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by gib444 4mo ago
Over a £100k with a techbro fintech that isn't even a bank. My friend, you're a gambler!
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by gib444 4mo ago
Yup. This was a very useful precursor to the AI era: telling engineers they're worthless and they are there just to implement the specifications and ideas drawn up by more important people. Shutting them out of the earlier discussions
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by gib444 4mo ago
Guidelines say to edit out swipes, so your comment can be edited to just: ""
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by gib444 4mo ago
That's only part of the story. Wholesale costs are about 1/3 of a bill. The non wholesale costs are rising too: https://www.electricitybills.uk/
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by gib444 4mo ago
I agree about boring tech. They're not a tech company but they're not low or anti tech though Tesco worked closely with a data startup to create the Clubcard and that startup is now a big company owned by Tesco (Dunnhumby, £350m,
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by gib444 4mo ago
This idea is being pushed to increase sunk costs IMO. We are told to spend huge amount of time writing specs, behaviour tests, AGENTS.md and prompts. Pinky promise that's enough to get good output. Pinky promise we won't invent ye
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by gib444 4mo ago
Very similar experience in England with ridiculously excessive announcements on trains. It's the verbal equivalent of being constantly slapped in the face.
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by gib444 4mo ago
> stephen fry "May I compartmentalise? I hate to, but may I? may I?" "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers" "...saying the same weary things time after w
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by gib444 4mo ago
Totally relatable. It's not just earphones. Put your phone and headphones away and then observe people. Every one except the 70 plus will be hooked on their phones. That 20 second wait between getting up to get off the train and waitin
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by gib444 4mo ago
It's slop o'clock
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by gib444 4mo ago
> It doesn’t mean Oh man if I had a pound for every time I've had a corporate dogsbody try to invent meanings of legal wording that doesn't actually exist and gaslight me... They are usually so passionate about it too. A simple
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by gib444 4mo ago
> It brings the prices of rail travel in the Netherlands from "fucking ludicrous" Haha I can't help but feel the Dutch firmly believe rail should be completely free Isn't it fairly common for your employer to pay half
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by gib444 4mo ago
What % of requests succeeded vs failed? How many certificates were issued during the outage vs the average? That might actually clear things up
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by gib444 4mo ago
Sorry but it's errant nonsense that HS2 is the only rail project of the last 20 years Crossrail, Transpennine Route Upgrade, East West Rail, MML upgrade, Borders railway, Thameslink upgrades
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by gib444 4mo ago
Eveyone getting very excited but on what date did the company actually pay the fine to the EU? > This decision can nevertheless be challenged before Norwegian courts in accordance with Article 78(1) of the GDPR. [0] Time will tell I gue
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by gib444 4mo ago
You've been dying to find a tangentially related comment to shoehorn that into haven't you? Hah Good info though mate well done The rape gangs are truly horrific and one of the worst things to happen to Britain in recent history
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by gib444 4mo ago
Dutch trains run mostly on time though and with far less disruption than DB, right?
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by gib444 4mo ago
Personally, I find no charge very, very reasonable lol
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by gib444 4mo ago
Not for visitors AIUI. You need some kind of card only locals can get.
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by gib444 4mo ago
UK is trying really hard with its reactors too. Sizewell C, its £38bn current price tag is looking very very shaky - £60bn final cost wouldn't surprise me. And our electricity bills are going up again in order to help fund it. Lovely
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by gib444 4mo ago
I had a feeling. The dehumidifier manufacturers (and their paid partner bloggers etc) insisting it takes weeks and weeks to start taking effect always struck me as odd - probably because even at full whack you're probably drying out th
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by gib444 4mo ago
And who ensures those planning laws remain as they are - expensive and annoying and enabling of NIMBYs? Politicians. These things were created with laws, they can be undone with them We rarely have impediments such as a minority government
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by gib444 4mo ago
I don't understand how they don't end up just drying the fresh air? The average home has a certain amount of fresh air coming in. Outside is often 50-80% here in the UK. Am I just spending 150 watts to constantly dehumidify fresh
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by gib444 4mo ago
Ah thanks I haven't been paying close enough attention. That's good
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by gib444 4mo ago
No, I won't anthropomorphise LLMs.
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by gib444 4mo ago
Meal deal = main + snack/side + drink The "main" has expanded to Huel, salads, wraps, sushi, even hot food The "snack" can be more than crisps: small bags of fresh chicken, 2 boiled eggs, small sushi pack, gyozas et
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by gib444 4mo ago
Yes...but the "feature" is still broken and dangerous
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by gib444 4mo ago
In the UK infrastructure projects are about creating jobs and making their friends rich first, and providing some kind of useful infrastructure last (and also optional) There is so much thievery of public funds it's just corruption dis
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by gib444 4mo ago
> ... it makes sleeping as a passenger on the autobahn basically impossible. Which people often do when sharing the driving on long drives. So, another case of it making driving more dangerous, if the spare driver can not rest properly.
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by gib444 4mo ago
N.B. I didn't write /all/ were "broken and dangerous" But some personal examples: - Auto high beam assist saw a car at a side junction, turned off high beam, then turned back on, mimicking a 'flash' to let

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