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Does this not affect insurance?

We have categories of write off, so if insurance has paid out it affects the future value of the car.

This would be a category D [0], which makes a big difference on resell.

0: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/know-how/what-is-a-catego...

"Nothing else works like this, and shouldn't"

I'm pretty sure homebrew does this, and it's awful behaviour.

Every time you think I'll just.. and then you have to sit and wait whilst it does it's thing..

It can be disabled, and it was changed from every time to once every 24 hours years ago, but still..

I think you can quite correctly substitute Flying Dog for Brew Dog in the "owner is an asswipe and I won't buy anything from him" stakes:

'BrewDog, the fast-expanding craft beer firm, has apologised to former employees who accused the company and its co-founder James Watt of fostering a “culture of fear” in which workers were bullied and “treated like objects”.' [0]

0: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/brewdog-sta...

A lot of contracts I'm seeing nowadays include the opt out of this working time directive.

They say you can opt in or out at any point by providing a written request to HR, but defaulting to opt out at the point when all the power is with the company (the candidate is signing the initial contract, and may not want to rock the boat) seems wrong IMO.

Did you specifically prompt it for a US political party?

Talking of bias - this is used the world over..

Whilst we are generalising, why wouldn't we put it in the same sentence? "What Americans Can Learn From Scandinavians, the Happiest People in the World"[0]

0: https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/why-scandinavians-ar...

Thanks for this!

I have made a point over the years of hanging out with people that are far more intelligent and talented than myself, many of whom are in completely different fields to myself.. and I realise that I've always done this!

Whether it's art, music, or the future of power generation, I've been able to hold many conversations that have an aha moment halfway through, where some nugget clicks and backfills the conversation to that point.

And yes, I feel a pang of guilt when entertaining these conversations, but I've made solid friends off of a number of these interactions, so I figure I can't be a completely unbearable bore!

Or maybe I'm a bot.

How does that work for e.g. small scale salt farming in many European countries that flood areas with sea water, then harvest the salt after the water has evaporated [0]?

Is it just a case of the scale making it safe?

0: https://www.timeout.com/croatia/things-to-do/ston-salt-works

How long would it take the drone to reach Utrecht?!

I think the beauty of this is the fact that it's now easy to do this for anywhere that has coverage from Google tiles.

I'd love to see a side by side of achieving this with Unreal Vs open source tools though, would give a good indication of the gap between them (if any).

On a side note.. regulation came in quite quick for the no-drone areas in a lot of places, scuppered our farmer unmanned livestock checking startup idea!

There's a big difference between a salaried 40ish hours (plus or including commute), where the commute forms part of the decision to take the job, and you know you're getting paid vs hanging around, unable to commit to other tasks, in the hope that a gig appears for you.

If it doesn't, you not only don't get paid, but you've missed the opportunity to potentially earn elsewhere too.

According to game theory [0], it all comes right in the end..

Sadly, the time horizon is far too long, and the individual short term benefit far too high for this to be (currently) working out as hoped..

0: https://ncase.me/trust/

"You can summarize many types of web content, including:

Text web pages, articles, and forum threads PDF documents PowerPoint documents (.pptx) Audio files (mp3/wav) YouTube URLs"...

It doesn't actually state video, do you know if it's summarizing the actual YouTube video, or the subtitles?

Whilst they may seem the same, I can see the former being able to be refined over time based on e.g. in scene visual context

What has been lost, in the UK at least, is the concept of a watershed.

Previously violence, nudity, and profanity would only end up on screen / radio after a certain time (9pm iirc).

In an on demand world, we're now expected (rightly or wrongly*) to make that decision for ourselves at the point of consumption. Couple that with platforms that make only hand wavy efforts to actually validate the age of consumers, and you have ubiquitous access to potentially inappropriate material.

Granted, the (seemingly) puritan basis of the large American streaming services means we won't be seeing sex and nudity on these platforms, but my goodness, as an adult, some of the gratuitous violence in even 15 rated content nowadays surprises me. Take everything everywhere and the gratuitous bloody beating to death with a massive dildo for example.. that's the sort of content that wins 7 oscars..

I'm aware that I sound like a right prude, and this has turned into a rant, but fuck it, digital content has moved so quickly that we've gone from Mary Whitehouse [0] to apathy in a generation.

*I say rightly or wrongly, because I don't think we in the UK have had a grown up conversation on that front. We're a complete nanny state, except for where we're not. Publicly broadcast material adheres to the watershed, but digital content seemingly doesn't need to.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

Minor edit to reference streaming services not culture

Whilst I agree, that's what I don't get.

