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Right, because shooting someone for the sake of a piece of paper is usually a proportionate response …

Oh, me too. I’ve previously used [\s\S] for that.

Also the Scenic, a slightly larger Megane.

I don’t love it. The new Renaults I like, and the old 2CV I’m also fond of, but this concept 2CV just looks like a clown car to me. The front is far _too_ face-like, with a big ugly rounded Citroen-badge nose.

They’re usually around the bottom of the reliability rankings.

The really impressive and ironic self-own on most DVD and Blu-ray discs is the unskippable copyright message that basically advertises piracy. "If only you'd pirated this movie you wouldn't be forced to wait through all this boring shit".

Yes, where I am in the UK hazardous/electronic waste disposal is free for individuals but you have to take the items to a waste site. I suspect that means many people never bother.

Note: the same book is titled "Exactly" in some markets (including the UK).

I have something similar set up with a Logitech MX keyboard and mouse. I have the added constraint that one laptop is locked to a VPN and thus inaccessible on the local network.

* Using the keyboard's switch-device button moves the keyboard to the other laptop.

* Logitech's Options+ app automatically switches the mouse to the same device in response.

* Claude vibe-coded me a native app that runs on both laptops and sends a DDC command to the monitor to switch inputs any time it detects keyboard and mouse both going away in quick succession: https://github.com/jawj/mxswitch

In my experience with front-loaders, all of these are non-problems.

But my understanding is that top-loaders are always inefficient: they have to use a lot more water, because the clothes have to be submerged, and thus they also have to use a lot more energy to heat it.

Typo: prescribed burns.

One of the most ridiculous pairs of approximate homophones in the English language.

Proscribed = forbidden. Prescribed = recommended/required.

Watch this happening! https://bytebybyte.dev/

I skipped macOS 26 (except on my work laptop, where it’s crap), but I don’t think iOS 26 is significantly worse overall than iOS 18.

Same here. And I was seriously impressed with how much noise cancelling the v4 can do. I will be seriously impressed again if the v5 is as much better as they claim.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_bEtjWYWhYxSo0o_...

The price is so reasonable, I think the risk is that you’re paying mainly with your data?

Perhaps not if the one framework we ended up with was a good one …

I mean, there's certainly silly money involved, but there's surely no credible doubt that AI is already really good at many valuable tasks.

So if there's a crash, doesn't that just leave us with a bunch of useful AI hardware whose costs have been written off? I wouldn't have thought that much changes what social impacts AI is going to have.

https://printervention.app (also co-written by Claude) may be useful in similar cases.

Yes — configuring strongSwan as a bog-standard VPN server was so hard to fathom I made GitHub repo for it [1]. To be fair, some of the complexity comes from OS support that seems specifically designed to make secure setups difficult, presumably at the behest of various Three Letter Agencies.

I have now mostly switched to Wireguard for this, which is much more sane [2].

[1] https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup [2] https://github.com/jawj/wireguard-setup

These are called phrasal verbs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phrasal_verbs

I've found Opus 4.8 pretty amazing, and Codex a bit meh. YMMV?

I mean, that's fair. To an extent it depends how high the stakes are and whether there are realistic alternatives to a service.

I have plenty of ability to read, but I never read these T&Cs because they’re usually dozens of pages long and life’s too short (or, if you prefer, the cost/benefit doesn’t support it). For consumers in Europe, at least, it’s usually safe to assume that anything too shitty is unenforceable, which helps.

(It's a double-press, which I think of as one action but I guess it's technically two button presses, because I believe the EU mandates that)

Renault have nailed this. In their latest cars (the EVs, at least) you set up which features you do and don’t want, then a single button press when you get in the car makes it so.

Some of their implementations, such as lane keeping, are good enough to keep. Others, such as speed limit detection, aren’t (though it’s much better at French speed limits than UK ones, which I suppose makes sense).

There's a middle ground between ORMs and raw SQL, especially if you're using a strongly typed language. My library Zapatos[1] is one example among several.

[1] https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/

Basically: you can't teach people to think without giving them some facts and ideas to think with. It's like trying to teach woodworking without giving the students any wood.

Which is generally slower than Googling, because it's paged content in a terminal which can search only for literal strings?

Practically speaking, yes: I have a Renault EV and the battery % goes up on long descents.