This is why you should always have more than 1 bank account and credit card.
And with different banks.
Readit NewsTwoHeadedBeast commented on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts nytimes.com/2023/11/05/bu... · Posted by u/ljosa
TwoHeadedBeast commented on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts nytimes.com/2023/11/05/bu... · Posted by u/ljosa
> There is a solution - not sure if everyone's ready to hear it yet: Decentralized finance.
Another good option is to have checking accounts in more than one bank. Whatever triggers bank A to close your account is unlikely to also trigger the same action by bank B. It requires more funds, but you decentralise your finances within the classic financial system.
If something triggers a close of your accounts on multiple banks at the same time, odds are you have much worse problems than access to liquidity.
Really just a credit card with a different institution is enough to see you through something like this.
TwoHeadedBeast commented on Ask HN: Does anyone else have anxiety during standup? · Posted by u/ryanchoi51
30 min standups? That gives me anxiety just reading that. Unless there’s a legit reason standup should be like five min tops.
What’s blocking you?
Anything else, including what you’re working on, should just go in slack or better yet if you have a B tier or better manager, should be visible on a board somewhere for them and your team to see.
Yeah, we have 30 minute standups, and they often overrun. We don't, on the other hand, have grooming or estimation sessions or retros. The result is that the same issues plague us each sprint, not least badly defined stories ending up in the sprint.
Yeah, you can't exactly adjust a no longer used currency for inflation - it makes sense to me.
The pound is still with us, however I agree using the Euro makes more sense.
this was always obvious to me from day one. i didn't need a leak to notice this. it was flagrant and blatant at the time.
everyone was so busy being a fanboy it drove me a bit mad... especially operating without licenses and looking as if nobody had done the basic due diligence on what was needed to operate at all.
honestly the entire "genius" of the idea itself is "ignore the law and do whatever"
Indeed, the app, while nicely implemented, contained nothing groundbreaking.
TwoHeadedBeast commented on DRY is an over-rated programming principle? gordonc.bearblog.dev/dry-... · Posted by u/gcassie
Exactly this. I fixed a problem like this a week ago. I found some duplicated code, factored it out into one place by introducing an abstract base class (Python) and in the process discovered one of the duplicated methods had a logic error leading to returning a slightly smaller integer result.
The code had test coverage, but the test confirmed that it produced the wrong result. I had to fix the test too.
So your refactor broke the tests, so you assumed the tests must be wrong.
TwoHeadedBeast commented on Sex is going out of fashion? welltechnically.news/p/se... · Posted by u/loudtdarrow
That, and most are still holding people in their 20s to the same standards as generations able to start a family with the credentials of Homer Simpson.
Is that the same Homer Simpson who has a highly skilled job in the nuclear industry, earning well above the median.
TwoHeadedBeast commented on Laundry symbols make no sense uxdesign.cc/laundry-symbo... · Posted by u/allenwhsu
My US market washing machine has settings for "hot", "warm", and "cold", but if there's a way to set temperature to a number, it is not intuitive and I am not aware of it (it may exist this is a 'digital' machine!). If it did have a way to set a wash temp to an arbitrary number, it would presumably be in F not C!
I think this is typical for US washing machines?
Do (eg) European washing machines instead typically have you set wash temp to an arbitrary number of °C?
Yes, typically 30, 40, 50, 60 and 90.
> Yes, RM decided to start internal investigation that lasted a few years, instead immediately contacting police, this is why it lasted so long and were so many victims.
Yes, but the distinction here is not actually as useful here as you might think.
In this situation, Royal Mail _are_ the police (the USPS has its own police too). But Royal Mail are also the prosecutors in court (they have/had prosecutorial power).
They didn't really delay sending it to the police because they never would have. It wasn't a police matter because definitively it was a Royal Mail matter. (The Royal Mail has had the power to investigate and prosecute since before there even were police.)
Edit to add: it is now a "Post Office" matter as well because they are distinct businesses as of 2013, and Post Office Ltd is an ordinary company. But the key period concerns a time when they were one and the same
If I'm not mistaken, this is not some special power Royal Mail has. In the UK, anyone can launch a prosecution.
They actually point this out when introducing the code snippet in the report.
And then after the snippet:
>> Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics of the most basic rules of computer programming.