody at /. needs to get off their arse and fix it. This is not a client side problem, despite some twits trying to make it so and asking people to change what they type.
I bought one for exactly the same reason when I was doing a lot of business travel 12 years ago. My colleagues even started trying to get a room near mine when we visited Shanghai just to get some reliable WiFi.
Cyrillic comes from Bulgaria though! You give too much credit to the Russians :)
Didnâ(TM)t Croatia switch to the Latin alphabet in the mid-19th century (Yugoslavian times being a linguistic blip)?
You can take Cisco off the list: our IT department gave me a 64-bit client when I reported the issue after updating to 10.13.4.
Unbelievable that you have McAfee on your list. That crap should just die.
Maybe Apple will finally kill off their DVD player? Itâ(TM)s not like theyâ(TM)ve ever been very enthusiastic about shiny discs, even in their hey day (see their BD support ;))
This is all great... once weâ(TM)re cashless youâ(TM)ll love the convenience of negative interest rates or addition transaction taxes or fees.
Iâ(TM)ve gone back to using cash. Itâ(TM)s really not that inconvenient. And if you choose human interaction instead of the checkout machines, not only will you be annoyed less by the irritating machine, youâ(TM)ll have time to pack your bag whilst somebody faster and more efficient scans it and have some fun calculating the perfect amount to get fewer coins back in your change. Oh, and a moment of human interaction.
Per what we had to memorise for the UK driving test, stopping distance (including thinking distance) at 40 mph is 118 feet. See the table in rule 126 of the Highway Code: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/th...
What youâ(TM)re saying is that they have no excuse if they should have seen them at 285â(TM).
Take with a pinch of salt: low light, high contrast and over compressed. How much do you really expect to see in such a video?
More interesting is what he human driver was looking down at instead of having their eyes on the road. If they weee looking at a screen then they also compromised their night vision.
It would probably have taken you less time to Google search this than post a "I must mention Linux" comment. GPAC for instance made an announcement at the same time that Apple announced this at WWDC2017.
The container is ISO Base Media format, a.k.a. MP4. moov, meta and mdat atoms, as would be expected. MP4 is about as ubiquitous as they come. What's your problem with this?
It seems to me that most translations are far too literal, and this is the challenge: translating idioms and other particular expressions from the vernacular.
Itâ(TM)s interesting seeing where the focus is going with translations. Iâ(TM)ve worked for years with teams in Germany, Russia and China, and even speak a little German myself. Google translateâ(TM)s Chinese to English beats Russian to English hands down, yet Slavic languages are common across a swathe of Europe and surely closer to English. Even German to English is disappointing and the errors obvious to somebody with my limited skills in the language, and to think something like the most common 1.500 words of English are basically German, courtesy of the Angles and Saxons.
We don't need street names in the UK, just building number and post code. I can see that this Google proposal could physically locate something more quickly, especially given how inaccurate Google Maps can be.
Possibly naive question: canâ(TM)t the cells be arranged in such a way that you deep cycle test on half the battery at a time, so youâ(TM)re running at reduced rather than zero capacity?
Indeed. On my desktop machines I use Google search until the moment I get their thing to agree to their T&Cs blocking the search results. Itâ(TM)s faster to change the browserâ(TM)s default search engine than go through all their different pages disabling things.
I disliked AMP so much that I stopped using Google search on my phone, and switched to DuckDuckGo. The last thing we need is more of this crap interfering with the browser paradigm.
And theyâ(TM)ve miss-quoted Mooreâ(TM)s Law by 100%. Presumably reality was a little inconvenient given that this isnâ(TM)t much of a story even with the attempted Mooreâ(TM)s Law connection.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
I don't have much sympathy for somebody getting a traffic ticket in this situation. Maybe they should also be forced to retake the driving test too?
The Chinese government has shutdown all the major foreign competitors to WeChat in China. Perhaps this means WeChat is the only that gave them a backdoor. Or perhaps it's giving them a chance to grow big enough that they can compete with the foreign giants, and then a backdoor can be added later. Why would I install their software on my phone or laptop? This is a country whose police are so tapped in to everything that find anybody within their borders in a matter of minutes using everybody's CCTV and facial recognition from photos everybody has to provide to the government (e.g. national ID or visas).
To be honest I did use this app a few years ago when I lived in China. But now I'm back in the West there's nobody who uses WeChat, so it went 88 pretty quickly.
This might work if you only support one platform. But now you need to do something for macOS (ports, homebrew, appstore?) and for Windows (msi, appstore, something else?) All very different, so I'm pretty sure it's less effort and cost to have a common solution specific to your language. But perhaps there is a place for a language neutral cross-platform package manager, but that would take a lot of effort to overcome the momentum behind things like Perl's CPAN or Python's PiP.
It's a breathtakingly poor development process that led to this collossal fuck-up, Do you really think they haven't tested at all though, or they just don't work in an enviroment that mimics their users, or don't test the same package that goes to users? How does a development change get to users with npm?
I've worked with QA teams that test different build artefacts than the ones that go to customers because they don't want to deal with installers and things like that in their automated environments. And I've seen this approach miss basic issues, but when this happens there's always an excuse and the very next test case gets implemented the wrong way again because it's habit and easier. Very frustrating.
And in fact the story seems to suggest to me that they have poor practices and perhaps work/develop/test as root:
The other thing that boggles the mind in the story is:
Are you serious? A week has passed with something this serious, and they haven't responded in any way? That tells me there is a systemic or attitude problem that won't be changed easily or quickly. Users of npm should consider weening themselves off this and finding some other solution, of which there is a selection to look at and try.