alexriddle

5 ms·

1.
by alexriddle 4mo ago
Anything over 150 seats means you need to pay at token rates plus the $20/user. My day job is operational (no coding at all) and I'm spending ~$300 a month on a few chats with Claude/Cowork a day over the course of a month.
2.
by alexriddle 5mo ago
Hospital admissions are reliable indicators for violent crime and stabbings in particular - if you get injured you're going to need a doctor and they will record it - and these are going down [1]. There is little to suggest any kind of
3.
by alexriddle 6mo ago
Lumibricks is fantastic, built in lighting (or rather you build it in as part of the model) and as someone who has always turned their nose up at off brand Lego, the parts are definitely 99% of the way there. Instructions the same quality,
4.
by alexriddle 8mo ago
The gap is reducing significantly - I have collected and built Lego for a long time and had this opinion but have recently discovered Lumibricks (formerly Funwhole) - excellent designs, and around 1/2 the price of Lego (but they all in
5.
by alexriddle 1y ago
Usually it would be either the full day (ceremony, meal and ‘evening party’ which we commonly call the reception) or just the reception. No one is being asked to skip the middle part of the event. Less than 20% of weddings are religious (an
6.
by alexriddle 1y ago
Weirdly on Reddit I keep getting the doordash and ubereats communities pushed at me - there is a very strong view amongst people using these apps that anyone who says they will "give a cash tip" will not actually do it, so it&#x27
7.
by alexriddle 1y ago
All that this does is ensure you don't get stacked with another order ahead of you (so the delivery is direct from the restaurant to the person who ordered) in theory. It doesn't help with situations where drivers are multi-apping
8.
by alexriddle 1y ago
Other than Amex for airline points I don’t spend a penny on banking, all the standard services (eg transfers, bill payments, cash withdrawals, deposits) are free (in the U.K.) with no monthly fee.
9.
by alexriddle 1y ago
Most of the time we knew because people are generally honest and tell the truth. A few times where we had concerns we'd apply for a police report - even if someone will lie to their insurer, they rarely lie to the police in the heat of
10.
by alexriddle 1y ago
In the UK where I am, most standard (not budget) property policies would cover theft from an unlocked entry point. Two main exceptions: 1 - if you are letting the property to someone else, e.g a lodger or have paying guests staying with you
11.
by alexriddle 1y ago
Lots of insurance covers these types of situation which are the result of careless acts... Don't take the right safety precautions and burn down a customers house - liability insurance Click on a link in a phishing email and open up yo
12.
by alexriddle 2y ago
I don't think that's particularly true but even if it was, the site is overrun with crypto spam and porn bots that will drive people away. I know 3 people who have deactivated their account and switched to bluesky in the past week
13.
by alexriddle 2y ago
I may have misunderstood the parent comment - with gmail, you can add dots anywhere in the mailbox and it all goes to the same place (standard gmail, not workspace) e.g andrew@gmail.com, a.n.d.r.e.w@gmail.com and a.....ndrew@gmail.com all a
14.
by alexriddle 2y ago
This works for some providers (Google) but definitely isn't universal - MS/Outlook doesn't support it for example
15.
by alexriddle 2y ago
I'm fairly sure that most podcast platforms now include dynamic ad segments - I listen to a few and whilst some (usually where the hosts record ads themselves) seem to have static ads, others definitely have ads which are updated autom
16.
by alexriddle 2y ago
Some operators do have their own infrastructure and most large ISPs have equipment in local exchanges and operate their own backhaul. Lots of it is just about marketing though.
17.
by alexriddle 2y ago
I’m fairly sure it was confirmed they don’t have any standalone cyber cover so probably no insurance will be picking up the tab. I work for a cyber insurer (who are trying to reduce the risk of compromise, alongside transferring some of the
18.
by alexriddle 3y ago
I work in a related field (cyber insurance response) - typically takes a few months to identify exfiltrated data and then analyse it to understand what is in it. This might seem simple but there are usually in the region of hundreds of thou
19.
by alexriddle 3y ago
The UK motor insurance market is one of the most competitive in the world. Aggregators have created a situation where every insurer is looking for the slightest competitive advantage to drive themselves up the comparison table. I don't
20.
by alexriddle 3y ago
Which isn't even legally permissible, there is no way to 'give it back' (although you could stop using the title) - it can only be taken from you, which has to be done by the king on recommendation of the prime minister.
21.
by alexriddle 3y ago
Is this not just Bing searching the web under the built in web search integration?
22.
by alexriddle 3y ago
Appreciate the focus is on the US but for contrast in the UK, 'theft by finding' is a specific offence - whilst you can generally keep unclaimed lost property you should make some effort to find the owner before doing so. People h
23.
by alexriddle 3y ago
I suspect the unit would be funded directly by Sky - the advantage to doing it that way is that they have access to the CPS and police intelligence, as well as all the powers the police have which they wouldn't if it was done in house.
24.
by alexriddle 3y ago
For someone working outside IT but who has coding skills, it's great. My previous work computers have been tightly controlled by IT and installing libreoffice on them wouldn't have been permitted.
25.
by alexriddle 3y ago
What stack can handle 500,000 orders per minute - 22.3 billion a month - on a $6/month server?
26.
by alexriddle 3y ago
Reading the latest update from the bankruptcy, regulation and enforcement definitely would have helped - I suspect any appropriate auditor conducting a thorough audit would have very quickly realised that the business lacked any controls at
27.
by alexriddle 3y ago
I've had to implement this - we have a web app used by engineers in the field where signal is often not great. We got lots of complaints about image uploads as for a typical job there would be potentially 100+ images that needed to be
28.
by alexriddle 4y ago
I have joined 2 discords in the last week (as lots of 'community support' seems to be moving there these days). I set a username but I haven't had to supply any other info - I can't post anything and there's a banne
29.
by alexriddle 4y ago
In the UK (arising from GDPR so I would assume EU as well), sensitive personal data is an enhanced category of PII which requires more considered handling. This would include things like race, health conditions, disabilities, sexual orienta
30.
by alexriddle 4y ago
Not just the diversity page - it looks like they removed a bunch of pages from the careers site - e.g the "early career" page that is in the header is also removed. Only the "search jobs" button remains. See the header a

More ›