They’re not going away, they’re just going to be more persistent with their cold calling, and more infuriating with their call answering.

I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.

Feels rebellious.

$retVal and $item are my personal favourite.

And decent variable names if you can, as well.

No magic numbers!

Excellent work by someone there. I love the customer service agent with the ski mask (who can barely keep a straight face) lol

Infrastructure can be a real problem in some places.

I’m currently on a mountain and since they upgraded to a hybrid satellite/cable system the speeds have skyrocketed. Laying cable/towers is just not viable, especially with dense rock peaks blocking line of sight.

Also I have coworkers in Nigeria who lose internet multiple times a day (and often don’t have the bandwidth for a video call) but most of them have bitten the bullet and paid the high up-front cost to get starlink at home. And now can do HD video calls with zero interruption (unless they have power issues, but that’s a whole other thing).

So I think there’s a lot of use-cases for sattelite, especially for people who aren’t considered worth the investment in non-sattelite infrastructure.

It’s just unfortunate that yeah, space junk is going to one day (suddenly) be a massive problem.

Edit: ah I may have replied to the wrong comment

Minimal supervision also could mean there’s no onboarding, no support and internal communication is awful.

A whole new generation of the Kobo readers just came out too!

I’ve got one of the previous Gen and I was so happy to find they have models with the clicky buttons to turn the page.

You don’t know any 5yo software engineers?

Great, so when they abandon the nuclear project in 18mths who will maintain them?

It took me a moment to notice those weren’t specifically security terms…

Yeah I agree

The absolute lack of any kind of consistency with layout or alignment makes me cringe too.

It’s just shows how they’re just glued onto the page with no care or planning. Especially no consideration to the user or user experience.

It’s not for you as a consumer.

It’s to reduce your usefulness as a worker.

Which would be lovely, if our value wasn’t calculated by our usefulness to the market.

It’s not on mine yet.

So some a/b testing maybe

Thank you for letting me know. I will too.

Best way to find out is to search for all of them inside Tidal. I don’t know if you need to make a free account or what to do it.

They usually have great black Friday deals though. I think I paid like €2/mth for my first year.

Just a reminder that the Tidal family account at the maximum subscription “grade” costs €16.

So you and 4x buddies can get very high quality audio for €3.20/mth.

Thank you!

Management get to say they’re doing big fun events for morale etc, but the employees can’t make it look like they did a bad job of it (i.e. did not make the party entertaining).