My booking.com latest experience: booked big appartment for 4 people. Arrived to destination (Bristol, UK), and apartment already had guests inside. Tried contacting landlord, no reply. Called booking com, they offered acommodation 30km from the city centre, and its already 11pm, no way to get there. Had to pay our own hotels, and we never got money paid to booking.
One neighbor of that apartment said they often double book! Seems booking com doesn't care.
I recently had a hotel try to scam me through the official Booking.com messages. Knew my phone number (they also WhatsApp'd me), me booking dates and email address (got more attempts via email). Spoke at length with Booking.com and, despite using them virtually weekly for fifteen years, they did not give a crap and then stopped responding to my emails. All I wanted them to do is get the hotel to refund my booking about two weeks before the date as I no longer felt comfortable staying somewhere that would leak my details.
I will not use them again, just like I do not use Travelodge any more since they repeatedly double-booked my rooms. I feel like, eventually, I'm going to run out of brokers to use. Perhaps I just need to book direct with a handful of hotels.
This happens more often and especially late at night you really don't want shit like this, so indeed, I will not use booking.com. When I had this with other services, they just fixed it, at their expense, booking doesn't even fake that they care at all.
What did we do wrong when simple chat app requires hundrets of megabytes of memory, or even gigabytes! Sure, its not just plain text but images and videos, but still...
Opened samples - bunch of Json config files. Closed Samples.
Do they really expect devs to write Json to configure worksflows and tasks!? Even Workflow Foundation had more c# I think...
I’m pretty sure an app as mediocre as this would take up less code in React, or even plain JavaScript. The UI is a single table and a few inputs and buttons, and its main way of communicating with the outside world is message boxes - trivial to do in a web browser.
Netflix is "4K Ultra HD: Up to 7 GB per hour".
Blu ray is 25GB per side, so max 50GB for 2 layers. Typical movies are 35-50GB.
So, BR, and think even DVD still looks much better than any streaming service!
Interesting. I was looking back at my BluRay collection (physical) the other day, looking for a UHD movie to test with, and in my memory, all BDs with UHD, but to my surprise, very few of them were actually UHD, with most just being HD (1080p). I doubt there's in in my collection that are BD100; could I even play them? Currently using a PS5 as my BD player, and PS4 and PS3 before that.
A PS5 can play UHD Blu-Ray, PS3 and PS4 (even the Pro) can’t.
UHD discs are fairly noticeable at a distance as they usually use black disc cases instead of blue. They’re somewhat niche (if Blu-ray wasn’t already niche) and often sell at a premium, so I suspect unless you’ve been seeking them out you won’t have them barring the odd multi format bundle.
And Netflix HD (1080) is hardly what one would expect. It may be technically 1080p but the bit rate is often quite low. Most people don't notice or care.
Reminds me to friends old but brilliant project, use Unicode to draw art on stack trace logs!
Enough with boring stack traces in logs, lets make some art there and make life a bit easier for the poor soul thats on support and has to debug latest prod issue. https://medium.com/@ironcev/stack-trace-art-4b700a8817ea
After the part where she was giving a birth to her child, while still writing emails and doing work stuff, I take everything she said with a grain of salt. As a father, the way she prioritised work to family through out many years of her work at FB, I find it very repelling and disgusting.
I believe that Zuck&team are slimy greedy spoiled brats, but I could also say few things about her. Which make me wonder what is actual truth, book is very biased.
