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What tools do you use for load testing / benchmarking?

Same here, on occasion, but I've found they typically make you whole when you get a dud.

Good example:

I bought two collapsible milk crates. They loaded all my groceries into them in the store.

When I got home and lifted the first crate out of the car, it had too much weight inside, the bottom fell out and two bottles of wine shattered.

I told them the story when returning the crate two weeks later, they waved me off when I said I had a pic, told me it wasn’t necessary, and refunded the wine without being prompted.

Trying to get wine refunded with most other retailer would probably require talking to a manager and making a scene.

2) The cone was a temporary icon

Turn it sideways (5 degrees per major release) and keep the colors. Eventually it will be a Play Button.

Yup.

Storytime!

When I worked for MSN/Hotmail around 2000-2003, there were dozens of helpdesk folks who had access to an admin panel to easily view any email and could view/edit PII for anyone with very little (if not zero) accounting or auditing. It was protected by plaintext auth and open to the internet.

One employee told me that he caught his wife cheating by reading her mail.

Another used it to recover their own stolen EQ account worth thousands.

I personally used this access to help a friend recover a hacked/stolen Hotmail account. I told them the email address, what had happened to it, and they forwarded me a screenshot of their Passport.NET PII details for them to use the self-service password reset.

Obviously not much has changed.

Pay more and cut the line all day long, access to exclusive restaurants, private meet and greets with characters, etc.

Previous gen Xbox dev kits generally had double the RAM and came with a Visual Studio license. They were very expensive. Now you can pay $19 to unlock a retail Xbox One to run any code you like with a 1GB RAM limit.

If you're that paranoid, you might want to also keep in mind that it would be far more reliable to shoulder surf via video surveillance. As a bonus, it even works with radios disabled.

Source Depot. Forked years ago with tons of added features. Various Halo titles also used it and had easy to use integrations with most of the art and design pipeline tools.

I tried to flag a taxi in downtown Shanghai for 45 minutes and finally gave into the broken English speaking motorcycle taxi who had been circling the block every five minutes.

Riding bitch through Hangpu to Pudong with a laptop in one arm while lane splitting with aggressive (and otherwise bad drivers) all around was a rather exciting experience.

Even with a skilled pilot, the adrenaline rush was similar to my first time tandem skydiving.