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I think your ventures college class wasn't taught by someone with real experience. The rule of thumb is more like a 50% failure rate each year. Software may buck that trend. Here's some data that shows just 1/50th will exit in 5 years [1].

[1] (https://www.beauhurst.com/blog/startup-fail-scale-exit/)

And you'll need the keyboard if you want BIOS passwords or full disk encryption. No OSK or bluetooth keyboard will be available until you're past those.

I'm very suprised to find there is some science to this. I'd assumed the radiation was just too weak.

Dale Vince’s Ecojet plane will run on kerosene-based fuel in 2024 to enable quick start to project.

'It’s simple and cheap’: the volunteers making Ukraine’s Trembita bomb

Your address is now going to be one of my favourite tests for ever more, hope that's okay?

"the country’s representatives continue to put on a show of democracy week after week" - Der Spiegel. In so many ways (sigh).

The UK isn't 'Europe' anymore ...

I don't think the OP was trying to sway minds when they described meat consumption as stupid, they were simply stating the obvious.

NOYB [https://noyb.eu/en] do their best to hold big tech's feet to the fire (and they exist on donations so we can all help out).

Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague have called for everyone in the UK to get digital ID cards as part of a "technological revolution".

The issue with this when Blair first tried it was he wanted everything on a central database with all the details stored there. This was opposed by many, including the Open Rights Group and NO2ID.

"I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job." - Roseanne Barr

It's a joke, yes, obviously, but at the end a long, torturous day when you're really not sure if that was a success or not, it can be the best, and simplest, consolation.

Reading. You can combine "learn from your behaviour" and "read stories" by showing them how much you enjoy books (by enjoying books). A good reader has so many advantages, and so much more to enjoy.

Not all the ISPs kowtowed, Andrews and Arnold famously refused: https://support.aa.net.uk/Filtering

I can easily agree that the majority want power, sometimes even to do good.

The second point, that they don't see themselves as the threat, assigns them with too much of a lack of self-awareness. I believe many in the current ruling party do see themselves as a threat but they hate the woke/immigrants/workers so they're fine with it.

Only if you have a Google Pixel for GrapheneOS. That's a really small subset of "modern devices".

If anyone has a good komorebi.ahk that sets up a sensible bunch of defaults then they should try to enhance the komorebi.sample.ahk that's in the repo. I found it had very few keys set up and some of the gists I found had errors in. This adds quite a bit of friction to starting with what looks like a pretty good workaround for the poor windows management in W10.

Offices are absolutely the worst places to get any work done. Open plan, lousy kit, noisy, managers who love meetings. Add to that expensive to get to (time & money), expensive to eat nearby, terrible coffee, having to wear pants. I could go on.

I have family, kids, who I need to take to and from school, and prepare meals for. I have real friends, not office friends (although I have made lasting friends through office-based work).

Remote only for me. I'm starting my fifth remote contract next week and it's far more interesting work than anything I could get locally.

For context, I've 25yrs as a software developer, 20 of which doing contract work, and since 2020 fully remote. I'd guess I've worked in about three dozen different offices.

“If you boys and girls had to sweat for your toys the way a newly born baby has to struggle to live you would be happier . . . and much richer. As it is, with some of you, I pity the poverty of your wealth.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Haarlem’s move is part of efforts to cut consumption after meat was found to contribute to climate crisis.

Plain-text accounting is great. I choose hledger for the accounts of a small side business that doesn't warrant hiring an accountant.

He's just guessing, given his own biases, which is really disappointing in an engineer. He's quoted as saying, "[remote] I don’t know how you build great management. I honestly don’t." So go find out, perhaps?

Hybrid working is also not what you are used to, Eric, so you are not going to get what you expect from it.

That's unlikely. For a start, many people like living in the city. It's fun and their friends and family are all there. Then there's everyone with children at school so they're not going to mess with the kids' education and friendship group. Another big problem is rural broadband. I know the countryside is nice, I may well retire there, but it's not where I am now and it's only a very small number of people who like the isolation.

Probably not appropriate but the Reddit channel r/kidsarefuckingstupid is proof positive. Also the lived experience of everyone who remembers being a child. Or has children. Or knows any. Yup.

Children must be educated to understand these things can happen. It happens in Primary School here in Scotland (ages 4 - 11 approx.). If you are technically literate you will also be informing your children when you allow them on devices. After that you should respect their right to privacy. No need to ban e2ee, that's a canard.

This is from a government that has consistently waged war on expert opinion, "I think the people in this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong." - Gove

This is, quite frankly, from a government that has waged a war on truth.

Lack of building regs?

> I think these challenges will get better over time but that is probably why governments aren't keen to make large improvements in energy-efficiency regulations.

This is probably true but it's still backwards. The state should want to improve the affordability of housing and should consult with industry on which measures can be introduced but ultimately the state must introduce the new regulations to help drive the market in the direction of continuous improvements to the housing stock's long-term affordability. I think if they shirk this then they simply aren't doing the job properly.

"About the only part of a Californian house you can't put your foot through is the front door." 'The Big Sleep', Raymond Chandler (1939).

Good to see nothing's changed!

I'd suggest that rather than losing faith in democracy you could look to the spectrum of democracies and see where India's is failing. In the UK we have to turn to the courts to restrain the horrors that our government commit, more and more of late.

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time; but there is the broad feeling in our country that the people should rule, continuously rule, and that public opinion, expressed by all constitutional means, should shape, guide, and control the actions of Ministers who are their servants and not their masters." - Winston Churchill, 1947

[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1947/nov/...]