Posts by katrinab 6414 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2016
Yes, but you need to filter them on the client side. UBlock origin does it on Firefox/Chromium based browsers. AdGuard does it on iOS Safari, but you have to activate it every time you visit the YouTube website.
Sponsor segments added by the YouTube creator themselves are much more difficult to filter. Sponsor-block sometimes manages it, but only if someone has already flagged it.
I've never seen any of these problems in the UK - using Amex + Nationwide Visa for retailers that don't take Amex. I can't remember the last time I went somewhere that didn't take Apple Pay, and that includes small market / street traders.
You can buy stuff on Amazon without a CVV, and you can have it delivered anywhere.
Maybe there is some way to detect stolen cards and trace back to the thief, but it is not immediately obvious.
Obviously if you have it delivered to your own address, you could be traced afterwards, but to an Amazon locker or empty property, it is less obvious.
Sales at *one* petrol station increased by 500%.
Sales at most petrol stations is down 100% because they don't have anything to sell.
The Asda I normally fill up at wouldn't be physically capable of selling 5x its normal supply, because it just doesn't have that much spare pump capacity.
People started return to work after the holidays, in many cases for the first time since Coronavirus kicked off, so traffic was back to 90% of pre-pandemic levels.
This meant that the driver shortage, which was previously hidden by the pandemic, became a problem.
By the way, there were shortages before it hit the news, not quite as bad as now, bit it was getting worse.
As for the long queues. There is an element of panic buying, but it is mostly people who normally buy from the empty petrol stations going elsewhere to find petrol. On my route to work, I go past 10 petrol stations that are visible from the road I take. 9 of those were empty last time I went in, and the other only had petrol in 2 out of its 6 pumps. That petrol station had long queues, but not 10 petrol stations worth of queues. Probably more like 3 or 4 stations worth.
You can set up a contactless account. And there is no technical reason why TfL couldn't add your concessionary travel rights to that account, and bill you less or nothing at all if you use a card linked to that account. It would take a lot of work obviously, but it isn't an impossible task.
Yes you can, but you have to use face-id or touch-id as appropriate to make the payment. Just like people did before Express Transit was introduced as a feature, or like you have to do everywhere else that isn't a transit payment terminal, or indeed at a ticket office or ticket machine.
If you have a touch ID phone, this is absolutely not a problem. Just set your default card as the one you want to use, and rest your finger on the touch ID sensor as you bring it towards the reader. Face ID is a bit more of a pain though.
It is now USB-C for all of their iPads except the budget one. iPad Air got it last year, iPad Mini got it earlier this week.
The iPad Pro by the way has seriously impressive hardware that can up a decent fight against high-end gaming and workstation PCs. It will beat them in some categories, but not all. The operating system really holds it back though.
Yes, but DST rules are the same throughout the EU - forward on last Sunday of March, back on last Sunday in October, both at 1am UTC.
This may change soon, it is been due to change next year for about the last 5 years, one of these times it might actually happen, and if it does, it will change throughout the EU. Norway, UK, etc would need to make there own decisions about whether to follow the EU in making these changes.
I find that Windows 10 usually boots up in about 3 seconds, not including POST time, unless of course it decides to do updates, but it usually chooses a much more inopportune time to do those. Back in the day, XP used to take a couple of minutes to boot up, obviously it will be a bit faster on modern hardware.
A couple of problems:
If you just copy the hardware, you get a dead brain, or, if you are lucky, a 0 day-old baby.
We don't know what the difference between the brains of for example Donald Trump or Dominic Raab, and a human of normal intelligence.
Do we even know if all the important functions actually take place within the brain?
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