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Guavanaut posted:Glad I'm not the only one who thought that. Thank you!
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kecske posted:why does March 2017 get to have two colours? Multiple reports?
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Failed Imagineer posted:What was that other popular graph that was extremely wrong in all of its predictions? On the tip of my brain... 2008 economic crash recovery?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:but i tested it with my old address that I don't think i had ordered from wickes but is definitely like on the royal mail main list and it wasn't on this autocomplete list. as a curious soul I also confirmed this with my address, CVSS'd it for them and reported it to Wickes and, well, lmao 
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jiggerypokery posted:After a savage summer lost to crippling video game addiction I've decided to come back to the thread. Hi thread. 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:^^^ yeah what these guys say It’s probably just taking the first 10 from the database without sorting, in whatever order the database decides to return them.
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Was Geronimo's death worth it if it saves us all?  https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1440604156675321876
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Noxville posted:It’s probably just taking the first 10 from the database without sorting, in whatever order the database decides to return them. nah I put the first 4 characters of my address in and it returned one result, a motorcycle repair shop, i enter the fifth and it starts returning the national database suggestions
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Wait, so is my flymo safe to use or no?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Wait, so is my flymo safe to use or no? Depends if you're using it to strim the hedge of your lawn or to trim your pubic hair OP.
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peanut- posted:Was Geronimo's death worth it if it saves us all? Geronimo is basically llama jesus.
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OwlFancier posted:Geronimo is basically llama jesus. "The Dalai Llama" was right there, man.
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Geronimo was an alpaca, not a llama.
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Necrothatcher posted:Geronimo was an alpaca, not a llama. Both alpaca and llama, as christ is both god and man.
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Necrothatcher posted:Geronimo was an alpaca, not a llama. 
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Doccykins posted:nah I put the first 4 characters of my address in and it returned one result, a motorcycle repair shop, i enter the fifth and it starts returning the national database suggestions When you licence the Royal Mail address database, you pay per query. So they're probably either caching previous queries (eg someone searched for the motorcycle shop before edit: though now that i think about it i'm pretty sure that breaks the TOS anyway) or searching their previous orders, and then only falling over to the Royal Mail DB if necessary. Which is terrible ux and arguably a privacy issue too, but that's likely why it's been done that way. To save money. Because capitalism. blunt fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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OwlFancier posted:Both alpaca and llama, as christ is both god and man. He is the Llama, the Son, and after Starmer put a bullet in his head, the Holey Goat.
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blunt posted:When you licence the Royal Mail address database, you pay per query. My favourite thing about the official UK address database is that there are several versions of it So, assume your address changed at some point somehow. Depending on the web site you're ordering from, maybe they have your current address available in the "select from these" list, or maybe they only have an old address that doesn't work. Excitement! I've only met one or two web sites though which had a combination of 1) current address not available at all AND 2) no "enter address manually" option
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jaete posted:I've only met one or two web sites though which had a combination of 1) current address not available at all AND 2) no "enter address manually" option As someone who lives in a building that the Royal Mail claims is one house and flatly refuses to acknowledge it contains 6 flats, a pox upon any website that does not have an "enter address manually" option.
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Well 2.5 hours later Wickes haven't picked my order, there's no paperwork, the guy can't login cos he doesn't know the password and the guy that does has dirty hands. The wood is just sitting on the shelf but I've already paid for it.
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 peanut- posted:As someone who lives in a building that the Royal Mail claims is one house and flatly refuses to acknowledge it contains 6 flats, a pox upon any website that does not have an "enter address manually" option.
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The system just shows addresses from a list in whichever mailing address database is being accessed. We moved to a cloud system at work recently and initially everything it started to find was a US address. It's now getting more likely to start with UK addresses as it has learned that we're a UK-based outfit. It doesn't do well on flats, particularly as some flats say "Flat 6, My Building, Some Street" and others say "6, My Building, Some Street" and even others say "My Building", 6 Some Street" (which happens a lot and is extremely annoying because then post goes to 6 Some Street which is nowhere near My Building, Some Street.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Well 2.5 hours later Wickes haven't picked my order, there's no paperwork, the guy can't login cos he doesn't know the password and the guy that does has dirty hands. The wood is just sitting on the shelf but I've already paid for it. Can't you just get the guy with dirty hands to grab your wood?
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Failed Imagineer posted:I had to confirm on WhoSampled, but apparently yes Cranberries-Zombie has been sampled a surprising number of times no, that's just all in your head
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If you're a GMB or Unison member Momentum has set up a tool to lobby the union's leadership to oppose the electoral college in Labour: https://socialistfuture.com/lobby/
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Julio Cruz posted:no, that's just all in your head Powerful Two-Hander posted:the_decline_of_the_uk.jpg
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Guavanaut posted:Glad I'm not the only one who thought that. What gets me about this is they probably knew their forecasts were unrealistically optimistic, but in the interests of ~market confidence~ they gotta pretend everything is coming up roses in the hope it'll be a self-fulfilling prophecy
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Not mentioned, should be. Stagecoach drivers are on it’s not a strike it’s a overtime ban and it’s escalating and spreading across the country. It started here: https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/members-updates/rmt-calls-overtime-and-rest-day-working-ban-on1921/ Basically a lot of the drivers in Worksop are on less than minimum wage because they are taking training costs out of their wages. The old system was that Stagecoach paid for training but if you left you had to pay it back minus time worked. Other smaller bus companies ended up using Stagecoach as a training program by offering them more money and buying out the training money. Instead of increasing money to keep the drivers, on top of all of this, they all ended up getting a pay cut country wide because wages haven’t risen with inflation.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What gets me about this is they probably knew their forecasts were unrealistically optimistic, but in the interests of ~market confidence~ they gotta pretend everything is coming up roses in the hope it'll be a self-fulfilling prophecy I've had the exact same thing from management in the past lol: Me: "On existing performance, and compared with previous product launches, I expect the sales trend to do this." Management: "Hmm, but to hit our revenue target, we need the sales trend to do that. So make the drat chart do what it needs to do."
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Good news though, guess who's well on his way to making amends? https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/1440591130999996416
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josh04 posted:Good news though, guess who's well on his way to making amends? *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you he also abused the dog
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've had the exact same thing from management in the past lol: I've had that too. One national organisation I worked for had approx 50 big customers - some national some local. We had to set a national asset/operational performance improvement plan and assign %s to each customer (which naturally had to add up to 100%) One of the customers had a very scary female chief executive - all straight blonde hair, Cruella Da Ville fingernails, fitted suits and padded shoulders. You could see the willies of her male underlings shrivel if she turned up in a meeting. She demanded that her company should be given a bigger %. So we asked our CEO which companies should have their % share reduced to make up and he said "They have to keep the same share while her % increases. Make it happen." It was particularly stupid because the whole thing was notional and estimates anyway - if we tweak this thing here, we might improve performance by 1% so of that, the split for the different customers will be 1% of 1%, 2.5% of 1%, .5% of 1% yadda yadda.
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