When a user is expected to have to repurchase a product in the future (e.g. phone upgrade), do they look at it as squeezing as much revenue out of a single user whilst they own a single device, or over lifetime ownership of many devices?

You can imagine a scenario where they squeeze an extra 20% revenue whilst that user owns their device (great for this quarter) at the cost of 100% of future revenue when the user moves to another brand on renewal.

If the average phone upgrade is 21 months [0], then this feels like a short enough timeframe for this to be felt in the numbers.

0: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/smartphone-users-replac...

I doubt it would be classical music and whale song playing over a beautifully calm scene..

More like kids watching movies without headphones, over loud conversations and screaming babies if other public transport is anything to go by.

But we can dream!

Plenty of truly innovative inventions aren't initially universally loved, take automobiles for example[0].

0: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/01/get-horse-americ...

But isn't this what Firefox containers achieve?

My understanding is that cookies etc aren't shared between containers, so I can stay logged in, and not be tracked across websites.

If it's achievable, why compromise?

As opposed to manually trawling through thousands of documents, based on a keyword that may, or may not, appear in the context of the case file?

It's a huge boon, but nothing is perfect. If it's that important that absolutely nothing is missed, maybe try multiple approaches concurrently. Take this as a value add, not a replacement.

Isn't that do not disturb is for? Starred contacts work with WhatsApp too.

I have it set on a sleep schedule; only calls, texts or WhatsApps from a select few get through.

FWIW, I do inbox zero, with strict notification rules. If something interrupts me, it better be for a good reason.

That the same BP that is making record profits during the cost of living crisis? [0]

I suspect the "formal economy" is hurting in a number of places, just not the energy sector.

0: https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/we-asked-expert...

For me that's the biggest takeaway.. whilst chatGPT seems to be stuck at a specific date, Bard is updating extremely quickly.

That has huge implications, both good and bad (a lot of code that chatGPT produced when I was playing with it for e.g. sveltekit is outdated)

The parallels are there for DevOps too - think of the wholesale move to AWS, GCP, and Azure, and the move to things like IaC.

Sure one class of job has taken a huge hit (sys admins, supposedly ops), but it's been replaced by another that needs intimate knowledge of the tooling required to do what was being done previously (just in a more "scalable" way). DevOps have been demanding a premium for years now.

And there are still sys admins out there doing what they've always done..

In many places, without at will employment, you can't lay an individual off, but actually have to make the position redundant.

For reference, I enjoyed playing sumplete. Master level passed the time nicely (not the full 20 hours, but I did come back to it!).

Mechanics work well for an AI generated game. No idea if it's novel or not, but it's a good take.

Why does it have to be so binary?

Natural Language is great for loosely defining what you want, whilst literal searches are great for finding the exact occurrence of something you know you are looking for.

I can imagine something like:

Search for the error code: "XY123", triggered by product "ABC" when I try and start it bound to port 123. I'm using version 1.0.0, and want results from the official documentation or sites of good repute. Only include solved problems, and give me references in your results.

Granted, a lot of that could be covered by special incantations in a more literal search, but that just feels far more flexible.

Note I'm trying to delineate between literal (in quotes) and Natural Language in this example if it's not clear.

But that came in a nice metal tin :)

I can remember having to go halves on it for my Xmas present, as I think it was well outside the norm price wise.

Never regretted that purchase though! Unlike a lot of the overpriced half finished pre-order games we get nowadays..

How much of that is due to salary expectations?

I think there's plenty of people that have got used to an inflated salary, so offering "local market rate" won't cut it.

Time will tell if the global downturn will lead to reverting to norm (especially as a lot of companies seem to be moving away from fully remote).

The barber one always gets me.

That's a direct 1-1 transaction. You are getting a hair cut, so if it's good, you'll come back. If it's bad you won't. Charge what it costs and give the best service possible.

Granted if they go above and beyond maybe I would tip (buy yourself a beer as you say, but it would have to be more than "they cut my hair").

That's the slippery slope though, whereby if you don't tip you are deemed to not be happy with the service, and so the emotional imperative is to tip to not offend.

Also known as a "Backronyn".

Start with the acronym you want, and work back from there..

Thanks for that. Some incredible pictures on there.

It's an astonishingly fast website too, considering how image heavy it is!

Not come across photodeck [0] before, but kudos to them. That's an incredibly pleasant website to navigate.

0: https://www.photodeck.com/