Automated messages are pretty much the only thing I get via SMS. Other than the occasional message from my mum who likes to randomly flip between WhatsApp and SMS depending on which way the wind blows.
I think we need to give them a place to do it that wont piss people off. The UK has a great history of motorsport but has hardly any resources for getting started with your own car.
I have seen in America where cops join in and mod their cars and race people on race tracks, it doesn't totally remove the anti-social behavior but by making these outlets cheap and easily accessible we can give people a new thing to focus on and get into without pissing off people.
Without an election Labour dont have enough seats to be an effective minority government. They would need either lots of support from other parties.
Best option right now is an election, its really our only path to stability. But the Tories will hang on for as long as they can as they are expecting to be wiped out if they held an election right now.
They were not building it for people going out for a recreational canoe. They would surely have stuff in the Canoe that they don't want to carry a mile along with the canoe.
Because they are a weird middle ground. UK uses metric paper, metric weights and measures for _most_ things, metric temperature. Where Imperial starts to slip in is distance when driving (but not when running...), volumes of Beer and Milk (mainly cause we want more beer than 500ml) and body weight (where we use Stones, which is weird). There are probably some other things as well, but metric is the dominant system (for people under 60) for sure.
They only need to survive long enough to get covered up, which could happen pretty quickly if there is a battle going on. Once they are covered they are protected.
Intercity trains often go much faster than 60mph. More like an average of 90mph with a speed limit 125mph on the main lines in UK. Thats not even the HS1 (and eventually HS2), that's on our old AF Victorian rail roads.
The argument for trains is often more about taking out the need to drive everywhere than the need to fly from coast to coast though, as a train is never going to beat that.
Its about building a surface that will also survive the winter and the summer. Its a tricky problem to solve. We could probably replace this with tarmac that could survive much hotter temps, but would just crack and break in the winter when its gets too cold.
Its much harder on the tube, as where do you dump the hot air? Back into the tunnel? London's clay has basically baked around the tube and is a really good insulator. Its not a particularly easy problem to solve.
Actually, didn't the latest build of Safari nightly recently over take all the other browsers in terms of number of supported features? I swear that was shared here on HN.
I assume part of the reason for doing it like that is that it gives user feedback for the systems rather than just following what ever assumptions they put in place for their automated testing. It also servers to be driver training, which is very important and takes a long time, so if they can start sooner its probably a good thing.
Which is exactly why Home Assistant and Matter exist... If you're not going to read the post why even bother commenting.
My Home Assistant instance has only a few devices that are in anyway linked to a third party but even then they have locally accessible API's. Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread and Matter are all great solutions for this.
The text they are currently trying to rip up against the will of the EU? The only viable solution is that the UK rejoins the EU or becomes subservient to it... but neither will happen anytime soon.
The Palm Pre was always a phone I lusted after but never got to actually use. Is there a good emulator or way to experience what WebOS used to be like?
This is something I would agree with. If you can keep the boundaries in place but work in the same process space you've managed to avoid the mess often associated with Monoliths and the overhead associated with Micro services.
Or maybe they are, and they still think its worth it? Stack traces are not an issue I've faced, good tracing helps a lot here. Encode-decode is a minor issue in comparison to the issues they are often trying to solve (which may not always be technical, especially at larger orgs)
Yes, but London has fantastic public transport to the extent where if you are living in the Ultra Low Emission Zone you probably don't need a car (if you could even afford a place with a parking space). Now the extension of the Low Emission Zone is a different matter, but its less strict and while people complained a bit before it expanded I've not heard of any major issues from it (but then again, I am probably in a bubble).
Im not sure its fair to call Scala dead. Its still pretty widely used, at least in companies in London. Hiring is a bit more competitive but we still get some great Scala devs interviewing for the more senior roles.
Disclaimer - I work with Scala every day, so am definitely highly biased.
There is 'running a basic linux server' then there is running a secure, scalable and reliable server for the whole org to use. The latter is the job of a sys admin, not an developer. Sure I could probably figure it out, but I am no expert and it would be a waste of my time.
I disagree, the company I work for is big but not massive and yet even using this kind of approach on a single product in our suite has been really beneficial. Its not as complicated as you may think, its just about keeping the code clean. Its allowed us to refactor technical implementations with much less risk and makes the code easier for people to follow. Sure it maybe a bit of a mental shift, but its not like you wont find benefits in it. (And I disagree with the insinuation that its more complex or slowing down development, I actually find the opposite is true).
No, its funded by advertising but owned by the government. That means they have more remit to do what they like (no shareholders like Murdock to appease).
Same here. Its funny that you get accused of being a paid shill, yet the people who so loudly complain get taken seriously. I dont know anyone who's had an issue and I would say 90% of my friends have monzo.
They are 100% not behind the 'We cant tell you why'. It only takes the smallest amount of reading to figure that out. They have to report it to the FCA and you can read the reports from the FCA that suggest its not actually any worse than other banks. Its just more talked about. (No I am not going to dig them out for you).