I've not seen this before. Looks more like visual artefacting from a graphics processing error to me on first glance.
Where was this specific ad? Might try to find one in the wild myself?
If it is a QR code it seems like maybe some kind of proprietary watermarking tech to track ads for some very specific purpose. My phone either can't lock onto it or can't read it.
From @koopajah on discord: "We don't really drop nines if one specific feature is having issues". Pretty convenient payment processing is just a "feature" of a payment infrastructure SaaS
This is a bullshit and untenable position. This “one specific feature” takes out the core feature. Shameful, deceitful and reputation tarnishing position.
In a OKR culture, the way to make your KR good is to add lots of useless and very simple microservices, which are always up, so the overall metric is 100%.
I guess 99.999% uptime is no longer an engineer's well-earned badge of honor at Stripe. Now it's just sales puffery, like a LOWEST PRICES IN THE CITY!! sign at a discount store.
Sorry, but true class isn't just elegant rectangles decorated by various subtle shades of gray sans serif.
Yes, you either need to have a per-customer uptime number (that is visible to those customers) or you have one unified uptime number that takes a hit if any customers experience downtime. You can't have it both ways.
Why can't you maintain and report an average uptime across all service usage? So if you have an outage that affects 1% of traffic it moves your figure 1/10th as one on 10% of traffic?
That's what I'd expect a reported number to be, since that's what a client experiences on average.
What rights do you imagine grant ownership of the word "flipper" exactly? I believe there's only four IP rights granted in US; Trade/Service mark, Patent, Copyright and Trade Secret? Which of those could possibly prevent a electronic device have same name as a TV Show?
...let's say instead of a dolphin named flipper, the character / avatar on the product was a plumber with a big mustache named "Mario".
You're telling me Nintendo isn't filing a C&D?
Trademarks don't work that way. You don't get to own all uses of a word, only a word in a particular field (like the use of "Flipper" in names for TV shows).
Yeah, except this isn't just the word "Flipper". Its the word Flipper with a dolphin avatar.
To a IP judge this is a product thats marketed as a "Tamagochi-like device with a dolphin called Flipper". Its not even a hard stretch to say that this would confuse an unsavvy consumer who might think this devices was a "Flipper the Dolphin Tamagochi".
I found this really interesting to read. It's really cool that they use the mechanical press of the buttons to generate energy. I had never thought of that before. However when you think about those old longpress ratchet flashlights - that was the same concept.
