Lol

Better than a lot of web dev teams at least.

Seems relevant to me as it is still a service that their company relied on.

Sure you're not misreading Metal?

So the solution is the same as it has been for over a decade. Don’t do business with Google.

I believe the problem was always the process that Google has where they tend to want to automate everything from the start and make it very difficult to reach a human and explain the situation. The service itself seems solid but if you make it difficult to address any problems when(not if) they occur then I won't be comfortable doing business with you. I stay away from their services for anything serious for this reason and always recommend to others to do the same.

It's going to be interesting to watch this unfold. Google's automation vs LLM agents, no humans from either side.

> Don’t do business with Google.

If you think other big tech or bank won't do it for you if you "don't do anything wrong" - you might be delusional.

The only way to fight it is redundancy. Dont vendor lock in all you stuff in aws/google/cf/whatever. They can (and will) fuck you up at some point.

It is a weekly occurrence for large named organisations and Google.

It isn't for other big tech/banks. It's just a risk assessment, and Google are a high risk partner.

Just because you don't see it, it doesn't meant it doesn't happen.

I deal with it daily. If i would start writing, I would spend half day just writing.

It's in no way to say Google is any good - it's just equally bad as any reasonably big organisation. No more and no less.

You should publish some of this, as if this is true and AWS and Azure are banning large organisations without realistic recourse on the same scale it should destroy the cloud service providers.

There is no point in publishing this.

Usually they don't ban large organizations without some prior consultations. SMEs are victims usually. AWS/Azure and sorts know there will be no public recourse so they can cut without any notice. It's same with banks - if you are big enough they won't suspend you, but if you are SME they can suspend in a moment without any legitimate reason. They can suspend and say their "risk assessment team is looking at it" which is BS excuse knowing how banks work. At same time your contractors couldn't be paid and you can't receive money yourself.

I don't have an answer on how to solve that besides putting in law that any service provider vital for company operations (bank, telco, etc) shouldn't suspend or limit service rendering without court order. This is rather unrealistic and won't hit legislation because of same big organization lobby.

I’ve had GIMP recommended as a free photo editing tool in many classes. Just saying that’s while you may not feel comfortable with recommending it, many others do.

I guess it would need an internet connection to work but sounds fun.

I made a list that I kept on my phone of potential names (Provided below with the answers removed—I made the list three years ago so I know at least one of the living then are alive no more).

Actors: Gary Burghoff Alan Alda Wayne Rogers Jamie Farr Loretta Switt Harry Morgan Mike Farrell David Ogden Stiers McLean Stevenson Lary Linville Cast of Gilligan’s Island Crocodile Dundee

Musicians: Pete Best Stuart Sutcliffe Frankie Avalon Annette Funicello

Politics: Henry Kissinger Geraldine Ferraro Jane Byrne Michael Bilandic Eugene Sawyer Eddie Vrdolyak

I'd be a bit surprised if anybody who knew who Stuart Sutcliffe is didn't know he was dead. He's not particularly well-known outside of people who have read about the history of the Beatles, and the fact that he died while they were still in their heyday is probably the only thing that people who know about him would be remember.

It’s putting him with Pete Best that makes it tricky so that people have to remember which one is the one who died early. George (Harrison and Martin), Paul, John and Ringo are all gimmes.

Appreciate going deep on MAS*H

I would bill by ticket machine too if it was my job to collect money on the parking. I’m guessing that the amount of people who never pay is much higher than zero so it really only makes sense when you have such high throughput that the slowdown is detrimental (such as the Bay bridge).

Yeah, for the first few months...

But I bet within less than a year you'd be doing art and coding projects, volunteer to a charity (because you are getting paid regardless!) or going back to school/self teaching yourself stuff.

The closest comparison I can give to this feeling is how teenagers manage to make awesome projects because they have the time and motivation to work on stuff, without worrying with the financial aspect of their lives.

I think people who want to stay anonymous just will not participate anymore. Like I’ve enjoyed using this site, Reddit etc but couldn’t care less about dropping them if I need to have an id verification to access. Someone will probably create a new communication method to replace this.

Nelson voice: Ha ha

Yet I still see someone scanning books with their phone to find the value most times I am in goodwill.

any idea what app they were using? I want an app to scan a bookshelf for books I want or may want to read.