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by robinson-wall 2y ago
Which aircraft have flaps or gear controlled by an autopilot? I'm just an armchair "Air Crash Investigations" fan, but I've never heard of any aircraft where either flaps and gear would be automatically controlled by the
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by robinson-wall 2y ago
Perhaps set size is a contributing factor? I've bought two sets over the last few years, and both of them have had a piece missing. One was 1969 pieces (no prizes for guessing which set that is!) and the other 1222 pieces. Both occasio
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by robinson-wall 4y ago
When a fake candidate accepts an offer, the first real runner up candidate gets a rejection and has fewer offers to choose from.
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by robinson-wall 4y ago
I can forgive the URL bar swipe to change between tabs, because there is a visual cue that the other tabs are there - the URL bars of the adjacent tabs peek onto the screen.
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by robinson-wall 4y ago
I bought a device with some kind of cloth pads held opposite each other, and when you close it they brush up against an inner pad which presumably removes grease from them. It cost £20 and I was dubious about it, but it cleans better than I
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
I've been a recipient of the "we're really sorry but object in bucket X at path Y has been irretrievably lost" email a couple of times. Once you're storing a few million objects at standard durability it's par
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
Happy to take a look (next week, realistically, as I'm UK based) - you can dm me twitter.com/nickrw
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
Hey, I work on Twitter's search team. This sounds like a bug we're aware of where an account that goes public -> private we'll reliably purge their tweets from the public index, but if an account goes private -> public
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
I'm not suggesting they aren't criminals. But there is a spectrum of criminality and I am suggesting they are considerably less so than the leaders of the fraud ring. These ads are deliberately designed to prey on the desperate, u
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
You see ads on instagram offering to buy or borrow your bank account for £50... and when they're used for muling guess who it is that gets their account banned and then a CIFAS marker ensuring they can't bank anywhere else? The de
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
It's still possible to design a badge system on an independent network (think just switched within a building) which syncs a local copy of the authoritative ldap from the corp domain, so your badge readers stay working if the link to t
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
There's another great example of this in maps, where it will refuse to let you favourite your home or work address if it's not in the right format. It won't even tell you that it failed - it doesn't do it and the interfa
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
This could be very dangerous, depending where an exception happened. Variables can contain critical secrets, like your TLS keys or a user's password and if your stack trace printer isn't aware of what should be redacted now you&#x
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
More than a decade ago I had an amazon interviewer write some perl on a whiteboard, and ask me to find the error. There were two - I pointed out both and they didn't seem super happy about it. To this day I'm still not sure if one
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by robinson-wall 5y ago
This is a website which serves the sole purpose of encouraging people to copy snippets of text and paste them into their terminal, and there are plenty of techniques that ensure what you see on the page isn't what gets into your clipbo
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by robinson-wall 6y ago
It's particularly frustrating because the framework for this feature already exists - if you link a new phone it offers to sync your history to it.
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by robinson-wall 6y ago
In this case Face/Touch ID represents something you have (the iOS device with a persisted credential in its secure enclave), and something you are (fingerprint/face).
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by robinson-wall 6y ago
Your editor should be able to help with that. For example in vim: `gqap` will reflow the current paragraph, or while in visual select mode you can use `gq` to reflow your selection).
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
The interesting thing about working for a UK challenger bank - I now have visibility into all of the outages going on at large, high-street banks here. Complete outages are rare, and well-publicised, but things go wrong a lot more[1] than y
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
Your card issuer (at least in the UK) is obligated to block recurring payments from a particular merchant if you request it https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/continuous-payment-...
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
Ah, here's a video of a note 10, which has the same fingerprint sensor as an s10, being fooled by a gel _case_ after being trained with a fingerprint normally. https://twitter.com/Sta_Light_/status/11844754132
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
Is there any indication of whether this only happens if the screen protector was present prior to training the fingerprint? > After buying a £2.70 gel screen protector on eBay, Lisa Neilson found her left thumbprint, which was not regist
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
Specifically this class of incident? Yes. They seem to be reasonably good at operational runbooks for known flaws, so I can imagine this class of incident being handed faster in future. What worries me is the next unknown unknown, which is
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
It happens all the time, and they just don't tell you. We get automated notices when banks connect and disconnect from the Faster Payments network, something happens every few days. Not always this length, but occasionally. Just yester
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
There's a good writeup by Oliver, our head of engineering, about our tech stack on our blog[1] with an accompanying Kubecon talk[2]. TL;DR- Largely Go microservices running on k8s, with http-based RPC calls for synchronous communicatio
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
The sending bank will have their Bank of England settlement account debited by the central FPS system, based on the central FPS system's view of the world, at the end of the settlement cycle. The recipient bank will receive the money i
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
1. A mix of both, we have a culture of being transparent by default - it's one of the first things that attracted me to come and work here. I was the incident lead for this on the day, and volunteered to write up this post-mortem. I di
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
I haven't seen the code personally, so I'm not sure. The condition was inside the code of the Gateway provider.
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
I would note that this status page says "Our FPS Direct gateway provider".
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by robinson-wall 7y ago
Sorry, perhaps this isn't very clear as I've tried to simplify the explanation to make it accessible to a wide audience. What I meant here is they could tell that the corruption was being introduced by some component in their infr

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