Nighed
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- Comment on Wealthy parents rush to give children their assets as tougher UK inheritance tax rules loom 2 days ago:
I understand the complains when it comes down to family businesses, it’s not just wealth, it’s the business. Getting a loan against the company big enough to pay the tax bill could be difficult/unaffordable.
Maybe there should be an option to give a share of the company to the taxman as collateral and split the bill over years or something.
See the Samsung inheritance tax debacle to see the extremes of this kind of stuff.
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 week ago:
There should be age walls for some stuff. What that stuff is and how the walls work is up for debate.
In this situation (a store) using a payment method as the age wall works well. In other use cases it would not be as good.
IMO: the new law is overreaching, they needed to set up privacy protecting ID verification system first if they were going to go that far. It’s an own goal so far…
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 week ago:
Ironically, this means that they are more likely to be used to pay for porn games though…
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 week ago:
What are you trusting them with? Most people have already given steam this information.
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 week ago:
It’s not asking for an ID?
- Comment on Value Age verification 1 week ago:
Screenshot is from here
It’s the best option I can think of, not privacy invasive stuff. My only concern would be if it’s good enough. My only problem is that it requires you to have a credit card.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Could Be Getting A Sequel Or DLC 2 weeks ago:
It does get harder later, I had to leave areas to level some more/rebuild characters. Some areas are just weak/strong Vs some builds too.
I still haven’t finished it either, actually 2 seems to go on forever (don’t even know if it’s the last act).
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 2 weeks ago:
I still don’t understand why apps these sizes need that many people in the first place, what do they do!?!
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 2 weeks ago:
I switched to Qobuz. They use soundiiz.com to migrate, I think it was free transfering to them?
- Comment on YSK that JetBrains IDEs do not remove old share and cache files from the previous version when upgrading. Every folder includes a local LLM, plugin executables, and old search indices. They go unused. Removing old versions freed up 14.8 GB storage for me. 3 weeks ago:
Equally, when your install is fubar, you can uninstall, reinstall an old version and it will re-upgrade all your old (not broken) configs.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Cryptocurrency that is pegged 1-1 against a normal currency. I think they have some limitations though.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Is it a payment processor problem, or a card issued problem though?
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
What about the so called ‘stablecoins’?
(Although those sound dodgy AF to me?, not backed 1-1 anymore?)
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 4 weeks ago:
The trick is to split up the tasks into chunks.
Ask it to identify the blocks.
Then ask it to identify the connections.
Then ask it to produce the diagram.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 4 weeks ago:
The idea of the mental model CAN be done by AI.
In my experience, if you get it to build a requirements doc first, then ask it to implement that while updating it as required (effectively it’s mental state). you will get a pretty good output with decent ‘debugging’ ability.
This even works ok with the older ‘dumber’ models.
That only works when you have a comprehensive set of requirements available though. It works when you want to add a new screen/process (mostly) but good luck updating an existing one! (I haven’t tried getting it to convert existing code to a requirements doc - anyone tried that?)
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 4 weeks ago:
We then forgot how to cure it: www.bluesci.co.uk/posts/forgotten-knowledge#%3A~%….
And had to rediscover it.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I turned off auto play because it would randomly start playing other music instead of continuing my massive playlist…
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 4 weeks ago:
Yeh, found it in the android app (on tracks, not artists). Not there on desktop though.
I can play the radio on the app to my desktop though… Guess that works. Not exactly great UX though.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 4 weeks ago:
At my PC now, where the radio option doesn’t seem to exist at all!?!
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 weeks ago:
Tha is for the long reply.
Did not know the radio function existed. On mobile at least I can’t find it on the artists page? I have to go into the … Menu on a track in a playlist?
I listen to a lot of instrumental stuff while working, so I may be going too indy? Someone like soundcriters should should have something on their page?
I dislike that you have to go to a playlists page to play it in shuffle, you can’t do it from the playlists menu.
Double clicking should play a track but doesn’t.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 weeks ago:
They don’t have any other recommendations apart from those human made ones though? Couldn’t find what I wanted.
The UI is awful and their artist pages are normally blank for indy artists.
The migration is pretty seamless though, and they apparently pay their artists way better.
- Comment on 'Maybe' financial tracker shuts down, releasing a final v0.6.0 1 month ago:
You don’t have an open banking requirement for banks?
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 1 month ago:
I assume because the most expensive plan is what all the power users have?
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 1 month ago:
Also not good if you get RSI, damn that game destroys fingers.
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 1 month ago:
Most of the ‘green’ funds really are not.
I found one group that actually does really green funds though: www.edentreeim.com. Specifically their green infrastructure fund for actual green energy stuff. (This should do better as interest rates come down)
- Comment on Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays 2 months ago:
If they are delivering anyway, why not deliver second class too? Just gives them more work on other days
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 2 months ago:
Care to explain then?
I didn’t want to dig out the EULA for more context of that snippet.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 2 months ago:
That’s saying that if YOU stop the agreement, you have to delete the game though.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 2 months ago:
From the dot graph, it implies that las Vegas is one of the worse options? And Birmingham is somehow best?
Not sure I’m reading that right?
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 months ago:
Is this a US only thing? I have no email and no Gemini app (although there are settings in system)