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Buying an additional vehicle is more expensive and more wasteful than using a single vehicle even if that may not be economical

Ha, I've found this attitude from a bunch of people in other parts of our extended company. Cloud means 'AWS', apparently. Servers only run Linux, supposedly.

btw, Windows Clusters can do a good job, albeit an expensive way to resilience, but not something understood from many of the Linux-only crowd.

We need more openness and less closed views, for sure.

>> We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage.

That sounds like very dubious advice to me, even if given with best intentions.

Surely if parents read books to their kids, with their kids, then it is a natural step for the kids to start learning the words and word sounds by reading too?

I use booking.com but the user experience does really grate.

Simple things such as putting in the location and date, to get back a list of properties that aren't actually available for my requested date. Then have to set a search filter to 'show only available properties', which really should be the default. Especially as I set it every time.

An argument could be that people may change dates if they like the property but this is just fluff that gets in the way of finding somewhere to stay.

Could be classed as a 'dark pattern', from my point of view.

Yep, technical debt and atrophy. If not paying-down that debt, it becomes like compound interest from a loan shark. If not applying maintenance, atrophy sets in and things get worse and worse.

I believe the topic is about the miscarriage of justice based on how the post office and fujitsu wrongfully harassed and took people to court over bugs, which were known about by those organisations. Hence of relevance to Hacker News types.

It isn't meant to be about your jaundiced view of 'BBC propaganda'...

I do not agree with this argument

>> The horrible truth is that if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept that crashes will occur >>

As that '1 life' saved may be countered by a number of lives lost due to the system that might otherwise have survived.

In the UK at least, I'd say we have ended up in a situation where banks found that their approach to 'selling financial services' vastly abused their customers and now they are having to pay massive sums in compensation, they need to fleece account holders in some other way to meet their income and profit targets.

Long-gone are the times when high street banks were based on loaning out the deposits from savings accounts. Building Societies do/did this, but of course the banks bought up most of those too in their spending sprees of M&A to become 'bigger and better'. Well, bigger anyway

Search for "Laiki bank account" and that gives plenty of info about Cyprus money re-appropriation, for example.

Iceland bank issues were widely covered too

Wow, that's a very sad and scary tale!

Is this from around 2013, or more recent?

Bit like how people post pictures taken with their phones, using a 'nofilter' hashtag, entirely unaware that the phone software has applied a filter of some sort automagically. They don't post 'raw' images

> No one has ever prevented a climate change induced event so far

Well apparently the ban on CFCs has had a beneficial effect and the hole in the ozone layer is no longer the issue it had been

Excel definitely opens CSV files, and Windows file associations tend to set that up by default. However, Excel then goes ahead with changing the content to often wrongly-assumed formats. My favourite hate is how it will convert mobile numbers from a string of digits to an unusable exponential-format number. Hey, it doesn't even set column widths to make the content visible!

Surprised you would think that JSON is more human-readable, as the layout of that makes it visually quite appalling - not so bad when through a pretty-printer utility, admittedly, but may as well go for XML as another use case