If they win any sizeable market share, their prices will go right up.

I don't think that is an issue. If the prices become uncompetitive then someone else (even Apple) is free to step in and offer a cheaper alternative.

The whole reason Apple got away with charging so much was because they set the App Store rules so no-one could offer an alternative.

I used to screen scrape jail registry records for county jails in my home area. Though the IDs weren't exactly sequential, doing groups of 50 would get hits for two of the local counties.

What I found was that, while the website UI wouldn't show juvenile records, you could access them directly w/the ID. Surfacing it to the county took a day or so to find the right person but they quickly closed that hole, but who knows how many records were handed out to malicious actors over the years before I found it.

There is no universally accepted definition for SUV, particularly across country boundaries. The only real differentiator seems to be available 4-wheel drive. Assuming the Ioniq 5 is the AWD versions and not the RWD ones, I guess it fits the most basic definition.

In my experience, PIPs are NEVER intended to be a tool to help you; they're intended to help the company find reasons to fire you.

Use the 90 days to find a new job; not try and pass the arbitrary/impossible to meet requirements.

Plus, once you've been put on a PIP, do you really want to continue working for a company that was literally trying to create documentation to fire you?

No; you don't.

My ex-wife stole ~$300K from me preparing for a divorce. It was up to me, the person who made the money, not the person who pfilered it, to prove she did so and it would have cost at least 1/3 of the money and the likelihood I could prove to the court it had been done, even though it was blatantly obvious what she did to be near 0.

The legal system is absolutely fucked and it needs to be changed.

I honestly want someone from Apple to explain to me why Chinese knockoffs smart watches allow notifications to go to my phone and my watch simultaneously as well as last >10 days on a charge, yet my supposedly superior Apple Watch (at 4x the cost) lasts barely a day and doesnâ(TM)t allow for this.

The only reason I use the Apple Watch instead is because my cheap Chinese knockoff for $27 didnâ(TM)t track swimming.

Ridiculous.

You havenâ(TM)t been online dating have you? Believe me, women are incredibly choosy, even if they have no ability to realistically be so.

Iâ(TM)ll never get married again. Iâ(TM)m paying out a significant amount in alimony, child support, lost my house, incurred significant debt due to my ex stealing and hiding assets in preparation for divorce, lost 70K in legal fees to no positive outcome, have no cash while she will be flush with it from QRDOs.

Who the fuck thinks they should ever do this shit again? Seriously; why?

I found my most recent three jobs on LI; it *had* been a great place for finding new places to work. In the meantime, however, particularly after the MSFT takeover, it has been absolutely insufferable to use. The ads have gone up, the quality of postings have apparently gone down, and the qualIty of job listings have as well.

I found that if you unfollow EVERYONE in your contacts, it doesn't show ANYTHING to you, especially ads, but you still have access to find jobs--if they exist (I am not looking).

The actual story is that Japan's central bank raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years, from 0% to 0.1%.

This reminds me of the story about American Airlines in the 1980s concluding that three-quarters of their passengers were not eating the olive that came with their dinner salad. They cut it, saved $40,000 in a year, and concluded that it lost not a single passenger.

I suspect the lack of Apple sticker in the box of your shiny new iDevice is pretty much the same thing.

Yep, this exactly is the point. Helping people for free. Not helping megacorporations for free which will later help people for a fee and eventually eliminate your job, using the free help you gave them.

If someone working for a megacorp finds your help on stackoverflow and uses it to solve a work related problem, then you've essentially helped the megacorp for free anyway.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Favherald.com%2F keeps track of things, 3-5 incidents a day is pretty normal

Saying that this code was poor would be an understatement.

The report (page 17) has this code as an example - describing it as "Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming."

Public Function ReverseSign(d)
If d < 0 Then
d = Abs(d)
Else
d = d - (d * 2)
End If
ReverseSign = d
End Function

The code could potentially be worse because the font that the report uses makes it hard to tell if they are testing "if d is less than zero" or "if d is less than the global variable o".

You'll feel a lot better when it isn't controlling your life.

I'm no doctor, but I don't think that the mere appreciation of the option to (say) listen to an interesting podcast to while away a couple of hours waiting for an aeroplane to land is much of an indicator that my phone is controlling my life.

Once you get over the DTs, you'll find that you never needed a pacifier to get through the day.

It's been 26 odd years now and I've never ever felt my phone to be a pacifier but, if it gets to that stage, then I'll be sure to heed your advice. Hopefully you're in a better place now.