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Amazon's policy on not taking returns for food items can be very frustrating, especially combined with leaving packages on the doorstep without informing you.

I've had food items in broken glass jars left on my doorstep, and Amazon refuse to do anything about it. They also follow that pattern of making it hard to reach an actual customer service person, instead trying to send you in an endless loop of FAQ pages.

Needless to say, I no longer use Amazon for food items.

As far as I can tell there have been similar rulings in other countries and it hasn't caused issues. Germany and Spain have fleets who take the responsibility (Cabify in Spain if you want to look it up). I assume a similar model will pop up in London, they definitely won't want to pull out of the market.

I've used Java and C++ in a few low latency applications and I do prefer Java in certain scenarios. The whole ecosystem around Java makes rapid development easier meaning we could make safe changes quicker which is a big benefit in trading systems where you need to react to unpredictable market conditions.

The article focuses quite heavily on Zing vs Hotspot but it'd be interesting to see an analysis of a variety of the standard JVMs GC methods (namely Shenandoah).

For anyone interested in low latency Java I'd recommend watching some of Martin Thompson's talks on building LMAX and his blog Mechanical Sympathy is a great start too.

Should we sink to their level though? I'm not sure tit for tat fighting is going to fix anything, it just drags us all down. I'm not saying I have a solution, but I feel there's got to be a better one than the direction we're going.

Have you got a source on that? Not questioning that it does sound like an EU thing, but it could come in handy at my current company if there's legislation on that and I can't seem to find any.

They would turn down the amount of encoding they do during peak streaming. They use their existing servers instead of paying for more servers to encode their Netflix Originals, but encoding isn't time sensitive so can just run on a "spot instance" when their reserved instances are under-utilised.

They'll need 4K, 1080p, 720p etc encoded versions ready for the release of the series, but they might have copies of some of the episodes ready for encoding a few months before the release, so can slowly encode them on their spare resources.

I used to buy the paper copy of 2600 every quarter until Borders in the UK vanished and I couldn't find it anywhere. A Kindle version fixes all of my problems though.

Does anyone know if the publisher gets any money off me for buying previous editions of 2600 off the Kindle store? I've obviously subscribed now but I'd like to read some of the issues I missed.

I've always found Clevo laptops to be durable, I've knocked my 15" off a desk by accident and the screen didn't even crack.

I think they have an 11" and 14" in their range which might fit the criteria and you can customise the specs to whatever you want really.

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