Central London here. Use of siren is very well controlled in my opinion, especially compared to other countries and cities. I find they're used for short periods such as when approaching an intersection.
What's the most disturbing for us are people on on scooters, motorbikes, or cars with modified mufflers or engines and excessive revving. Much more frequent, and they love cruising at all hours of the night.
Yeah it’s obvious emergency crews in London have been given some very stringent training on the use of sirens.
Only used for a short period on approach to junctions, turned off if it’s clear that traffic can’t create space for them (so they don’t just sit in traffic wailing away), alternating the siren tone after passing each junction so it’s clear to others you need to pay attention again as the vehicle has cleared an obstacle and is going to start accelerating.
They do an extremely good job of making sure that people know they’re there, without being unnecessarily obnoxious.
Really hoped they supported subscription pausing by now. Doesn't make sense paying a year's sub for a secondary home when you're only there for a couple months, unless it's the only option you have.
Without any image processing, we can already see palm prints and the ridges and lines in the palm and fingers. These are unique biometric identifiers. In fact, palms have more identifying characteristics than fingerprints.
They are almost certainly telling the truth in this story.
> They want to keep their walled garden's walls air tight, and there are apparently enough people that are OK living in that garden that it works.
For many, including me, it's not some inconvenience that we are okay with. We see it as a selling point.
I've tried them all and Apple's balance of openness/security/quality is the best I've experienced. If they follow the direction of others, I'd probably jump ship.
I was just thinking how cool it would be to have a colour e-ink display showing something like the current New Yorker cover. They do exist [0] but are likely significantly more expensive again than monochrome, and the 32" panel listed on the site is only 720p.
I used to be bullish on linting around 2014-2017. Now I avoid them as much as possible.
Bad linters are expensive. They add complexity to workflows and pipelines, slow down iteration speed, and create a nitpicky culture where most discussions miss the point. Multiply this by a whole engineering team, yikes.
Yet there are some good (parts of) linters, such as catching actual issues rather than preferences. If we bet on linters, they should increase our value multifold to be worth it.
Definitely. Side projects, fine. But I'll never use a pipeline that's coupled to my VCS hosting solution for anything production facing.
Did it before and not only does it make it tricky to move to another VCS host, but your ability to release is held hostage by their uptime - which isn't super reliable.
What's the most disturbing for us are people on on scooters, motorbikes, or cars with modified mufflers or engines and excessive revving. Much more frequent, and they love cruising at all hours of the night.